Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 346
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.
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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.
An afterlife lobby after seven days in the fast lane, then an invocation over silent water.
Side A opens the lobby with the fast lane already behind them and the afterlife offering tea, manages a moonless night quite well on its own, surprises the spaghetti western with its Italian dust, lights a psychedelic dungeon that is kind to the walls, grants a silver ending with moss already comfortable in the eyes, and asks about towns that answer or not as they prefer. Side B turns a life’s cycle in an ambient factory, lets the green man dance mid-step in mud lane that is pleased to be a dance floor, stripes the zebras in a savannah already wild and slightly organised, keeps the mission bedridden with the bed already part of the plan, knows the future of flowers by candlelight, and speaks the invocation over water that is already silent and listening.
Overall mood: Amused, and quietly kind — full of open lobbies, comfortable moss, and water that prefers to listen. Perfect for dusk listening, soft dungeons, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: an afterlife lobby after seven days in the fast lane, a night that has misplaced its moon, a spaghetti western from Batov, a dungeon that is psychedelic, a silver ending for eyes full of moss, a question about towns.
00:01:27 Petridisch x Jude Kerr – Our Again S (Afterlife Lobby Room Mix)
https://rakurecords.bandcamp.com/track/our-again-s-afterlife-lobby-room-mix
Album: 7 Days in the Fast Lane. Label: Rakū Records
The lobby already open. The fast lane already behind them. The afterlife already offering tea.
00:04:54 Fimnur – Moonless Night
https://fimnur.bandcamp.com/track/moonless-night
Album: After Dark.
Title of the hour. The moon already elsewhere. The night already managing quite well on its own.
00:07:40 Jiri Jiri – Spaghetti Western
https://jirijiri.bandcamp.com/track/spaghetti-western
Label: Batov Records
The pasta already in the dust. The western already Italian, and slightly surprised by this.
00:11:06 Good Doom – Psychedelic Dungeon
https://gooddoom.bandcamp.com/track/psychedelic-dungeon
Album:Psychedelic Dungeon.
The dungeon already lit. The psychedelia already kind to the walls.
00:13:38 Grey Malkin – Grant Me A Silver Ending
https://fennycompton.bandcamp.com/track/grant-me-a-silver-ending
Album: FC10 – Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss. Label: Fenny Compton
The ending already silver. The moss already in the eyes, and rather comfortable.
00:19:06 Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine – Do You Live In a Town?
https://prozapine.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-live-in-a-town
Album: Melancholy Melodies & Stolen Memories.
The question already asked. The town already answering, or not, as it prefers.
Side B
Mood mist: a life’s cycle from the ambient factory, a green man dancing in mud lane, zebras in a savage savannah, a bedridden mission, the future of flowers by candlelight, an invocation over silent water.
00:22:36 MGMS – Life’s cycle
https://inthemood2.bandcamp.com/track/life-s-cycle
Album: Ambient Factory I. Label: In The Mood
The cycle already turning. The factory already ambient about it.
00:28:26 Martin Pyne – The Green Man Dances in Mud Lane
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-green-man-dances-in-mud-lane
Album: Trios – 218CD (2026). Label: Discus Music
The green man already mid-step. The mud already pleased to be a dance floor.
00:31:55 Giuliano Sorgini – ZEBRE
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/zebre
Album: Savana Selvaggia. Label: Four Flies Records
The zebras already striped. The savannah already wild and slightly organised.
00:33:57 Lastboss – 使命 Bedridden
https://lastboss.bandcamp.com/track/bedridden-2
Album: COAXIAL. Label: TheLastbossProject
The mission already horizontal. The bed already part of the plan.
00:39:23 Spirituals – The Future Of Flowers
https://spirituals.bandcamp.com/track/the-future-of-flowers
Album: Candles In The Dark.
The flowers already knowing what comes next. The candles already lighting the way.
00:46:31 Luca Longobardi – Invocatio
https://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/track/invocatio-2
Album: Aqua Tacita. Label: Seil Records
The invocation already spoken. The water already silent and listening.
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 332
I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn
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 harbour drawn in soft pencil, then a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
Side A keeps the seaweed’s appointment with the tide, still feels the earth turn under autumn leaves, dwells in holds large enough to stay, leaves an uncatalogued card in the drawer on purpose, lets silent water hold its breath so you can hear the room, and insists the clock has already spoken. Side B prefers the present tense inside a mutual blur, arrives as “we” with the nights already longer, receives a sincere note from the mothership, pauses between acts with the curtain half-raised, clips the verbs of quiet figures so the meaning stays intact, and lets the low cloud say hello in its own register.
Overall mood: Slightly seasonal, and quietly precise — full of soft harbours, open scores, and sentences shortened but still whole. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that are still listening, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a harbour drawn in soft pencil, an earth still turning under autumn, holds large enough to dwell in, a card left out of the catalogue, water that keeps its counsel, a clock that insists on the hour.
00:02:18 From A Harbour Softly Drawn (Fraser McGowan) – Seaweed
(Exclusive Track)
Album: Shepherds. Label: DRONARIVM
Shepherds, DRONARIVM. The green that keeps the tide’s appointment, soft as the harbour that drew it.
00:08:23 Ed Herbers – I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn
https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-still-feel-the-earth-turn
Album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings
Season Cycle: Autumn, Passed Recordings. Title of the hour. The ground still doing its quiet work under the leaves.
00:10:04 Many Pretty Blooms – Immense Holds
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/immense-holds
Album: Dwell On Beauty. Label: whitelabrecs
Dwell on beauty, whitelabrecs. The climb that prefers to stay, and the view that agrees.
00:15:32 Ümlaut – Uncatalogued
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mlaut-uncatalogued
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
Source unknown, Camembert Électrique. Jeff Düngfelder’s card left in the drawer on purpose. The house still listening.
00:24:27 Luca Longobardi – Aqua Tacita
https://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/track/aqua-tacita-2
Album: Aqua Tacita. Label: Seil Records
Silent water, Seil. The surface holding its breath so you can hear the room.
00:31:17 Portland Vows – Cuckoo
https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/track/cuckoo
Album: Cuckoo. Label: Third Kind Records
Third Kind. Everything is the case, and the case is the clock, and the clock has already spoken.
Side B
Mood mist: a blur that prefers the present tense, a we that arrived with the nights drawing in, a note from a mothership, an interval between acts, quiet figures with their verbs trimmed, a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
00:34:43 Charlatan – No Longer Believing in Permanence
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/no-longer-believing-in-permanence
Album: The Mutual Blur. Label: The Jewel Garden
The mutual blur, The Jewel Garden. The present tense doing all the work, and doing it kindly.
00:55:08 Oceanographer – We
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/track/we
Album: Orctalox (bc102). Label: Bricolage
Bricolage. Shimmering and cloudy, the nights already longer. The score still open.
00:59:55 Haruomi Hosono – Note of Mothership
https://haruomihosono.bandcamp.com/track/note-of-mothership
Album: Yours Sincerely. Label: Ghostly International
Yours sincerely, Ghostly. A postcard from the larger vessel, signed in a familiar hand.
01:02:31 The Metamorph – Entr’acte
https://themetamorph.bandcamp.com/track/entracte
Album: Entr’acte. Label: Moolakii Club Audio Interface
Moolakii Club leaving the curtain half-raised so you can hear the stage breathe.
01:22:44 Trevlad – Bubble Verbs Clipped
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/trevlad-bubble-verbs-clipped
Album: Quiet Figures.
Quiet Figures, the compilation still on the shelf. The sentence shorter, the meaning intact.
01:27:22 Towering Vertical – Nimbostratus, Horn of Greeting
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/side-1c-nimbostratus-horn-of-greeting
Album: Cloud School. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Cloud School, The Dream Journal Institute. The low cloud saying hello in its own register.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 332.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
