Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 327
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, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. 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. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A plant leaning toward the window, then a landscape content to stay unfinished at number twenty-two.
Side A grows toward the light the title already promised, smokes a soft suburb with curtains half-drawn, fits the eclipse into two letters and a hyphen, files a signal under cool, measures an English furlong at Clay Pipe speed, and lights a candle that has decided to chase the high white. Side B returns light across the hedges with the gate on the latch, spends a lifetime at steady altitude with the butty packed, files wonders under experiment while the tableau dries next door, slows the first stage of sleep on purpose, lets gravity keep its end of the bargain, and leaves the unfinished landscape open at the edge for the next field.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly domestic, and quietly measured — full of half-drawn curtains, steady horizons, and rooms left for the next field. Perfect for dusk listening, fields walked at tape speed, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a plant leaning toward the window, a suburb soft enough to smoke, two letters from an eclipse, a signal filed under cool, an English measure of distance, candles lit for a chase among the high white.
00:02:18 Fran Carlyon – A New Day
https://francarlyon.bandcamp.com/track/a-new-day-2
Album: Growing Towards The Light.
Growing towards the light, which is what the title already promised. The stem has already turned. Title of the hour.
00:03:00 Kenny Ueda – MoonMist Tobacco
(Exclusive track)
Album: Soft Suburbia. Label: Mystery Circles
https://kenjiueda.bandcamp.com/album/soft-suburbia
Soft suburbia, the kind that keeps its curtains half-drawn and its ashtray clean. Mystery Circles leaving the packet on the sideboard.
00:06:28 Brandon Locher – F-G
https://brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/track/f-g
Album: Rahu Ketu.
Rahu and Ketu again, the head and the tail, now reduced to two notes and a hyphen. The eclipse still fits in the interval.
00:12:00 Altus – Cold Signal Index
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/cold-signal-index
Album: Label: Altus Music
Echo Bloom keeping the temperature low and the index clear. The signal arrives already cooled.
00:16:43 Gilroy Mere – Furlongs 1
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/furlongs-1-3
Album: Furlongs. Label: Clay Pipe Music
An eighth of a mile, walked at Clay Pipe speed. Oliver Cherer measuring the field with his feet and a reel of tape.
00:21:02 Spirituals – Cloud Chaser
https://spirituals.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-chaser
Album: Candles In The Dark.
Candles in the dark, and one of them has decided to follow the white up. The wick stays lit.
Side B
Mood mist: light coming back over the hedges, a lifetime spent at a steady altitude, wonders filed under experiment, the first stage of sleep slowing on purpose, gravity doing its quiet job, a landscape content to stay unfinished at number twenty-two.
00:23:50 maps and diagrams – returning, across the fields
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/returning-across-the-fields
Album: returning light. Label: Home Normal
Returning light, the title and the direction. Home Normal leaving the gate on the latch.
00:31:24 ndrw cnry & Sardine Butty – A lifetime of limited level flight
https://ndrwcnry.bandcamp.com/track/a-lifetime-of-limited-level-flight
Single
The single that prefers the same height all the way. Wings level, horizon steady, the butty packed.
00:46:14 Alex Ringess – Wonders
https://alexringess.bandcamp.com/track/wonders
Album: Experiments.
Experiments that kept the sense of marvel. The tableau still drying in the next room.
00:52:04 D York – N1 (slowing down)
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/n1-slowing-down
Album: NREM. Label: Neotantra
NREM — the sleep before the dreaming. Neotantra letting the pulse lengthen.
01:15:09 Audio Obscura – As long as gravity persists on holding me to this earth
https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/track/as-long-as-gravity-persists-on-holding-me-to-this-earth
Album: As long as gravity persists on holding me to this earth.
The whole sentence as title and album. The ground keeping its end of the bargain.
01:19:33 asher tuil – unfinished landscapes xxii
https://ashertuil.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-landscapes-xxii-4
Album: unfinished landscapes.
The series that prefers the open edge. Room left for the next field.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 327.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 131
17 October 2025
///engine.puppets.balloons.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 131 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Engine Puppets Balloons is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and it’s geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube.
These mixes are 90-minute genre bending drifts through curated frequencies. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. 15 tracks per side with a side change in the middle.
Styles take us through folktronica, new age, ambient, berlin school, modern classical and more.
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So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
S. Costa – Moss Gathering – 01:52
Philippe Deschamps, Relief – Hazy Chorus – 05:00
Trevlad – Evolving Atoms Traffic – 07:24
Luigi Morleo, David John & Thomas Piercy – MIGRANTI IKIGAI – 10:53
Sheer Zed – Xenogender Initial Meditation – 14:07
Belial Pelegrim – 240 – 16:58
Europe in Flames – Seal the images in an envelope and say nothing – 20:03
Grover Krantz – Wood For The Trees – 23:04
Ümlaut – Subsequent – 25:49
Tzii & Baldruin – The future realm of irrationality – 29:11
Ramirez – On a trail – 32:19
Europe in Flames – Nocturne – 34:50
Stereolab – Vermona F Transistor – 37:49
Autechre – The Plc lCp C – 40:19
Scanner – Banana, Designation – 43:30
B Side – 46:52
Bowing – Beside The Lagoon – 47:22
Joe Higham – Hasselling – 50:33
Ramirez – Gestures – 53:51
Trevlad – Misfits Honey Defeated – 57:35
Kenny Ueda – Terrazzo Floor – 59:49
Anantakara – Still Time – 1:02:26
Anantakara – Inspiring Breath – 1:06:05
Bluetech – Azurite Waterfalls – 1:09:06
Reisselpud – Nebula – 1:12:00
MikeKSmith – Less Concepts – 1:15:30
Ümlaut – Expatriates – 1:17:09
Carlisle City Council – Prior Slee’s Gateway – 1:20:50
Binaural Space – Intro – 1:22:14
Saloop – The Descent – 1:24:51
Maps and Diagrams – the fragile balance – 1:28:00
Outro – 1:31:52
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Conga Panini
Let the spices simmer: a smoky, percussive ride through jazz-funk, global psychedelia, library oddities, and rhythm-rich worlds. > No script, just instinct—world grooves, dubbed textures, and heat-shimmering fusion stitched into a sun-dazed soundscape. > > Featuring: Afrodisax, Odin Kaban, Louie Zong, Shay Hazan, Piero Umiliani, Sven Wunder, The Hologram People & more. > > Filed under: library funk, global percussion, BBQ psych, jazz-fusion stew, tropical oddities. 🥁🌍🔥
Afrodisax – On a Winter’s Day (A Love Song) – 00:00
Odin Kaban – El baile de la pita – 05:15
Romano – Guzleme – 09:24
Piero Umiliani – Orgasmo Seq. 2 (jazz pour l’action) – 12:14
Arnau Obiols, KAYYAK – Faith – 14:42
Misha Panfilov – Island Byrd Improv – 19:54
Tegu – 2×1 – 21:54
Chrisma – Amore – 25:20
Kenny Ueda – Mexican Restaurant – 29:58
Larry Manteca – Tuareg Road – 33:04
Louie Zong – Meeting of Waters – 36:03
Shay Hazan – Bob Dealer – 37:43
Lunar Cambridge – Fuchsia Storm – 40:05
Sven Wunder, Drumetrics – Rock Formation – 44:37
The Hologram People – Afternoon Sniper – 48:01
Aura Safari, Jimi Tenor – Bewitched By The Sea – 50:27
Herandu – An Incident In The Theater – 54:36
Yusuf Ahmed – Bambyu – 57:45
Mystery Apples 3
10.02.2025
Psyché – Amma – 00:00
Pure Land Stars – Mountains Are Mountains – 04:43
Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño – Exploration (Sincerely) – 06:34
Sababa 5 – Aeolus – 17:19
Kavus Torabi – Silent the Rotor – 24:14
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Diarabi – 27:57
Morgan Delt – Some Sunsick Day – 32:34
Polypores – Aquarian – 36:51
Matthewdavid – Perpetuity – 41:09
Stennes – Down The Rabbit Hole – 45:46
Polypores – Lattice – 46:05
Kenny Ueda – Miro – 48:03
CV Vision – Gleiten – 49:15
Prairiewolf – Labwerk – 01:03:32
Secret Circuit – Corrupted Dusk – 01:06:53
Gong – Asleep Do We Lay – 01:09:41
Bruno Pernadas – Lachrymose – 01:13:41
Primary Mystical Experience – Stream of Life – 01:16:05
Bibio – The Ephemeral Bluebell – 01:22:26
Kosmischer Läufer – Sonnenfleck II – 01:26:59
Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño – Hearing (with Keshava at Zuma) – 01:27:33
Spotify playlist of all the Mystery Apples episodes so far (not all music is on Spotify):
For the Birds 035
10.01.2025
CIALYN – Green sun phosphenes – 00:00
odd person – kingdom of the resplendent crow – 04:36
Voyage Futur – Entering the Grotto – 08:42
Kenny Ueda – Mexican Restaurant – 14:02
Wil Bolton – Quiet Sunlight – 16:56
Willebrant – Inlet II – 23:53
Common Saints feat. Taloula – Dream On – 35:20
Audio Obscura – Coasting – 38:36
Lunar Cambridge – The Head Wizard Puts On His Waterproof Oculus – 42:51
Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate – Tumulus – 46:11
Lyonel Bauchet – Paranoïd Birds – 48:35
Daou – Red flock – 52:35
Contours, Yadava – Bike Shed – 55:46
Be the 8th soul to save the Spotify playlist based on For the Birds. Updated weekly. Present count 264 songs. 22hr 52min.
For the Birds 013
Intro 00:00
David Cordero-Zhangjiajie 01:37
marine eyes, IKSRE-Rainforest Dawn 04:04
Poemme-watchful chickadee 08:46
Kenny Ueda-Garden 15:40
Orbitalpatterns-Utah 18:26
Fallen-Birds Are Leaving 21:17
Arkaean-Ring Cairn Aurora 26:52
Floating World Pictures with Ocean Moon-Soft Dusk Rising 34:24
Polypores-The Fair Folk 43:56
Ozbolt-Dreamstate Baby 46:39
Go Outside-things we keep 57:39
Outro 1:00:42
Invisible Waves 030
Intro 00:00
Kenny Ueda–Office 00:48
Edward Hopper – Office in a Small City
Roland Juno-6
Casio SK-1
Chapter 1 03:52
Giants of Discovery–Heather Island On The Marsh (lying-holmr) 09:41
RINGS
MARBLES
ARBHAR
Valhalla FX
Soma Terra
The story of the eBow
Moolakii Club Audio Interface events
Hymns for Robots
Point Surrender–echoes 12:41
Original Point Surrender “echoes” Youtube
Sequential Morpho x4
Behringer Neutron
Electron Digitakt
Steinberg Cubase DAW
Cyclical Magazine
Chapter 2 16:50
Time Rival–Creased 19:44
Inaction album
Star Mother EP
Robert F. Young
TC Parmelee
Time Rival IG
Triplicaterecords
Kiasmos, Ólafur Arnalds, Janus Rasmussen–Grown 22:35
Kiasmos (first album)
Chapter 3 28:00
Go Outside–on a sunny day 33:40
Go Outside IG
Koen Holtkamp–Atmos Four 36:58
Chapter 4 38:25
Francesca Heart, Polonius–Flux Faux 43:06
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2sMhr55qqEKeeokQ0nTwbv?si=83332119f26b4e01
