Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 229
Returning Magic Cluster
Based on the track “Elland” from the album “The Mystery of the Night” by “Warmfield”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A warm, organic, and nostalgic ambient journey connecting earth, memory, and cosmic wonder.
Side A moves from soil-rich grounding and post-rain freshness into analogue nostalgia and bright radiance. Side B blends quirky hauntology, glacial serenity, and meditative calm before expanding into stellar energy and enchanted magic.
Overall mood: Grounded yet expansive, gently melancholic with hopeful warmth and subtle enchantment. Ideal for reflective nature listening, golden-hour vibes, or late-evening immersion.
If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on.
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So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 HDRF – Song of the Soil
Earthy, organic ambient with deep resonant textures and grounded, living warmth. Rich and nurturing.
00:08:34 Teatre – Returning
Gentle, cyclical ambient with a strong sense of homecoming and emotional resolution. Warm and comforting.
00:13:52 gribbles – After The Rain
Fresh, glistening ambient capturing post-rain clarity and soft dripping textures. Clean and rejuvenating.
00:18:17 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Memory 15
Nostalgic analogue synth exploration with warm, memory-laden tones and subtle melancholy.
00:21:54 DOMOTIC – Ultra
Bright, expansive electronic with shimmering layers and uplifting clarity. Radiant and dynamic.
00:25:47 Rob Dobson – Spectral Cartography
Ghostly, map-like ambient charting invisible sonic territories with delicate precision.
Side B
00:28:17 Keith Seatman – Molly Dolly Stain Glass
Quirky, hauntological charm with colourful, stained-glass-like analogue textures. Playful and nostalgic.
00:31:27 Erik Wøllo – Glacial Veil
Icy, majestic ambient with shimmering glacial layers and vast northern beauty. Crystalline and serene.
00:35:59 Neuro… No Neuro – Just let It Go
Minimal, liberating electronic with glitchy detachment and calm release. Precise and freeing.
00:37:51 RIKAAR – Neutronical Sun Cluster
Cosmic, high-energy ambient with stellar clusters and radiant solar warmth. Expansive and glowing.
00:45:11 maya ongaku – Meiso Ongaku 1
Dreamy, meditative Japanese ambient with subtle psych-folk haze. Hypnotic and introspective.
00:48:31 * Warmfield – Elland
Regional ambient with textured melancholy and gentle English countryside nostalgia.
00:53:04 Boards of Canada – Into The Magic Land
Enchanted warped nostalgia with magical melodies and analogue mystery. Spellbinding closer.
* Exclusive track. Not released at the time of recording.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 212
Hypnotic and dreamlike, often sitting in liminal spaces.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to episode 212 of the Virtual Cassette Library. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
This episode is based on the track “Tower of Butterflies” by Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid from the album “Looking For Mount Sylvan” which dropped on the 10th of March via The 12th Isle label. Also a massive thank you to Driftworks, Lunar Module which is the CD imprint of Castles in Space, Audiobulb, Amulet of Tears, Trem 77, and Third Kind Records for sponsoring the episode with material.
This mix carries a moody, introspective, and slightly surreal nocturnal atmosphere. It moves through themes of isolation, transformation, thresholds, and fragile beauty. There’s a strong contrast between cold urban desolation and organic, fluttering delicacy — from concrete fields and body worms to towers of butterflies and sunlit solitude. The overall feeling is hypnotic and dreamlike, often sitting in liminal spaces (half-awake, melting forms, interrupted signals), with a subtle undercurrent of unease balanced by moments of quiet wonder and graceful movement.
If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Ghostloop – Concrete fields
Bleak yet atmospheric ambient depicting empty urban sprawl. Grey, expansive drones and subtle industrial textures create a haunting sense of isolation in man-made wilderness.
00:04:30 The Green Kingdom – The Owls
Mysterious, nocturnal ambient with soft, watchful tones. Gentle rustling textures and warm synths evoke hidden eyes in the dark and the quiet wisdom of the night.
00:06:37 Camp of Wolves – Little Black Eyes
Intimate, shadowy ambient with a feral edge. Delicate yet unsettling layers suggest small, gleaming eyes watching from the undergrowth—curious and slightly menacing.
00:10:33 Saïph – Psyché du figurant (128)
Abstract, hypnotic ambient/electronic exploration. Minimal rhythms and fragmented textures probe the psyche of an anonymous background figure—detached and surreal.
00:13:10 Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland– Melting Cubes
Fluid, dissolving ambient with geometric forms gradually breaking down. Soft, melting tones and crystalline details create a beautiful, impermanent sonic sculpture.
00:15:24 Future Children – New mythology part 3
Speculative, glowing ambient weaving contemporary myths. Warm, hopeful layers and subtle narrative movement suggest emerging stories for a new generation.
00:22:18 The Black Dog – Sleep Deprivation 39: Threshold Ov Wakefulness
Disorienting, liminal ambient from the legendary duo. Pulsing, sleep-deprived textures sit on the fragile edge between dreams and reality—tense and immersive.
00:25:53 Phexioenesystems – Body Worm
Organic, microscopic body-horror-tinged ambient. Creeping textures and intimate biological sounds evoke parasites, transformation, and internal hidden worlds.
Side B
00:30:33 Neuro… No Neuro – Words On Branches
Delicate, branching ambient with organic-electronic hybridity. Gentle, tree-like structures and whispered fragments feel like thoughts growing naturally in a quiet forest.
00:34:46 Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid– Tower of Butterflies
Light, fluttering ambient full of movement and grace. Swirling, kaleidoscopic layers build an elegant, fragile tower of color and motion.
00:39:28 Loris S. Sarid – One Million Streams (feat. Tony Morris)
Flowing, multi-layered ambient celebrating convergence. Rich, interwoven textures suggest countless individual streams merging into something vast and beautiful.
00:40:22 Teatre – Frostbite
Cold, crystalline ambient with a biting edge. Sharp yet beautiful frozen tones capture the painful beauty and isolation of extreme chill.
00:44:01 Trem 77 – Glister (Overland mix)
Shimmering, overland ambient with subtle rhythmic drive. Glistening textures and wide-open movement evoke traveling across sunlit or moonlit terrain.
00:46:49 Spectrical – Sunlit Solitude
Warm, radiant ambient focused on peaceful isolation. Golden, glowing drones and soft reflections create a comforting sense of being alone in bright, open space.
00:53:11 Sleep Chrysalis – Smoke Signal, Interupted
Hazy, fragile ambient with broken communication. Drifting smoke-like textures and gentle interruptions evoke messages fading into the distance.
Cleaning Warm Fruits
Gentle, intimate, reflective, precise, immersive, ethereal, delicate, organic, mystical, moody, restrained, melancholic and nostalgic.
00:01:00 CLAIR, Jude Rogers – Love
Spoken-word house piece with Jude Rogers reciting intimate lines over warm, inviting grooves. Gentle, danceable, and thoughtfully human.
00:06:30 idiiom – Real Sad
Experimental vocal electronics blending processed voice, technology, and emotion. Intimate, textural, and quietly haunting.
00:10:38 Hverheij – The Pain Inside
Atmospheric, introspective soundscaping with emotional depth. Reflective and cinematic, evoking inner landscapes.
00:14:15 Neuro… No Neuro – Cleaning is Key
Abstract electronic minimalism with glitchy, hypnotic patterns. Precise, arid, and subtly unsettling.
00:15:20 Future Children – A glimpse of the sea
Dreamy, disorganized ambient drift with watery textures and loose, exploratory feel. Immersive and slightly unmoored.
00:17:20 Hildegard von Bingen, Micah Frank, Chet Doxas – O Vis Eternitatis – Kodomo Remix
Modern ambient reinterpretation of medieval chant. Ethereal, spacious, and reverent with subtle electronic warmth.
00:21:15 Ümlaut – Because you are alive
Contemplative experimental composition focused on presence and silence. Delicate, thoughtful, and quietly uplifting.
00:35:55 Martin Archer & Claire McAllister – Fruits In All Directions
Free-jazz/electronic hybrid with playful, colourful improvisation. Organic, inventive, and joyfully directionless.
00:38:25 Moray Newlands – (Put me in) the red red earth
Earthy, ritualistic ambient folk with rich, grounded textures. Mystical and deeply rooted.
00:45:23 Lying Cat – Hanbreya
Weirdly beautiful electronic with occult-tinged atmosphere. Moody, textured, and intriguingly off-kilter.
00:50:10 Elinch – grau03
Minimal, grey-hued synthesizer study. Restrained, atmospheric, and patiently hypnotic.
00:51:45 Joseph Shabason – Parks & Demos
Warm, jazzy ambient with saxophone-led introspection. Melancholic, nostalgic, and beautifully blurred.
00:55:25 Miguel Otero & Raquel Pavón – Too warm for the yellow butterflies
Gentle, summery acoustic/electronic piece. Intimate, hazy, and delicately evocative.
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