Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 339
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A whistle mapped into silence, then a spring that prefers to vanish quietly.
Side A draws the map so the silence can answer, lets the music of the spheres burn bright and kind, rests the tongue in cold shadows under a solar scream, warms a tiny stone in a brief perfect drift, holds quiet music from Toronto in the lake, and draws a crystal so the page already shines. Side B cooks a beacon for a kind visitation, lengthens an afternoon in warm fur, grows an organic vibe in the factory that is already alive, shares a symbiosis in a lost city already found, opens a Shangri-La reverie for the valley, and lets the spring arrive so the vanishing can stay soft.
Overall mood: Luminous, and quietly kind — full of answering silences, shared rooms, and springs that know how to leave. Perfect for dusk listening, soft cities, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a whistle mapped into silence, a bright burn from the music of the spheres, a tongue resting in cold shadows under a solar scream, a tiny stone drifting, quiet music from Toronto, a crystal drawn rather than cut.
00:02:18 Anhnch – a whistle, then echoing silence
https://anhnch.bandcamp.com/track/a-whistle-then-echoing-silence
Album: Cartography of Expression.
The map already drawn. The silence already answering.
00:09:15 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Brightburn
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/brightburn
Album: Musica Universalis. Label: Ambient Cat
The spheres already singing. The burn already kind.
00:13:11 Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Let Your Tongue Lie Still In Their Cold Shadows
https://ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/track/let-your-tongue-lie-still-in-their-cold-shadows
Album: The Blessed Brethren of the Sacred Solar Scream.
The rural district already listening. The tongue already at rest.
00:14:50 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 4
https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/track/microlith-4-3
Album: Microliths and Momentary Drifts.
The small stone already warm. The drift already brief and perfect.
00:16:15 anthéne – wallace emerson
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/anth-ne-wallace-emerson
Album: Lake Effect: Quiet Music From Toronto. Label: Imaginary North
The lake already holding the sound. The city already soft.
00:19:10 Ryuuta Takaki – Drawing a Crystal
https://ryuuta-takaki.bandcamp.com/track/drawing-a-crystal
Album: Drawing a Crystal.
The pencil already finding the facets. The page already shining.
Side B
Mood mist: a beacon cooked for a visitation, an afternoon in fur, an organic vibe from the factory, a symbiosis in a lost city, a reverie named Shangri-La, a spring that prefers to vanish quietly.
00:24:42 Time Rival – Beacon Beauty
https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/track/beacon-beauty
Album: Cooked (Visitation No. 3). Label: CONDITION HUMAN
The light already on. The visit already kind.
00:29:38 DOMOTIC – Afternoon
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/track/afternoon
Album: Fourrure Sounds Vol. 3 to 6. Label: Astra Solaria Recordings
The fur already warm. The afternoon already long.
00:32:13 Williams Marx – Organic Vibe
https://inthemood2.bandcamp.com/track/organic-vibe
Album: Ambient Factory I. Label: In The Mood
Title of the hour. The factory already growing its own. The vibe already alive.
00:35:04 Sylvain Carel – Symbiosis
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/symbiosis
Album: Naharim, the Lost City [CYD 0169]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Two organisms already sharing the room. The city already found.
00:40:18 Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Shangri La
https://orikaplanlihumelamed.bandcamp.com/track/shangri-la-2
Album: Reverie. Label: Batov Records
The valley already open. The reverie already shared.
00:42:49 Halftribe – Vernal
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/vernal
Album: Disappear in Silent Ways. Label: DRONARIVM
The spring already here. The vanishing already soft.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 339.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 333
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they 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 also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A system number left on a faded sign, then a horizon the colour of the title.
Side A leaves the lettering still readable if you stand at the right angle, remixes ladders through a Sussex exchange with the rungs already warm, keeps the amniotic membrane grateful for the quiet, lets dust remember the sea just close enough for a little silt, edits a nomad for a decade of Batov still open in the stacks, and lets the dub smoulder so the ember does the work of the flame. Side B reconnects a piano and a vibraphone after thirty years with the conversation still open, holds the tunnel’s echo of the last train and the next that may yet come, lets the ornamental letter arrive with its loops intact, teaches seagulls the steps while the shoreline keeps time, keeps a Toronto live tape warm from the floor with the imperfections as the point, and stays where the sky decides to stay.
Overall mood: Slightly archival, and quietly warm — full of faded signs, open conversations, and horizons that know their own colour. Perfect for dusk listening, abandoned locations still holding sound, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a system number left on a faded sign, ladders remixed by a Sussex exchange, a membrane of amniotic calm, dust that still remembers the sea, a nomad edited for a decade of Batov, a dub that prefers to smoulder.
00:02:18 fluXus – SYS826
(Exclusive track)
Album: Ghost Signs. Label: Castles In Space
https://fluxus-cis.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-signs
The lettering still readable if you stand at the right angle. The system still answering.
00:09:08 Hattie Cooke – Ladders (Sussex Telecom remix)
https://rupertlally.bandcamp.com/track/hattie-cooke-ladders-sussex-telecom-remix
Album: Happy New Year / Ladders.
Happy New Year on the other side of the single. Rupert Lally running the exchange, the rungs already warm.
00:11:45 Kinoscape – Amnion
https://inthemood2.bandcamp.com/track/amnion
Album: Ambient Factory I. Label: In The Mood
The membrane that keeps the quiet in, and the quiet grateful.
00:17:25 Ghostloop – Into Dust
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/into-dust
Album: The Distant Sea. Label: Noray Records
The water far enough to hear, close enough to leave a little silt on the sleeve.
00:19:39 Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel – Nomadic (Batov Edit)
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/nomadic-batov-edit
Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years. Label: Batov Records
The caravan still moving, Kobayashi’s selection still open somewhere in the stacks.
00:21:56 [moosdohmen] x Press any Key – Slow Burn Dub
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/slow-burn-dub-2
Album: BURNED DUBS. Label: Camembert Électrique
The ember doing the work of the flame, and taking its time.
Side B
Mood mist: a piano and a vibraphone catching up after thirty years, a tunnel still holding its echo, a correspondence in ornamental script, seagulls learning the steps, a Toronto live tape still warm from the floor, a horizon the colour of the title.
00:29:24 Robert Mitchell & Corey Mwamba – In The Blood
(Exclusive Track)
Album: In The Blood. Label: DISCUS MUSIC
http://www.discusmusic.bandcamp.com
Piano and vibraphone, Steinway Studios near Grantham, a few hours that felt like a long reconnection. Discus. Full release the 13th of November. Listen through if you can. The conversation is still open.
00:33:05 Dave Clarkson – Thurgoland Tunnel
https://cavendishhouse.bandcamp.com/track/thurgoland-tunnel
Album: A Pocket Guide to Abandoned Locations of the British Isles. Label: cavendish house
The brick still keeping the sound of the last train, and the next one that may yet come.
00:36:46 Lamasz – Correspondance
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/correspondance
Album: Fioritures. Label: DRONARIVM
The flourishes. DRONARIVM letting the letter arrive with its loops intact.
00:41:27 x.y.r. – seagulls dance
https://xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/track/seagulls-dance
Single: seagulls dance. Label: Not Not Fun Records
The birds already in step, the shoreline keeping time.
00:49:59 Astrolope – Disinformation
(Exclusive track)
Album: Bass Node Tapes, volume one. Label: Imaginary North
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/
Live off the floor, modular and drummer’s hands, Kilometre Club, Measure, cellsync in the room. Imaginary North. Out the 30th of October. The imperfections are the point, and they are lovely.
00:54:56 The Gaye Device – Blue Azure Horizon
https://machinaadnoctem.bandcamp.com/track/blue-azure-horizon
Album: Evolution – An Anthology 2012-2023 Volume One. Label: Machina ad Noctem
Title of the hour. The line where the sky decides to stay.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 333.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
