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 ritual, slightly archival ambient journey through cave light, crystal devotion, and lost scrolls. Side A opens in misfit forest worlds and frog-voiced infinity, then rises from empty Berlin-school air into Sagan-bright crystal strings, Adonia keyboards, and Pan Am polaroid ritual. Side B propagates Greek debut tones, shuffles a side-hustle co-op, unrolls Mossilon’s unfinished archive, lets sandalwood pulse over a vanished ocean, crowns a snow queen, and asks tomorrow to wait. Overall mood: Contemplative, faintly mythic, and warmly analogue — full of restored tape, short illuminated paths, and memory that arrives as photographs. Perfect for late listening, quiet ritual, or letting the next day stay outside the room. 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 Monroeville Music Center – Caverynth Monroeville Music Center – Caverynth. Forest worlds, wintertide ritual and cloud ruins glow in short illuminated paths. Heaven for misfits hangs above a castle basement. 00:03:58 Light Vortex – Without Glimmer Of Infinity Light Vortex – Without Glimmer Of Infinity. Tempo and tonality shift through a living cycle. At the close, frogs speak from a Florida pond. 00:10:26 Michael Brückner – From Zero – Part 1 Michael Brückner – From Zero – Part 1. Berlin School sequences rise from a 2015 studio floor. Synthesizers and keyboards start with empty air. 00:24:38 Spirituals – Crystal Strings Spirituals – Crystal Strings. Pedal steel, acoustic guitar, vibraphone and voice memos stack as solitary devotionals. Sagan’s metaphor leaves the page and enters the headphones. 00:28:31 Ose – Orgasmachine Ose – Orgasmachine. Hervé Picart’s Adonia sits between Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. Rhetoric, journalism and emerging keyboards share one spatial room. 00:31:42 Akira Film Script – Pan Am Port Regalia Akira Film Script – Pan Am Port Regalia. Polaroids and bidirectional associations open the eRecords white-label ritual.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:36:03 Parallel Worlds – Propagation Parallel Worlds – Propagation. A Greek debut on SLIT ART sends tones across FORM@’s widening scope. 00:41:25 Legacy Systems – Side Hustle Shuffle Legacy Systems – Side Hustle Shuffle. The Synthesis Co-Op gathers Eurorack, pedals and occasional guitar. Profits travel toward CALM. 00:45:06 Everyday Dust – The Lost Scrolls Of Mossilon Everyday Dust – The Lost Scrolls Of Mossilon. Restored quarter-inch, cassette, DAT and MiniDisc carry 2006 to 2022. Grebo Gray’s hand-drawn archive never finishes. 00:50:11 yolabmi – Sandalwood Pulse yolabmi – Sandalwood Pulse. A vanished ocean whispers before music learns how to dream. Handprints rest on dust. 00:55:00 SERMAK MUSIC – Snow Queen SERMAK MUSIC – Snow Queen. CZiGO’s piano and production span lockdown years to now. Eight tracks gather the Sermak catalogue. 00:58:54 ndrw cnry – Let tomorrow wait ndrw cnry – Let tomorrow wait. Brief flashes of memory drift by. Photographs ride with the download.
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 294. Travel safely between the tracks. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve tuned into Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 120—Pulled Indoors Passage. A name, a signal, and a location: Pulled Indoors Passage. Drop it into What3Words and you’ll find the coordinates of this episode’s visual transmission. Today, we embark on a 90-minute journey through sound—crafted for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and quiet communion with the cosmos. No commentary between tracks. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion.
💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your art, your sound, your signal to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s timeline. 🎶 Support the signal: Pre-order the 6th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 17 tracks. Subscribe for just $3/month and unlock 846 archived shows—over 1,200 hours of sonic exploration. 🧙♂️ And don’t forget to join Nanogod, the wizard of words, on the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every vibration helps keep the channel alive. 🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.