Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 354
Hi folks and welcome to We Can Watch. Episode 354 of my Virtual cassette library. It’s Thursday and I hope your week is rounding up nicely. I met Robin Rimbaud last night who was in Stockholm performing with Klang Systematiek at Fylkingen, an artist-run, non-profit association and venue for experimental music and intermedia art. Founded in 1933 making it is one of the oldest forums of its kind in the world. I also bumped into the legendary Håkan Lidbo who I know through my wife who sings in his electro trash pop outfit PayTV. I also got chatting with a dude living in Gothenburg, sorry I forgot your name, who introduced me to live coding music and algorave which was new to me. A fascinating world of the practice of writing and modifying computer code in real time to generate sound, rhythms, and compositions.
Also last night while this event was happening were a few other parties of the listening kind. Field Lines Cartographers new one Phases II: Further Moons dropping tomorrow on Castles In Space sounds amazing and, of course, The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two of which I have a piece. I read through the chat on my way home and got teary-eyed. What an amazing collective of super supporters and artists they are. If you can’t afford therapy I’d suggest dropping into listening parties on Bandcamp. Thanks every one for the wonderful comments and for supporting each other.
Anyway…
I make these shows on a daily bases which is not the best of ideas but I like listening to new music every day and just happen to like sharing my finds with you.
Shout out to MoiCflo for favoriting previous episodes.
Side A will include Jo Johnson and her soothing track We Can Watch, the track with the cuckoo and the child at the end saying we can watch, ambient synth and field recording where the watching is already happening and the donation goes to the Hope Not Hate and Kent Wildlife Trust. This melts into Oliver Cherer aka Gilroy Mere and the track Furlongs 2 from the album Furlongs out on Clay Pipe Music. Four minutes of pastoral electronics along the Downs where the chalk path is the same one Ravilious walked and the train is still going past the Long Man. Then Bill Bawden aka The Prairie Lines and the track This Is Where We Kneel from the album eyes down slowdown out on channel supporting whitelabrecs. The opening of the slowdown, four minutes of processed piano and static where the wide open space is the holy chamber and the kneeling is already the invitation. Then Brian Phillips aka Glass Hive with Snow In Summer from the self titled EP out on Unknown Tone Records. The track that looks like the plant, ambient calm from the Florida side project where the snow is already the summer and the mind is already in the woods of sleep.
An finally to end the set the extremely prolific The Merricks with the piece bds2 from their release Bounds which seems to have mysteriously dissapeared from the face of the earth so I’m calling this an exclusive track. Geneva dark minimal electro, where the sonic bath is already the edge and the edge is already the next one. After that side B will flip itself like a polite pancake while you notice a detail in your surroundings.
First off is the shortest tack of the episode from Austin Potter and Rainbow Trout from the album III. Out on the Wormhole World label. Austin if you’re listening I want you to make me a guided sleep meditation.
Enjoy…
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.
If you make music, run a label, or hold a private archive of material that has not yet found a place, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is heard.
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.
The rainbow already in the water, then a sonic bath that is already the edge.
Side A lets the trout know the colour so the water is already the poem, watches with the cuckoo and the child so the watching is already happening, walks the second furlongs along the chalk path the Long Man still watches while the train goes past, kneels in the wide open space that is already the holy chamber, keeps the snow in summer so the mind is already in the woods of sleep, and bounds the dark minimal electro where the bath is already the edge and the edge is already the next one.
Overall mood: Pastoral, and quietly edged — full of water that is already the poem, open chambers, and summers that prefer to keep their snow. Perfect for dusk listening, soft Downs, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a rainbow trout already in the water, a track with the cuckoo and the child saying we can watch, pastoral electronics along the Downs, a place where we kneel, snow that is already summer, a second bound of Geneva dark minimal electro.
00:05:54 Austin Potter – Rainbow Trout
https://wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-trout
Album: III. Label: Wormhole World
the fish that knows the color, one minute of gentle country-tinged dream where the rainbow is already in the water and the water is already the poem.
00:06:48 Jo Johnson – We Can Watch
https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/track/we-can-watch
Single: We Can Watch.
the track with the cuckoo and the child at the end saying we can watch, ambient synth and field recording where the watching is already happening and the donation goes to the Hope Not Hate and Kent Wildlife Trust.
00:13:51 Gilroy Mere – Furlongs 2
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/furlongs-2-2
Album: Furlongs. Label: Clay Pipe Music
the second version of the cottage, four minutes of pastoral electronics along the Downs where the chalk path is the same one Ravilious walked and the train is still going past the Long Man.
00:17:35 The Prairie Lines – This Is Where We Kneel
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-where-we-kneel
Album: eyes down slowdown. Label: whitelabrecs
the opening of the slowdown, four minutes of processed piano and static where the wide open space is the holy chamber and the kneeling is already the invitation.
00:21:14 Glass Hive – Snow In Summer
https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/track/snow-in-summer
Album: Glass Hive EP. Label: Unknown Tone Records
the track that looks like the plant, ambient calm from the Florida side project where the snow is already the summer and the mind is already in the woods of sleep.
00:28:48 The Merricks – bds2
Album: Bounds
the second bound of the Geneva dark minimal electro, where the sonic bath is already the edge and the edge is already the next one.
Welcome to the intermission aka the flip side. You just heard the track “bds2” by The Merricks. Remember If you make music, run a label, or hold a private stash of sounds that have not yet found more ears, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is considered. Today’s album of the day: Cell Theory by Groningen, Netherlands based ambient organism “zensor” modular synths and circuit-bent electronics where the cell is already the machine and the machine is already dividing.
https://zensor.bandcamp.com/album/cell-theory
The next set will feature Matt Lowery and the track 2-11-24 from the album Vessel out on a favourite label and channel supporter Mystery Circles. The February miniature, two minutes of modular synth and tape loop where the date is the title and the vessel is already holding the next one. Then Seil Records curator Jogging House with Shelves from the album Really. Four minutes of manipulated piano and tape where the shelves are already holding the thoughts and the thoughts are already floating. After that Julien Hauspie and the track Walkabout from the album A Distant Familiar the second track of the episode from whitelablecs. Three minutes of dialed-back guitar and field recording where the distant familiar is already the path and the path is already the walk. The penultimate piece of today’s episode is from an artist who reached out to me. Jason Dzamba produces solo improvised piano works on Youtube. Unedited improvised piano where the waiting is already the touch and the touch is already the next note that didn’t get edited out. I’ve chosen the piece Waiting Touch. Ending episode 354 is Mythologen with the track Gold from the self titled album which came out back in 2017 but seems to be missing from the Höga Nords Rekords label catalogue. One minute fourty five seconds of dreamy synth where the gold is already the muffled melody and the melody is already the recovery.
But first Zyggurat and the track “A Door Opens” from the album Sphere to Sphere out on the Old Technology label. The short closing of the sphere, two minutes of modular synth from the woodland chapel where the door is already open and the next sphere is already the one you were in.
Enjoy…
Side B
Mood mist: a door that opens, a February miniature, shelves that hold the thoughts, a walkabout that is already the path, a waiting touch on piano, gold that is already the muffled melody.
00:36:12 Zyggurat – A Door Opens
https://old-technology.bandcamp.com/track/a-door-opens
Album: Sphere to Sphere. Label: Old Technology
the short closing of the sphere, two minutes of modular synth from the woodland chapel where the door is already open and the next sphere is already the one you were in.
00:38:27 Matt Lowery – 2-11-24
https://mattlowery.bandcamp.com/track/2-11-24
Album: Vessel. Label: Mystery Circles
the February miniature, two minutes of modular synth and tape loop where the date is the title and the vessel is already holding the next one.
00:40:03Jogging House – Shelves
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/shelves
Album: Really.
the four minutes of manipulated piano and tape where the shelves are already holding the thoughts and the thoughts are already floating.
00:43:56 Julien Hauspie – Walkabout
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/walkabout
Album: A Distant Familiar. Label: whitelabrecs
the three minutes of dialed-back guitar and field recording where the distant familiar is already the path and the path is already the walk.
00:46:58 Jason Dzamba – Waiting Touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsI7B60X40
Album: The Piano Journal.
the unedited improvised piano where the waiting is already the touch and the touch is already the next note that didn’t get edited out.
00:51:25 Mythologen – Gold
(Exclusive track)
Album: Mythologen. Label: Höga Nord Rekords
https://www.toolboxrecords.com/en/product/27750/experimental/hoga-nord-lp-09/
the one minute fourty five seconds of dreamy synth where the gold is already the muffled melody and the melody is already the recovery.
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 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.
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
