Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 311
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.
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.
Right then, my glittering cassette moths…
It’s time I had a quiet word with the universe about this Virtual Cassette Library lark of mine. Lately it’s been drifting off like a helium balloon made of old mixtape innards, floating away from the original bonfire of my intentions. I need to yank it back by its magnetic tape tail before it disappears into a cloud of forgotten B-sides.
I’ve just been bathing in the first episode of The Signal by Wall of Ambient — Harry Towell and James Osland swimming through the ambient oceans like two elegant seahorses in velvet capes. Go and drink it in on Substack. And while you’re there, follow me like a loyal moth to my flickering neon sign.
Anyway, Harry said something that pinged my third eye: concept is the beating heart of an album. And I suddenly realised that even though I pluck these tracks from their original conceptual wombs, my shows are actually stitched together with their own secret concepts. Lately I’ve been chattering between tracks like a magpie on a telephone wire and the concept has been leaking out like cheese from a toasted sandwich.
So what’s the concept, you ask, while adjusting your imaginary pipe?
Well, I’ve spent my entire working life lurking on and around stages like a quiet caretaker with glitter under his nails. I see each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. The audience only ever glimpses a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view like a peacock into fog, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands — slow and syrupy or frantic and glittering.
I still want to whisper the names of the artists, the albums and the labels, so I’ll do that before each set — or “side,” as we cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per side, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now… shall we let the stage begin to turn?
So episode 311 is a weathered, slightly spectral ambient journey through closing dive bars, overlapping canopies, and monuments that have already begun to kneel.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly dilapidated — full of forgotten light, phase transitions, and sockets still whispering in the dark. Perfect for late listening, empty stages, or sitting with the ivy while it finishes the sentence.
Side A lets shadows clock off at the edge of the universe, waves from a missed railway cutting, shares a stereo canopy, opens a December jar six months late, weathers the ivy through human architecture, and climbs dilapidated monuments only to accept itself.
00:05:30 Kh3rtis – As Shadows Fall Away
https://kh3rtis.bandcamp.com/track/as-shadows-fall-away
A dive bar at the edge of the universe closing its curtains. Shadows clocking off. You are left holding the light they forgot to take.
00:10:28 Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine – The Ultimate
A MicroKorg dressed as 1974 television, waving from a railway cutting that only exists when you miss it.
00:12:06 Chihei Hatakeyama & Jupi/ter – Canopy
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/track/canopy
Two canopies overlapping until the stereo field forgets which tree belongs to which country. Peace wearing someone else’s coat.
00:19:04 Matt Lowery – 12-13-24
https://mattlowery.bandcamp.com/track/12-13-24
The thirteenth of December kept in a jar and opened six months later. Modular dust that still remembers the day it was captured.
00:20:20 The Microgram – Weathered
https://kaisekidigital.bandcamp.com/track/weathered
Human architecture kneeling so the ivy can finish the sentence. A facility learning how to weather.
00:24:05 Blank Embrace – Dilapidated Monuments
https://kaisekidigital.bandcamp.com/track/dilapidated-monuments
Dilapidated monuments on a tundra that ends in a mountain you climb only to accept yourself. The stage turns very slowly here.
Side B argues in black and white until a drop becomes a drum, leaves the singers behind in Midas plumbing, hands in exam music before the piece ends, leaks a green chorus through melted glass, takes on new Beagle waters, and coils after midnight on a Yamaha four-track.
00:33:21 Amotken – Gota
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/gota
Black and white arguing inside a twenty-year-old Mexican machine. A drop of water deciding it is also a drum.
00:37:39 El Michels Affair – Anticipate (Instrumental)
https://elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com/track/anticipate-instrumental
The singers have left the building. What remains is the Midas plumbing — brass, choir-shaped air, a saxophone ghost clocking in for overtime.
00:40:31 The Sound Catelouge – Phase Transitions
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/phase-transitions
Exam music found inside a textbook sleeve. Phase transitions for students who must hand in their papers before the piece ends.
00:42:50 Phil Geraldi – Chorus in Green
https://chakrawhip.bandcamp.com/track/chorus-in-green
Alien country radio leaking through melted glass. A chorus in green that never quite reaches the hook.
00:45:35 Tim Stebbing – New Waters
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/new-waters
HMS Beagle still taking on new water in 2026. Sequencers collecting specimens the Atlantic has not finished naming.
00:52:28 DOMOTIC – Serpenting
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/track/serpenting
*A Yamaha four-track recorded after midnight, coiling like fur that learned to hiss. Vintage sockets whispering to each other in the dark.
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This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 311.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 138
2 November 2025
///glare.belonged.reaction.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 138 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Glare Belonged Reaction 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.
I’m Trevor and I curate these 90-minute genre bending drifts through frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Two, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per side with a side change in the middle.
Picture the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view.
Styles for this episode range from asmr to techno, from Ambient to world jazz. The musical keys in focus are E major and C sharp minor, D flat minor.
This episode contains some household names like Martin Stürtzer, The Black Dog and Neutral Milk Hotel. Some friends of the channel like The Green Kingdom, Ogle and Time Rival as well as some supporting labels like Fonodroom, Altus Music, Mahorka, Projekt Records, Woodford Halse, whitelabres, Cyclical Dreams and Triplicate Records. You are all the soul of this show.
If you’d like to be included on future episodes send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Links to all the tracks are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline.
Pre-order the 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Also the first channel compilation with 33 tracks so far will drop on the 8th of November, pre-orders are available. Subscribe and unlock 868 archived shows.
Remember, every comment, every like, every follow, subscription and, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing.
So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
o[rlawren] – biocentric equality – 02:39
Ben Holton – Your Guitar – 05:40
Teleplasmiste – Victims of Higher Space – 07:52
Martin Stürtzer – Exo Habitat – 11:43
Altus – Shadow Days – 14:43
autumna – memory transgression – 17:41
Carya Amara – L’Ours Musicien – 22:40
Brendan Pollard – Voids of Intuition – 24:03
The Green Kingdom – Sea Pines – 26:10
L A N D S R A A D – Tuono Village//A Royal Procession – 28:34
Mark Isham – Musings — in Two Parts – 33:20
Frunk29 – Savan – 36:15
The Black Dog – Motif Lasdun (Hello Refit) – 38:29
awakened souls – little glimmers – 42:33
Farmacia – Flor – 44:56
B Side – 47:38
Akira Film Script – R – 48:09
KeepSleep – go back to sleep – 49:30
Guy Blakeslee – Celestial Radiance – 52:47
marine eyes – to belong (reprise) – 55:01
Resonating With Life – Events in Life – 57:37
Neutral Milk Hotel – My Dream Girl Don’t Exist – Live, 1992 – 1:02:30
Ogle – Nightmare 3 – 1:05:35
*Trevlad – Cloud Divider Nipped – 1:07:40
Mountain Hawk – Crane’s Dream – 1:11:22
João Victor Barroso – Mais Pesado é o Céu – 1:14:22
Mike Casey – Dusty Wheel (WPAA TV Session) – 1:17:26
Jordane Prestrot – Le Secret bien gardé des anciens mages tibétains – 1:20:49
Time Rival – Keystone Landing – 1:23:41
Lucasle – AKG Kali – 1:26:20
Ekoplekz – Dirtbokz – 1:29:20
Outro – 1:38:00
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 122
27 September 2025
///ropes.shipped.along.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve tuned into Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 122—Ropes Shipped Along. A name, a signal, and a location. Drop it into What3Words and you’ll find the coordinates of this episode’s visual transmission.
The name is also the title of the track you hear in the background—available for pre-order on Bandcamp and ready to be absorbed on YouTube. It’s the anchor of this episode, the pulse beneath the mix.
As always, we embark on a 90-minute journey through sound—crafted for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and communion with the cosmos. No commentary between tracks. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion.
Side A opens with Loula Yorke’s Time is a Succession of Such Shapes, and flows through Ironic Hill, Benge, µ-Ziq, Jogging House, and more. You’ll hear Instant Respect Latter from myself, and an exclusive remix of The Long Dead King by The Form Group of the The Leaf Library fame.
Side B flips the signal with Panic Girl’s Between the Shadows, Fallen’s Awareness, Resilience, and gribbles’ Poppi. We drift through Suncastle, Stone Anthem, and an exclusive haunting excerpt from Louis Gardner’s The Lake. The full 23 minute version can be heard on yesterday’s episode of EXPANSIVE WAVES. The journey closes with Jamie Lidell’s Unmasking—a final breath before silence.
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🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
LOULA YORKE – Time is a Succession of Such Shapes I – 02:56
Ironic Hill – BAD STUFF – 07:48
Benge – Network of Continuations – 09:15
Trevlad – Instant Respect Latter – 13:57
µ-Ziq – Escorial – 16:57
Mountain Hawk – Heartbeat of the Forest – 21:07
Jogging House – Vase – 28:48
Nathaniel Sutton – Is It (Really) Okay? – 33:21
Vivid Stars Forgotten – Amaru Muru – 35:52
Kilometre Club – Go Slowly, Slowly Go (with E J R M) – 39:40
*The Form Group – The Long Dead King (Mucha remix) – 42:15
Side B – 47:14
Panic Girl – Between The Shadows – 47:59
Fallen – Awareness, Resilience – 53:52
gribbles – Poppi – 58:11
Suncastle – Shed Beat 48 – 1:01:01
Stone Anthem – The Floors of Memory – 1:01:51
*Louis Gardner – The Lake (excerpt) – 1:05:21
Trevlad – Shadow Variations – 1:08:32
Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen – Seen Through a Door – 1:12:13
KILN – Maplefunk Diptych [ii] – 1:17:11
Go Outside – demo – ambient preset – 1:19:14
willowlaun – black cat, black cat – 1:19:41
Angelwail – Srebrenica – 1:22:45
Go Outside – demo – echoes preset – 1:26:04
Jamie Lidell – Unmasking – 1:26:27
Outro – 1:28:01
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 098
Bay Entry.
Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 098 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: Imaginary North, Cyclical Dreams, Noray Records, rohs! records, and, whitelabrecs.
Artist on the show who has sent me material: Bit Cloudy.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, Otis, snowpong, Belial Peligrim, skullface, Ryan Singleton, moiCflo, aeon music, Takashi Hosaka, Steffi Baron-Neuhuber, and, Fonodroom, for the follows, likes and comments.
I’ve also started adding the wonderful Otis Nanogod Chat-ziste-fanou
as a co-host on the shows as I acknowledge his commentary as a co-hosting feature.
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. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
East Wind Band – Read The Fine Print – 01:57
Awakening – Gotta Do Somethin/Might As Well Cultivate – 05:18
Trevlad – Dream Cabinet – 10:04
Kilometre Club – Knowingly (with The Golden Age of Wrestling) – 15:23
Barracuda – Baby I Love You – 20:19
Field Lines Cartographer – Gentle Flows – 22:59
Mountain Hawk – Sacred Island – 26:45
Christian Fiesel – Over A Hill Over A Mountain – 33:38
kingfaery – Awal – 43:20
Side B – 46:56
*Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 10 – 47:43
Bit Cloudy – (Indulge and Reward) The Annihilation of Kindness – 50:38
Mick Chillage – Entering Coordinates – 54:13
Dreamlake Mists – Mist Hypnosis – 1:02:27
Raúl Cantizano & David Cordero – Mi centro vine a encontrar (feat Lela Soto) – 1:05:11
Thomas Richardson – Desert Mirage – 1:07:24
arbee x ambifi. – just before dawn – 1:13:20
Toxic Chicken – Patch Point Bay – 1:15:03
Garda – Childhood Memories – 1:16:57
Michele Andreotti – La Nuova Parola – 1:20:07
Julia Gjertsen & Gustav Davidsson – Afterglow – 1:23:14
Outro – 1:26:14
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
EXPANSIVE WAVES 11
Welcome to the Eleventh outing of Expansive Waves. A space and a place for long form music. Each episode contains 8 pieces that must be over the 12 minute mark. I’m your host, Trevor, and for the next three hours I’ll be guiding you through these 8 unhurried gems.
Tom Penaguin – Antigravity Lagoon – 00:00
T-toe – Hair & Steel – 14:03
*Audio Obscura – Part 1 – 27:38
synkrotron – Epsilon Aurigae – 1:03:39
Trevlad – Sleep Meditation 4 – 1:33:23
Christian Fiesel – Picknick By The Wayside – 2:04:27
Autistici, Russ Young & Corey Gordon – Observing Hyphae – 2:18:40
*Harder Than Concrete – Exit Planet Rust – 2:31:59
