Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 342
Another reel of the Virtual Cassette Library begins. Twelve tracks, two sides. A virtual cassette that turns itself at the halfway mark, the oxide catching just long enough to mark the seam before the second side continues.
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.
Ratios that refuse to sit still, then a star named Denebula that may or may not exist.
Side A measures the ratios from slightly different angles and finds the whole thing rather flattering, lets the chicken wear the badge while the noise blushes, sets vibrant matter dancing so the gooseberry can nod along, cracks the cosmic egg into a sequel already writing its memoirs, keeps just moving with the diagrams packing a small suitcase, and lets the neon lights hum a little tune while the virtual woman is quite pleased about it. Side B seats the melancholia in a chair that already understands, lets the shades of light choose their favourites, sends the vector already in flight so the trick can land, lodges the rainmodulator while the dogs and the shadows negotiate a truce, keeps the northern furniture with Autobaba in the other room, and surveys a star named Denebula with the spear already pointing somewhere kind.
Overall mood: Playful, and quietly flattered — full of nodding gooseberries, comfortable chairs, and stars that may or may not exist. Perfect for dusk listening, soft sofas, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: ratios that refuse to sit still, a chicken with a fondness for noise, matter that vibrates like a gooseberry in a good mood, an egg that cracked the cosmos and is now doing a sequel, something just moving because it can, neon lights that have opinions.
00:00:00 Altus – Parallax Ratios
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/parallax-ratios
Album: Echo Bloom. Label: Altus Music
The ratios already measuring each other from slightly different angles and finding the whole thing rather flattering.
00:08:17 Toxic Chicken – I Heart Noise
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/toxic-chicken-i-heart-noise-2
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
The chicken already wearing the badge. The noise already blushing.
00:09:04 Soda Lite – Vibrant Matter
https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/track/vibrant-matter
Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry). Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By
The matter already doing a little dance. The gooseberry already nodding along.
00:11:47 Michael Brückner – The Egg of Ecquirlo – Part 2
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/the-egg-of-ecquirlo-part-2
Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
The crack already larger. The egg already writing its memoirs.
00:21:38 maps and diagrams – just moving
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/just-moving
Album: returning light. Label: Home Normal
The moving already under way. The diagrams already packing a small suitcase.
00:26:06 Virtual Woman – Neon Lights
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/track/virtual-woman-neon-lights
Album: Cyberpunk. Label: Sounds for the Soul Records
The lights already humming a little tune. The woman already virtual, and quite pleased about it.
Side B
Mood mist: a melancholia that has found a comfortable chair, shades of light arranging themselves, a vector that knows where it’s going, a rainmodulator that has become stuck and is now taking up a hobby, furniture from the north, a star named Denebula that may or may not exist.
00:27:54 Restive Plaggona – Melancholia
https://dvntt.bandcamp.com/track/melancholia
Album: Leftina / Osha. Label: DVNTTMassachusetts
The melancholia already seated. The chair already understanding.
00:31:06 Erik Wøllo – Shades of Light
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/shades-of-light
Album: Label: Projekt Records
The shades already drawn. The light already choosing its favourite ones.
00:34:35 Vorpalgaze – Vector
https://ab-vorpalgaze.bandcamp.com/track/vector
Album: Trickjumps. Label: Audiobulb
The arrow already in flight. The trick already landed.
00:38:12 dogs versus shadows – Rainmodulator Stuck
https://blackpylon.bandcamp.com/track/rainmodulator-stuck
Album: wx. Label: Black Pylon
The modulator already lodged. The dogs and the shadows already negotiating a truce.
00:40:55 Västlänken – Moebel
https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/track/moebel
Album: HNR024: Moebel / Autobaba. Label: Höga Nord Rekords
The sofa already northern. The Autobaba already in the other room.
00:47:18 SURVEY CHANNEL – Denebula
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/denebula
Album: Along the Wind Spear. Label: Triplicate Records
The star already surveyed. The spear already pointing somewhere kind.
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 337
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
An adventure for the one who must be obeyed, then a sky watched in company.
Side A keeps Haggard’s flame warm in the sequence, reaches the pole with the radio still crackling from the ice, folds the shroud so the outline remains kind, pours a small aperitif before the meal, finds the empire still in the foundations under the roads, and leaves temptation numbered among sixty-four fluxes on the table for you to look. Side B keeps the past still sitting in the chair, grazes elk on a coastal flat with the window open, shares a long look from the mezze table, projects a holographic father already solid and familiar, lets the hearts decide on forever with the pulse steady, and watches the weight of the night sky together while the desert holds both of you.
Overall mood: Mythic, and quietly shared — full of open windows, warm maps, and skies that prefer company. Perfect for dusk listening, coastal flats, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: an adventure for the one who must be obeyed, an admiral at the pole, a shroud folded in an elegy, an aperitif for the young, an empire still in the foundations, a temptation numbered among sixty-four fluxes.
00:00:00 Tim Stebbing – She Who Must Be Obeyed
https://tim-stebbing.bandcamp.com/track/she-who-must-be-obeyed
Album: SHE: An Adventure Story.
Haggard’s flame still warm in the sequence. The title already knows who is in charge.
00:05:33 MubisMusic – Admiral Byrd
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mubismusic-admiral-byrd
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
The pole already reached. The radio still crackling from the ice.
00:15:00 The Earl Of Dean – The Shroud Of Turin
https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/the-shroud-of-turin
Album: An Elegy To Where We Are. Label: Cruel Nature Records
The cloth still holding the outline. The elegy still kind.
00:23:41 Petridisch – L’Infantile
https://wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/track/linfantile-2
Album: Aperitifs. Label: fourth world, Wormhole World
The small glass before the meal. The wormhole already open.
00:25:15 Future Children – The Roman Empire Never Went Away
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/future-children-the-roman-empire-never-went-away
Album: Label: I Heart Noise
The roads still under the roads. The aqueduct still in the plumbing.
00:26:00 Mantris – Temptation
https://mantris.bandcamp.com/track/44-temptation
Album: 64 Flux. Label: Hi Scores
Title of the hour. The one that prefers to stay on the table. You may look.
Side B
Mood mist: a past still in the room, elk on a coastal flat, an eye from the mezze table, a holographic father, hearts that prefer the long duration, a sky watched in company.
00:29:10 ian hawgood – no less present for being in the past
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/no-less-present-for-being-in-the-past
Album: Label: whitelabrecs
The map still warm. The past still sitting in the chair.
00:36:12 Neglect – Elk Flats
https://neglectsound.bandcamp.com/track/elk-flats-2
Album: Neahkahnie Window. Label: Neglectsound
The coastal meadow, the animals already grazing. The window already open.
00:46:02 Eje Eje – Yemen Eye
https://ejeeje.bandcamp.com/track/yemen-eye
Album: Mezze. Label: Batov Records
The small plates, the long look. The table already shared.
00:48:33 Akira Film Script – Jimdaddy
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/track/jimdaddy
Album: Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
The projection already solid. The name already familiar.
00:51:34 Sandman Project – Hearts Forever
https://sandmanproject.bandcamp.com/track/hearts-forever
Album: Hearts Forever. Label: Batov Records
The duration already decided. The pulse still steady.
00:56:37 Black Sun High Desert – We Watched The Sky Together
https://blacksunhighdesert.bandcamp.com/track/we-watched-the-sky-together
Album: The Weight Of The Night Sky.
The weight of the night sky, shared. The desert holding both of you.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 337.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 332
I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they 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 also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A harbour drawn in soft pencil, then a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
Side A keeps the seaweed’s appointment with the tide, still feels the earth turn under autumn leaves, dwells in holds large enough to stay, leaves an uncatalogued card in the drawer on purpose, lets silent water hold its breath so you can hear the room, and insists the clock has already spoken. Side B prefers the present tense inside a mutual blur, arrives as “we” with the nights already longer, receives a sincere note from the mothership, pauses between acts with the curtain half-raised, clips the verbs of quiet figures so the meaning stays intact, and lets the low cloud say hello in its own register.
Overall mood: Slightly seasonal, and quietly precise — full of soft harbours, open scores, and sentences shortened but still whole. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that are still listening, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a harbour drawn in soft pencil, an earth still turning under autumn, holds large enough to dwell in, a card left out of the catalogue, water that keeps its counsel, a clock that insists on the hour.
00:02:18 From A Harbour Softly Drawn (Fraser McGowan) – Seaweed
(Exclusive Track)
Album: Shepherds. Label: DRONARIVM
Shepherds, DRONARIVM. The green that keeps the tide’s appointment, soft as the harbour that drew it.
00:08:23 Ed Herbers – I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn
https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-still-feel-the-earth-turn
Album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings
Season Cycle: Autumn, Passed Recordings. Title of the hour. The ground still doing its quiet work under the leaves.
00:10:04 Many Pretty Blooms – Immense Holds
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/immense-holds
Album: Dwell On Beauty. Label: whitelabrecs
Dwell on beauty, whitelabrecs. The climb that prefers to stay, and the view that agrees.
00:15:32 Ümlaut – Uncatalogued
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mlaut-uncatalogued
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
Source unknown, Camembert Électrique. Jeff Düngfelder’s card left in the drawer on purpose. The house still listening.
00:24:27 Luca Longobardi – Aqua Tacita
https://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/track/aqua-tacita-2
Album: Aqua Tacita. Label: Seil Records
Silent water, Seil. The surface holding its breath so you can hear the room.
00:31:17 Portland Vows – Cuckoo
https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/track/cuckoo
Album: Cuckoo. Label: Third Kind Records
Third Kind. Everything is the case, and the case is the clock, and the clock has already spoken.
Side B
Mood mist: a blur that prefers the present tense, a we that arrived with the nights drawing in, a note from a mothership, an interval between acts, quiet figures with their verbs trimmed, a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
00:34:43 Charlatan – No Longer Believing in Permanence
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/no-longer-believing-in-permanence
Album: The Mutual Blur. Label: The Jewel Garden
The mutual blur, The Jewel Garden. The present tense doing all the work, and doing it kindly.
00:55:08 Oceanographer – We
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/track/we
Album: Orctalox (bc102). Label: Bricolage
Bricolage. Shimmering and cloudy, the nights already longer. The score still open.
00:59:55 Haruomi Hosono – Note of Mothership
https://haruomihosono.bandcamp.com/track/note-of-mothership
Album: Yours Sincerely. Label: Ghostly International
Yours sincerely, Ghostly. A postcard from the larger vessel, signed in a familiar hand.
01:02:31 The Metamorph – Entr’acte
https://themetamorph.bandcamp.com/track/entracte
Album: Entr’acte. Label: Moolakii Club Audio Interface
Moolakii Club leaving the curtain half-raised so you can hear the stage breathe.
01:22:44 Trevlad – Bubble Verbs Clipped
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/trevlad-bubble-verbs-clipped
Album: Quiet Figures.
Quiet Figures, the compilation still on the shelf. The sentence shorter, the meaning intact.
01:27:22 Towering Vertical – Nimbostratus, Horn of Greeting
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/side-1c-nimbostratus-horn-of-greeting
Album: Cloud School. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Cloud School, The Dream Journal Institute. The low cloud saying hello in its own register.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 332.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 328
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A university of unstable knowledge descending, then a jump that knows the trick.
Side A descends a staircase held slightly out of true, lets paper flowers drink the dye until the bloom is already in the fibre, measures sixty metres of disco rhythm, improvises a cello in the nude, scores a short career for three spiders and one fly, and layers images until the clock bends. Side B reaches the edge of the wood and waves you in by further paths, holds a fabric up to the window so not all refracted light is as it seems, collects light patterns in tone studies that wander somewhere welcome, lets children and whales share a pool large enough for both, grass-roots a Chilean forest guardian, and lands the leap exactly where the title meant to.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly eccentric, and quietly luminous — full of open staircases, bent clocks, and paths that already know the way in. Perfect for dusk listening, listening parties on the first of November, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a university of unstable knowledge descending, paper flowers drinking the dye, sixty metres of disco rhythm, a cello improvising in the nude, a chamber piece for arachnids and one fly, images layered until time curves.
00:02:18 Unstable Knowledge University – AHAP de Aliyah
https://unknun.bandcamp.com/track/ahap-de-aliyah-descending
Album: AHAP de Aliyah.
The descending. A faculty that prefers its degrees slightly out of true. The staircase still holding.
00:11:19 Stuart Cook – Imbibition
https://stuartcook.bandcamp.com/track/imbibition
Album: Flower Blocks. Label: Dustopian Frequencies
The way paper drinks colour. Flower Blocks, Dustopian. The bloom already in the fibre.
00:13:08 D Apal – 60 Meter´n (Rytme)
https://djkobayashi.bandcamp.com/track/60-meter-n-rytme
Album: Give Me Disco – Vol 2 (Selected by DJ Kobayashi). Label: Batov Records
Give Me Disco, volume two, Kobayashi’s selection. Batov measuring the dancefloor in metric.
00:19:42 Henrik Meierkord – Cello C Impro
https://henrikmeierkord.bandcamp.com/track/cello-c-impro-2
Album: Naken.
Naken — bare. The instrument with its clothes off, the bow still dressed for the occasion.
00:23:23 David Dellacroce – Performance for Three Spiders and a Housefly
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/david-dellacroce-performance-for-three-spiders-and-a-housefly
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which is a long career for a fly. I Heart Noise keeping the programme.
00:24:03 Takeshi Nishimoto and Hiroshi Watanabe – Layer of Images
(Exclusive track)
Album: Curving Time. Label: Lo Recordings
https://lorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/curving-time
Curving time. Lo Recordings letting the pictures stack until the clock bends. Title of the hour.
Side B
Mood mist: the edge of a wood, a fabric that bends the light, patterns of light collected and slow, children and whales sharing a suite, a Chilean forest guardian edited for grass roots, a jump that knows the trick.
00:28:10 Oberlin – Waldesrand
https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/track/waldesrand
Album: Von (Weiteren) Wegen.
The edge of the forest. Von weiteren Wegen — by further paths. The trees already waving you in.
00:38:07 Hyenas for Sale – Crystallin Fabric
(Exclusive track)
Album: Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/album/not-all-refracted-light-is-as-it-seems
Not all refracted light is as it seems. Ethereal Projector and Ambient Cat holding the cloth up to the window.
00:43:07 Andrew Heath – Collected Light Patterns
(Exclusive track)
Album: Collected Light Patterns. Label: Driftworks
Tone Studies number eight. Experiments that wandered somewhere welcome, the piano left mostly in its room. Driftworks. Full release the 30th. Listening party the 1st of November, eight in the evening, GMT. Come and sit with the layers.
00:49:23 Hello Mr. Klaus – Suite 01 Children and whales playing
https://hellomrklaus.bandcamp.com/track/suite-01-children-and-whales-playing
Album: MEMENTO VIVERE.
Memento vivere — remember to live. The pool large enough for both.
00:53:35 HDRF (Horror Dwarf) – Invunche (MEANS edit)
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/invunche-means-edit
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
The forest guardian, grass-rooted. MEANS keeping the path.
01:00:37 Vorpalgaze – Trickjump
https://ab-vorpalgaze.bandcamp.com/track/trickjump
Album: Trickjumps. Label: Audiobulb
Audiobulb letting the leap land where it meant to. The title already knows the move.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 328.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 326
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A pearl filed under ocean, then a periphery that still has a centre.
Side A keeps the grit and the glow in the same shell, lets the resonant field keep answering after the question has sat down, finds time for a blue event on the fast lane, sets an extra place for a postcard from the future, prefers the slow lane for recovery, and measures restraint in sixty-four fluxes content to hold still. Side B files the spirit of gravity with the soil, deepens into the moment before the moment, drifts with Berlin-school manners since the late seventies, walks a quiet figure down to the reservoir, counts time by the stars, and holds the rim so the centre can rest.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly cosmic, and quietly patient — full of unlatched doors, extra places, and clocks the stars prefer. Perfect for dusk listening, fields still ringing, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a pearl filed under ocean, a field that keeps ringing after you leave, a blue event on the fast lane, a postcard from the future introducing itself, a recovery that prefers the slow lane, restraint measured in sixty-four fluxes.
00:00:00 Ærebus – The Pearl
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/the-pearl
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans keeping the grit and the glow in the same shell.
00:08:06 Vivid Stars Forgotten – The resonance
https://vividstarsforgotten.bandcamp.com/track/the-resonance
Album: The Resonant Field. Label: EC Underground
The field still answering after the question has sat down. EC Underground leaving the door on the latch. Good to have you in the library, and on the subscriber list.
00:11:49 Petridisch x Jude Kerr – Blue Event VI (Breach of Trust Mix)
https://rakurecords.bandcamp.com/track/blue-event-vi-breach-of-trust-mix
Album: 7 Days in the Fast Lane. Label: Rakū Records
Seven days in the fast lane, and still time for a colour. Rakū keeping the lane open.
00:16:47 Mirai No Hagaki – presenting myself
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mirai-no-hagaki-presenting-myself
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
A fine way to arrive. Camembert Électrique setting an extra place.
00:20:43 KapTep – Recovery
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/recovery
Album: Slow Down. Label: Chitra Records, Ambient Cat
The instruction and the album. Chitra and Ambient Cat sharing the chair.
00:24:40 Mantris – Passive Restraint
https://mantris.bandcamp.com/track/09-passive-restraint
Album: 64 Flux. Label: Hi Scores
Sixty-four fluxes, and this one content to hold still while the others rush. Hi Scores counting them all.
Mood mist: gravity with a spirit, a deepening that knows it is about to arrive, a drifter from Leeds who has been sequencing since the late seventies, a quiet figure walking to the water, time counted by the stars, a periphery that still has a centre.
00:30:12 Alien Alarms x Aura Mae – The Spirit of Gravity
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/the-spirit-of-gravity
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
Grass roots, the pull under the lawn. MEANS filing Newton with the soil.
00:33:43 Heavens Spin Gray – Deepening
https://heavensspingray.bandcamp.com/track/deepening
Album: Imminence.
Imminence, the moment before the moment. The grey already spinning.
00:43:34 Tim Stebbing – Cosmic Drifter
https://tim-stebbing.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-drifter
Album: Cosmic Drifter.
Title of the hour. Berlin-school manners, chilled hands, the long orbit.
00:52:04 CommsBreakdown – To The Reservoir!
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/commsbreakdown-to-the-reservoir
Album: Quiet Figures. Label: Trevlad
Quiet Figures, the compilation. Trevlad walking the figure down to the water.
00:55:41 The Light Dreams – Sidereal Time
https://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/track/sidereal-time
Album: Málverk.
The clock the stars prefer. Málverk, the painting that knows which night it is.
01:01:14 Fonolabe – Bor Eas
(Exclusive)
Album: Essens Periferion. Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/album/essens-periferion
The essence at the edge. Ethereal Projector and Ambient Cat holding the rim so the centre can rest.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 326.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 324
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A water lily at a threshold, then a seven that has already shifted south.
Side A opens the door on a nymphaea before the official date, shares fear, rage and love in under a minute, walks the warm marble of a city still standing in the name, lets the wind keep both hands in its pockets and still carry you, files roots under a clause, and blushes a 1970 library record with the flute still warm. Side B marries a rope to itself, lets undesignated buildings prefer to meet, studies a field still learning the season, treats the tuning as the piece, lets the night accept the fire, and turns seven toward the warmer wall.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly tender, and quietly architectural — full of thresholds, pencil blueprints, and gardens that leave the gate open. Perfect for dusk listening, fields still learning the season, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a water lily at a threshold, three feelings in under a minute, a city of marble still standing in the name, a wind that kept us, roots under a clause, a library record blushing in 1970.
00:02:18 (Exclusive) Corrado Saija and Elia Piana – Nymphaea II
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/
Album: Limen. Label: Driftworks Full release – Friday 16th October
Limen — the threshold. Piano talking to algorithms, stone porous, water fluent. Driftworks opening the door on the 16th. You may step through now.
00:08:15 Concretism – Fear, Rage, and Love
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/concretism-fear-rage-and-love
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which is plenty for three weathers of the heart. I Heart Noise letting them share the minute.
00:09:01 Still & JRNDM – EFESO
https://pablosanguinetti.bandcamp.com/track/efeso
Ephesus, the marble still warm in the name. A library of columns, and the groove walking between them.
00:11:56 Scholars of the Peak & Warmfield – The Way the Wind Held Us
https://warmfield.bandcamp.com/track/the-way-the-wind-held-us
Single: The Way the Wind Held Us.
Title of the hour. A single that keeps both hands in its pockets and still manages to carry you.
00:15:05 Subordinate Clause – Cafraster
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/cafraster
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
Grass roots, the clause under the sentence. MEANS filing the soil with the syntax.
00:19:07 Larry Manteca – EROTICA
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/erotica
Album: Erotica 70. Label: Four Flies Records
Seventy, restored. Four Flies lifting the velvet and finding the flute still warm.
Mood mist: a rope married to itself, buildings that prefer to meet, a field still learning the season, a tuning that is the piece, a night glad of the flame, a seven that has already shifted south.
00:23:10 Nickolas Mohanna – Eye Splice
https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/track/eye-splice
Album: Whistler.
The knot that lets a rope become its own companion. Whistler, the note you hear when the air is pleased.
00:29:58 The Architect – Formations and Collisions
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/formations-and-collisions
Album: Undesignated. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Undesignated, which is a fine category for a dream. The Journal keeping the blueprint in pencil.
00:37:10 Kiu Siu – In Spring
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/in-spring
Album: Field Studies, Volume 5. Label: The Jewel Garden
Field studies, volume five, the season arriving with its pockets full of green. The Jewel Garden leaving the gate open.
00:48:46 Ótal – Tuning Study
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/tuning-study
Album: Field Studies, Volume 5. Label: The Jewel Garden
The same garden, a few beds along. The piece is the tuning. The Jewel Garden letting the string find itself.
00:57:43 Black Sun High Desert – The Night Accepts The Fire
https://blacksunhighdesert.bandcamp.com/track/the-night-accepts-the-fire
Album: The Weight Of The Night Sky.
The weight of the night sky, glad of the company. A desert holding both.
00:59:44 Mark Donlon – Seven
https://sermakmusic.bandcamp.com/track/seven
Album: Label: SERMAK MUSIC
Southern shift, the number already facing the warmer wall. Sermak keeping the count.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 323.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 305
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.
A cliffside, slightly occult ambient journey through spirit bridges, distant evenings, and questions that keep answering themselves.
Side A opens among Provo cliffdwellers and castle waters, then dreams through 808 notebook sequences, sits with Scottish-Swedish darkness, tunes the senses to E.S.P., and holds surface tension across Passed Oceans. Side B begins a mysterious Mechanicus chapter, places the world at your feet for Phantom’s centenary, spices the reel with French library flute and Leipzig afrobeat, flashes a fourteen-second miniature, and ends decaying underwater — however oceanic of you.
Overall mood: Contemplative, faintly eerie, and quietly playful — full of exclusive darkness, compilation water, and short surprises after the flip. Perfect for late listening, sitting with the unexplained, or letting the tape keep asking while the ocean answers.
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.
00:02:21 spaceseer – Cliffdwellers
I start with an apology to the artist EBlo who in the last episode I mixed up with an artist of the same name. EBlo is in fact based in Malmö, Sweden and not the US. Also a shout out to the wonderful aeon who not only is one of my only subscribers but also left a comment on a show a while back and asked me to do an episode of his amazing CAMP radio monthly series Fragments. Opening this episode with a piece from the new compilation album Gemstones VII out on Cyclical Dreams that Record label focused on Berlin School, Ambient, Soundscape, Space Music, Drone, and electronic music. Provo, Utah based spaceseerer who’s described themselves as doom-synth and dark ambient.
00:07:20 Klaus Wolfe – Castle Waters – Spirit Bridge
This is followed by another track from the same Cyclical Dreams compilation. Klaus Wolfe is the only artist that has released work on The Dream Journal Institute label that seems to actually exist anywhere else
00:12:20 Akira Film Script – Dream
from the album Holo which is released on Ethereal Projector which is a sub label of Ambient Cat which in turn is a sub label of Chitra Records or something like that.
Ryan Watts. 808, Bass Station II and 303 from 2018, a daughter’s number sequences in the notebook. Hiroshi Watanabe masters. Meaghan Watts covers.
00:17:11 Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – The Evening Seems So Distant
The first exclusive track today comes from this Scottish Swedish collaboration. From the album Darkness Is Just Darkness which will be released on September 22 on the Audiobulb label.
Synths, drones and cello. Spoken passages sit inside the music. Darkness as a state to sit with.
00:22:39 The British Stereo Collective – E.S.P.
The penultimate track of side A and an aboloute legend of the synth world. From the self released album TeleKinesis The trilogy that began with ExoGenesis and continued with ProtoSynthesis now concludes with TeleKinesis: a journey through the mind and the senses; through consciousness and altered states.
00:24:11 Trees Can Talk – Surface Tension
The final track of side A and the longest piece on the episode at 7:51. From that must have new Passed Recording compilation Passed Oceans. Classical instruments, punk years, electronica as therapy. Half of sales to Doctors Without Borders.
After that the cassette reaches its midpoint and flips.
00:31:25 Adeptus Mechanicus – A new mysterious Beginning
We open with annother long track of the episode at 7:42 from two compilation albums recently released. First the whopping 53 track name your price album Summoning 4 out on Hull, UK based Netlabel for sounds of horror, the occult and the unexplained “Dittany of Crete” and also on channel supporting Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams stunning Gemstones VII.
Adeptus Mechanicus is Dutch noise, dark space ambient and sound art.
00:39:06 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – I Placed The World At Your Feet #2
The second exclusive track of the episode and a shorter one at 1:42. From the album House with a Curse which releases October 16 on one of our favorite labels Clay Pipe Music. I love when these two get together. Shout out to Tommy for sending me this.
Score for the 1925 Phantom of the Opera centenary. Cinema screenings across the UK and Ireland.
00:40:25 Bolbec – À L’instar Du Flair
And now for something very different with some French floating flute library just to spice it up a bit. From yet another wonderful compilation album on the fantastic Batov Records label titled Around The Sun.
Batov Records celebrates ten years with a landmark compilation
Imaginary soundtrack beside Piccioni and Legrand. DJ Kobayashi selects. November 6.
00:42:44 Sandman Project – Questions Answers
Staying on Batov Records. Leipzig, Germany based afrobeat from the album, Hearts Forever. releases October 23, 2026. Tal Sandman. Desert-rock guitar and brass call-and-response. Golden Rules Studio.
00:47:07 ndrw cnry – Probably should have got the hang of this by now
Now, probably the shortest track I’ve ever had on the show clocking in at just 14 seconds. From the self released album A Certain Distance.
Miniature flashes. Photographs in the download.
00:48:35 Stewart Keller – How Oceanic Of You
This one confused me. I have it in my collection as being titled How Oceanic Of You but on the EP it’s called Ambient Calm. Anyway it’s from SHRIMP GAME: OVERKRILL OST (Contributions). Stewarts individual contributions to the SHRIMP GAME: OVERKRILL OST.
Decaying underwater world. CorrodedParadox artwork.
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 305.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 302
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-302/
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.
A rooted, coastal ambient journey through square sequences, wetland ghosts, and what does not remain.
Side A locks everything square in Coventry co-op rooms, then takes hold among London observations, Belbury wetlands, Humber mist, Kyiv fireflies, and red coral gathered from five years of parallel worlds. Side B floats piano light that will not stay, Titchwell near-silence, drifting lullabies, Valencia suburbia still, Brussels respiration against synth, and ends probing reminiscence through derisory signs.
Overall mood: Contemplative, gently hauntological, and quietly coastal — full of mist, fireflies, and stillness that knows it will not last. Perfect for dusk listening, near-silence, or sitting with what remains after the tape turns.
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.
00:01:18 Visionary Lines – Everything Square
Rich Johnson sequences The Synthesis Co-Op Volume One. Artist-run not-for-profit. Profits travel to CALM. Paul Broome masters. Coventry rooms.
00:04:31 ambalek – Rooted
London observation and photography. My Ambient Machines number seven. Small moments take hold.
00:10:02 Belbury Poly – Wetland
Jim Jupp’s vintage analogue, melodica, psaltery and bells. Twelve stops through fictional Belbury. Ghost Box 2006 returns in vinyl light.
00:11:47 dreamSTATE – Humber Mist
Exclusive for this episode. Scott M2 and Jamie Todd. Imaginary North Transmission 012, 18 September. AMBiENT PiNG and DRONE:KLUB lineage.
00:14:38 Bohdan Stupak – fireflies
Kyiv drone-ambient. Black Sea 2017 as a point in time. Low massive drone meets high-pitched textures. Computer bells, crackles and plucks close the sequence.
00:17:12 Dionisaf – Red Coral
Modular and granular synths, guitars, field recordings. Five years of compilation pieces gathered as Parallel Worlds.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:20:06 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Lo que no permanece
Piano notes float as points of light. Modular tones gather in soft waves. Ian Hawgood masters. George Korunov covers.
00:22:07 Richard Sage – Titchwell
Zoom and iPhone seeds from seven coastal locations. Near silence wears its own palette. Andrew Heath masters. Driftworks, 11 September.
00:27:03 Samatha – Drift XI
Spontaneous layering and looping. Lullabies of drifting emotion. Ronald Mariën masters. Aoki & Matsumoto design.
00:27:34 Calm Pieces – Return
Rafa Ramos Sania’s Valencia piano, double bass, cello and worn 1990s tape. Whitelabrecs, 19 September. Familiar surroundings in a moment of stillness.
00:30:24 Jonathan Poliart – Lupina
Four layers: textures, melodies and respiration against synthesizer. Brussels summer and autumn of 2025. Adventurous Music. Penultimate stop.
00:40:11 Tern – Through Derisory Signs
Final track. Grégoire Couvert’s loops probe reminiscence. Connection: sculpting silence. Hylé Tapes. Jean-Charles Bastion masters.
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 302.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 298
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-298/
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 textured, slightly restless ambient and experimental journey through protected light, subway chaos, and quiet figures still gathering.
Side A opens in remixed German-Czech-Spanish frequencies and Bristol trio gravity, then moves through Chester grandmother light, Berlin bouncing patterns, whimsical DNA cheesecake, and limbs of sticks under Machen’s bridge. Side B settles into Salt LX thoughts carried by wind, absolute chaos circuits, dark-ambient lounge noise, simple guitar drones that wait for yes, submerged porcelain systems, and a Quiet Figures remix that percolates the filter open.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly dark, and richly layered — full of analogue edges, exclusive whispers, and slow openings. Perfect for late listening, deep immersion, or sitting with what keeps moving while the figures remain.
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.
00:01:17 Möe – Incierta (Høll Remix)
Möe – Incierta (Høll Remix). German, Czech and Spanish frequencies meet in protected digital light. Diego Castillo’s original gains new remix colour under Jorge Eafhm’s mastering.
00:08:06 Slate Trio – Hour of Zog
Slate Trio – Hour of Zog. Neil Smith’s guitar, Matthew Jones’s drums and Alex Heane’s bass lock into Bristol air. James King records and mixes. Rick Dowding masters.
00:14:25 (EXCLUSIVE) boycalledcrow – orb
boycalledcrow – orb. First exclusive of the episode. Carl M Knott’s sprawl approaches on 11 September. Heavier beats and dub-inflected soundscapes rise around Chester rooms and grandmother light.
00:16:51 Sebastian Arnold – Bits Keep Moving
Sebastian Arnold – Bits Keep Moving. One-man band of drums, percussion, synthesizers and live electronics. Bouncing patterns and tricky acoustic beats fill Tricone Studios at Funkhaus Berlin. Bewegung, Klang, Energie.
00:21:41 Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Cheesecake
Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Cheesecake. Imogen Hayley Baker’s whimsical alias carries DNA from Lucy, Evie, Christiane, Meghan, Heather and Shannon. Billie Bacon adds hammer.
00:23:10 Grey Malkin – Our Limbs Are Made Of Sticks
Grey Malkin – Our Limbs Are Made Of Sticks. Arthur Machen’s bridge of light spans the gulf. Alison O’Donnell, Burnt Paw, Alan Davidson, David Colohan, Speculum Bunny, Amanda Votta and the Liminal Choir join woodwind and voice. Tides of time come in.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:27:50 Jogging House – Roofer
Jogging House – Roofer. Salt LX phrases re-interpreted through Digitakt 2, Polyvera, modular and single takes to quarter-inch tape. Thoughts dwell. Winds carry.
00:32:42 Alex Ringess – Towards Absolute Chaos
Alex Ringess – Towards Absolute Chaos. Three or four instruments hold the space. Project files from Analog Abstractions carry the same mix. Glasgow subway photography gains retro sci-fi processing.
00:37:44 rikardfvs – Look, Betty (Dark Ambient Remix)
rikardfvs – Look, Betty (Dark Ambient Remix). Sixth Sound for the Soul compilation. Lounge noise, syphilitic exotica and raw ambient gather.
00:45:25 Aidan Baker – Everything Is Dark Until You Say Yes
Aidan Baker – Everything Is Dark Until You Say Yes. Solo electric guitar at Broken Spine Studios, Berlin. Drifting drones and noisy textures return to simple form. Guillermo Pizarro masters for Owl Totem.
00:51:59 Aleatory Music Systems – Up
Aleatory Music Systems – Up. Porcelain butter dish struck and submerged. Systems music meets chaotic edges. Time, change and movement open. Limited lathe-cut 7-inch exists on Short Cuts.
00:55:42 (EXCLUSIVE) Masefield Labs – On Her Own Quiet Figures remix
Masefield Labs – On Her Own Quiet Figures remix. Second exclusive of the episode. Silent ever-present figures whisper. Quantum foam gratitude cascades to the artists. Percolating electronica opens the cut-off filter.
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 298.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 290
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-290/
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. Episode 290. 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.
As this is episode 290 that makes it a best of show. Where I’ve chosen 12 favourites from over the years.
The best of shows remain free but everything else slips quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers after 7 days. Subscribers currently have 1,122 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. They also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, and get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
On Side A you’ll hear Albin, Coldplay, Telefon Tel Aviv, Kettel, KILN and Air
On the flip side you’ll hear Sababa 5, Pacific!, beaunoise, Felix Laband, Jordan Rakei and Six Organs Of Admittance
This will be Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 290.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Enjoy…
00:00:00 Albin – Motljus
Figures stand against a source of gold, edges dissolving into flare and halo.
00:07:05 Coldplay – Coloratura
Vocal ornament climbs through star-maps and slow orbital colour.
00:17:02 Telefon Tel Aviv – john thomas on the inside is nothing but foam
Soft cellular bubbles rise and collapse in luminous interior weather.
00:21:49 Kettel – My Dogan (15th Anniversary Edition)
Warm IDM patterns bloom again in familiar, renewed light.
00:25:41 KILN – Brutalist Desk Object
Angles and grain hold quiet weight, texture stacked like poured stone.
00:28:56 Air – Cherry Blossom Girl (Hope Sandoval Version)
Petals hang in still air while the melody walks beneath pink canopies.
00:31:51 Sababa 5 – Wembley
Percussion and melody lock into a wide stadium of rhythm.
00:36:15 Pacific! – Sunrise
Early colour spreads across water and waking air.
00:38:31 beaunoise – Gymnopédie No. 1 (Buchla 200e)
Satie’s slow dance becomes modular light, each step hanging in voltage.
00:41:11 Felix Laband – Falling Off A Horse
Dust and motion spiral outward in unhurried descent.
00:45:56 Jordan Rakei – Lover, You Should’ve Come Over (Exclusive Cover Version)
Jeff Buckley’s song opens again in new breath and evening warmth.
00:48:36 Six Organs Of Admittance – Wolves’ Pup
Acoustic drift and drone gather around small wild presence.
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.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 289
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-289/
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 warm, slightly hauntological ambient journey through memory pools, lost-and-found melodies, and parallel realities.
Side A gathers shared sonic connections, 1974 household radiophonics, midnight Frankfurt tones, recovered places, Lancashire ease, and ballad-inspired ambient forms. Side B drifts through emotional anchors, nostalgic Japanese colour, Quiet Figures still gathering, serpents in daylight, elemental wooded harmony, and ends walking the fictional lanes of Belbury.
Overall mood: Contemplative, nostalgic, and gently communal — full of recovered light, quiet personal colour, and soft village atmosphere. Perfect for deep listening, late evenings, or sitting with the ordinary as it quietly transforms.
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 Soeik – Memory Pool
Soeik – Memory Pool. Diverse artists gather under the SLIT ART banner, each contribution expanding the label’s reach through shared sonic connection.
00:08:07 The Twelve Hour Foundation – Instamatic
The Twelve Hour Foundation – Instamatic. Household objects and treated recordings capture 1974 spirit. Radiophonic Workshop colours meet Tangerine Dream and early Kraftwerk nods in Bristol rooms.
00:12:04 HDRF – Frankfurt After Midnight
HDRF – Frankfurt After Midnight. Compilation tones settle across the sixth Sound for the Soul gathering of listeners and makers.
00:17:30 Dionisaf – Lost and Found
Dionisaf – Lost and Found. Melodies rise from previously misplaced places.
00:20:01 Brapscallion – Shadaloo
Brapscallion – Shadaloo. Lancashire rhythms move in easy layered motion.
00:23:03 Green Static – Three Corbies
Green Static – Three Corbies. Traditional ballad imagery from The Long Harvest inspires new ambient forms, profits flowing toward ClientEarth protection of earth systems.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:32:12 Samatha – Drift X
Samatha – Drift X. Spontaneous layering and looping search for anchors among shifting emotions.
00:33:01 Saitoh Tomohiro – nostalgic vibes
Saitoh Tomohiro – nostalgic vibes. Japanese tones previously heard through U-Cover connections expand in quiet personal colour.
00:37:04 Visionary Lines – Two Parallel Realities
Visionary Lines – Two Parallel Realities. Rich Johnson’s projects move through the Quiet Figures still gathering.
00:41:56 Christian Fiesel – Serpent In Broad Daylight
Christian Fiesel – Serpent In Broad Daylight. DeepMind12 and Memotron voices ride wild sketches and longer pieces inspired by The Illustrated Man.
00:57:43 Castle Waters – Elemental Harmony
Castle Waters – Elemental Harmony. Wooded walkways and ancient bridges inspire metaphysical relaxation. ETERNITEA awaits at 1:37 in the floating gazebo overlooking the lake.
01:01:16 Belbury Poly – Music, Movement & Meaning
Belbury Poly – Music, Movement & Meaning. Vintage analogue synths, hand percussion, melodica, psaltery and samples walk the fictional village. Disembodied laughter and Minimoog lead from Rattler’s Hey through Pan’s Garden.
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 289.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 285
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-285/
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. Episode 285. 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 1,115 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.
A grounded yet otherworldly ambient journey through suburban roots, dissolving melodies, secret stones, and unravelled dreams.
Side A takes root in overlooked verges and massive voltage, then unfolds along early analogue paths, melting gestures, nights of silver tears, and Leeds-cloud haze. Side B opens into celestial mediumship and the hidden life of stones, then moves through whispering figures, closed-eye warmth, Lovecraftian walking, and a dream seen that day.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly melancholic, and richly textured — blending organic observation, analogue warmth, and quiet mystery. Perfect for deep listening, late-night walks, or sitting still while the world slowly unravels.
The tape unspools its visions.
Side A
00:03:28 ambalek – Roots
Overlooked suburban corners reveal themselves in slow photographic light. ambalek – Roots. Nature’s small moments gather among fences and quiet verges, each observation taking root in soft organic colour.
00:07:43 Baldocaster & Prog Mountain – Massive Dynamic
Massive shapes pulse with dynamic voltage. Baldocaster & Prog Mountain – Massive Dynamic. Sonic architecture rises in heavy luminous blocks that shift and reassemble under their own gravity.
00:09:38 Analogue Path – Post Rock 001
Early exploratory paths open across analogue ground. Analogue Path – Post Rock 001. Guitar tones and evolving textures mark the first stretches of a long road still unfolding ahead.
00:13:45 Arbee – Se fondre
Modular snippets of melody dissolve into one another. Arbee – Se fondre. Unnoticed actions and quiet gestures texture the air. Details surface at their own pace, inviting deep immersion.
00:16:15 TREVØR – Night of a Thousand Tears
A thousand tears fall through night-coloured air. TREVØR – Night of a Thousand Tears. Each drop catches and releases light, turning sorrow into a rain of silver points.
00:24:07 Adel Music Club – Melt the Clouds
Leeds jams from the early nineties melt the clouds above. Adel Music Club – Melt the Clouds. Assorted tunes recorded in various rooms rise through a photographic slide bought at the outdoor market, the sky itself softening into warm analogue haze.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
Side B
00:25:19 Aglaia – Mediumship
Celestial altitudes open in peaceful hypnotic currents. Aglaia – Mediumship. Processed acoustic instruments and subtle electronics weave a mysterious mandala. Consciousness flies through boundless spaces, receiving rather than transmitting, as sponges, anemones and particle clouds dominate the descent.
00:41:32 Walt Shaw – The secret life of stones
Stones keep their secret life among constructed percussion. Walt Shaw – The secret life of stones. Pebbles roll inside bowls and cans. Gongs, springs, saw blades, glass and metal plates vibrate under contact microphones. Accidents become rich textures, blood wiped away, the unexpected harnessed into drones and decay.
00:45:33 Cries from the LTN – Caggy’s Jam
Silent figures whisper through Caggy’s jam. Cries from the LTN – Caggy’s Jam. Hidden mysteries unravel in the compositions that shadow us, each narrative rising from the Quiet Figures still gathering.
00:56:12 Six Missing – Eyes Closed
Eyes close while vintage analogue warmth holds the listener. Six Missing – Eyes Closed. Synths and guitars chosen for heart and human touch accompany late nights, travel and smaller details. One self passes into another in quiet accepted motion.
00:58:50 Almost Random – I walk whilst the world Unravelled
The world unravels while a walker moves through Lovecraftian mists. Almost Random – I walk whilst the world Unravelled. Celephais docks give way to Kingsport fog and forgotten cities in eastern sands. Eurorack voices lead the procession under a lecturer’s gaze.
01:03:29 Silentwave – The dream I saw that day
A dream seen that day returns as improvised drone. Silentwave – The dream I saw that day. Soft luminous layers drift in open oneiric space.
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 285.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 279
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-279/
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. Episode 279. 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.
I’m trying something new by not introducing the artists, but instead incorporating their work into an incantation of sorts.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,108 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.
Side A
Volcanic snow dogs race across a mountain ridge under shifting digital skies. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs. Ship-to-shore light pours over butterfly towers and shaman shoes. Moshi moves through deep-breathing valleys where digital synth motifs drift in soft waves. Wood-workshop percussion rises with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts, carrying the entire 12th Isle landscape forward in continuous playful motion.
Dawn breaks across layered South Indian folk tones and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza). Dark synths and industrial textures open into wide deconstructed fields. Kuza’s voice rises as a ghostly aria through the glowing circuitry, the whole surface expanding in resynthesized global club light.
Distant piano figures stretch across a cinematic horizon of dense electronics and layered guitar. Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature. Fractured voices drift through insistent percussion and powerful rhythms. The landscape unfolds in patient continuous transformation, every layer of time gathering into one vast evolving field.
Broken synths and scratched CDs release soft electrical pulses across a tired piano from Cornwall. Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static. Warped tapes and power surges open into unexpected luminous forms. The entire space fills with the quiet magic of imperfect signals moving in steady chance patterns.
Growth expands outward from within a single luminous centre. f5point6 – Endogenesis. Jazz roots, Detroit techno currents and ambient electronica rise together in visual colour. Plugins generate intricate patterns that drift like sand across an endless desert or calm water along a deep lake shore, the whole sequence suspended in continuous immersive motion.
Small fires glow in warm intimate circles across a Polish winter landscape. Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral. Organic tones unfold in unhurried flow. The session opens as a continuous spiral of soft ambiance, each sound tending the fire in quiet shared light.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
Side B
Deep water at the bottom of Lake Mead holds a long continuous recording. Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth. The lake floor opens into dense submerged textures that keep expanding in slow underwater currents.
Minimal circuits pulse across a wide open field of four instruments. Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency. Corrupted signals, escape trajectories and crystal-clear frequencies rise in continuous sequence. Heat waves and collective cognitive fields stretch outward in steady luminous patterns.
A soft voice holds the line in endless floating space. luxury elite – please stay on the line. The tone remains open and continuous, the entire channel glowing in quiet sustained presence.
Waves move through a cosmic ocean of harmonium, space sounds, guitar, gong, singing bowls, ocean drum, chimes, bass, cello, drums and percussion. Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean. Every instrument expands into the same vast watery light, the whole surface rolling forward in continuous cosmic motion.
Surface tension holds quirky emotive harmonies across twenty years of detailed glitch. Planet Boelex – Surface tension. Small luminous details rise and settle in steady mildly glitched waves, the entire field recommended for headphones in continuous close listening.
Aerospace corridors open across late-seventies industrial horizons of Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace. Prophet synths and gallons of reverb carry the landscape in continuous nostalgic electronica. Workers and industry glow in soft infinite decay, the whole new-town field expanding in quiet forward light.
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 Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 279.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:00:00 Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs
Volcanic snow dogs race across a mountain ridge under shifting digital skies. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs. Ship-to-shore light pours over butterfly towers and shaman shoes. Moshi moves through deep-breathing valleys where digital synth motifs drift in soft waves. Wood-workshop percussion rises with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts, carrying the entire 12th Isle landscape forward in continuous playful motion.
00:09:13 Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza)
Dawn breaks across layered South Indian folk tones and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza). Dark synths and industrial textures open into wide deconstructed fields. Kuza’s voice rises as a ghostly aria through the glowing circuitry, the whole surface expanding in resynthesized global club light.
00:12:18 Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature
Distant piano figures stretch across a cinematic horizon of dense electronics and layered guitar. Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature. Fractured voices drift through insistent percussion and powerful rhythms. The landscape unfolds in patient continuous transformation, every layer of time gathering into one vast evolving field.
00:16:46 Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static
Broken synths and scratched CDs release soft electrical pulses across a tired piano from Cornwall. Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static. Warped tapes and power surges open into unexpected luminous forms. The entire space fills with the quiet magic of imperfect signals moving in steady chance patterns.
00:23:15 f5point6 – Endogenesis
Growth expands outward from within a single luminous centre. f5point6 – Endogenesis. Jazz roots, Detroit techno currents and ambient electronica rise together in visual colour. Plugins generate intricate patterns that drift like sand across an endless desert or calm water along a deep lake shore, the whole sequence suspended in continuous immersive motion.
00:26:51 Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral
Small fires glow in warm intimate circles across a Polish winter landscape. Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral. Organic tones unfold in unhurried flow. The session opens as a continuous spiral of soft ambiance, each sound tending the fire in quiet shared light.
Side B
00:33:35 Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth
Deep water at the bottom of Lake Mead holds a long continuous recording. Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth. The lake floor opens into dense submerged textures that keep expanding in slow underwater currents.
00:35:19 Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency
Minimal circuits pulse across a wide open field of four instruments. Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency. Corrupted signals, escape trajectories and crystal-clear frequencies rise in continuous sequence. Heat waves and collective cognitive fields stretch outward in steady luminous patterns.
00:40:07 luxury elite – please stay on the line
A soft voice holds the line in endless floating space. luxury elite – please stay on the line. The tone remains open and continuous, the entire channel glowing in quiet sustained presence.
00:40:37 Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean
Waves move through a cosmic ocean of harmonium, space sounds, guitar, gong, singing bowls, ocean drum, chimes, bass, cello, drums and percussion. Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean. Every instrument expands into the same vast watery light, the whole surface rolling forward in continuous cosmic motion.
00:45:22 Planet Boelex – Surface tension
Surface tension holds quirky emotive harmonies across twenty years of detailed glitch. Planet Boelex – Surface tension. Small luminous details rise and settle in steady mildly glitched waves, the entire field recommended for headphones in continuous close listening.
00:49:09 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace
Aerospace corridors open across late-seventies industrial horizons of Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace. Prophet synths and gallons of reverb carry the landscape in continuous nostalgic electronica. Workers and industry glow in soft infinite decay, the whole new-town field expanding in quiet forward light.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 268
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-268/
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 268. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
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.
Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
A reflective, slightly dark ambient journey through memory, menace, quantum subtlety, and quiet acceptance.
Side A moves from flaming intensity and small-room nostalgia into protective shielding, occult precision, and wave-function deviations. Side B drifts through mossy mind-fog, returning places, hauntological guidance, Moog meadows, and ends on accepted suffering and powerlessness.
Overall mood: Contemplative, melancholic, and atmospheric — blending intimate warmth with subtle darkness and philosophical calm. Ideal for deep listening, late-night reflection, or quiet immersion.
I’ll introduce Side A now and Side B in the intermission. The shows are free for the first week and then go to my very few Mixcloud subscribers who get to enjoy the 1 093 other shows whenever they like.
As a subscriber you also get access to my new series Veil Frequencies based on a fictional world I’ve created called The Resonant Veil Enclave. Each episode is around three hours and recorded from one of the floors of the 24 buildings in the veil. You can read about it on my Substack page. Mixcloud subscribers also get the ever expanding version of the upcoming compilation titled Quiet Figures.
On this TVCL episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by James Bernard with the title track from his album “In A Small Room, Decades Ago” a love letter to the magical 90s. Grab a CD copy from the Past Inside the Present label.
This is followed by the shortest piece of the episode by Glass Roots and the 44 second gem “Merchant of Menace” from the 2020 nyp album “The Idiot” out on Triplicate Records.
Then a super exclusive from fellow Irishman Peter Fitzpatrick aka Circuit3 and the beautiful retro synth piece “Shielding From The Past” from the album “Metanoia: Music From Therapy” which can be pre ordered from the artists Bandcamp page and will also be released on the Mortality Tables label on the 14th of August.
The penultimate track of the first side of the virtual cassette is by the amazing James McKeown aka Hawksmoor with another track from his latest medieval inspired outing “Yclept Thorn” this time with the chilled piece “Ockham”. Out on the Library Of The Occult label.
Finishing off the first half, Fraser Rowan aka Ty Lumnus and his mind altering modular track “Deviations in the Wave Function” from his latest release titled “Resonances in the Hidden Field” which you can get a cassette version of through the Astral Discs label.
But first, to set the vibe is Ramsgates finest, Nick Bonell aka Lone Bison with not only the opening tune from episode but the opener from his latest album “Longshore Drifting” out on channel champion label Castles in Space. This is “Down in Flames”.
Now 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.
Welcome sonic travellers to the B side. Six tracks down and six to go.
You’ll hear a gem from the 1978 album “Adonia” by Hervé Picart aka Ose and the synth dreamy track “Retour sur Adonia”. Get your CD or vinyl copy from the Bureau B label.
This is followed by another Belbury Poly track who I played in the previous episode. Here with “Your Way Today” from the wonderful album “The Owl’s Map.” Now available on Belbury Polys Bandcamp page.
After that Shropshire based Tom Kennedy aka Swansither and the pulsing “Moog Meadows” from another compilation you should have “Undulating Waters 10” the final release by the legendary Woodford Halse label.
Then the penultimate track for today comes in the form of recent friend of the channel and Hylé Tapes curator Richard Francés, here together with visual artists Faustine De Bock and Simon Girard aka Konpyuta here with the arp infused track “Accept Suffering” from the 2024 album “Music for Healing” which you can get on a pretty pink tape via the Planisphère label.
Finishing us off is the pumping beats of Ali O’May and Frazer Brown aka Dohnavùr and their banger “Powerless” from their recently released “We Owe Each Other Everything” album out on, yes, Castles In Space.
But first, friend of the show, Everyday Dust with some wonderful polyrhythmic noodlings in the track “(To Cut A Long Story Short) I Mossed My Mind” from his latest collection of archive finds titled “The Relic Room” which you can get on the Dustopian Frequencies label. Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Lone Bison – Down in Flames
Dramatic, fiery ambient with descending intensity and bold, blazing textures. Powerful and cinematic.
00:06:25 James Bernard – In A Small Room, Decades Ago
Intimate, nostalgic ambient recalling a quiet room from years past. Warm, reflective, and softly melancholic.
00:09:20 Glass Roots – Merchant of Menace
Dark, menacing ambient with glass-like fragility and a sense of quiet threat. Atmospheric and unsettling.
00:09:49 Circuit3 – Shielding From The Past
Protective, therapeutic ambient with layered electronics designed to buffer memory and emotion. Healing and focused.
00:16:02 Hawksmoor – Ockham
Occult, Occam’s-razor ambient with sparse, precise textures and mystical British resonance. Stark and intriguing.
00:18:27 Ty Lumnus – Deviations in the Wave Function
Quantum-inspired ambient exploring subtle deviations and wave-function uncertainty. Delicate and cerebral.
Side B
00:26:49 Everyday Dust – (To Cut A Long Story Short) I Mossed My Mind
Mossy, mind-fog ambient with organic overgrowth and a long-story sense of quiet overgrowth. Earthy and immersive.
00:35:02 Ose – Retour sur Adonia
Returning, Adonia-inspired ambient with French-titled nostalgia and soft, place-based reflection. Poignant and serene.
00:38:06 Belbury Poly – Your Way Today
Hauntological library charm with gentle guidance and everyday British whimsy. Warm and comforting.
00:39:19 Swansither – Moog Meadows
Pastoral Moog-driven ambient with meadow-like openness and analogue rural beauty. Expansive and peaceful.
00:44:06 Richard Francés, Konpyuta – Accept Suffering
Meditative ambient confronting acceptance and suffering with quiet, collaborative depth. Contemplative and honest.
00:47:52 Dohnavùr – Powerless
Stark, driving Idm from Scottish duo
Also in the works, the latest compilation titled Quiet Figures which will be released September 26.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that trigger a creative thought?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name and link to other work.
Tracks due by September 24.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 260
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-260/
For some reason I can no longer embed the shows here
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 260. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
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.
Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
A groovy, cinematic, and eclectic journey blending indie folk introspection, global psychedelic funk, French electronic cool, post-rock elegance, and atmospheric psychedelia.
Side A cruises through cosmic weight, mechanical playfulness, and sun-drenched grooves. Side B percolates with jazzy structures, vaporous textures, and sleek professionalism before ending on a pointed, trippy note.
Overall mood: Stylish, nostalgic, and transportive with a strong retro-cinematic flair—warm, hypnotic, and playfully sophisticated. Perfect for golden-hour drives, late-night listening, or stylish background grooves.
I’ve gone back to doing more podcast style episodes but I’ll do all the talking now in the intro as I’ve put a lot of love into making seamless segued mixes. There is just one break halfway through the episode to give the “virtual cassette” title a meaning. The shows are free for the first week and then go to my very few subscribers who get to enjoy the 260 episodes plus the 822 other shows whenever they like all for the price of… I actually don’t know what you can buy for 3 quid. It used to be a coffee.
This episode is inspired by the key of G minor and based on the amazing retro synth runs of “A Study In Vapors” by “Bluetech” from a release that’s in my top 5 of the year so far “Petite Constellations”.
Every tenth episode I do a best of show. So all these tracks have probably been featured by me over the years and have a special place, for me, in some way. On this episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by Berlin based legends To Rococo Rot with a track simply called “cars”. Originally released on the 1999 album “The Amateur View” which should be in everyone’s collection.
Naples based group Psyché grab our hips with “Cumbia Mahàre” from their debut Four Flies Records, self titled, 2023 release.
Then a trio that have infected me over the past few years, Khruangbin, here joined by the vocal stylings of Leon Bridges in the track “Chocolate Hills” from their 2022 EP Texas Moon.
After that Vincent Taeger aka Tiger Tigre together with, well, himself, in the track “Sport Mécanique” which takes me back to my childhood. My parents watch all sports on tv and this just puts me in that world of 80s sports jingles. It’s taken from the compilation album “ERR REC Library Vol.4 Physical Activity” from 2023.
Ending the A side is the Los Angeles, California based roots reggae infected Pachy García aka Pachyman and the track “Sunset Sound” from the album “The Return of…” released in 2021.
Starting off Side B with Vienna, Austria based synth maestro Dorian Concept and the track “Eigendynamik (Elevator Version)” from the 2020 album “The Jitters”.
Followed by my favourite Stockholm based artist of recent years Joel Danell better known as Sven Wunder. Here with the piece “Pop-Jazz Structures”. Every one of Joels tracks puts me in a happy space. This is from his 2023 album “Late Again”.
Then anyone who has followed the channel knows that I love odd time signatures and the track “Percolator” is in 5/8 and is by the one of a kind originals Stereolab. Taken from the 2025 album “Emperor Tomato Ketchup”.
This leads into the featured Seattle, Washington based, Evan Bartholomew, better known as, Bluetech track “A Study In Vapors”.
Then the penultimate piece for today comes in the form of one of my all time go to artists Air with the track “Les Professionnels” from their debut 1997 EP Premiers Symptômes.
Finishing us off is Salvia Plath aka RUN DMT with nostalgic samples over a hypnotic acoustic guitar line in the track “Money” from the 2009 album BONG VOYAGE.
But first, to set the vibe is New Zealand based folk tinged artist whose voice just grips me Aldous Harding with the song “Weight of the Planets” from her fantastic third album “Designer” from 2019.
Labels to be mentioned are 4AD UK, City Slang, Four Flies Records, Dead Oceans, ERR REC, ATO, Brainfeeder, Piano Piano Records, Warp Records, Behind The Sky Music, DiN and Virgin Records.
Now 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 Aldous Harding – Weight of the Planets
Introspective indie folk with Aldous Harding’s elastic, shape-shifting voice, enigmatic lyrics, and a sense of cosmic weight and emotional depth. Haunting and beautifully unclassifiable.
Artist Bio: Aldous Harding (born Hannah Sian Topp in 1990 in Lyttelton, New Zealand) is an indie folk singer-songwriter known for her elastic voice, eccentric performances, and off-kilter indie pop/folk that blends chamber pop, art song, and subtle drama. She has released acclaimed albums on 4AD, including Party (2017) and Designer (2019).
00:09:17 To Rococo Rot – cars
Instrumental post-rock with electronic and analog elements—unmistakably digital yet 100% human. Hypnotic grooves, minimal structures, and a sense of mechanical elegance.
Artist Bio: To Rococo Rot were a Berlin-based trio (1995–2014) blending electronic and analog sounds into instrumental post-rock/IDM. Core members: Stefan Schneider (bass), brothers Robert Lippok (electronics/guitar) and Ronald Lippok (drums/effects). Their name is a palindrome.
00:11:43 Psyché – Cumbia Mahàre
Psychedelic groove with Mediterranean roots, sinuous rhythms, and improvisational flair. Evokes a mythical past with cosmic funk and desert-blues energy.
Artist Bio: Psyché is a band/project known for a unique mix of psychedelia, groove, and improvisation. Their music draws on Mediterranean roots and evokes visions of a mythical past; released on Four Flies Records.
00:15:23 Khruangbin – Chocolate Hills
Smooth, bass-heavy psychedelic funk with Thai funk influences, surf-rock cool, and global grooves. Laid-back yet hypnotic, with that signature Khruangbin warmth.
Artist Bio: Khruangbin is a Houston, Texas trio (Laura Lee on bass/vocals, Mark Speer on guitar/vocals, Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums) blending Thai funk, Iranian pop, dub, soul, and psychedelia. Their name means “airplane” in Thai.
00:18:26 Tiger Tigre & Taurelle – Sport Mécanique
Playful electronic track with mechanical rhythms and sporty, energetic flair—quirky and danceable.
Artist Bio: Tiger Tigre & Taurelle is Vincent Taeger delivering groovy, mechanical, and playful tracks.
00:22:38 Pachyman – Sunset Sound
Breezy dub reggae with Puerto Rican roots, vintage gear warmth, and smooth, freedom-seeking grooves. Sunny and rootsy.
Artist Bio: Pachyman (Pachy Garcia) is a Puerto Rico-born, Los Angeles-based dub reggae musician and producer. A dedicated craftsman in the lineage of King Tubby and The Scientist, blending dub with personal, forward-thinking takes on roots reggae.
Side B
00:26:40 Dorian Concept – Eigendynamik (Elevator Version)
Eclectic electronic with modal/free jazz, funk, hip-hop, and ambient elements. Self-dynamic and elevator-lifted—playful yet sophisticated.
Artist Bio: Dorian Concept (Oliver Thomas Johnson, born 1984 in Vienna, Austria) is a composer, producer, and keyboardist blending modal/free jazz, funk, hip-hop, electronic, ambient, and soundscape music. His stage name references the Dorian scale.
00:29:35 Sven Wunder – Pop-Jazz Structures
Lush pop-jazz with cinematic structures, warm grooves, and elegant orchestration. Sophisticated and transportive.
Artist Bio: Sven Wunder is a Swedish composer and musician known for cinematic pop-jazz and instrumental works that blend retro elegance with modern warmth.
00:32:36 Stereolab – Percolator
Hypnotic indie/electronic pop with singsong vocals, krautrock influences, and percolating rhythms. Mesmerizing and groovy.
Artist Bio: Stereolab (formed 1990) were a highly influential band led by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier. Known for hypnotic rhythms, mesmerizing vocals, and blending 60s pop, krautrock, jazz, hip-hop, and lounge into a distinctive art-rock sound.
00:35:58 Bluetech – A Study In Vapors
Intricate psybient with organic textures, dissolving vapors, and luminous detail. Ethereal and hypnotic.
Artist Bio: Bluetech (Evan Bartholomew) is a veteran psybient/electronic artist known for intricate, organic, and mind-expanding soundscapes.
00:39:35 Air – Les Professionnels
Sleek French electronic with cinematic cool, smooth synths, and sophisticated lounge atmosphere. Effortlessly stylish.
Artist Bio: Air is a French duo from Versailles (Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel) known for downtempo/electronic music with influences from bossa nova, lounge, film scores, and 70s pop. Their debut Moon Safari (1998) was a global success.
00:43:16 RUN DMT – Money
Psychedelic/electronic track with trippy vibes and a playful yet pointed take on materialism. Groovy and irreverent.
Artist Bio: RUN DMT is an electronic/psychedelic project (associated with Salvia Plath) known for trippy, groovy, and irreverent electronic tracks.
Also in the works, the latest compilation titled Quiet Figures which will be released September 26.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that trigger a creative thought?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name and link to other work.
Tracks due by September 24.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 251
Based on the track “Cyme” by “Jonathan Poliart” from the release “Melomed” and “Margin” by “CIRC” from the release “Rite”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A luminous, exploratory, and deeply personal ambient journey through light, myth, and memory.
Side A drifts from setting sun pearls and circular radiance into majestic airships and mythical horizons. Side B expands into floral delicacy, eternal journeys, dream scaffolds, and ends on warm childhood nostalgia.
Overall mood: Warm, contemplative, and wondrous with a strong sense of vastness and intimate reflection. Perfect for deep listening, golden-hour vibes, or peaceful unwinding.
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.
Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
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 R&D – Pearls of Setting Sun
Warm, glowing analogue ambient capturing the last pearls of sunlight with rich, fading beauty. Serene and nostalgic. Artist Bio: R&D is the electronic project of a synth enthusiast creating deep, textural analogue soundscapes.
00:09:49 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Circular Square
Luminous, geometric ambient with circular motion and emotional depth. Hopeful and radiant. Artist Bio: Dark Fidelity Hi Fi (Rick Jones) is a Manchester producer blending electronic atmospheres with emotional depth and personal reflection.
00:13:06 Andrew Heath – A Fleet of Airships
Majestic, floating ambient evoking a fleet of airships with vast, drifting elegance. Cinematic and wondrous. Artist Bio: Andrew Heath is a UK ambient composer known for spacious, cinematic works inspired by nature and history.
00:23:12 Zhe Pechorin & F.A. – Yellow Sun
Bright, solar ambient with warm yellow tones and gentle, life-giving radiance. Optimistic and glowing. Artist Bio: Zhe Pechorin & F.A. collaborate on warm, solar, and emotionally radiant ambient music.
00:26:36 philippe neau – ‘
Minimal, apostrophe-like ambient with precise, subtle punctuation and quiet introspection. Clean and poetic. Artist Bio: philippe neau is a French ambient artist creating minimal, precise, and poetic electronic works.
00:31:17 The Earl of Dean – Beyond The Pillars Of Hercules
Mythical, exploratory ambient venturing past ancient boundaries with deep, legendary resonance. Artist Bio: The Earl of Dean is a Scottish ambient artist crafting misty, landscape-inspired sound worlds with Nordic and mythical influences.
Side B
00:38:19 Jonathan Poliart – Cyme
Delicate, cyme-inspired ambient with clustered floral textures and soft, natural elegance. Artist Bio: Jonathan Poliart is an ambient artist creating delicate, nature-inspired works with floral and organic themes.
00:44:34 Yzymyr – Meditation
Pure, meditative ambient with focused stillness and profound inner calm. Minimal and transcendent. Artist Bio: Yzymyr is an ambient artist focused on pure, minimal, and absolute sonic explorations.
00:51:05 Thaneco – Neverending Journey
Vast, eternal ambient capturing endless exploration with cosmic drones and timeless flow. Artist Bio: Thaneco is a Greek ambient artist creating space-themed, narrative-driven electronic works.
00:58:22 Helyg Weidenbach – Dream Scaffold I
Dreamy, scaffold-like ambient building ethereal structures with soft, supportive layers. Artist Bio: Helyg Weidenbach is an ambient artist crafting dream-like, structural soundscapes.
01:04:21 CIRC – Margin
Precise, edge-dwelling ambient exploring boundaries with clean, marginal textures. Artist Bio: CIRC is an ambient artist focused on precise, boundary-exploring minimal electronics.
01:08:41 Akira Film Script – N4-81
Nostalgic, tape-warmed ambient captured in a childhood home with field recordings, cassette hiss, and quiet domestic peace. Deeply personal and comforting. Artist Bio: Akira Film Script is Ryan Watts, a veteran electronic musician creating nostalgic, field-recording-heavy ambient works inspired by childhood homes and personal reflection.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 241
Based on the track “Silent” by “Spectrum” from the release “Cosmic Chart Magazine 01”.
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 cosmic and contemplative ambient journey through space, nature, memory, and silence.
Side A spirals from intricate accretion disks and gentle downstream drift into quirky everyday surrealism, minimal precision, and dusty expanses. Side B grounds the mix with earthy waves before ascending into celestial mystery, holographic vastness, and profound quiet.
Overall mood: Expansive, introspective, and subtly mysterious with a strong sense of scale and inner reflection. It balances intricate detail with spacious calm — ideal for deep listening, meditation, or late-night 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.
Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
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 Bluetech – Accretion Disk Etude
Intricate, swirling psybient study of cosmic gravity and spiraling matter. Hypnotic, detailed, and elegantly turbulent.
00:04:43 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Drifting Downstream (2026)
Gentle, flowing ambient with warm analogue tones and peaceful downstream motion. Serene and meditative.
00:07:36 Chaircrusher – Department Store
Surreal, bustling electronic collage capturing the strange ambience of a department store. Quirky and immersive.
00:12:07 philippe neau – 48
Minimal, precise ambient with clean lines and subtle emotional restraint. Stark and beautifully focused.
00:15:31 Rodrigo Passannanti – Dustborn
Dry, wind-swept ambient born from dust with textured minimalism and vast emptiness. Atmospheric and haunting.
00:19:11 Pulse Mandala – Scalar (Pulse Mandala Remix)
Expansive, scalar ambient remix with rich resonant layers and hypnotic spatial depth. Immersive and elegant.
Side B
00:23:20 Dohnavùr – Acetylene
Sharp, burning ambient with bright chemical intensity and industrial-tinged resonance. Focused and luminous.
00:26:46 Flower Frequency – Grounding Waves
Soothing, earthy ambient with gentle grounding rhythms and flowing wave-like textures. Calming and restorative.
00:28:35 Klaus Wolfe – Celestial Emissaries
Mysterious, star-sent ambient with shimmering cosmic messengers and ethereal beauty. Majestic and otherworldly.
00:39:12 Grant Beasley – Holographic Universe
Vast, mind-bending ambient exploring simulated reality with crystalline textures and expansive scale.
00:46:28 Spectrum – Silent
Profound, minimalist ambient embracing pure silence and subtle sonic absence. Deep and contemplative.
00:52:37 DOMOTIC – Hyène
Sleek, predatory electronic ambient with hyena-like cunning and nocturnal edge. Sharp and atmospheric.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 228
Intercellular Mineral Genesis
Based on the track “Mineral Silence” from the album “Timeless Conceptions” by “Rodrigo Passannanti”.
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 deep, cerebral ambient journey from shadowed origins and inner worlds to cosmic scale and planetary reverence.
Side A builds from dark, minimalist introspection through cyclic rituals and interstellar warmth. Side B expands into microscopic detail, industrial hauntology, luminous rhythms, and ends on a grand, holistic vision of Earth.
Overall mood: Mysterious, contemplative, and expansive with a strong undercurrent of wonder and quiet intensity. It balances cold precision with organic warmth — ideal for focused deep listening, meditation, or nighttime 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.
Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
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 DTime – Shadowed Genesis
Dark, embryonic ambient with brooding textures and a sense of primordial emergence. Mysterious and weighty.
00:06:29 Fragile X – Between The Lines
Subtle, intricate ambient exploring hidden spaces and delicate emotional nuance. “Fragile” and introspective.
00:10:21 Rodrigo Passannanti – Mineral Silence
Crystalline, mineral-inspired ambient with deep stillness and geological patience. Cool and meditative.
00:16:46 Mantris – Full Circle
Cyclic, ritualistic electronic with hypnotic repetition and satisfying closure. Focused and transformative.
00:21:00 Danalogue – Mother of Mars
Cosmic, maternal ambient-jazz with red planet warmth and interstellar tenderness. Expansive and nurturing.
00:23:03 philippe neau – 0°
Precise, zero-degree ambient with minimalist restraint and icy clarity. Stark and beautifully empty.
Side B
00:26:38 Leit Motif – Sweven
Dreamlike, motif-driven ambient with flowing melodic development and gentle propulsion. Hypnotic and elegant.
00:31:27 zensor – Intracellular Recordings
Microscopic, biological electronic textures with inner-world detail and organic pulse. Intriguing and scientific.
00:35:59 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Standard Industrial Classification (AKA Part One From Werra Foxma Live)
Brutalist synth hauntology with retro-industrial grandeur and bureaucratic melancholy. Bold and atmospheric.
00:39:17 Bluetech – Dance Of The Lumen (ft. KiloWatts)
Luminous, rhythmic psybient with glowing melodies and intricate organic flow. Bright and danceable.
00:42:57 Grant Beasley – Null Space
Empty, vast ambient exploring nothingness with subtle tension and spatial depth. Minimal and profound.
00:48:10 Intact Veils – Imago of Earth
Majestic, veiled ambient portrait of the planet with rich, holistic textures. Reverent and cinematic.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 227
Motionless Zenith Relic
Based on the track “Motionless (In Reality)” from the album “Farside Of The Sun” by “Sick Robot”.
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 varied electronic journey blending fragile nostalgia and quirky experimentation with sleek techno, healing warmth, and brooding intensity.
Side A shifts from delicate decay through playful acid and driving retro-futurism into mechanical unease. Side B moves from dramatic weight into restorative grooves, luminous peaks, and ends on warm, human analogue comfort.
Overall mood: Atmospheric, slightly uncanny, and emotionally contrasting — moving between tension, healing, and cosy nostalgia. Perfect for late-night drives, focused listening, or immersive background vibes.
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.
Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
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 Backwards Cavern – Paper Relic
Fragile, dusty ambient with decaying textures and nostalgic relic-like warmth. Intimate and ephemeral.
00:06:11 Oh Mr James – The Acid Riddle
Playful, riddle-like acid electronics with quirky grooves and mysterious charm. Fun and offbeat.
00:09:29 TV-99-AD – Technology Release (Darren Nye Remix)
Sleek, futuristic techno with crisp percussion and retro-futurist drive. Clean and propulsive.
00:15:23 Revok – The Chauffeur
Smooth, cruising electronic with darkwave edges and elegant forward motion. Stylish and hypnotic.
00:19:27 Sick Robot – Motionless (In Reality)
Glitchy, robotic ambient/techno with frozen tension and mechanical unease. Stark and intriguing.
Side B
00:25:19 Virtually J – Tribunal
Severe, judicial electronic with heavy atmosphere and dramatic weight. Intense and cinematic.
00:32:13 Auscultation – Mend
Healing, warm deep house/ambient with gentle rhythms and soothing textures. Tender and restorative.
00:37:20 Eden Grey – Zenith
Peak, luminous ambient with glowing heights and celestial serenity. Radiant and expansive.
00:41:32 NDORFIK – Tervu
Mysterious, textured electronic with Nordic-tinged atmosphere and subtle ritualism. Atmospheric and grounded.
00:44:58 Sussex Telecom – Incident At Idle Lake
Eerie, narrative hauntology with quiet tension and lakeside mystery. Subtle and storytelling.
00:48:38 BUNKR – Rtaur
Raw, experimental electronics with heavy, industrial-edged grooves. Uncompromising and visceral.
00:53:10 Rupert Lally – Warm Computers
Cosy, analogue warmth with gentle synths and comforting digital humanism. Nostalgic and inviting.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 223
Atlas Dream Habit
Based on the track “Escape to Dream” from the album “Escape to Dream” by “Solace Road”.
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 tender, atmospheric ambient journey centered on introspection, escape, and emotional depth.
Side A drifts through gentle dreamscapes, delicate melodies, and fragile, watery textures — evoking longing, memory, and quiet reflection. Side B expands into luminous, slowed, and alchemical territory before shifting toward vivid cosmic and dark energy realms.
Overall mood: Dreamy, melancholic, and emotionally resonant with a strong sense of space and solitude. It feels intimate yet vast — like drifting between inner thoughts and the cosmos. Ideal for deep listening, late-night reflection, meditation, or unwinding.
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 Solace Road – Escape to Dream – Escape to Dream – 2026
Gentle, flowing ambient with soft pads and dreamy escapism. Warm, hopeful, and soothing.
00:08:30 Arbee & Kilometre Club – Once is not a habit – Once is not a habit – 2025
Minimal, tape-warmed ambient with delicate textures and quiet repetition. Intimate and reflective.
00:09:54 Garda – Likimas – Sąlyga – 2025
Atmospheric Lithuanian ambient with emotional depth and subtle cinematic tension. Melancholic and elegant.
00:14:57 Scyye – outside – 2018
Sparse, drifting electronic ambient with open space and gentle detachment. Calm and airy.
00:18:25 Woo – Celeste
Light, whimsical ambient with charming melodies and signature Woo warmth. Playful and dreamy.
00:19:40 Spheruleus – Atlas Days – The Lost Catalogue – 2026
Subtle, weathered ambient with lost-catalogue nostalgia and soft decaying tones. Poignant and nostalgic.
00:23:43 Ekin Fil – bazille-water drop – Bora Boreas – 2025
Delicate, watery ambient with fragile beauty and emotional translucence. Ethereal and touching.
Side B
00:26:43 Solar Phasing – Luminescence (432hz) – Electronic Patterns – 2025
Luminous, tuned ambient with soft glowing layers and healing calm. Radiant and meditative.
00:30:44 Willebrant – Emerge (slowed and reverb) – The Pilgrim – Slowed and Reverb – 2025
Deep, slowed ambient with heavy reverb and emotional emergence. Immersive and cinematic.
00:35:57 Paul Beaudoin – Prima Materia – Alchemies – 2025
Alchemical ambient exploring raw sonic matter with rich, evolving textures. Mystical and grounded.
00:40:28 SURVEY CHANNEL – Outside the Coding Region – Triplicate Tapes Vol. 2: Space Invaders – 2021
Glitchy, coded electronic ambient with sci-fi unease and digital drift. Abstract and intriguing.
00:45:03 Loneward – Crimson Canvas – Musings of a Painted Sky – 2025
Vivid, painterly ambient with warm glowing tones and emotional brushstrokes. Beautiful and expressive.
00:52:31 Substak – Dark Energy Singularity – Black Noise Constellation – 2025
Cosmic, low-frequency dark ambient with massive scale and gravitational pull. Deep and powerful.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 222
Beginning Future Empathy
Based on the track “Somewhere Right Now In The Future” from the album “Inferno” by “Boards of Canada”.
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 gentle, introspective, and emotionally nuanced ambient journey with touches of melancholy and warmth.
Side A moves from delicate, fragile beauty and shimmering guitar textures into dreamy Balearic atmospheres, dark cyclical tension, and quiet personal reflection. Side B shifts between urban solitude, sparse haunting moments, and organic warmth before landing on pastoral serenity and nostalgic analogue haze.
Overall mood: Melancholic yet comforting, dreamy, and subtly nostalgic. It feels intimate and emotionally honest — like late-afternoon light turning into twilight. Perfect for reflective listening, quiet evenings, or focused deep 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.
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 Wavefiler – Brief Saga
Short, sweeping ambient with gentle melodic arcs and emotional warmth. Poignant and beautifully concise.
00:03:26 The Durutti Column – Beginning
Delicate, shimmering guitar-led ambient with Vini Reilly’s signature fragile beauty. Intimate and graceful.
00:04:40 Philippe Brown – Podenca Dreamscape
Dreamy, sun-soaked Balearic ambient with light percussion and hazy Mediterranean glow. Blissful and relaxed.
00:07:47 Luke Requena – Metallic Plastic
Glossy, synthetic electronic textures with a cool, modern edge. Sleek and slightly surreal.
00:13:38 worriedaboutsatan – Zyklus
Dark, cyclical post-rock/ambient with brooding intensity and slow-building tension. Atmospheric and powerful.
00:16:09 Glenn Fallows, Mark Treffel – Remember Empathy
Warm, melodic ambient with gentle grooves and heartfelt emotion. Nostalgic and comforting.
00:17:59 Lord Of The Isles – Solo
Minimal, introspective house-ambient with soft pads and quiet emotional resonance. Tender and spacious.
Side B
00:23:58 Heaton Norris Light Vessel Automatic – Berlin
Cold, atmospheric electronic evoking urban isolation and European melancholy. Moody and cinematic.
00:33:53 Surkid – When There Is No One Left to Follow
Sparse, haunting ambient with a sense of solitude and quiet desolation. Deeply introspective.
00:38:04 Binaural Space – Where’s My Guitar
Playful, slightly eccentric electronic with warm analogue charm and light-hearted quirkiness.
00:38:43 Fabiano do Nascimento – Das Nuvens
Gentle Brazilian acoustic ambience with soft guitar and floating, cloud-like serenity. Warm and organic.
00:41:42 The Zenmenn – The Invisible Landscape
Lush, pastoral ambient with beautiful melodic layers and dreamlike tranquility. Timeless and soothing.
00:50:33 Adrian Lane – Repent At Leisure
Reflective, melancholic ambient with subtle emotional weight and elegant minimalism.
00:53:16 Felbm – Phi
Smooth, jazzy downtempo with warm percussion and breezy, golden-hour vibes. Relaxed and groovy.
00:54:47 Boards of Canada – Somewhere Right Now In The Future
Classic BoC warped nostalgia with eerie melodies and analogue haze. Mysterious and hypnotic.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 211
A captivating cosmic and atmospheric journey blending space ambient, cinematic electronics, and warm analogue nostalgia.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to episode 211 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 “Ghosted” by Lone Cosmonaut from the name your price EP “Ghosted” which dropped on the 21st of May via The Committee for Sonic Research label. Also a massive thank you to Lone Cosmonaut, Ian Boddy at DiN Records, Pablo Bilbao at Cyclical Dreams and Colin Morrison at Castles in Space for sponsoring the episode with material.
A captivating cosmic and atmospheric journey blending space ambient, cinematic electronics, and warm analogue nostalgia.
Side A drifts through ethereal astral planes, lonely ghost transmissions, dark hypnotic voids, and stylish Italian evening grooves. Side B expands with bright hopeful radiance, grand orchestral Moog swells, intricate rhythms, and deep philosophical layers before closing on mysterious folkloric darkness.
Overall mood: Dreamy, mysterious, and emotionally rich with a strong sense of wonder and solitude. It feels like floating through starlit skies, abandoned satellites, and warm summer nights — equal parts cosmic isolation and comforting analogue warmth. Perfect for late-night listening, stargazing, or immersive headphone sessions.
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 Claude Lavender – Astral Plane
Floating, ethereal ambient with cosmic pads and weightless drift. Dreamy and transcendent.
00:05:59 The Lighthouse – Staring Into Black Light
Dark, hypnotic ambient with deep voids and subtle glowing tension. Mysterious and immersive.
00:08:50 Lone Cosmonaut – Ghosted
Haunting, lonely space ambient with faded transmissions and emotional isolation. Melancholic and atmospheric.
00:13:53 RIEUX – Ariel Incidents
Cinematic, glitch-tinged electronic with subtle sci-fi unease and elegant tension. Intriguing and detailed.
00:19:26 d’Voxx – Julia
Warm, melodic synth work with emotional depth and retro-futurist charm. Nostalgic and heartfelt.
00:25:04 Uomo Meccanico – Alle Sette di sera
Italian-flavoured electronic with mechanical grooves and golden-hour warmth. Stylish and laid-back.
Side B
00:31:04 Home – Sun
Bright, radiant bedroom electronic with hopeful melodies and glowing warmth. Uplifting and nostalgic.
00:33:33 Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales – Law of the Lever
Grand, orchestral Moog hybrid with rich analogue power and majestic sweep. Epic and sophisticated.
00:36:45 Time Rival – Bookworm
Intricate, bookish IDM/electronic with clever rhythms and intimate focus. Quirky and absorbing.
00:38:39 Cartas de Japón – Chapadmalal
Dreamy, distant ambient with warm South American haze and gentle melancholy. Evocative and peaceful.
00:45:55 Autumn Of Communion – Metacognition
Deep, philosophical ambient with expansive layers and thoughtful resonance. Meditative and profound.
00:55:18 Salvatore Mercatante – The Night Battles (Benandanti)
Mysterious, folkloric dark ambient with ritualistic undertones and nocturnal magic. Atmospheric and compelling.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 329
Fascinate
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A cruise along a signposted road, then a heart lit in a place still waiting for its name.
Side A follows the signs with the construct still standing and happy to drive, keeps the face continuous from one frame to the next, files a polite plea under the smear-test disasters, numbers the first fluid from dust to dawn, lets the shade learn a lyric behind a half-drawn curtain, and fascinates with the fungus that holds the wood together. Side B glows umber between brown and light, posts a New Penzance Island from the film, keeps the last note of a reef in its feathers, chirps a zither small enough for a beak, leans into petrol and jasmine on the same camber, and leaves the light on in a town the map has yet to label.
Overall mood: Slightly luminous, and quietly named — full of half-drawn curtains, open lanes, and places still waiting for their labels. Perfect for dusk drives, roads that know the way, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a cruise along a signposted road, a mask that keeps the face continuous, a helpdesk in the comments, a fluid numbered one, shade singing its own name, wildlife that has decided to fascinate.
00:00:00 BUNKR – Cruisen
https://bunkr-music.bandcamp.com/track/cruisen
Album: Signs. Label: VLSI Records
Signs pointing the way, VLSI keeping the lane. The construct still standing, for now, and happy to drive.
00:07:29 survey channel – Mask of Continuity
https://surveychannel.bandcamp.com/track/mask-of-continuity
Album: Macrozones.
The large rooms where the face stays the same from one frame to the next. The survey already under way.
00:12:25 Daily Mail Comments Section – Hello? Can You Help Me, Please?
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/hello-can-you-help-me-please
Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test.
Enofa filing the plea under volume one of the polite disasters.
00:14:27 TRAINDEER – Płyn I
https://traindeer.bandcamp.com/track/p-yn-i
Album: From Dust To Dawn.
Fluid, the first of them. From dust to dawn, the deer already on the track.
00:16:50 Hiram – Tsel
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/tsel
Album: Shade Songs.
The shadow learning a lyric. Matthew Hiram leaving the curtain half-drawn on purpose.
00:19:28 Polypores – Fascinate
https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/fascinate
Album: Wildlife. Label: Aural Canyon
The fungus that holds the wood together, and the title of the hour. Look closely. The thread is there.
Side B
Mood mist: an umber that has learned to glow, an island named after a film, a last song from a reef, a zither chirping under the canopy, petrol and jasmine sharing a camber, a heart lit in a place still waiting for its name.
00:25:08 Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Glowing Umber
(Exclusive track)
Album: Prismatic Fields. Label: Open Universe
https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic-fields
The colour between brown and light, happy to be both.
00:27:43 Mensa Group International – New Penzance Island
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/new-penzance-island
Album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings
The tree of heaven. The island from the film, now with its own postcode.
00:29:02 Coda Nautica – Swan Song
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/swan-song
Album: Intricate Harmonics 2. Label: Neotantra
Neotantra letting the last note keep its feathers.
00:36:01 Beymer – Tsitern (Chirp)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/tsitern-chirp
Album: Beneath The Trees. Label: Imaginary North
A zither small enough to fit in a beak, and still in tune.
00:37:54 Aidan Baker – Petrol / Jasmine
https://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com/track/petrol-jasmin
Album: Adverse Camber. Label: Broken Spine Productions
The bend that asks you to lean. Broken Spine keeping both scents in the same bottle.
00:43:23 Absence – Glowing Heart
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/glowing-heart
Album: Names of Unknown Places. Label: Imaginary North
The light still on in a town the map has yet to label.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 329.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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