Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178
15 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 fragment of time you’ve found yourself in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178. I’m Trevor—your host, your guide, your occasional sonic conspirator.
A sonic 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.
So, settle in. Let the kettle boil. Let the cat sleep. Let the world spin without you for a while.
We float tonight through drifts of ambient electronic, modular wanderings, dubwise echoes, some art rock angles, leftfield pop inflections, drone undertows, and the odd burst of experimental pop. Places flicker by: Wormhole World gatherings, Republic of Music corners, Castles in Space haunts, Invisible Inc. pathways, Four Flies shadows, and points scattered from Lancashire to Vilnius, Munich to Mexico City.
The longest stretch in the selection comes from Caught in Joy – Elsewhere, a patient unravelling that lingers in the mind. The shortest snaps past in a flash with Allmanna Town – Sample 24, not even reaching the minute mark.
We begin with Dubberrookie and Winter Weather, a seasonal drift from A Wormhole Xmas 2025 on Wormhole World. Chilled dub pulses meet wintry synth haze, gentle echoes folding into themselves like snow settling on rooftops.
Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Dubberrookie – Winter Weather. Dubberrookie will appear on my upcoming compilation “Puzzles of the Psyche”. There’s still time. Send in your entries by March 25.
Now Floating Points with Precursor, the bonus unreleased cut from the Elaenia 10 Year Anniversary on the Republic of Music label. Sparse piano gestures meet subtle electronic undercurrents, a quiet prelude that breathes slow and deliberate.
Floating Points – Precursor.
Next up Bahia Brazil based artist – Navin Kala offers Vijf from Spinoza on a favourite label of the show Mystery Circles. Minimalist piano lines trace thoughtful paths, space around each note allowing contemplation to gather.
Navin Kala – Vijf. A reminder now if you have a piece of music that has meant a lot to you for some reason tell me about it. I’m putting together a new show called “Chord Confessions” and I need some tales behind the most important music ever released. PM me on the socials or email me trevlad@gmail.com Now back to the show.
Now amping up the drone. Stewart Keller brings Disheveled Zen from the whopping 100 track 2020-2025 Archives. Loosened field recordings and soft electronics tangle in a relaxed, almost accidental calm.
Stewart Keller – Disheveled Zen.
Here’s me Trevlad with Curving Archive Scales from the Trick or Treat 4 compilation on Sounds for the Soul. Archive dust and curving scales weave a long, meditative thread, time marked in subtle modular shifts.
Trevlad – Curving Archive Scales. Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Bernt Haas, who I believe is part of the Cries from the LTN outfit. Also Liquid Shape and The Tall Librarian. Thanks for the follow.
Now Mexico City based artists Eafhm and Mwamwa collaborate on Luzne (Mwamwa Part) from the split release on Secuencias Temporales. Dubby bass hums beneath fragmented vocal traces, a hazy half-step wander.
Eafhm, Mwamwa – Luzne (Mwamwa Part).
And now for something completely different. Deerhoof deliver L’Amour Stories from Apple O’ on Joyful Noise Recordings. Quick, angular art rock bursts with playful yelps and tight rhythmic jabs.
Deerhoof – L’Amour Stories.
Garda slips in Substratum from S-Lyga on the Neotantra label. Deep drone layers build slow atmospheric weight, substratum textures rumbling low.
Garda – Substratum.
Now time to punk it up. Tinned Meats present Caught in the Wild from Kilter on I Heart Noise. Raw edges meet noisy propulsion, caught somewhere between garage grit and wilder impulses. Mad stuff…
Tinned Meats – Caught in the Wild.
And now Keith Seatman with Tonight’s Guests Are? from the forthcoming Counting to Ten Then Back Again on Castles in Space. Radiophonic quirks and psych-folk fragments evoke childhood games and firework packaging memories, playful yet oddly disorienting.
Keith Seatman – Tonight’s Guests Are?
The Polish legend of Coconut Creek, Caught in Joy closes Side A with Elsewhere.
Karol is the most prolific Berlin school artist on the planet. He produces so much quality music on a weekly basis. Which he records live and can be witnessed on his Youtube channel. Analogue drooling adventures. The track Elsewhere is from the release Colorfield. Self released back in mid December. Karol has released 4 albums since then just for some perspective. This is Analogue coloured space drifts to close out the first side of the show.
Side B
We turn the cassette. If you have something you want featured on the shows lease don’t be shy. I’m not on a schedule which means I get to do shows several times a week, which means you won’t have to wait long to hear your music here. Here’s a label that does just that from the fantastic Italian label Four Flies Records. Chiaré opens with Ago e Filo from the album Sei. Italian library echoes meet modern restraint, strings and subtle grooves threading through.
Chiaré – Ago e Filo.
Now LOULA YORKE shares The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without) from Live Compendium 2 on Truxalis. Live-captured modular meditations unfold with quiet intensity, water-like ripples expanding.
LOULA YORKE – The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without).
Next another artist who has contributed in the past to my compilations the fantastic The Music Liberation Front Sweden who arrive with A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing from their collection on Third Kind Records. Warped pop edges bend familiar shapes into something skewed and resilient.
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing.
And Now Higamos Hogamos rework Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager) from Voyager Dubs on Glasgows Invisible, Inc. Deep dub transformations stretch the original into cavernous space.
Higamos Hogamos – Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager).
Francesca Guccione offers Mechanical Promenade from Connected 3 on IUWE Records. Mechanical rhythms promenade alongside delicate electric piano, a poised mechanical dance. A wonderful must have compilation celebrating 9 of the best female experimental electronic out there. In fact the entire label focuses on the beauty of female diversity in electronic music. Enjoy.
Francesca Guccione – Mechanical Promenade.
Komodo Kolektif follow with Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub) also from that Voyager Dubs compilation on Invisible, Inc. Drone devotion meets dub disciple rites, heavy and hypnotic. Invisible, Inc. is a label I wish I could play more of on the channel, and just can’t for financial reasons. They are great so if you can grab some of their beautiful physical releases.
Komodo Kolektif – Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub).
Now friend of the show Russian artist Ndorfik contributes Tahvi from Solos on People Can Listen. 5/8 Idm explorations carve sparse, introspective paths. Ndorfik has enlightened me on the fact that Mixcloud is not available without streaming through VPNs in his neck of the woods. So I send him the files of past shows so he can spread the good word.
Ndorfik – Tahvi.
Now the penultimate track and two masters of the ambient scene. Rhucle & Arbee bring Mournful Sky from Plain on David Cordero curated label Noray Records. Mournful ambient skies drift with gentle melancholy, field-like textures breathing slow.
Rhucle & Arbee – Mournful Sky.
Material for future shows is always welcome. Send your vibrations to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths glow at trevor.se and in each show’s timeline.
Until the next cassette turns.
Trevor, signing off from Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178.
I leave you with the very short track Sample 24 by Allmanna Town Allmanna Town is Phil Dodds who runs the amazing Waxing Crescent Records and my fellow Stockholm dweller Jonas Geiger Ohlin of The New Emphatic fame. this track is from Rodents out on their own Bandcamp imprint. Sampled fragments glitch and reform in rodent-quick bursts.
And that fades us out. Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Dubberrookie – Winter Weather – 01:35
Floating Points – Precursor – 08:18
Navin Kala – Vijf – 14:06
Stewart Keller – Disheveled Zen – 19:21
Trevlad – Curving Archive Scales – 20:45
Eafhm, Mwamwa – Luzne (Mwamwa Part) – 23:52
Deerhoof – L’Amour Stories – 29:14
Garda – Substratum – 31:21
Tinned Meats – Caught in the Wild – 34:30
*Keith Seatman – Tonight’s Guests Are? – 36:56
Caught In Joy – Elsewhere – 39:36
B Side – 47:04
Chiaré – Ago e Filo – 47:43
LOULA YORKE – The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without) – 51:08
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing – 56:50
Higamos Hogamos – Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager) – 1:02:56
Francesca Guccione – Mechanical Promenade – 1:08:49
Komodo Kolektif – Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub) – 1:13:31
Ndorfik – Tahvi – 1:18:51
Rhucle & Arbee – Mournful Sky – 1:23:32
Allmanna Town – Sample 24 – 1:25:32
Outro – 1:27:09
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 165
10 January 2026
Virtual 90 minute mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 30 artists, two 45 minute sets. A spoken intro followed by music only show. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
“Hello, Trevor here, and this is the all new Virtual Cassette Library and episode one‑six‑five.
First up we have the La Ponto Ensemblo which is actually a duo made up of Hans-Dieter Schmidt and Edward-Clark Cornell who together make delicate and harsh neo-classical pieces. This is track five from their latest release Fragile Objects: In A Harsh Environment.
Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.
Next up an old favourite of mine in the form of fellow Irishman David K. Mason. Better known as Listening Center. Mason is now based in New York and runs the rather fantastic Temporary tapes label. Although this track, Plugged In Nollaig, (nollaig being Irish for Christmas) is from the Subexotic Records compilation EP Yule 25.
Just a heads up, starting back on episode 156, there’s a little cipher game running through the series. Each episode, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten episodes, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ll get it right.
Now next up the original sounds of Sam Prekop. Sam is a master of modular synthesis. This is the title track from his latest release Open Close which is available through Thrill Jockey Records.
Now Mark Donlon also known as CZiGO with the dare I say jazz fusion injected piece, SERPITUDE, from his album, Techno Feudal. The latest to drop on New Zealand based Machine Records.
Now Russian artist NDORFIK with the Idm vibe Saimaa which is named after a Finnish lake and here is given a Finnish remix by the legendary Lackluster. The album of the same name is available through the Local Gods label.
Next up is from the i u we records label. A label focussing on the beauty of female diversity in electronic music.
The artist is Silver Galaky and is a duo made up of Anna-Maria Van Reusel on modular and keyboard synthesizers, and usually a very imaginative guitarist Dennis Slypen. Although this piece might well be just anna letting loose on her 5U Moon Modular system. The track is Strahlensammler and is from the upcoming compilation release connected #3. Dropping on i u we records on the 20th of January.
Now one of my favourite Swedish artists at the moment. Albin Johansson who simply goes by the name Albin. Everything Albin has released is gold. He has that retro library music ear which I cherish. This is the title track from the name your price EP DFAM which I believe is entirely written on the Moog Drummer From Another Mother. Albin is also a curator of the Malmö label Paltunes. Let’s go.
And now staying in Sweden in a way. from my neighbours up the road Passed Recordings recent, must have Chrimbo compilation The Ghost of Christmas passed I’ve pulled another great track from the 35 piece strong release in the form of this short entry, Snowfields by the artist Angel who I no nothing about. Enjoy…
Next up a long live piece I’ve kept its entirety for the episode. This is the artist Ryan Watts who goes by the wonderful name of Akira Film Script. Here with the piece E. Not to be confused with E or E.. Which are tracks on the same album titled Live at the Modern. It’s released on a label you should all know by now, whitelabrecs run by the unstoppable Harry Towell.
And now to end the virtual A side another figure of the ambient scene who does more than his fair share, Boris Potschubay who we all know as Jogging House. Boris curates the fantastic label Seil Records on which he has released the album Kiosk. Here he is with the track Worn.
Starting off the B side was the wonderful harp-like piano sounds and jazz phrasings of Brooklyn based artist Eliot Krimsky with the track, Transmission, from the album, I Made My House. Out on the outstanding Moon Glyph
Next a track of my own titled Trunk Stubbed Wiser which is a What3Words geographical location where I’ve filmed a visual to go with the piece on youtube.
It’s from the album TVCL 07.
Now a legend who for me embodies the late 90s IDM mood. French artist Alain Pachins, better known as, CIALYN here with a live take called, Last Lights / Winds Reader, from the album, 24:1900 Session Live.
Now to Melbourne bassist and producer Karl Willebrant. The ultra prolific Willebrant has released two albums since the release of The Knight Seas which was released in November. Here is an almost 11 minute treat, Thoughts of Them (A Knight on a Beach Mix – slowed and reverb)
Next up the unmistakable organic electronic sound of KILN which is actually a group made up of Kevin Hayes, Kirk Marrison, and Clark Rehberg III. Here is a track from their 8th album, Lemon Borealis. Which was released on the wonderful label, A Strangely Isolated Place. This is Ptarmigan which is a form of grouse found in northern and arctic regions.
And now a short piece from the fun Dutch artist Toxic Chicken. This is the track, Inner Worlds, from the album, Felicity out on the brilliant label Ingrown Records.
Staying with Ingrown Records, here is another quicky, from label curator, Raw Ryan , here as the artist, Anubis Rude, and the 37 second ditty, Spirit Bell, from the album, Explorer. Support the Ingrown Records label. It’s needed.
Next up Jason Courtney aka, In Darkness There Is Light shortened to (IDTiL),
and another Machine Records release titled, A Screensaver Of Emotions, this is the pumping minute long, Ahhhh Sequence.
Now to the penultimate track and something different from British born, Vienna based, Mark Peter Royce Featuring Cecilia C from Tempestine and the track, Antidote, from the album Twilight in the Altered World.
We end with the beautiful ambient warblings of Collette Andrea who goes by the name Gollden. Collette helps curate the Toronto based label Imaginary North together with Daniel Field of Kilometre Club fame. Thank you all for tuning into episode 165 of the Virtual Cassette library. I hope you like its new direction. Sending us home is Gollden with, destiny #9, from the album, Destiny.
Intro – 00:00
La Ponto Ensemblo – V – 00:45
Listening Center – Plugged In Nollaig – 04:43
Sam Prekop – Open Close – 07:35
CZiGO – SERPITUDE – 13:07
Ndorfik – Saimaa (Lackluster Remix) – 16:05
Silver Galaxy – Strahlensammler – 19:40
Albin – DFAM – 24:40
Angel – Snowfields – 28:47
Akira Film Script – E. – 32:22
Jogging House – Worn – 42:25
B Side – 45:02
Eliot Krimsky – Transmission – 45:31
Trevlad – Trunk Stubbed Wiser – 47:56
CIALYN – Last Lights / Winds Reader – 52:24
Willebrant – Thoughts of Them (A Knight on a Beach Mix – slowed and reverb) – 58:26
KILN – Ptarmigan – 1:07:40
Toxic Chicken – Inner Worlds – 1:10:35
Anubis Rude – Spirit Bell – 1:12:04
IDTiL – Ahhhh Sequence – 1:12:35
Mark Peter Royce – Antidote (Feat. Tempestine) – 1:13:37
Gollden – destiny #9 – 1:17:33
Outro – 1:21.23
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 152
8 December 2025
“Greetings all. Episode one-five-two of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Tactical Flagged Happen. That’s the track you hear underneath, and it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—it’s up on YouTube if you’re curious.
I’m Trevor. Ninety minutes, two virtual sides, fifteen tracks each. In this episode you’ll hear Dude, Finn Rees, Cognition Delay on Mahorka, elders from Driftworks, and Warmth on Archives. Later, The Black Dog, Hélène Vogelsinger, Sven Wunder, and my own track Plank Glides Enigma drift through the mix. Everyday Dust, Ndorfik, and Gollden on Imaginary North carry us into the B side.
Labels orbiting here include Neo Ouija, Leaving Records, and Intellitronic Bubble. Styles range from ambient and IDM to vaporwave, kosmische, and spiritual jazz. These transmissions stretch across places—Melbourne, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Sheffield—woven into the resonance of the library.
The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre‑order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
Dude – Wave – 02:00
Finn Rees – Expansion – 06:02
Cleeve Morris – Revenge (Alternative) – 09:45
Cognition Delay – Dazzled By The Dark – 12:19
elders – Horizon 4 – 15:55
Matthewdavid – 1_CAVESHRINE – 18:49
MXM – The Untitled Deep – 20:20
FM3, Christiaan Virant – Yang – 24:10
Warmth – Amaltea – 27:11
Carya Amara – Irlande – 29:44
Xylic – Desdemóna – 32:15
René Najera – The Seasons (ft. Leech) – 34:54
The Black Dog – The Jefferson Sheard Choir (Silence Mix) – 38:19
L A N D S R A A D – The Survival of Humankind, Nothing More Nor Less – 40:09
*Trevlad – Plank Glides Enigma – 43:01
B Side – 47:00
Everyday Dust – Moss (Alegria Remix) – 47:30
Ndorfik – Saimaa (Original Mix) – 51:29
Sven Wunder – Windward – 54:53
Anubis Rude – Fade – 56:16
CIALYN – A walk at Rhodia – 56:41
Hélène Vogelsinger – Mirror Arcana – XIX. The Sun – 59:37
zyklen – Echo in the Abyss – 1:01:27
John Scott Shepherd – Deep Sleep – 1:05:15
Larry Toadman – the shipwreck – 1:10:39
Tim Linghaus – Poplars In Your Eyeball – 1:13:16
Gollden – destiny #8 – 1:15:17
VVvrm – Then they called the Storm – 1:19:09
Fflwcs – Echolocation – 1:22:10
andarctica – semblance – 1:24:00
Dokun – Under The Aether – 1:26:43
Outro – 1:32:19
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 139
3 November 2025
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Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 138 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Caravan Grew Vaccines 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 IDM to neo classical, from ritual ambient to jazz-funk. The musical keys in focus are B major and G sharp minor, A flat minor.
This episode contains some household names like Greg Foat, Jogging House and Sven Wunder. Some friends of the channel like odd person, Henrik Meierkord and The British Stereo Collective, as well as some supporting labels like oscarson, moniker eggplant, ingrown records, whitelabrecs, mahorka and Cyclical Dreams. All the artists and labels are 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 37 tracks so far will drop on the 8th of November, pre-orders are available. Subscribe and unlock 870 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
Photay – Derecho – 02:46
Ndorfik – Saimaa (madebyitself Robot Jazz Remix) – 06:42
Tim Linghaus – Maybe Next Year – 09:26
Primary Mystical Experience – Morocco – 11:47
KMRU – Matching Teal Surfaces – 13:55
Karsten Pflum – Mousfolk Acid – 17:28
odd person – even floating kingdoms crumble – 20:45
blochemy – trei – 23:37
Metamatics – Inbetween Fields – 26:42
*Trevlad – Action Scam Running – 30:16
Sven Wunder – Leeward – 32:52
Jogging House – Disguise – 35:28
Nonkeen – mark – 38:43
Ranga – Transport – 41:44
Go Outside – not far away – 45:10
B Side – 47:40
T-toe – Bullhook Butte – 48:12
Francis Morning – Precious – 50:50
Henrik Meierkord & Knivtid – Fri tolkning – 54:22
Fran Carlyon – A Place To Land (demo) – 56:52
The British Stereo Collective – Come What May (from ‘The Sins of the Living’) – 58:06
Greg Foat – A Private Cosmos – 1:00:06
Steve Hauschildt – Pyramidal – 1:05:55
Berto Pisano, Elsio Mancuso – L’ATELIER DEI MISTERI – 1:09:05
Oberlin vs Moki Mcfly vs Philippe Neau – Honeychruch vs Imprint vs hors SOLS vs orsol (Iliaque Mix) – 1:11:00
Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland – Woe – 1:12:39
Seth Thorn – necarney creek – 1:15:40
Nils Quak – Transformation Unknown – 1:18:24
Hari Maia – Universalis I Pt. III – 1:22:47
boycalledcrow – Mushroom – 1:25:18
Marius Leicht – Die Reise der Örmimi – 1:27:57
Outro – 1:33:02
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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