Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 176
04 February 2026
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 managed to carve out for yourself. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 176. I’m your guide, Trevor.
The cassette sits ready in the deck, labels hand-scribbled, oxide already flaking a bit at the edges. Side A and Side B, twenty artists strung across them like beads on a frayed string. We’ll flip the tape halfway through, that satisfying clunk and hiss, because some things refuse to be digital.
Tonight we drift through ambient drifts, kosmische pulses, drone meditations, a touch of library funk, some psychedelic sprawl, electroacoustic murmurs from places like Bulgaria, the UK, Munich, Buenos Aires, Athens, Rome, Sheffield, Colorado, and a few others that don’t fit neatly on any map. The longest track stretches out patiently, Asha Patera’s – Wandering in the Upside Down from Sounds for the Soul Records, clocking in at just over 11 minutes. Durations aside, none hurry. There’s an exclusive track which open the B side from Moscow artist DEE_KAY and his track Bellcut. But we’ll get to all that in a bit.
Headphones on if you’ve got them. Volume where it feels intimate. Let the kettle whistle if it wants to. The world can wait.
We begin with a January release from the Mahorka label in Bulgaria, a collected volume of drone and teknoiz spanning a decade. Autonomаton offers The UFO project remix—eerie, floating synth washes that suggest something observed from a great height, unhurried and slightly unsettling in the best way. From the album Collected Not Lost 2015-2025 Vol 1: Drone and Teknoiz.
Autonomаton – The UFO project remix.
Next, Mark Ellery Griffiths with Synthi Sequence B. Loops and sequences built on vintage synths, patient repetitions that build quiet architectures. Mark is a regular of my shows and doesn’t get the credit he should. Check out his Bandcamp releases. He’s nudging on 50 and they’re name your price. Synthi Loops Sequences 2025 – Self released back in December.
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Sequence B.
Danielle Nia now, Longing For Togetherness. Warm, enveloping tones from i u we records, a gentle pull toward connection without ever forcing the issue. Stunning patchwork from the great Connected 3 compilation. Released a couple of weeks back on i u we records.
Danielle Nia – Longing For Togetherness.
Greek artist Substak and his track Apartment Window from Belgian ambient label Daydreamers. A quick view onto quiet streets, field recordings woven into subtle rhythms, the sound of somewhere lived-in and watched over time. From the EP Empty Bench – released not two weeks ago.
Substak – Apartment Window.
A good friend of the channel Asha Patera, Wandering in the Upside Down. Dream-logic drifts and inverted atmospheres from Sounds for the Soul Records, like walking through familiar rooms that have rearranged themselves while you slept. The Vale of Shadows – Sounds for the Soul. Which is a Stranger Things inspired ambient compilation. Also released in January. This is the long haul.
Asha Patera – Wandering in the Upside Down.
Belgian artist Jeroen Lauwers is, Red Stars Over Tokyo with In Trance from self released The Burning Spiral. Pulsing, hypnotic acid tinged layers that suggest endless night drives through neon-lit cities that might not exist. The Burning Spiral. released back in December.
Red Stars Over Tokyo – In Trance.
Southend On Sea artist Adrian Lane, After The Deluge. Post-flood calm, piano and strings emerging from residue, reflective, haunted and sparse. Their Ghosts and Ours – out on Sheffields finest Audiobulb.
Adrian Lane – After The Deluge.
Argentinian artist Puppy Bordiga with mRn, Solarium. Collaborative warmth, sunlit electronics and gentle percussion from Walking the Way III. Self released back in November.
Puppy Bordiga with mRn – Solarium.
ATA Records is a label and I can’t get my head around if they are also a band. They really know their library stuff but on this release and others the artist is simply ATA Records, no credits to the artists which is a shame. Anyway This is Tatsuya, The Sword. Library archive material, cinematic and evocative, with a heartfelt flute. drawn from Vol 4. The Library Archive Vol 4 – ATA Records.
ATA Records – Tatsuya, The Sword.
Tape flip. The mechanism clicks, heads realign, oxide continues its slow decay. Side B.
Coming up the exclusive for episode 176 is by Moscow Marist DEE-KEY now, Bellcut. Sharp, precise cuts through ambient haze from Local Gods. Local Gods. Drops next week in the 12 of February. Remember where you heard it first.
DEE-KEY – Bellcut.
Now from one of the best Italian jazz-funk library albums of the ’70s. Oscar Rocchi’s Genziana. Herbal, pastoral electronics evoking wild flowers and Italian hillsides, from Erbe Selvatiche on Four Flies Vaults which is the digital imprint of Four Flies Records.
Oscar Rocchi – Genziana.
Now to a favourite label and a release from November. Grant Beasley, The Vanishing Point. This is the title track. Horizon-line drones and slow dissolves. Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point – Cyclical Dreams.
Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point.
Next filter sweep time. LA artist Good Sunset, Taormina. Which is a hilltop town on the island of Sicily and I bet they have good sunsets there. Sun-drenched, cinematic reveries from Cinema Everything on Mystery Circles.
Good Sunset – Taormina.
And here’s one from me, under Trevlad—EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious). A previous transmission excerpt, layered and recursive. TVCL 07 – Trevlad.
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious).
Next the poppiest piece I’ve played in a good while. Nostalgia 77, You Where In My Dream Last Night. Dream-state jazz inflections, soft and lingering. Love the bass lines and sound. This is the first single from their upcoming EP titled: When The Lights Gone. Which drops on the 1 May on Nostalgia 77’s Bandcamp page.
Nostalgia 77 – You Where In My Dream Last Night.
Next up Guitars and synth with GROSSO GADGETTO, and “the track Once there was only dark”. Apocalyptic soundscapes for a world winding down, from “Soundtrack for a Dying World by Dark Supreme & Grosso Gadgetto”. Sampled voices of Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson.
GROSSO GADGETTO – “Once there was only dark”.
Now get your world music psychedelic slippers on. We’re off to Melbourne Australia. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Flying Microtonal Banana. Microtonal excursions, psychedelic without apology, the shortest in the episode at 2:34 yet packing strange tunings into tight space. From the album of the same fantastic name. Released on the Heavenly Recordings label about a year ago.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana.
Now back to 2021 and some wonky synth chords. Near Stoic, Music For A Friend. Intimate, thoughtful pieces from Notebook Thoughts Short Stories on Third Kind Records. A definite Boards of Canada vibe to this one.
Near Stoic – Music For A Friend.
Now I wish my doorbell sounded more like this. The penultimate track and the ultimate wind down. Miguel Otero, Blooming in Sturton Street. Gentle blooms and street-level calm from Islas Calm Cloud. One of the recent compilations let loose on Whitelabrecs. Get it now…
Miguel Otero – Blooming in Sturton Street.
And before the tape ends. Thanks for staying with it. These transmissions aren’t built for haste, and neither, I suspect, are you. Support the artists if any of this lodged somewhere—buy the music, share the names. Stream this one on Mixcloud for a week if you need to revisit. All the paths and links live at trevor.se.
And if it was possible to close on a chiller note I think I have you covered. We close with Astropilot, The River Knows No Hurry. Flowing, unforced kosmische from Stockholm label Valley View Records, a reminder that some currents simply continue.
Until the next time the cassette calls. Stay resonant. Stay expansive. Let the sounds find their own way.
Trevor, signing off.
Astropilot – The River Knows No Hurry.
Intro – 00:00
Autonomаton – The UFO project remix – 01:45
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Sequence B – 06:21
Danielle Nia – Longing For Togetherness – 09:37
Substak – Apartment Window – 16:03
Asha Patera – Wandering in the Upside Down – 18:25
Red Stars Over Tokyo – In Trance – 28:44
Adrian Lane – After The Deluge – 35:44
Puppy Bordiga w. Various – Solarium (with mRn) – 38:46
ATA Records – Tatsuya, The Sword – 41:43
B Side – 45:35
*DEE-KEY – Bellcut – 45:52
Oscar Rocchi – Genziana – 50:50
Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point – 53:21
Good Sunset – Taormina – 1:01:15
Trevlad– EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious) – 1:04:46
Nostalgia 77 – You Where In My Dream Last Night – 1:07:54
GROSSO GADGETTO – “Once there was only dark” – 1:12:06
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana – 1:20:12
Near Stoic – Music For A Friend – 1:23:08
Miguel Otero – Blooming in Sturton Street – 1:27:32
Astropilot – The River Knows No Hurry – 1:32:45
Outro – 1:36:42
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 127
8 October 2025
///clean.builder.door.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at the coordinates ///clean.builder.door—Episode 127 of The Virtual Cassette Library. A title, a signal, a portal.
The track you’re hearing is available for pre-order on Bandcamp, already whispering through YouTube, it sets the tone for what’s to come.
These mixes are 90-minute genre bending drifts through curated frequencies—designed for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and quiet communion with the cosmos. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion.
Styles include sci-fi, ambient, idm, new age, berlin school, hauntology, folktronica and more. The A side contains an exclusive track by Eric Angelo Bessel, titled Clearing, from the album, Mirror at Night, dropping October 31 on the Lore City Music label.
The B side also contains one exclusive track by me and it’s titled Diagram Mobile Cartoons from my upcoming album TVCL 06. The track titles are also geographical locations where the videos for each track were captured. All available on the Trevlad Youtube channel.
You’ve maybe noticed that I’m also releasing my first compilation for digital release. Which will be dropped on the 6th of November. Check out the socials if you want to get involved.
💌 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
James Stevens – 8M3 We Only Need Have Asked – 02:24
kelly moran – Prism drift – 03:51
Warmth – Dimmed – 07:28
Michele Di Martino – Finale – 09:46
Robohands – The Gymnasium – 14:54
deepspace – A q u a s u n D e p t h s ♆ – 18:46
René Najera – Ancestral Remnant – 23:41
Point Surrender – presence – 26:14
Hainbach & Simon Spiess – From Loss We Came – 31:53
*Eric Angelo Bessel – Clearing – 35:53
Kayla Painter – Transmission Isa Lei – 37:56
Side B – 41:46
2muchachos – Birds (Hovering Over The Pine Tops) – 42:32
Markus Reuter, Ian Boddy – Linger – 50:01
Ed Herbers – Cruising Altitude – 55:23
*Trevlad – Diagram Mobile Cartoons – 1:00:20
Rick Sanders – Crystal Trace – 1:04:19
Ann Annie – Cottonwood – 1:11:47
Oceanographer – Romeo – 1:13:42
Andrea Castiglioni – Birds of Passage, Through the Skies – 1:18:41
Outro – 1:21:43
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 102
Neptune Sky.
Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 102 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: Astra Solaria Recordings, Castles In Space, ARCHIVES, Error Prone Records, Moniker Eggplant, Sonor Music Editions, Bricolage, rohs! records, Mystery Circles,
As well as these artists who have sent me material: Augen, The Green Kingdom, Phil Dodds from Allmanna Town.
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, aeon_music, and Ottervision, for the follows, likes and comments.
At least two of the tracks contain the Bucla Music Easel.
The A side contains “On The Waves Of Neptune” an exclusive from the album “Where Trees Go To Die” the latest offering from Stone Anthem, a hallucinatory journey through ambient textures, dense organic drones, and otherworldly frequencies. Layering field recordings, modular synthesis, and hushed vocals, the album was created in an attempt to maximise immersion and create a sonic field of bliss, a slow-evolving soundscape where perception bends and time dissolves. The album’s initial blueprint was created in a quiet hamlet in the Spanish mountains in 2023 with very little equipment. So the scenery of forests and mountains were a great influence on the album’s development. This is also from where all of the field recordings on the album were sourced.
Castles in Space is delighted to be working with this charismatic, vibrant and super-talented young artist. He’s just turned 18.
The B side contains an exclusive by colab who I know nothing about and I don’t believe are the Georgian Hard techno outfit. The track here, Troubled appears on the Bricolage labels 27 track compilation album X celebrating their 10th year of magical releases. It’s a ‘who’s who’ of the label past, present and future. Do check it out. Links to everything played are in the show notes and in the comments.
Otherwise Check out HDRFs musical journey on Invisible Waves – The Stories.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can join nanogods poetic visualisations 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. 🚀✨
Episode track:
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/tvcl-05
Intro – 00:00 –
Trevlad – Lucid Drift – 04:10
Casey MQ – The Heirloom – 07:26
Ogle – Dream 3 – 08:30
Augen – Traction – 10:42
Bibio – TEGID’S COURT – 17:00
Jamie Lidell – Inner World – 20:24
Rival Consoles – Drum Song – 23:36
Tomo-Nakaguchi – Twilight Glow Of The Sky (Autistici Suspended Remix) – 26:47
René Najera – Balancing A Stone – 31:02
*Stone Anthem – On The Waves Of Neptune – 37:45
Warmth – Inshore – 41:38
Caer Sgàil – It’s the People We Choose – 45:19
Side B – 47:43
Clystre – Jon’s Art III – 48:29
Slow Haste – Wishing Well – 53:17
Sandro Brugnolini – Reiteratòico – 55:40
*colab – Troubled – 58:38
Michele Di Martino – Sailing Through Silence – 1:01:45
The Green Kingdom – Coral Garden – 1:05:27
Tatsuro Murakami – Stunning Fragility – 1:08:11
The Animals at Night – Dissolver – 1:11:01
KILN – Deacon Rayhand – 1:12:54
Apta – Dive – 1:16:24
Trevlad – Dreamwalk Circuit – 1:18:59
Allmanna Town – Sample 30 [Beat Version] – 1:22:35
World Brain – Minute papillon – 1:24:10
Tycho – To Everywhere Pt. 2 – 1:27:52
Outro – 1:28:58
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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.
Waking Spring Mother
08.02.2025
Toad Blood – Spring Snowflake II – 00:00
SHIVARASA – I Am Love – 03:23
another fine day – indian summer – 11:26
Pulse Emitter – Birdshit – 14:53
Death and Vanilla – Perpetuum Reprise – 16:48
Sofie Birch – New Life Index – 18:01
The British Stereo Collective – Waking – 21:22
A.R.T Wilson – Sun Sign Cancer – 22:12
Daou – By the window – 25:42
Glåsbird – Microchasm – 29:31
The NRG – Earth Mother – 35:45
Dream Dolphin – Island Humming – 41:36
Go Outside – Morning Stretch – 48:14
For the Birds 037 (The final episode)
24.01.2025
SHIVARASA – They Feel, They Know – 00:00
Wave Temples – Prelude to the Night Huntress – 09:57
Lovelock – Rhythm 77 – 11:03
Wave Temples – Procession of the Star People – 15:01
DR. ATMO – Dua – 15:43
Lee Hannah – valley bird – 21:33
Florigenix – Vector Shrine of Gentle Breath – 22:13
Giuliano Sorgini – Miraggio – 23:17
David Cordero – Las Albinas – 25:44
Giuliano Sorgini – Oasi Nella Giungla – 29:38
Gilroy Mere – Torver and Coppermines – 30:05
Chocolate Hills, The Orb – Ace – 33:35
Jonny Trunk – Nest We Forgot – 37:39
Ümlaut – Pour Un Moment – 39:33
Crystal Quartez – Growth – 44:02
Felix Laband – Prelude – 53:23
Tomer Baruch – Into the Pond – 57:39
Be the 8th soul to save the Spotify playlist based on For the Birds. At the final show it reached 283 songs, 24 hr 8 min.
Invisible Club 024
Intro 00:00
Karl Marx Stadt-Stoik 01:23
Matt Lowery-Gifts 04:35
Apifera-Plaistow Flex Out 07:38
Nonkeen-be a 13:23
Jon Shuemaker-Starlight 20:35
Neil Frances-Little heartbeat, 23:39
Revbjelde-Specific Cohort 26:49
Gaussian Blur-House Black Metal 29:21
Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren-Dynamo Dance 33:37
HEBA-T10 (Kommissar Keller’s Dub Interpretation) 39:30
Steve Cobby-Chūgi 44:29
The Lighthouse-Animal Furniture 48:06
Sababa 5, Yurika Hanashima-Blue Universe 51:57
Multi-Surface-One Rat 56:14
Secret Circuit-Light On The Sand – Andrei Rusu’s Prickly Ash Remix 59:10
Kenny Ueda-Pomona Summer 1:08:35
Outro 1:11:39
Invisible Waves 018
Released 05.05.2024. Episode 018 of Invisible Waves follows a sine wave in energy. It starts and ends in the ambient and goes into the more electronica, idm in the middle.
There are some afterthoughts at the end taken from the Vayse podcast episode 026 featuring Douglas Batchelor.
Intro 00:00
Time Rival-Pumice 00:05
Chapter 1 05:35
Sedibus-Seti – Pt. 3 07:07
CIALYN-Magpies Hopscotch 12:38
Chapter 2 16:11
Forsling&Hauch, Mika Forsling-Markings 20:03
boycalledcrow-Tuktuk 23:50
Chapter 3 27:18
Correlations-Expanding Orange 29:46
Sergio Nunca-Décalage 34:02
Chapter 4 37:03
Andrew CS-dead leaves / morgan brown 41:03
Afterthoughts 45:28
Trevlad Sounds 