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 161
30 December 2025
Virtual 90 minute mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 30 artists, two 45 minute sets. A spoken intro followed by music only show. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
“Hello, I’m Trevor, and this is episode one‑six‑one of the Virtual Cassette Library—which also happens to be my 900th mix show. I’m not entirely sure how that happened, but here we are. Today’s theme is Obey Beams Starting—which, as usual, is both the track you’re hearing underneath and a location you can find on a map, if you’re the sort who enjoys chasing coordinates on What3Words.
We’ve got ninety minutes ahead—two sides, fifteen tracks each. Some names you’ll know, some you won’t, and that’s half the fun. Early on you’ll hear Night Birds by The Inventors of Aircraft—an exclusive from the upcoming Whitelabrecs compilation sleeplaboratory6.0. Always a pleasure to be able to share something before it officially takes flight.
Now then, starting back on episode 156, there’s a little cipher game running through the series. Each episode, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten episodes, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ll get it right.
The rest of the show wanders through winter light, spectral electronics, Casio memories, kosmische detours, festive oddities, and the occasional unexpected left‑turn. The sort of thing you might stumble across late at night on a shortwave dial, wondering if you imagined it.
So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
Ed Herbers – Full Moon’s Light on Fallen Snow – 02:32
Audio Obscura – (Airtraffic Control Supplementry Protocol Training) [Xqui Remix] – 04:04
*The Inventors of Aircraft – Night Birds – 07:28
Saloop – A Mist Of Sleep – 10:54
Drune – Nymphae – 15:35
Wax Machine – Tears From The Skies – 17:02
Zazie Productions – Vlad The Impaler – 20:14
Mark Ellery Griffiths – VL Memories (Casio VL Tone) – 21:14
Kreidler – Kannibal – 24:00
Syd Howells – Frequency Surfer – 27:52
The Earl of Dean – Excavate – 30:11
Legacy Systems – Germinids – 33:19
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Bonami – 36:27
Oceanographer – Remedy Signal – 39:38
Binaural Space – Intro – 43:21
B Side – 45:41
DBC:Unit – Channeling Song from the Sky – 46:12
Mas&Delayer – On the Road with Cormac – 49:12
Moriah Plaza – Dom Dom – 52:32
GROSSO GADGETTO – “All I do now is hope” – 54:41
Pulselovers – Seeing Double (Revbjelde Mix) – 58:02
Oscar Rocchi – Mais – 1:01:20
Le Code – Lazy Day – 1:03:55
tapes and topographies – a picture from the set – 1:06:47
Trevlad – Cook Hobble Recruited – 1:10:04
Stefan Gubatz – Miami White – 1:13:44
ATA Records – Sutherland – 1:16:47
Andy Fosberry – Here Is Your Eye – 1:18:49
Synthotherapy – Get A Grip – 1:21:47
Voidscan – Beneath The Weight of Dreams – 1:24:49
Francis Morning – Secretpaths – 1:27:45
Outro – 1:31:28
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 152
8 December 2025
“Greetings all. Episode one-five-two of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Tactical Flagged Happen. That’s the track you hear underneath, and it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—it’s up on YouTube if you’re curious.
I’m Trevor. Ninety minutes, two virtual sides, fifteen tracks each. In this episode you’ll hear Dude, Finn Rees, Cognition Delay on Mahorka, elders from Driftworks, and Warmth on Archives. Later, The Black Dog, Hélène Vogelsinger, Sven Wunder, and my own track Plank Glides Enigma drift through the mix. Everyday Dust, Ndorfik, and Gollden on Imaginary North carry us into the B side.
Labels orbiting here include Neo Ouija, Leaving Records, and Intellitronic Bubble. Styles range from ambient and IDM to vaporwave, kosmische, and spiritual jazz. These transmissions stretch across places—Melbourne, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Sheffield—woven into the resonance of the library.
The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre‑order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
Dude – Wave – 02:00
Finn Rees – Expansion – 06:02
Cleeve Morris – Revenge (Alternative) – 09:45
Cognition Delay – Dazzled By The Dark – 12:19
elders – Horizon 4 – 15:55
Matthewdavid – 1_CAVESHRINE – 18:49
MXM – The Untitled Deep – 20:20
FM3, Christiaan Virant – Yang – 24:10
Warmth – Amaltea – 27:11
Carya Amara – Irlande – 29:44
Xylic – Desdemóna – 32:15
René Najera – The Seasons (ft. Leech) – 34:54
The Black Dog – The Jefferson Sheard Choir (Silence Mix) – 38:19
L A N D S R A A D – The Survival of Humankind, Nothing More Nor Less – 40:09
*Trevlad – Plank Glides Enigma – 43:01
B Side – 47:00
Everyday Dust – Moss (Alegria Remix) – 47:30
Ndorfik – Saimaa (Original Mix) – 51:29
Sven Wunder – Windward – 54:53
Anubis Rude – Fade – 56:16
CIALYN – A walk at Rhodia – 56:41
Hélène Vogelsinger – Mirror Arcana – XIX. The Sun – 59:37
zyklen – Echo in the Abyss – 1:01:27
John Scott Shepherd – Deep Sleep – 1:05:15
Larry Toadman – the shipwreck – 1:10:39
Tim Linghaus – Poplars In Your Eyeball – 1:13:16
Gollden – destiny #8 – 1:15:17
VVvrm – Then they called the Storm – 1:19:09
Fflwcs – Echolocation – 1:22:10
andarctica – semblance – 1:24:00
Dokun – Under The Aether – 1:26:43
Outro – 1:32:19
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trevors Birthday Special
23.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Aldous Harding – Weight of the Planets – 01:25
Glass Beams – Rattlesnake – 05:51
Forsling & Hauch – Spektral – 09:50
Orbital – Belfast – Remastered – 16:23
Aphex Twin – #17 – 22:59
Broadcast – Please Call To Book [Demo] – 24:26
Lone Bison – Talk About It – 28:43
Vic Mars – The Road Through the Village – 32:40
Les Imprimés – It’s Over – 35:49
Pachyman – Sunset Sound – 38:49
Simon Mavin – 7 Times Around – 42:03
North Sea Radio Orchestra – Berliner Luft – 43:17
Sven Wunder – Pop-Jazz Structures – 49:18
Rejoicer – CS4 aka Firefall – 52:15
La bibliothèque de la bergerie – Loterie solaire – 54:39
Scanner – Sestinea – 58:31
B Side – 59:41
Whatitdo Archive Group – Forbidden Cove – 1:00:36
Apifera – I Love ECM – 1:04:11
Stiletti-Ana – Slide to Automatic – 1:06:42
Arovane – Good Bye Forever – 2023 Remaster – 1:12:32
Tycho – Sunrise Projector – 1:15:58
Faust – Psalter – 1:18:37
Khruangbin – A La Sala – 1:22:09
Bibio – All Of The Above – 1:25:50
Musette – Wiener Futurismo – 1:28:11
Dina Ogon – Tombola 94 – 1:31:32
L’éclair – Endless Dave – 1:35:17
Stereolab – Percolator – 1:47:38
Tiger Tigre & Taurelle – Sport Mécanique – 1:50:58
Sababa 5 – Wembley – 1:54:57
Trevs Outro – 1:59:09
For the birds 032
20.12.2024
Resilience – Forgotten World – 00:00
Natural Empath – Peeling of the Rind – 05:15
Lee Hannah – Winter Lake – 07:28
Kh3rtis – You Are The Sun – 10:02
Bruno Pernadas – Lachrymose – 12:35
Harry Towell – The Clearing – 15:24
Bibio – Everglad Everglade – 17:29
SHIVARASA – Take Flight – 18:28
Ernest Hood – Gloaming – 28:08
Philippe Brown – Serenade of the Techno Mystics – 36:08
Bound Of Reflection – New Morning Of Linden Alley – 37:47
Suryummy – Earth has a Word – 42:41
Ranga – The Levitated Forest – 45:38
In Love With A Ghost – sorry for not answering the phone, i’m too busy trying to fly away – 50:34
Jupi/ter – Abu – 52:07
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