Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve washed up in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-five. I’m Trevor, here again, turning over another worn cassette in the dim glow, letting the oxide whisper its secrets. These tapes arrive unmarked most times, or with labels half-peeled, but they carry traces—field recordings folded into drone, synths that drift like low cloud over northern latitudes, breaks that nod to libraries long since catalogued and forgotten, post-rock edges softened by reverb tails, psych undercurrents that never quite surface, ambient excursions that refuse to resolve. Scotland lingers in a few of these grooves, Cologne breathes through one, Italy scatters light across another, while others seem to come from no fixed place at all, just coordinates lost between sleep and map. No rush tonight. Twenty pieces, two sides, a flip when the spool runs thin. If the kettle needs boiling, let it. If the room grows cold, pull something closer. The world can wait outside the door. It’s a special Saturday here in Sweden and marks the start of the Melody Festival. Which, however you feel about it makes the long winter up here bearable. How ever you feel about the music represented. Now back to this outing. First, something that moves like light through leaves in late winter. Camouflage by Kraft, from the Bureau B 2025 release on Bureau B. A gentle, sensual, unfurling, synths breathing slow. Headphones on, let time dissolve and let the frequencies claim you. Camouflage – Kraft. Now Lo Five with STORY, pulled from Superdank on Lunar Module. A definite nod to the ORB, A pumping beat over child spoken narrative and House stabs. STORY – Lo Five. Now taking us way down. E J R M offers Pitter Patter, part of Solar Return – Gollden Hour Mix on Imaginary North. Glistening drones that patter like rain on tin, layered with distant chords. Pitter Patter – E J R M. Now staying in Droneville. Wil Bolton and David Cordero together for Starlight Breeze, from How to Make Sense of Downtime on the Home Normal label. Notes drift against soft drones, a breeze indeed. Starlight Breeze – Wil Bolton & David Cordero. Now a shot one, 1:25 to be exact. Tim Story and Cafe Kaputt, taken from Buzzle on Curious Music. Melancholic Mellotron keys and a Hugh Hopper style bass, in a room that’s emptying slowly. Cafe Kaputt – Tim Story. The longest piece for the episode at 8 minutes. Droning Cats with NRV bring Dreams with Claws, from Cartography of Sleep on Barcelona based See Blue Audio. Claws sheathed in haze, dreams that scratch gently. Bobbling bass which sounds like it’s being played by the tide. and sparse porch friendly guitar lines. Dreams with Claws – Droning Cats with NRV. Caer Sgàil, from Scotland, with It’s The People We Choose (Exit Chamber’s Choose Wisely Remix), off It’s The Remixes We Choose EP on Caer Sgàil’s Bandcamp. Deep, shadowed rework, piano buried in mist. It’s The People We Choose (Exit Chamber’s Choose Wisely Remix) – Caer Sgàil. And now for something completely different. Modern Sound Quartet and Bucaneve, from Italian Library Breaks on Four Flies Records. Breaks with a Mediterranean lightness, snow in name only. Italian library jazz fusion from the 70s. Bucaneve – Modern Sound Quartet. Another longer track at 7:39. Andrea Cichecki offers When We Close Our Eyes, shared with track that follows by Tangent Universes on Connected 3 via I u we Records. Eyes closed, the world turns inward, synths cradle the shift. When We Close Our Eyes – Andrea Cichecki. And right beside it, Tangent Universes with A Suit Of Leaves, also from Connected 3 on I u we Records. Leaves rustling in some parallel season. A Suit Of Leaves – Tangent Universes. Time to turn the tape. Listen for the clunk, the hiss, the moment the mechanism catches.
We open Side B. Ekin Fil with bump, from Bora Boreas on Dutch label Dronarivm. Delicate, almost fragile, yet it lingers. bump – Ekin Fil. Now the perfect track for the moment as I’m recording this on Saturday morning. Wooden Tape and Saturday Morning, lifted from the MCPM018 Compilation Album on Moolakii Club Audio Interface label. Sun through curtains, coffee cooling, a cassette morning. Saturday Morning – Wooden Tape. Another Mellotron now. Osees deliver The Ceiling, released as a single. Garage-psych softened at the edges. Like early Floyd crossed with Cardiacs. The Ceiling – Osees. Next some original indie thinking. Foxwarren with Strange, off 2 on Anti- Records. Folk that tilts strange, sampled classic movie strings and bubbling bass. Strange – Foxwarren. Next Andrew Wasylyk featuring Gruff Rhys on The Cold Collar, from Irreparable Parables on the immaculate Clay Pipe Music label. Wonderful story telling. The Cold Collar (Feat. Gruff Rhys) – Andrew Wasylyk. Eafhm presents Luzne (Part l), from Eafhm – Luzne on Secuencias Temporales. Percussive world techno. Part one unfolds slow, light on water perhaps. Luzne (Part l) – Eafhm. Now the shortest tack of the episode at 58 seconds Herne von Bòrmanvs with Will O^ Water, from Synthergic on recent label friend Pente. Water that glows, will o’ the wisp in circuit form. Will O^ Water – Herne von Bòrmanvs. another short and sweet track at 1:42. Grocer Cat and closing up shop. the day is done, off A Day at Market on Hecate. Shutters down, keys in pocket, quiet settles. closing up shop. the day is done – Grocer Cat. Now some raw grit. Geese arrive with Bow Down, from Getting Killed on their Bandcamp. Post-punk angles, heads bowed in rhythm. Bow Down – Geese. And now, as the reels slow and the tape flaps loose at the end, a few words before the silence claims us again. Thanks for staying with it. These shows aren’t built for quick glances or playlists on shuffle. They’re for the long sit, the slow listen. If anything here stayed with you, find the artists, buy the records, send them a signal through the ether. It matters. This one streams free for seven days on Mixcloud—link below, or at trevor.se, where the credits live too. Comments welcome, or none at all. Silence has its own frequency. Until the next tape finds its way onto the deck—stay resonant, stay expansive, let the waves carry what they will. Finally, Jens Pauly with Naab, from his work on the great Whitelabrecs. Field lines drawn in Cologne air, quiet testimony. This is Trevor, signing off. Cheerio…
Virtual 90 minute mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 30 artists, two 45 minute sets. A spoken intro followed by music only show. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Hello, I’m Trevor, and this is episode one‑sixty of the Virtual Cassette Library. Today’s theme is Applied Crawled Wires—which, as usual, is both the track you’re hearing underneath and a location you can find on a map, if you’re the sort who enjoys chasing coordinates on What3Words. We’ve got ninety minutes ahead—two sides, fifteen tracks each. Some names you’ll know, some you won’t, and that’s half the fun. A couple of treats in this one too: the Andy Maurer and Clariloops pieces are exclusives from the upcoming Whitelabrecs release Sleep Laboratory 6.0, and The Home Current track is taken from the forthcoming Subexotic Records album A Point Blank Dream. Always nice to have something you can’t hear anywhere else—yet. Now then, starting back on episode 156, there’s a little cipher game running through the series. Each episode, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten episodes, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ll get it right. The rest of the show drifts through ambient corners, modular murmurs, soft‑focus electronics, and the occasional unexpected detour. The sort of thing you might stumble across late at night on a shortwave dial, wondering if you imagined it. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
“Evening all. Episode one-four-seven of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Remodel Taster Visitor. That’s the track you can hear underneath, and, oddly enough, it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—up on YouTube if you’re curious.” “I’m Trevor. Bringing you ninety minutes, two virtual sides, forty-five minutes each. Fifteen tracks per set. No chatter, no interruptions. Just the music, rolling on like a festival stage that turns—one act fading, another coming into view.” This episode has a heavy dose of kraut vibes from the amazing Bureau B labels must have compilation silberland vol 3 the ambient side of kosmische musik 1972-1986. ” New friends joining us, Revok, Underneath Oceans and Delia Ra. familiar names including, Sons of Faust, Field Lines Cartographer, Lo Five, Patrick R. Pärk and more. labels like Audiobulb, Triplicate Records, Third Kind Records, Mahorka, Batov Records and Ingrown Records keeping the whole thing alive. They’re the soul of the show, really. Also exclusives from Dubberrookie who sent me two tracks for the upcoming compilation Resonances From The Depths. They’re both great but I present you with the track Diving for Whales here. As well as an upcoming release on the wonderful Lunar Modul CD imprint label of Castles in Space with a track by Lo Five from his upcoming album Superdank” “If you’d like to be part of these missions, send your work to trevlad@gmail.com. Track links are at trevor.se, and marked in the Mixcloud timeline. The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre-order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. And the second compilation, Resonances from the Depths, is under construction, get involved send in your damp entries.” “Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Trevor here, transmitting from home base Sollentuna, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 091 A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Machine Records, Imaginary North, Mahorka, Cyclical Dreams, Mortality Tables, and, Waxing Crescent Records.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, Steve El, aeon, moicflo, voidscan, Mirko Polo Ruckels, Otis, and, oceanographer for the follows, likes and comments.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked at the top of each show.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
🌌 Welcome, seekers of hidden frequencies—your vessel has arrived at the edge of the cosmic fold. Step beyond perception and surrender to the spiral of auditory prophecies, bending time and space in their wake.
🔮 The sponsoring labels guiding today’s episode are: Imaginary North, Cyclical Dreams, Woodford Halse, Subexotic Records, Binaural Space, Lo Recordings, and, Waxing Crescent Records. 🚀 The sponsoring artists of today’s transmission: Mike Dickinson, ThorF, and, Hiram. Also the benevolent force that ensures chosen frequencies find their way home: ✨ Free Album Codes Today’s transmission features 1 exclusive piece from, Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, titled, Hidden, from the album, Ulla, which comes out on the great Subexotic Records label on June 13. The rest of the show is filled with recent finds and releases.
Welcome to a soundscape that defies language—a passage through the unseen. We, mere surfers atop an infinite wave. 🌞 Shoutouts to passengers: Otis and aeon music. Your relentless listening to the channel makes me worry for your health. Perhaps you have transcended. Perhaps you have become one with the signal itself.🌿.
Links to all the material played are in the timeline where everyone is invited to leave a mark—comment your favorites, etch your presence into the mix. 🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—send forth your sonic offerings: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
🔮 Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Take Flight with For the Birds: A Journey Through Ambient Melodies
Calling all nature enthusiasts and ambient music lovers! Take a break from the digital world and immerse yourself in the calming soundscapes of “For the Birds,” episode 011.
This week’s show features a beautiful collection of tracks that capture the essence of the natural world, from the gentle chirping of birds to the rustling of leaves.
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For the Birds is your weekly dose of sonic serenity. Tune in next week for another exploration of the natural world through the power of ambient music.
Ian Boddy, Markus Reuter, Veins Full Of Static, Lo Five, figurehead, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Anna Schreit, The Galaxy Electric, Droog Mulholland, Black Tape For A Blue Girl,
DiN, Machine Records, Emotion Wave, Castles In Space, Compost Records, Subexotic Records.