Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 341

Another reel of the Virtual Cassette Library begins. Twelve tracks, two sides. A virtual cassette that turns itself at the halfway mark, the oxide catching just long enough to mark the seam before the second side continues.
These are not playlists. Each episode is structured as a pair of continuous sets: six tracks on each side, mixed and stitched so the joins sit almost inside the grain. The sequence is the form.
If you make music, run a label, or hold a private archive of material that has not yet found a place, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is heard.
The episodes remain free for the first week. After that they move into the Mixcloud subscriber archive. Subscribers also receive Veil Frequencies, the ongoing series of three-hour transmissions—extended traversals rather than selections, moving through a curtain of sound that occasionally seems to register the listener in return.
Mind the flip.
A sweep beneath the trees, then a nowhere that sometimes falls from the sky.
Side A softens the broom so the trees can listen, warms a Redford in sheepskin already filed in the library archive, perfects the spelling of a church of gadzooks over a wistful abyss, decides the duration forever with the tenderness already in place, colours the black mud with rainbow noise that is already kind, and hangs the pictures so the calm after the storm can arrive. Side B drops placid under red stars, shares southern lands with the three already south, keeps a secret jungle private with the rivers already quiet, lets go of something with the place already named in the letting, speaks the magical combination of words so everything is ok forever, and receives a nowhere that falls from a generous sky.
Overall mood: Tender, and quietly decided — full of soft brooms, open archives, and words that settle everything. Perfect for dusk listening, quiet rivers, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Side A
Mood mist: a sweep beneath the trees, a Redford in sheepskin from the library archive, a church of gadzooks over a wistful abyss, a request to make it forever, rainbow noise in black mud, the calm that follows the weather.
00:01:28 Beymer – Oyskern (Sweep)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/oyskern-sweep
Album: Beneath The Trees. Label: Imaginary North
The broom already soft. The trees already listening.
00:04:41 ATA Records – Redford In Sheepskin
https://atarecords.bandcamp.com/track/redford-in-sheepskin
Album: ATA Records: The Library Archive Vol. 4. Label: ATA Records
The actor already warm. The archive already filing him.
00:07:40 Suncastle – Curch of Gadzooks
https://suncastle303.bandcamp.com/track/curch-of-gadzooks
Album: The Wistful Abyss. Label: Triplicate Records
The spelling already perfect. The abyss already wistful.
00:10:46 monosleep – Make it Forever
(Exclusive track)
Album: Tenderly. Label: Noray Records
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tenderly
Title of the hour. The duration already decided. The tenderness already in place.
00:13:32 Autumna – Rainbow Noise
https://prestoncapes1.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-noise
Album: PCT 30 – Sinking In The Black Mud. Label: Preston Capes, Woodford Halse
The colour already in the silt. The noise already kind.
00:17:48 HDRF – The Calm After The Storm
https://whitbyelectronicus.bandcamp.com/track/the-calm-after-the-storm
Album: Pictures at an Exhibition. Label: ElectronicUs, Bonfire Hill
The pictures already hung. The calm already arrived.

Side B
Mood mist: a placid drop under red stars, southern lands shared, a secret jungle through a portal to quiet rivers, something ready to be released, a combination of words that settles everything, a nowhere that sometimes falls from the sky.
00:21:12 Red Stars Over Tokyo – Placid Drop
https://redstarsovertokyo.bandcamp.com/track/placid-drop
Album: Subliminal Fascination. Label: Limbic Resonance
The drop already soft. The stars already red.
00:30:30 OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance and mRn – Southerlands
https://southernlands.bandcamp.com/track/southerlands
Album: Southern Lands. Label: Audiobulb
The three already south. The land already shared.
00:32:53 Caught In Joy – Secret Jungle
https://caughtinjoy.bandcamp.com/track/secret-jungle
Album: A Portal To Quiet Rivers (double album).
The jungle already private. The rivers already quiet.
00:38:36 Absence – Something to Let Go Of
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/something-to-let-go-of
Album: Names of Unknown Places. Label: Imaginary North
The release already kind. The place already named in the letting.
00:46:38 ndrw cnry – The magical combination of words that makes everything ok forever
https://ndrwcnry.bandcamp.com/track/the-magical-combination-of-words-that-makes-everything-ok-forever
Album: A Certain Distance.
The combination already spoken. The forever already here.
00:47:54 Fran Carlyon – Nowhere
https://francarlyon.bandcamp.com/track/nowhere
Album: Sometimes (they just fall out of the sky).
The nowhere already arrived. The sky already generous.
That was another episode of the Virtual Cassette Library. If the sequence stayed with you, share it, favourite the show, and follow the channel so the next reel finds you. Tips keep the reels turning. Better still, subscribe: the Mixcloud archive now holds more than eleven hundred past episodes, waiting whenever the next listening session calls. Travel safely between the frequencies. Cheerio.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 309

Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A wounded, oceanic ambient journey through blinking cellars, wild roses, and depths that never learned the names of fish.
Side A teaches green cellar walls to blink, then breathes through a Mersey scar, keeps a dolphin spare room, waits for a poppy to bloom, writes Hosono’s letter to the planet’s mother, and holds forty-nine seconds of sunset. Side B rains on Caladan, folds a week into a lobby between lives, climbs a twelve-minute Tucson staircase, keeps Batov moving at the gate, sits bathyal until the feeling grows gills, and ends with a piano-fed bird between two machines.
Overall mood: Tender, slightly raw, and deeply watery — full of Passed Oceans, analog compassion, and rooms that refuse to close. Perfect for late listening, sitting with a scar, or letting the rain read you while the next spool waits.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.

00:01:20 Altus – The Pulse of Protocols
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-pulse-of-protocols
From the album “Echo Bloom” on Altus Music.
A cellar full of green light teaching the walls how to blink. Eight small machines agreeing, for once, on the same heartbeat.
00:06:02 autumna – the surgery and scar
https://autumna.bandcamp.com/track/the-surgery-and-scar
From the album “oxygen and light”.
Liverpool as an open wound that breathes. Scouse vowels drifting over the Mersey like stitches that won’t close
00:09:17 purplekairi1312 – dolphin sanctuary
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/dolphin-sanctuary
A noise in the hall that was only ever a dream. The ocean keeping a spare room for things that never learned to walk.
00:13:32 Martin Pyne – And Then A Poppy Blooms
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/
An exclusive track from the forthcoming album “Trios” out on Discus Music 25 September.
Vibraphone petals opening on a chalk hillside. Three players standing still enough for a flower to decide it is safe.
00:15:33 Haruomi Hosono – To A Wild Rose
https://haruomihosono.bandcamp.com/track/to-a-wild-rose
From the album “Yours Sincerely” out on Ghostly International.
A seventy-eight-year-old man writing a letter to the planet’s mother and signing it with an oceanside hum. Compassion trying on an English coat that fits.
00:16:40 Fran Carlyon – Sunset
https://francarlyon.bandcamp.com/track/sunset
From the album “Growing Towards The Light”
Forty-nine seconds of a fallen tree still reaching. Chaos in the heartlands pretending it’s found a window.

00:17:44 Akinetic – Rains of Caladan
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/rains-of-caladan
The second of three pieces from the “Passed Oceans” compilation.
You are a protein complex reading the weather. Sacramento rain falling on a planet that only exists in the margins of a novel.
00:22:04 Petridisch x Jude Kerr – L’infantile (Alprazolam Mix)
https://rakurecords.bandcamp.com/track/l-infantile-alprazolam-mix
From the album “7 Days in the Fast Lane” out on Rakū Records
A week folded into a single pill. Boston stems stretched until they forget their names and wake up in a lobby between life and the afterlife.
00:32:21 Neglect – Escala III
https://neglectsound.bandcamp.com/track/escala-iii
Self released single. Neglectsound are from Tucson, Arizona.
Longest piece at 12:53
Tucson dust climbing a twelve-minute staircase made of delay pedals. The longest piece tonight, refusing to look down.
00:43:51 Kolonel Djafaar – Movin’
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/movin
From the compilation album “Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years”
Ten years of Batov grooves packed into one suitcase that will not sit still. Ethio-jazz tapping its foot at the departure gate.
00:49:16 spectral void – Bathyal
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/bathyal
The third piece from the compilation album “Passed Oceans”.
Not to be confused with the black metal band of the same name.
The part of the ocean that never learned the names of the fish in it. An Indian composer sitting with a feeling until the feeling grows gills.
00:57:00 Jogging House – Beak
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/beak
From the album “Really”.
Piano phrases sent through the post, then fed to tape like breadcrumbs. A bird dwells in the space between two machines.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 309.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 297
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-297/

Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A coastal, living-system ambient journey through sea-stares, underwater spheres, and second natures.
Side A watches the sea from Sausage Studios, then drifts across unnamed water, residual cellar vectors, tape-warm circles, dancing offertorio light, and one-take Maenporth fall. Side B opens a hidden kantele harmony, mixes smoke and sound in real time, breathes under Yiddish trees, sits with an oracle, walks Sanibel’s helix, and comes back to the world.
Overall mood: Gentle, organic, and quietly luminous — full of water, weather, and small living systems. Perfect for morning listening, nature walks, or sitting still while things fall out of the sky.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.

00:00:00 Mike Dickinson – Bonus Track – Staring at The Sea – V1 Demo
Mike Dickinson – Bonus Track – Staring at The Sea – V1 Demo. Mrs Moore still climbs the desks as Space-bat-Angel-Dragon. Microkorg, Maschine, Odyssey and Minilogue voice the outsider at Sausage Studios.
00:05:28 Mensa Group International – Pokoponesia
Mensa Group International – Pokoponesia. Ailanthus colours drift across unnamed water.
00:07:16 Altus – Residual Vector Drift
Altus – Residual Vector Drift. Mike Carss works eight tracks in the Green Cellar through January and February.
00:13:53 Foam and Sand – Circle 66 feat. Priscilla Ahn
Foam and Sand – Circle 66 feat. Priscilla Ahn. Analog synths, live vibraphone, chimes and bells pass through tape warmth. Robot Koch keeps the invitation quiet.
00:17:57 Salamanda – Offertorio
Salamanda – Offertorio. Bubbles, refracting light and dancing underwater spheres. Profits from physical Sphere copies travel to the Korean Women’s Hotline.
00:20:47 Fran Carlyon – Sometimes (they just fall out of the sky) remaster
Fran Carlyon – Sometimes (they just fall out of the sky) remaster. Guitar recorded overlooking Maenporth waves. Kosmische keys overdubbed later in Hockley, one take.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:22:14 Shakali – Toinen Luonto
Shakali – Toinen Luonto. Thirty-six-string kantele, bowls, bells, reeds, wind and water. Julian Overall’s soprano, Timo’s udu, Roy Werner’s sequencers and Les Halles’ flute simmer in hidden harmony.
00:29:02 Perrache – Schall und Rauch
Perrache – Schall und Rauch. Two Fostex four-tracks mix in real time. Doubled layers nod toward Spector and open a spaghetti-western theme. Names prove transitory.
00:32:22 Beymer – Otemen (Breathe)
Beymer – Otemen (Breathe). Daniel Field’s Yiddish trees. Calming recordings and simple synths gather beneath the canopy.
00:34:14 Lillies For Ever – Oracle III
Lillies For Ever – Oracle III. Captivation arrives as peace.
00:43:55 Green-House – Sanibel
Green-House – Sanibel. Named for a Florida island of first nature-walks. Melody and harmonics helix. Kaleidoscopic guitar and bubbling synths mimic a larger living system.
00:45:55 Hunter Complex – Back to the World
Hunter Complex – Back to the World. Flute, trumpet, acoustic guitar and harmonica join lush piano. Inner peace uses weather and water as metaphor.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 297.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

As The Crow
Sometimes you just need to go on a psychedelic trip.

Quick mix for the massless. Featuring: The Advisory Circle, Cate Francesca Brooks, Julian Lynch, Memoryhouse, Bit Cloudy, Fran Carlyon, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Zombies, Grand Veymont, Nico Georis, El Michels Affair, Bobby Oroza, Fantastikoi Hxoi, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard,Yu Su, Future Children, Aldous Harding, Bluetech, Mark McGuire, IKONS, Manfred Mann, Polypores, Khruangbin.
00:00:00 The Advisory Circle – As The Crow Flies
00:02:50 Julian Lynch – Time After Time
00:06:23 Memoryhouse – Lately (Troisieme)
00:09:16 Bit Cloudy – Trans Kid Karmic Vengeance
00:11:03 Fran Carlyon – A Place To Land (demo)
00:12:17 Oneohtrix Point Never – Hyperdawn
00:14:16 The Zombies – The Way I Feel Inside
00:15:27 Grand Veymont – Bois Barbu
00:20:33 Nico Georis – Vapor
00:26:51 El Michels Affair, Bobby Oroza – Reasons
00:29:38 Fantastikoi Hxoi – Horizon Unfolding
00:34:42 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Yu Su – Dreams – Yu Su Instrumental Mix
00:37:58 Future Children – Unplug the Medicine
00:41:38 Aldous Harding – The Barrel
00:46:14 Bluetech – A Garland Of Stars
00:47:51 Mark McGuire – Moving Apart
00:49:15 IKONS – Free Spirit
00:54:50 Manfred Mann – The Mighty Quinn (Mono)
00:57:23 Polypores – And Slowly Open Your Eyes
00:59:05 Khruangbin – Time (You and I)

