Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape. Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the 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. A dynamic, slightly nocturnal ambient and experimental journey through elephant rhythms, fractured breakbeats, quiet shade, and slowly fading stars. Side A moves from South Indian folk-electronic dance and spare war circuits into darkstep fractures, live trio gravity, breath stuck in buffer, and compact chip energy. Side B opens across inland oceans and modular comfort, then rises through live fire, soul-deep space, red-kite aerials, and ends as the stars go out one by one. Overall mood: Textured, restless, and quietly expansive — blending rhythmic intensity with reflective stillness and cosmic closure. Perfect for late-night listening, focused immersion, or following the slow turning of the tape.
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. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:00:00 Sunken Cages – Elephant Dance An elephant dance unfolds through South Indian folk colours and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Elephant Dance. Dark synths, drones and industrial textures resynthesize into deconstructed club motion. Voices and remixes from across the globe rise as fire brought to the rhythm. 00:10:51 Alex Ringess – War Minimal circuits pulse under the title of war. Alex Ringess – War. Three or four instruments hold the space. Project files from Analog Abstractions carry the same mix forward in spare luminous lines. 00:17:50 Captive Portal – This minus five (Protuberance darkstep remix) Darkstep breakbeats fracture and reform. Captive Portal – This minus five (Protuberance darkstep remix). Lush pads from oldschool rave meet atmospheric drum and bass and experimental breaks, each layer covering another band of the spectrum. 00:23:46 Slate Trio – BS7 Guitar, drums and bass lock into BS7. Slate Trio – Neil Smith, Matthew Jones, Alex Heane. Three voices move together in live trio gravity. 00:33:15 Substak – Breath stuck in buffer Sunlight retreats while long shadows dance at the base of a tree. Substak – Breath stuck in buffer. Memories linger among colours that wait for morning. Quiet things sleep in the cradle of shade. 00:36:46 Danny Playamaqui – Chip Chip fragments scatter across broken beats and saboteur sweetness. Danny Playamaqui – Chip. Noise, basses, synths and hall atmospheres pack into compact X4 motion, Plaza del Sol energy glowing in the mix.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:43:46 Eric Angelo Bessel – Seagull A seagull rides above a hidden inland ocean. Eric Angelo Bessel – Seagull. Familiar roads, weathered shorelines and forgotten infrastructure reveal unexpected connections. Eighteen compositions invite wandering among landmarks that have always waited beyond recognition. 00:47:09 Ricardo M. Peixoto – comfort Comfort arrives through modular skin and tape loops. Ricardo M. Peixoto – comfort. Field recordings and generative chaos balance harmony with rhythm. Silence is sculpted into shared sonic connections. 00:54:57 Anam Gu Anam – Feu Fire opens in live improvised heat. Anam Gu Anam – Feu. Electronica, ambient and experimental palettes capture a unique moment. Each take remains a personal explorative soundscape. 01:01:51 John Louis Kluck – Soul Deep Soul deep space drifts through shifting forms. John Louis Kluck – Soul Deep. Soft pulses and distant echoes hover like quiet constellations, sculpting weightless horizons. 01:08:26 CRSY – red kite aerial A red kite hangs in aerial current. CRSY – red kite aerial. Wings cut slow circles through open sky. 01:10:52 Grey Malkin – One By One, The Stars Are Slowly Going Out Stars go out one by one as the tides of time come in. Grey Malkin – One By One, The Stars Are Slowly Going Out. A bridge of light leaps from earth to the unknown shore. Arthur Machen’s gulf yawns, then spans.
The visions complete their circle. The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September. Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries. Does that stir anything? Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work. Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 286. Travel safely between the tracks. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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 lush, organic, and gently uplifting ambient journey centered on nature, renewal, and introspection. Side A flows from fresh spring-like sparkle and majestic cinematic layers into warm emotional currents, leafy living textures, and mysterious archival nostalgia. Side B deepens with quirky charm, hypnotic Japanese psychedelia, ritualistic mysticism, and ends on an intimate, heartfelt note. Overall mood: Warm, verdant, and contemplative with a strong sense of growth and quiet wonder. It feels like a peaceful spring day slowly transitioning into a mystical golden-hour evening — soothing, slightly psychedelic, and emotionally tender. Perfect for deep relaxation, nature connection, focused work, or gentle evening listening. 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 Wac-Lounge – Springlet Bright, bubbling ambient with fresh spring-like energy and light, playful textures. Refreshing and optimistic. 00:03:45 Lorenzo Montanà – Arunay Expansive, majestic ambient with rich cinematic layers and spiritual depth. Grand and immersive. 00:09:04 E J R M – Such Things Warm, introspective ambient with gentle emotional currents and subtle beauty. Tender and reflective. 00:12:50 Andrea Cortez – Monstera Speaks Organic, leafy ambient with lush plant-like textures and quiet, living presence. Green and nurturing. 00:15:33 Hannah Peel – Limit Of Heat Delicate, shimmering ambient with soft intensity and emotional warmth. Elegant and sun-kissed. 00:19:35 The Visionary Library – Side 1b Mysterious, archival-style ambient with faded, dreamlike nostalgia. Atmospheric and enigmatic. Side B 00:30:49 Portland Vows – Spectacular Items Quirky, cinematic ambient with playful charm and subtle narrative flair. Whimsical and colourful. 00:35:24 maya ongaku – Meiso Ongaku 1 Hypnotic, psychedelic Japanese ambient with loose, meditative drift and blissful haze. 00:39:09 Off Land – Talisman: Gatherings Ritualistic, textured ambient with mystical undertones and ceremonial warmth. Deep and enchanting. 00:46:31 S. Costa – Daughter Intimate, heartfelt ambient with soft familial emotion and gentle melancholy. Touching and personal.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to the new Virtual Cassette Library – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that sets the tone for the set. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If and when I get a couple more subscribers then I’ll go back to doing 90 minute versions, complete with commentary. This episode titled Waiting For You is based on the track “I’m Waiting For You” by friend of the channel Damiano Verno, better known as Arcane Trickster . Available through the Greek label Cosmicleaf Records. If you make music 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. And if you’re enjoying the channel, please consider subscribing — even if it’s just for a month, it makes a real difference. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. No breaks, just the music.
Side A 00:00:00 THE GAYE DEVICE – Found Spaces Warm, exploratory ambient with found-sound textures and gentle electronic drift. Intimate and architectural. 00:05:27 P. G. Warren – Noctilumen Glowing nocturnal ambient with soft luminous drones and subtle bioluminescent sparkle. Dreamlike and serene. 00:08:32 The Jaffa Kid – Entitled II Playful, slightly mischievous IDM/electronic with crisp rhythms and quirky melodies. Light-footed and charming. 00:13:47 Arcane Trickster – I’m Waiting For You Mysterious, cinematic ambient with occult-tinged atmosphere and patient tension. Spellbinding and shadowy. 00:16:19 In Vitro – Celestes Celestial deep techno/ambient with airy pads and subtle propulsion. Floating and heavenly. 00:17:36 Me Lost Me – Science and Art Whimsical, poetic electronic pop with clever spoken-word elements and warm grooves. Playful and human. 00:22:05 Jetfire Prime – Sunrise Over Skyline (Rare Minidisc only Release) Radiant, retro-futurist ambient with warm analogue glow and optimistic dawn energy. Hopeful and expansive. 00:24:55 The Heartwood Institute – The Tod Haunting, folkloric dark ambient with rural British mystery and eerie stillness. Atmospheric and folk-horror tinged. Side B 00:27:57 deepspace – Rainy メガシティ 七 Precinct Cyber-noir ambient drenched in rain-soaked melancholy and dystopian neon. Deep, immersive, and cinematic. 00:32:56 CIALYN – In From the Cold II Cosy, wintry ambient with warm recovery tones and gentle melodic thaw. Intimate and comforting. 00:38:41 Sensorama – Echtzeit Crisp, real-time electronic minimalism with precise rhythms and clear German techno influence. Clean and hypnotic. 00:44:51 Home – Nosebleed Dreamy, slightly chaotic bedroom electronic with nostalgic warmth and hazy emotion. Introspective and charmingly raw. 00:47:48 Near Stoic – 94 Minimal, stoic ambient/electronic with restrained beauty and quiet emotional weight. Patient and refined. 00:51:42 Vivid Stars Forgotten – Teleport 3 Weightless cosmic ambient with low grounding bass and gentle, dissolving melodic fragments. Serene, slow-burning, and transportive.
00:00:00 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Thoughts On The Future https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/track/thoughts-on-the-future (from the album *Thoughts On The Future*) Nettwerk label. A vast, twilight desert stretches under a sky streaked with electric violet auroras. Floating modular synth orbs pulse softly like distant lanterns, while faint geometric patterns ripple across sand dunes that shift in slow, liquid waves.
00:07:01 Gollden – destiny #10 https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/destiny-10 (from the album *Destiny*) Imaginary North label. A neon-lit corridor in an abandoned cyber-city at midnight. Holographic cherry blossoms drift through cracked concrete, their petals glitching into fractal code as distant data streams cascade down mirrored walls in electric blue.
00:09:00 frostlake – Sundowner https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sundowner (from the album *Shattered Stone*) Discus Music label. Golden-orange sunlight spills across a calm coastal harbor at dusk. Wooden boats rock gently on mirrored water streaked with neon reflections, while seabirds circle above crumbling stone quays where long shadows stretch like forgotten promises.
00:12:34 Christina Chatfield – Sutro (from the album *Sutro*) Mysteries of the Deep label. Fog rolls thick over ruined Victorian bathhouse ruins perched on jagged cliffs above the Pacific. Pale moonlight filters through rusted iron frameworks, illuminating scattered pearl-like droplets suspended in the mist and tangled reeds swaying in an unseen current.
00:19:12 Rosie Tee – Wishbone (from the album *Night Creature*) Kikimora Records label. A dimly lit attic room filled with antique mirrors and velvet drapes at midnight. A delicate bone-white wishbone hovers mid-air, cracking open to release swirling threads of crimson light that weave into spectral figures dancing on the walls.
00:22:47 Hannah Peel – Emergence In Nature (from the album *Fir Wave*) KMP Music Ltd. Emerald forest canopy at dawn, where sunlight pierces through leaves in sharp, crystalline beams. Tiny bioluminescent particles rise like fireflies in reverse, forming organic patterns that pulse and expand across moss-covered branches in rhythmic waves.
00:26:42 Garden Gate – A Dream Within a Dream (appears on the album *Edgar Allan Poe*) Library Of The Occult label. Endless nested corridors of antique bookshelves under flickering candlelight. Pages flutter open on their own, revealing layered dreamscapes: oceans within oceans, skies folding into more skies, each frame dissolving into the next like ink in water.
00:29:13 ena b. – Birds Dance (from the album *Night Walk*) Secuencias Temporales label A twilight meadow encircled by ancient willows. Hundreds of shadowy birds lift in unison, their wings tracing glowing arabesques against a bruised purple sky, spiraling upward in harmonious loops that mirror invisible currents of wind.
00:34:05 ANNABEL [lee] – Cat’s Eye (from the album*DECAPODA*) Buried Treasure label A velvet-black room illuminated only by a single luminous green cat’s eye gemstone floating at eye level. Refractions scatter emerald light across floating dust motes and half-seen feline silhouettes prowling along the edges of perception.
00:37:06 Daniella Tourgeman, Tomer Baruch – Mistor (from the album *שפת עולם*) Kame’a Music label Ancient stone alleyways in a fog-shrouded Mediterranean city at predawn. Soft amber lanterns cast trembling pools of light on dew-wet cobblestones, where whispers of mist curl around arched doorways hiding secrets in shadow.
00:41:34 Castle If – Missing 404 (from the album *darknet*) A glitchy, pixelated library floating in digital void. Empty bookshelves flicker erratically, pages dissolving into error-code rain that falls upward, while a lone cursor blinks insistently in the center of an unreachable, cracked screen.
00:44:15 Sachi Kobayashi – Nostalgia (from the album *More Than Just A Dream*) Stereoscenic Records. A faded childhood bedroom bathed in warm afternoon sun through lace curtains. Old photographs on the wall slowly develop reverse—colors draining away—while a music box melody unwinds in slow motion, dust motes suspended like frozen memories.
00:49:26 Me Lost Me – Real World (from the album RPG) Upset The Rhythm label. A bustling urban street viewed through rain-streaked window glass at night. Neon signs blur into watercolor streaks of pink and cyan, pedestrians dissolve into abstract shapes, while reflections in puddles show an alternate, quieter reality beneath.
00:52:23 Little Dragon, April + VISTA – Layers (from the album *Slipping Into Color*) Ninja Tune label. Translucent geological strata glowing in deep earth tones underground. Each layer pulses with different hues—indigo, amber, rose—shifting and overlapping like sedimentary memories, with faint bioluminescent veins threading through the rock.
00:55:46 The Mistys – Nervous Mirror (from the album *Situations | Useless Mouths*) Castles In Space label. A cracked vanity mirror in a deserted ballroom under chandelier light. Reflections multiply infinitely, each version showing subtle distortions: trembling hands, shifting expressions, fractured eyes staring back with quiet unease.
00:59:42 marine eyes, IKSRE – Forgiveness (from the album *Nurture*) Past Inside the Present (PITP) Soft ocean waves lapping at a moonlit shore lined with sea glass. Gentle tides carry away shards of colored light, smoothing rough edges over time, while a pale horizon glows with quiet, healing luminescence.
01:04:36 Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan – Gaip (from the singel *Gaip / Seher*) Batov Records A bustling Istanbul bazaar at golden hour, viewed through haze of incense smoke. Spices spill in vibrant pyramids, lanterns sway overhead casting warm patterns on tiled floors, while distant calls blend into a hypnotic, wandering rhythm.
Virtual mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists, two sets. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 131 of The Virtual Cassette Library. Engine Puppets Balloons 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. These mixes are 90-minute genre bending drifts through curated frequencies. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. 15 tracks per side with a side change in the middle. Styles take us through folktronica, new age, ambient, berlin school, modern classical and more. 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. Subscribe and unlock 859 archived shows. Shout out to Nanogod, whose alchemical words add dimension to the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every follow, subscription, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing. So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
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. 💌 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.
🎙️ Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 113 Titled: Civic January Salsa. Which is also the What3Words geographical location for the episode YouTube video.
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🎙️ Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 109 Titled: Prosper Desire Jams. This is a radiant transmission of longing, loops, and layered frequencies.—woven into two uninterrupted 45-minute cassette sides, with a metaphysical flip halfway through. A sonic constellation—where experimental electronics meet folk storytelling, and drone ambient dissolves into hypnagogic techno. It’s a celebration of creative yearning, stitched together with tape hiss, bird song, and the occasional pulse of a cheap synth. These shows are crafted for walking meditations, mental wanderings, or quiet communion with the universe. No commentary between tracks—just pure sonic immersion. You’re invited to follow along on the timeline. Don’t be shy. 🎶 Support the Signal by Pre-ordering the 5th Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library album on Bandcamp to help keep the channel alive. It drops once we hit 16 tracks corresponding with the 16 Mixcloud subscribers. If you subscribe, you’ll not only unlock an exclusive bonus track you’ll also gain access to previous releases plus the 830+ previous shows for just $3/month or your local equivalent. 🎨 Want to be part of future transmissions? Send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode. Now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
📼 Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library Free to stream for 7 days—then it joins 830+ shows in the archive. 🎧 $2.99/month. Support the underground. Unlock the sound. 🔗 https://www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/subscribe/