Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 313
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.
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 also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse 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, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands.
The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now the stage begins to turn.
A doorway that reboots itself, then a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
Side A coughs the portal awake, paints Milan limb by limb in grey-cheek library jazz, docks Ishtar’s goddess-ship, waits for Blue Bell Hill to switch from black-and-white to blossom, folds a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, and hums a 7-inch bodega under fluorescent strip-light.
Side B parks godhead in the sprawl, waltzes a chest-pain name you cannot pronounce, pours top brass that refuses to complicate, walks the talk until it grows bass strings, holds the only hands that exist to be held, and ends on the dark side of the earth — the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting.
Overall mood: Playful, cinematic, and quietly cosmic — full of Clay Pipe colour, Batov half-shut eyes, and infrastructure filed under prayer. Perfect for late listening, bodega aisles after hours, or sitting with the drawbridge down while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a doorway that reboots itself, Milan painted limb by limb, a goddess-ship docking on the lotus, a council estate coming into colour, a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, a 7-inch bodega humming under fluorescent strip-light.
00:03:30 DaoLogic – Portal Reload
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/portal-reload
From the album: Source Vive Label: Mahorka
The portal coughs, then remembers its password. Warm crispy beats walking you through without extrasystoles. You enter. The source is still alive.
00:07:27 Barigozzi Group – Grey Cheeks
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/grey-cheeks
From the album: Woman’s Colours Label: Four Flies Records
the last colour on a body mapped in library jazz. Wurlitzer blushing while the flute keeps the secret.
00:09:34 Gong – Ship Of Ishtar
https://gongband.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-ishtar
From the album: Unending Ascending.
Venus at the tiller. Sacred cargo under the sails, clocks not yet reset. Climb aboard — the guitar is already a spaceship, but tonight the ship is Ishtar.
00:17:50 David Boulter – Blue Bell Hill
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/blue-bell-hill
From the album: St Ann’s Label: Clay Pipe Music
Blue Bell Hill before the demolition learned its manners. Black-and-white streets waiting for the cherry blossom to switch the world to colour.
00:20:04 Taftir – Tavasim
https://taftir.bandcamp.com/track/tavasim-2
From the EP: Od Layla Ba Ayara Label: Batov Records
Desert town, five players, a soul ballad they almost never play live. Feathers folded. The groove keeps its eyes half-shut.
00:23:05 East Side Supply – The Bodega
https://eastsidesupply.bandcamp.com/track/the-bodega
From the single: DELICATESSEN / THE BODEGA Label: Sonor Music Editions
Harpsichord and flute shopping the aisles. Axelrod hits between the tinned peaches. The bodega closes the side before the lotus can blink.
Mood mist: sprawl praying to itself, a chest-pain waltz with a name you cannot pronounce, brass that refuses to complicate, Watt walking the talk into orbit, hands that only exist to be held, a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
00:27:57 boycalledcrow – godhead
https://boycalledcrow.bandcamp.com/track/godhead
From the album: the sprawl Label: Mortality Tables
Godhead parked in the sprawl. Mortality Tables filing the prayer under “infrastructure.”
00:29:59 Angine de Poitrine – Tohogd
https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/tohogd
From the album: Vol.1 Label: Republic of Music
a syllable that arrived before the translation. Vol.1 still catching its breath.
00:33:53 Matt Berry – Top Brass Two
https://mattberry.bandcamp.com/track/top-brass-two
From the album: Simplicity Label: Acid Jazz Records
Top brass, second helping. Simplicity wearing a tie it does not need. Acid Jazz pouring the good stuff and leaving the bottle.
00:36:50 Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Walk the Talk
https://galecstasy.bandcamp.com/track/walk-the-talk
From the album: Wattzotica Label: Mystery Circles
Walk the talk until the talk grows bass strings. Wattzotica: the stage spinning at walking pace, then suddenly not.
00:40:15 The Mistys – A Hand Is To Hold
https://themistysband.bandcamp.com/track/a-hand-is-to-hold
From the album: Situations | Useless Mouths Label: Castles In Space
A hand is to hold. Useless mouths taking the night off. Castles In Space leaving the drawbridge down.
00:43:46 Martin Solos – Dark Side of the Earth
https://martinsolos.bandcamp.com/track/dark-side-of-the-earth
From the album: Heart of a Dying Star.
the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting. Heart still beating in the shade.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 313.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 123
30 September 2025
///mute.joke.renting.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at the coordinates ///mute.joke.renting—Episode 123 of Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. A title, a signal, a portal. Drop it into What3Words and you’ll locate the visual echo of this transmission.
The track you’re hearing—“Mute Joke Renting”—isn’t just the name of the episode. It’s the pulse beneath my voice, the gravitational center of today’s journey. Available for pre-order on Bandcamp, already whispering through YouTube, it sets the tone for what’s to come.
Today’s mix is a 90-minute drift through curated frequencies—designed for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and communion with the cosmos. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion.
🌀 Side A opens with Altus’ “Pattern Theory,” followed by KeepSleep’s “complex feelings,” Susumu Yokota’s “Sleepy Eye,” and Anita Tatlow & Applefish’s “Celestial Drift.” Alex Ringess paints landscapes of the soul, while John McBain stretches time with “Fade In Fade Out.” Zavijava Orchestra, Cole Pulice, and Windstar Enterprises guide us through hidden nooks and cosmic breezes. Skeptical Inquirer and Ogle close the side with forest echoes and pond reflections.
🌊 Side B flips the signal with Sven Wunder’s “Misty Shore” and Sandro Brugnolini’s “Africaneìdico.” Trevlad returns with “Area Vent Clutter,” anchoring the mix before Radio Free London’s “At the Edge of Forever” and frostlake’s “Behind Closed Eyes.” Datasal and Rival Consoles bring texture and pulse, while Martin Solos and Cate Le Bon stir the stars. Zeke Clough and Twilight Sequence lead us into the pink forest, followed by Cate Francesca Brooks, Bryan Rohmer, and the trio of Meierkord, Lucchi & Kobak. Corrado Maria De Santis closes the journey with “Entangled Uncertainties.”
💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline.
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🧙♂️ Shout out to Nanogod, whose alchemical words add dimension to the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every vibration helps keep the channel alive.
🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
Altus – Pattern Theory – 03:25
KeepSleep – complex feelings – 07:43
Susumu Yokota – Sleepy Eye – 10:02
Anita Tatlow & Applefish – Celestial Drift – 12:26
Alex Ringess – Soul Landscape 5 – 14:30
John McBain – Fade In Fade Out – 19:53
Zavijava Orchestra – East Wind – 20:46
Cole Pulice – In a Hidden Nook Between Worlds I – 27:39
Windstar Enterprises – Watch Over – 32:11
Skeptical Inquirer – Birdsongs For Bigfoot – 36:15
Ogle – Silent Pond – 39:54
Sandro Brugnolini – Africaneìdico – 40:48
Sven Wunder – Misty Shore – 43:23
Side B – 46:18
Trevlad – Area Vent Clutter – 47:03
Radio Free London – At the Edge of Forever – 50:27
*frostlake – Behind Closed Eyes – 54:09
Datasal – Ormen – 57:16
Rival Consoles – 2 Forms – 1:02:23
Martin Solos – Heart of a Dying Star (excerpt) – 1:05:52
Cate Le Bon – Wheel – 1:09:04
Zeke Clough // Twilight Sequence – Toni Heads for the Pink Forest – 1:13:51
Cate Francesca Brooks – Floes – 1:17:41
Bryan Rohmer – No Phones – 1:20:07
Henrik Meierkord, Marco Lucchi & Pawel Kobak – By The Gates – 1:22:46
Corrado Maria De Santis – Entangled Uncertianties – 1:26:26
Outro – 1:32:20
EXPANSIVE WAVES 13
Welcome to the thirteenth 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 two and a bit hours I’ll be guiding you through these 8 unhurried gems.
Intro – 00:00
Caught In Joy – Disconnected – 00:25
*HDRF – Diaspora – 18:28
Ramirez – Folklore – 31:34
Felbm – cycli infini – 46:11
DBC:Unit – Side Shadows – 1:24:56
Henrik Meierkord – Drone meditation III – 1:41:12
Dubberrookie – Ambient Oscilliation – 1:56:59
Martin Solos – Heart of a Dying Star – 2:10:12
*track is unreleased at the the time of the episode’s publication.
Bonus video for the background track for the episode:
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 101
Nocturnal Treasures.
Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 101 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 partially sponsored by these generous labels: Mahorka, Dustopian Frequencies, Subexotic Records, Triplicate Records, Le Mont Analogue, Binaural Space, whitelabrecs, Owl Totem Recordings, Mystery Circles, and, Imaginary North.
Much love to my Co-Host the poet, the Psychonaut, Nanogod, for his visualisations of what’s going on during the episodes.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, rendez2k, aeon_music, OtterVision, and, Fonodroom, for the follows, likes and comments.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can join nanogod on the time line. Don’t be shy.
Do you want to be part of future transmissions? Send your art to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked at the top of each episode.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
Willebrant + Vulcara – Dell (Vulcara Remix) – 01:45
x.y.r. – purple drops / modified reality (feat. Krjuk) – 05:09
Kutiman – Line 5 – 09:10
Fallen + Philippe Blache – Supplique au Vent – 11:39
Martin Solos – Dark Side of the Earth (excerpt) – 18:52
Misha Panfilov – The Shingle Beach – 21:48
Jim Huxley – Tessa on a Magazine – 24:39
Austin Potter – Sun, Moon, and Stars – 27:32
Everyday Dust – Condensation (Allen Remix) – 28:24
Xqui & Dogs Versus Shadows – Closing Time, Please Leave – 32:58
The Sorcerers – Ancestral Machines – 33:23
Guy Blakeslee – Arcturian Gamelan – 36:47
Side B – 46:46
Suncastle – Kinghorse – 47:30
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 04 – 50:55
The Cromagnon Band – Wilderland – 53:08
Gallery Six – Banka – 56:55
Uncle Fido – They Meet the Harmonica Player – 1:01:54
Adrian Lane – Memories Become Treasures – 1:03:22
zYklen – Pytheas and the Frozen Ocean – 1:05:43
ATW – Super Eight – 1:10:58
Trevlad – Fractured Grace – 1:13:20
ATW – Nocturnal Sun – 1:20:22
Pietro Zollo – Polyphon gefasstes Weiss – 1:23:04
rhubiqs – C/1995 O1 – 1:24:10
Outro – 1:27:18
