Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 345
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.
Blue skies over golden acres, then landscapes that prefer to stay unfinished.
Side A keeps the acres already golden and the skies rather pleased about it, softens an ambient Ibiza so the trickster is slightly surprised, lets the water belong to the sky and walk itself home, remixes a shadow planet by Sam Prekop so the shadows grow longer, celebrates the dark with bats already in formation and bringing a small gift, and keeps the brook underwater and quite content while the library reads from the bottom shelf. Side B places a solaris in ethereal space that is already making room, reflects eyes that are mirrors signalling back, waters the plants with magnetic fields that are quite domestic about the dishes, turns decay into light that is still arriving, mid-turns an emu while the silence is amused, and leaves the landscapes unfinished and happier for the postponement.
Overall mood: Amused, and quietly luminous — full of pleased skies, domestic fields, and landscapes that prefer to stay open. Perfect for dusk listening, soft islands, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: blue skies over golden acres, an ambient Ibiza, water that belongs to the sky, a shadow planet remixed by Sam Prekop, bats celebrating the dark, a brook that is underwater and quite content.
00:01:27 Adel Music Club – Blue Skies
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/track/blue-skies
Album: Golden Acres. Label: FRBH Recordings
The acres already golden. The skies already blue and rather pleased about it.
00:04:37 Masefield Labs & Arcane Trickster – Eivissa (Ambient Mix)
https://tempestrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/eivissa-ambient-mix
Album: Eivissa. Label: Tempest Recordings
The island already soft. The trickster already ambient, and slightly surprised by this development.
00:12:44 Philippe Deschamps – Water of the Sky
https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/track/water-of-the-sky
Album: Wind Paths. Label: Silent Sonic Records
The water already falling from somewhere higher. The paths already walking it home.
00:14:59 Brandon Locher – I (Sam Prekop Remix)
https://brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/track/i-sam-prekop-remix
Album: The Shadow Planets. Label: SHARED MATERIALS
The I already remixed. The planets already casting longer shadows.
00:19:18 MikeKSmith – Chiroptera
https://dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com/track/mikeksmith-chiroptera
Album: Celebrating The Bat Chapter 1: Darkness Falls. Label: Dustopian Frequencies
The bats already in formation. The darkness already arriving with a small gift.
00:23:04 The Visionary Library – [ Brook ]
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/brook
Album: Label: The Dream Journal Institute
The brook already flowing beneath the surface. The library already reading from the bottom shelf.
Side B
Mood mist: a solaris in ethereal space, eyes that are mirrors, magnetic fields for watering the plants, a decay that becomes light, an emu that is turning, landscapes that prefer to stay unfinished.
00:32:03 John Louis Kluck – Solaris
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/solaris
Album: Ethereal Space. Label: Ambient Cat
The sun already elsewhere. The space already ethereal and making room.
00:35:34 BUNKR – Eyes Like Mirrors
https://bunkr-music.bandcamp.com/track/eyes-like-mirrors
Album: Signals. Label: VLSI Records
The eyes already reflecting. The mirrors already signalling back.
00:38:21 Hior Chronik – Magnetic fields
(Exclusive track)
Album: Watering The Plants. Label: Whitelabrecs
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/
Title of the hour. Music for the everyday: lying in bed, unwinding, or, as George puts it, while they wash their dishes. The plants already watered. The dishes already cleaner. The fields already magnetic and quite domestic about it.
00:41:17 sevensy – decaying into light
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/decaying-into-light-2
Album: Finally Infinite. Label: Mahorka
The decay already luminous. The infinite already arrived, and still arriving.
00:50:03 Rhucle – Emu
https://rhucle.bandcamp.com/track/emu-2
Album: Turning. Label: Silent Songs
The emu already mid-turn. The silence already amused.
00:52:35 asher tuil – unfinished landscapes iv
https://ashertuil.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-landscapes-iv
Album: unfinished landscapes.
The landscapes already open. The finishing already postponed, and happier for it.
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 339
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.
A whistle mapped into silence, then a spring that prefers to vanish quietly.
Side A draws the map so the silence can answer, lets the music of the spheres burn bright and kind, rests the tongue in cold shadows under a solar scream, warms a tiny stone in a brief perfect drift, holds quiet music from Toronto in the lake, and draws a crystal so the page already shines. Side B cooks a beacon for a kind visitation, lengthens an afternoon in warm fur, grows an organic vibe in the factory that is already alive, shares a symbiosis in a lost city already found, opens a Shangri-La reverie for the valley, and lets the spring arrive so the vanishing can stay soft.
Overall mood: Luminous, and quietly kind — full of answering silences, shared rooms, and springs that know how to leave. Perfect for dusk listening, soft cities, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a whistle mapped into silence, a bright burn from the music of the spheres, a tongue resting in cold shadows under a solar scream, a tiny stone drifting, quiet music from Toronto, a crystal drawn rather than cut.
00:02:18 Anhnch – a whistle, then echoing silence
https://anhnch.bandcamp.com/track/a-whistle-then-echoing-silence
Album: Cartography of Expression.
The map already drawn. The silence already answering.
00:09:15 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Brightburn
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/brightburn
Album: Musica Universalis. Label: Ambient Cat
The spheres already singing. The burn already kind.
00:13:11 Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Let Your Tongue Lie Still In Their Cold Shadows
https://ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/track/let-your-tongue-lie-still-in-their-cold-shadows
Album: The Blessed Brethren of the Sacred Solar Scream.
The rural district already listening. The tongue already at rest.
00:14:50 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 4
https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/track/microlith-4-3
Album: Microliths and Momentary Drifts.
The small stone already warm. The drift already brief and perfect.
00:16:15 anthéne – wallace emerson
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/anth-ne-wallace-emerson
Album: Lake Effect: Quiet Music From Toronto. Label: Imaginary North
The lake already holding the sound. The city already soft.
00:19:10 Ryuuta Takaki – Drawing a Crystal
https://ryuuta-takaki.bandcamp.com/track/drawing-a-crystal
Album: Drawing a Crystal.
The pencil already finding the facets. The page already shining.
Side B
Mood mist: a beacon cooked for a visitation, an afternoon in fur, an organic vibe from the factory, a symbiosis in a lost city, a reverie named Shangri-La, a spring that prefers to vanish quietly.
00:24:42 Time Rival – Beacon Beauty
https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/track/beacon-beauty
Album: Cooked (Visitation No. 3). Label: CONDITION HUMAN
The light already on. The visit already kind.
00:29:38 DOMOTIC – Afternoon
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/track/afternoon
Album: Fourrure Sounds Vol. 3 to 6. Label: Astra Solaria Recordings
The fur already warm. The afternoon already long.
00:32:13 Williams Marx – Organic Vibe
https://inthemood2.bandcamp.com/track/organic-vibe
Album: Ambient Factory I. Label: In The Mood
Title of the hour. The factory already growing its own. The vibe already alive.
00:35:04 Sylvain Carel – Symbiosis
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/symbiosis
Album: Naharim, the Lost City [CYD 0169]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Two organisms already sharing the room. The city already found.
00:40:18 Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Shangri La
https://orikaplanlihumelamed.bandcamp.com/track/shangri-la-2
Album: Reverie. Label: Batov Records
The valley already open. The reverie already shared.
00:42:49 Halftribe – Vernal
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/vernal
Album: Disappear in Silent Ways. Label: DRONARIVM
The spring already here. The vanishing already soft.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 339.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 338
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.
A moon and her sisters in the retort, then a hop that is already well.
Side A keeps the moons already in the flask while the gold forms, holds home at a gentle distance with something greater already walking beside you, lets everything shine from within with the glow still in the grain, sighs a heart across the galaxy while despair and hope share the EP, leaves the plea soft after the kilometre is walked, and warms an egg in the suburbs with the hedge already quiet. Side B takes one small step with the boot already on the surface, opens the code in the swirl so it can read itself, populates a soft suburb with eleven marble dogs, lets the river know the way so you may follow, leaves a lost city still waiting in the hidden kingdoms, and lands the hop already well with the mezze on the table.
Overall mood: Luminous, and quietly kind — full of warm shells, open ciphers, and tables already set. Perfect for dusk listening, soft suburbs, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a moon and her sisters in the retort, a home kept at a gentle distance, everything shining from within, a heart sighing across the galaxy, a plea left soft, an egg in the suburbs.
00:02:18 Brapscallion – Callisto And Her Sisters
https://waxingcrescentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/callisto-and-her-sisters
Album: Alchemy. Label: Waxing Crescent Records
oons already in the flask. The gold already forming.
00:05:07 Walls of Ashes – Home Is Way Too Far to Be Reached Again
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/home-is-way-too-far-to-be-reached-again
Album: Something Greater Than Ourselves. Label: Ambient Cat
The distance already kind. The greater thing already walking beside you.
00:10:57 Trem 77 – Everything Always Shine (Bioluminescence Mix)
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/everything-always-shine-bioluminescence-mix
Album: Aepochs.
The light coming from the thing itself. Henrik’s glow still in the grain.
00:13:25 Moonlit Workhouse/Persephonic Sprawl – Across the Galaxy is Where My Heart Sighs
https://prozapine.bandcamp.com/track/across-the-galaxy-is-where-my-heart-sighs
Album: Despair/Hope EP.
Despair and hope sharing the EP. Prozapine. The sigh already travelling. The galaxy already listening.
00:21:28 Arbee & Kilometre Club – Don’t be too hard on me
https://kilometreclub.bandcamp.com/track/dont-be-too-hard-on-me
Album: Once is not a habit.
The request already soft. The kilometre already walked.
00:23:38 Calm Pieces – Egg
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/egg
Album: Suburbia, Still. Label: whitelabrecs
The shell already warm. The hedge already quiet.
Side B
Mood mist: a step small enough for the moon, a code in the swirl, eleven marble dogs in a soft suburb, a river crossing the land, a city still waiting to be found, a hop that is already well.
00:29:35 The Hamiltones – One Small Step
https://bigneckrecords1.bandcamp.com/track/one-small-step
Album: IN SPACE. Label: Swimming Faith Records
The boot already on the surface. The flag already waving in the vacuum’s imagination.
00:32:48 Flora Hibberd – Code
https://flora-hibberd.bandcamp.com/track/code-3
Album: Swirl (Deluxe). Label: 22TWENTY
The cipher already open. The swirl already reading it.
00:35:40 Kenny Ueda – Eleven Marble Poodles
https://kenjiueda.bandcamp.com/track/eleven-marble-poodles
Album: Soft Suburbia. Label: Mystery Circles
The garden already populated. The stone already soft.
00:38:53 Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance – The River
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/track/the-river
Album: Land. Label: Driftworks
Title of the hour. The water already knowing the way. You may follow.
00:42:58 Asha Patera – Lost City
(Exclusive track)
Album: Label: Trevlad
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-kingdoms
Entries still welcome — artist, track, a link to other work — trevlad@gmail.com, before the 29th of December.
00:47:23 Sababa 5 – Hop
https://sababa5.bandcamp.com/track/hop
Album: Ça va Ça va. Label: Batov Records
All is well. The hop already landed. The mezze already on the table.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 338.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 331
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 sundial turned inward, then a boat named in two languages.
Side A writes its hours in a Canadian winter while the light inside learns to keep its own, holds the shape of callers who have already left, leaves a glimmer on for the night, lets the ocean breathe along the path, builds architecture that knows its own duration and still stands, and rearranges the light so it remains in the living room. Side B follows the grey sea whose fog already knows the way, crosses a forest at funk speed in under a minute, walks an old earthwork in a hidden kingdom still open for entries, listens to an Estonian runway listening back, switches on the first light of a galactic passenger, and names the boat once on each side of the hull.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly seasonal, and quietly luminous — full of little lights left on, temporary buildings, and seas that already know the way. Perfect for dusk listening, houses with a curse, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a sundial turned inward, callers who have already left the hall, a glimmer left on overnight, an ocean breathing along a path, architecture that knows it is temporary, light pulled gently into a living room.
00:02:18 Gollden – november 19th
(Exclusive track)
Album: Sundial. Label: Anjunabeats
https://anjunabeats.bandcamp.com/
Sundial — written in a Canadian winter, when the light outside stepped back and the light inside learned to keep its own hours. Anjunabeats Circadian. Full release the 26th of October. The compass is already warm.
00:05:18 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – Callers Have Departed
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/callers-have-departed
Album: House with a Curse. Label: Clay Pipe Music
House with a Curse, Clay Pipe. The hall still holding the shape of the visit. The hymn book left open on the sideboard.
00:07:45 Arbee – Une lueur
https://arbee.bandcamp.com/track/une-lueur
Album: Veilleuses.
A glimmer. Veilleuses — the little lights left on for the night. The room already softer.
00:10:23 Philippe Deschamps – Breath of the Ocean
https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/track/breath-of-the-ocean
Album: Wind Paths.
Wind paths, the Goodnight Project still walking them. The tide exhaling in time with the path.
00:11:52 Pabellon Sintetico – Fuge
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/fuge
Album: Ephemeral Architecture [CYD 0168]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Ephemeral architecture, Cyclical Dreams. A building that knows its own duration, and still stands for the length of the piece.
00:14:29 Hainbach – Torn From Light
https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/track/torn-from-light
Album: Vive. Label: Seil Records
Vive — to live. Seil Records keeping the torn edge soft. The light still in the room, just rearranged.
Side B
Mood mist: a grey sea asking to be followed, a forest crossed at funk speed, an earthwork from a hidden kingdom, a drone listening to an airport in Estonia, the first light of a galactic passenger, a boat named in two languages.
00:18:18 Sven Laux & Logic Moon – Follow The Waves
(Exclusive track)
Album: Sea of Grey. Label: whitelabrecs
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-grey
Sea of Grey, whitelabrecs. Title of the hour. The fog already knows the way. You may follow.
00:21:52 Prana Crafter – Quickly Through the Forest Funk
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/prana-crafter-quickly-through-the-forest-funk
Album: IHNDIGS015 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 4. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, volume four. I Heart Noise letting the trees keep the beat.
00:22:36 Warmfield – Grim’s Ditch
(Exclusive track)
Album: Hidden Kingdoms. Label: Trevlad
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-kingdoms
Hidden Kingdoms, the next compilation, still open. Trevlad walking the old earthwork. Entries still welcome at trevlad@gmail.com — artist, track, a link to other work, before the 29th of December.
00:27:21 rikardfvs – airport-drone-gqrx-surveillance
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/airport-drone-gqrx-surveillance
Album: TARTU. Label: Camembert Électrique
GQRX surveillance. Tartu, Camembert Électrique. The radio listening to the runway, the runway listening back.
00:31:51 Surbahar – The Genesis of Light
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/the-genesis-of-light
Album: Passenger of the Galaxy. Label: Mahorka
Passenger of the galaxy, Mahorka. The first switch, the cabin already warm.
00:39:25 NDORFIK, DEE-KEY – Laivu
(Exclusive track)
Album: Laivu. Label: Local Gods
https://localgodslabel.bandcamp.com/
The boat, Local Gods. Two names on the hull, one wake.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 331.
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.
*
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 310
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 310. 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 humid, analog journey through Chicago weather, dub earth, and a looking-glass that still grows.
Side A drifts through Bitchin Bajas organ-tape zones, Album Leaf story frames, Laswell’s lowered Marley devotion, Young Gun silver-fox chrome, Eels in a small room of memory, and Quiet Village pool-light haze. Side B drops into Coki’s ruff lovin’ pressure, FSOL mango-tree humidity, Röyksopp’s Late Night bounce, Tellier’s tender river, a brief Kendall Miles afterglow, and ends at Jefferson Airplane’s white rabbit.
Overall mood: Warm, cinematic, and slightly psychedelic — full of analog silk, sub-bass weather, and neon that refuses to cool. Perfect for late drives, pool-side dusk, or sitting with the credits while the mushroom keeps growing.
This is episode 310 which 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 1,135 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.
00:00:00 Bitchin Bajas – Zone 4
https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/track/zone-4-2
Organ, tape and analog drift. Chicago psychedelia as weather.
00:04:56 The Album Leaf – Story Board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GcS8kyabKA
Jimmy LaValle’s guitar and electronics paint frames in sequence.
00:09:05 Bill Laswell – Is This Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJyjCidPTiY
Marley melody lowered into dub earth. Low-end devotion.
00:13:07 Young Gun Silver Fox – Better
https://younggunsilverfox.bandcamp.com/track/better-2
West-coast silk. Harmony and chrome sunset.
00:16:54 Eels – Manchild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsiIn-VNDs
Mark Oliver Everett’s voice in a small room of memory.
00:20:46 Quiet Village – Victoria’s Secret
https://quietvillageofc.bandcamp.com/track/victorias-secret
Balearic library haze. Perfume and pool light.
00:24:19 Coki – Ruff Lovin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2u91BJc5vM
South London pressure. Sub-bass as body weather.
00:27:47 The Future Sound Of London – Mango Tree (Original)
https://readdork.com/music-videos/the-future-sound-of-london-mango-tree-dvuecpx0
Humid electronics. Fruit hanging in machine air.
00:32:34 Röyksopp – Daddy’s Groove
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/daddys-groove-exclusive-new-track
Late Night Tales exclusive. Scandinavian bounce and soft neon.
00:35:16 Sébastien Tellier – Le Long De La Rivière Tendre
https://sebastientellier.bandcamp.com/track/le-long-de-la-rivi-re-tendre
A tender river. French hush and analog shimmer.
00:37:46 Kendall Miles – Life (bonus outro)
https://kendallmiles.bandcamp.com/track/life-bonus-outro
Brief afterglow. Credits rolling.
00:38:25 Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4
Grace Slick at the looking-glass. One pill, one bottle, the mushroom growing.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 308
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 between-worlds ambient journey through vanished lanes, quiet trees, and maps that keep leaving the paper.
Side A walks you home along a Lincolnshire lane that no longer exists, docks in a corridor of light, holds its breath beneath Yiddish trees, answers every name water has ever been given, climbs an Atlas ascent through drowned architecture, and posts a wet summer postcard from Koblenz. Side B decides the right thing is just to leave, sits at a hummingbird campfire, hums the normal order of things after midnight, names an uncatalogued creature, paints the moon with earthshine, and ends on an atlas of shifting clouds.
Overall mood: Melancholic, luminous, and quietly migratory — full of Passed Oceans, analog weight, and weather with no name in the rear-view. Perfect for late listening, leaving rooms gently, or sitting still while the tide rearranges the map.
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.
00:01:56 gribbles – As then, so now
https://gribbles.bandcamp.com/track/as-then-so-now-3
We begin with a friend of the library, Graham Thorpe. From the album “Agatewards” released September 4, 2026.
Picture two old voices walking you home along a Lincolnshire lane that no longer exists, a gramophone left open in a 1920s church field, the dialect still warm in the hedges.
00:06:07 Ancient Astronaut – Between Worlds
https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/track/between-worlds
Aka Eric Allietta. From the album “Inner Worlds”.
A French satellite parked in a corridor of light where only love is permitted to dock. You are invited to step out of the airlock and into the quiet rooms you keep behind your own ribs.
00:09:50 Beymer – Shtil (Hush)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/shtil-hush
All music performed, mixed, and mastered by Daniel Field. From the album “Beneath the Trees” out on Imaginary North, Toronto, Ontario.
Yiddish trees holding their breath. A Toronto dusk folded into four minutes of leaves that refuse to rustle.
00:11:35 passage. – Thálassa
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/th-lassa
From the compilation I can’t get enough of Passed Oceans on Passed Recordings.
released September 11, 2026
Water answering to every name it has ever been given. Lighthouses blink on a sphere so small the moon can still reach down and rearrange the tide.
00:20:41 deepspace – Atlas 8 – Ascent Theme
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/atlas-8-ascent-theme
From the album “The Atlas Sector” out on Projekt Records. Portland, Oregon.
Deepspace, the soundrealm of Australian musician Mirko Ruckels
Emerald observatory on a planet that forgot Earth. The Juno climbs through drowned architecture and the last radio station still pulsing with soft blue light.
00:24:06 Oberlin – Postcard #6
https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/track/postcard-6
From the album “Ambient Postcards” self released. A. Holtz
released June 21, 2026
A Fernandes Telecaster written in May light and posted from Koblenz. Field recordings as stamps. Summer still wet on the card.
00:25:53 Far away Nebraska – Sometimes the right thing to do is just leave
https://kordelrecords.bandcamp.com/track/sometimes-the-right-thing-to-do-is-just-leave
From the album “Halfway from nowhere” Kordel Records, Seil Records.
released July 28, 2026
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Tired tyres eating the same mile twice. Nothing in the rear-view except nameless weather.
00:33:05 Eje Eje – Beja Flor
https://ejeeje.bandcamp.com/track/beija-flor
From the album “Mezze” out on Batov Records. Itamar Kluger.
A hummingbird at a Turkish campfire. Five small dishes passed around the same table: psychedelic thyme, Gulf dusk, a Greek melody that never quite sits down.
00:34:48 Raphael Leray – The normal order of things
https://hyletapes.bandcamp.com/track/the-normal-order-of-things
From the album “MONOLITH“.
A monolith humming in Tokyo after midnight. The old anxiety of simply being, recorded before the world remembered how to pretend everything was ok.
00:37:36 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Mia Theme
https://hyletapes.bandcamp.com/track/mia-theme
From the album “BIODIVERSE” Title: BIODIVERSE
Amandine Pedoux, Cédric Steffens
Label: Hylé Tapes
released November 22, 2024
A theme for a creature that has not yet been catalogued. Circuits breathing the same air as moss.
00:43:12 Erik Wøllo – Earthshine 2
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/earthshine-2
From the album “Earthshine”.
released September 18, 2026
Sunlight bouncing off us and painting the dark side of the moon. Analog tape running slow enough for the notes to remember they once had weight.
00:46:45 Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – Atlas of Shifting Clouds
https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/track/atlas-of-shifting-clouds
From the album “Maps of an Invisible World”.
A map drawn in wind and granular dust. Every contour already leaving the paper.
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 308.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 299
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-299/
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 tender, slightly grieving ambient journey through vanished names, still ponds, and conversations that continue after the person is gone.
Side A opens in collage-and-destroy rooms, then yearns through silent ways, burning homes written after a passing, an orange offered from a train window, stars over a city pond, and a mourning routine kept warm by analogue hands. Side B arrives with supermassive wasps and Neptune’s thirst, then integrates toward stillness, sits dans le noir, still talks about you in Padova cassette light, and ends in blue laundry-line wind.
Overall mood: Contemplative, intimate, and quietly elegiac — full of residual warmth, small awakenings, and light that keeps talking after the leaf has not yet fallen. Perfect for dusk listening, remembrance, or sitting still with what remains.
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 Enofa – The Girl With the Amazing […]
Imogen Hayley Baker composes, produces, collages and destroys across 2024 to 2026. Please dispose of responsibly.
00:06:00 Halftribe – Yearn
Ryan Bissett’s Disappear in Silent Ways follows Elegant, Golden. Immersive so-longs settle on Dronarivm vinyl and CD.
00:07:41 (EXCLUSIVE) Fallen – Homes are Burning
Exclusive for this episode. Lorenzo Bracaloni’s double album lands 11 September on Touched Music. Piano, organ, guitars, bass, voice and field recordings. Written after Árni Grétar’s passing.
00:12:06 Ryu Oshi – Nothing Swaying in the Wind
An orange leaves a train window as offering to the Cityfield. Electric piano and synthesizer duets. Proceeds travel to local libraries.
00:15:28 W L C – Stars Over Pond
Lake Effect compilation. Ambient Afternoon community gathers city-shaped tones. Daniel Field produces. Chad Skinner masters.
00:17:45 Six Missing – Mourning Routine
Vintage analogue synths and guitars keep warmth and human touch. Arrangements breathe beside late nights and smaller details.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:20:49 Nick May – Supermassive Wasps
Deliberate limits: phone apps, specific hardware. Otherworldly palette after the organic Places album.
00:23:26 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Neptunes Thirst
Keys, pads and crystalline percussion. Love, memories and acceptance glow in Rick Jones’s correspondent light.
00:24:23 survey channel – The Integration
Macrozones traces recovery toward stillness. Atmospheric exploration opens living space.
00:26:51 Matthias Puech – Dans le noir
Connection compilation from France. Ambient and experimental tones weave the spaces between notes.
00:30:58 hershel – We still talk about you
Luciano Masala’s silent steps near Padova. Processed guitars, piano and cassette recordings blur into fluid forms. Small steps of awakening.
00:37:29 Hiroaki Yamamoto – Blue
Sheets and shirts become an alphabet. Wind writes waiting. A leaf has not decided where to fall. Night threads keep the day’s warmth.
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 299.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 291
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-291/
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, earthy ambient journey through shared currents, evening rituals, and what remains after the light fades.
Side A gathers jungle meetings and sacred tea, then moves through sunset marrow, mountain mist, solitary machine colour, and warm rainfall microliths. Side B opens liminal gazes and Holkham shorelines, then settles into piano placeholders, remaining polaroids, morning inlight, and a summer curve of insect hum.
Overall mood: Contemplative, healing, and quietly luminous — full of tape hiss, shoreline near-silence, and small rites of duration. Perfect for dusk listening, deep rest, or sitting with what stays.
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 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Unite
Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Unite. Jungle scan and echolocation gather as travellers of the past step into shared current. Illustration and tape hiss hold the meeting.
00:07:02 Time Rival – Sacred Tea
Time Rival – Sacred Tea. Tongue drums, kalimba, flute and sun-bleached saturation pour from a planner marked new music. The brew arrives cooked, oversaturated, warm.
00:14:09 Bålsam – Every Sunset
Bålsam – Every Sunset. Cicadas and river-rush enter the marrow. A mother’s voice message and a daughter’s unburdened tone sit among orchids and damp earth. Healing moves as pulse.
00:17:40 Maps and Diagrams – Mist on the Mountain
Maps and Diagrams – Mist on the Mountain. Loops and found sources cycle and fade. Subtle variation and decay keep happening in quiet instability.
00:21:40 Toàn – DEL 0
Toàn – DEL 0. A single Deluge machine, tape loops, harp and bowed tones layer into synesthetic colour. Solitude hangs as an invisible wall of texture.
00:26:01 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 8
zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 8. Shimmering keys pour like warm rainfall. Analog lines, chest-deep bass and tape-saturated mist carry 90s ambient memory toward an ambiguous horizon.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:27:48 Philippe Blache – Let This Gaze Be Our Part
Philippe Blache – Let This Gaze Be Our Part. Liminal corridors and flowing memory open in meandering textures. Imaginary territories rise through melancholia and repetition.
00:33:47 (EXCLUSIVE) Richard Sage – Holkham
Richard Sage – Holkham. Tripod, Zoom and iPhone gather wave-analogues and shoreline seeds. Near silence wears its own palette.
00:41:25 Audio Obscura – Placeholder for Meaning
Audio Obscura – Placeholder for Meaning. Piano improvisation from Whitby finds its way after months of stillness. Pyramid shapes and late-year fruit settle into place.
00:48:55 Laurel Morgan & Yorkshire Modular Society – Remaining
Laurel Morgan & Yorkshire Modular Society – Remaining. Polaroids and modular breath keep what stays. Scrapbook pages hold the UK location in quiet duration.
00:53:21 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Inlight
David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Inlight. Piano notes float as points of light. Modular tones gather in soft waves around the threshold of morning.
00:56:45 CIRC – Summer Curve
CIRC – Summer Curve. Insect hum and rustle become looped ethereal texture. Everyday night turns into a small sonic rite.
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 291.
Travel safely between the tracks.
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 287
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-287/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A dynamic, slightly nocturnal ambient and experimental journey through elephant rhythms, fractured breakbeats, quiet shade, and slowly fading stars.
Side A moves from South Indian folk-electronic dance and spare war circuits into darkstep fractures, live trio gravity, breath stuck in buffer, and compact chip energy. Side B opens across inland oceans and modular comfort, then rises through live fire, soul-deep space, red-kite aerials, and ends as the stars go out one by one.
Overall mood: Textured, restless, and quietly expansive — blending rhythmic intensity with reflective stillness and cosmic closure. Perfect for late-night listening, focused immersion, or following the slow turning of the tape.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:00:00 Sunken Cages – Elephant Dance
An elephant dance unfolds through South Indian folk colours and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Elephant Dance. Dark synths, drones and industrial textures resynthesize into deconstructed club motion. Voices and remixes from across the globe rise as fire brought to the rhythm.
00:10:51 Alex Ringess – War
Minimal circuits pulse under the title of war. Alex Ringess – War. Three or four instruments hold the space. Project files from Analog Abstractions carry the same mix forward in spare luminous lines.
00:17:50 Captive Portal – This minus five (Protuberance darkstep remix)
Darkstep breakbeats fracture and reform. Captive Portal – This minus five (Protuberance darkstep remix). Lush pads from oldschool rave meet atmospheric drum and bass and experimental breaks, each layer covering another band of the spectrum.
00:23:46 Slate Trio – BS7
Guitar, drums and bass lock into BS7. Slate Trio – Neil Smith, Matthew Jones, Alex Heane. Three voices move together in live trio gravity.
00:33:15 Substak – Breath stuck in buffer
Sunlight retreats while long shadows dance at the base of a tree. Substak – Breath stuck in buffer. Memories linger among colours that wait for morning. Quiet things sleep in the cradle of shade.
00:36:46 Danny Playamaqui – Chip
Chip fragments scatter across broken beats and saboteur sweetness. Danny Playamaqui – Chip. Noise, basses, synths and hall atmospheres pack into compact X4 motion, Plaza del Sol energy glowing in the mix.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:43:46 Eric Angelo Bessel – Seagull
A seagull rides above a hidden inland ocean. Eric Angelo Bessel – Seagull. Familiar roads, weathered shorelines and forgotten infrastructure reveal unexpected connections. Eighteen compositions invite wandering among landmarks that have always waited beyond recognition.
00:47:09 Ricardo M. Peixoto – comfort
Comfort arrives through modular skin and tape loops. Ricardo M. Peixoto – comfort. Field recordings and generative chaos balance harmony with rhythm. Silence is sculpted into shared sonic connections.
00:54:57 Anam Gu Anam – Feu
Fire opens in live improvised heat. Anam Gu Anam – Feu. Electronica, ambient and experimental palettes capture a unique moment. Each take remains a personal explorative soundscape.
01:01:51 John Louis Kluck – Soul Deep
Soul deep space drifts through shifting forms. John Louis Kluck – Soul Deep. Soft pulses and distant echoes hover like quiet constellations, sculpting weightless horizons.
01:08:26 CRSY – red kite aerial
A red kite hangs in aerial current. CRSY – red kite aerial. Wings cut slow circles through open sky.
01:10:52 Grey Malkin – One By One, The Stars Are Slowly Going Out
Stars go out one by one as the tides of time come in. Grey Malkin – One By One, The Stars Are Slowly Going Out. A bridge of light leaps from earth to the unknown shore. Arthur Machen’s gulf yawns, then spans.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 286.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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 284
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-284/
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 284. 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 soft, nocturnal ambient journey through moonlight paths, blooming memory, and lingering radiance.
Side A drifts from metaphysical gloom and waking flowers into city bloom, radio interference, river-borne breath, and dense four-track nostalgia. Side B moves through distant inner worlds, Moshi’s island exit, planetary letter cycles, momentary ethereal vocals, faint light-filled reflections, and ends in desert-town groove.
Overall mood: Contemplative, gently luminous, and quietly expansive — full of soft transitions, personal memory, and residual glow. Perfect for late-night listening, reflective solitude, or drifting through half-remembered landscapes.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,114 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.
00:03:26 Anhnch – Metaphysical Gloom
Moonlight spills across unknown paths. Anhnch – Metaphysical Gloom. Adventures unfold under silver glow where shadows hold secrets and the night itself breathes with quiet invitation.
00:08:17 midorinozu – when flowers wake
Flowers open in hazy distance. midorinozu – when flowers wake. Blurred electronics and organic textures drift together. Melodies appear for a moment then dissolve into mist, carrying travellers toward horizons that live only in memory and sound.
00:13:02 Gollden – when i started to bloom
Bloom begins in city light. Gollden – when i started to bloom. Soft ambient tones rise from Toronto streets and quiet corners, each note reflecting the shape of place upon the music that grows there.
00:15:58 Nick May – Radio
Radio interference crackles through sustained drones. Nick May – Radio. Lo-fi tape warps and distortion pedal colours weave around long held notes. Harmonies and melodic loops shift slowly across minimal experimental surfaces recorded in kitchen and studio hours.
00:19:51 Intact Veils – Breath
A river carries the wanderer north through drowned forests. Intact Veils – Breath. Collapsed shrines and abandoned watchtowers still whisper from cracked speakers. Machines hum beneath a black sea shoreline while sister voices drift as unfinished prayers and forgotten names.
00:25:33 DOMOTIC – Hardcore Nostalgia
Night sessions glow on four-track tape. DOMOTIC – Hardcore Nostalgia. Spring reverb, analogue sequencers, cartridge echoes and vintage synthesizers layer into dense nostalgic patterns captured between 2014 and 2016.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:30:18 Simon Heartfield – Never In The Inner World
Distant piano figures move through dense electronics. Simon Heartfield – Never In The Inner World. Layered guitar textures and fractured voices rise toward insistent percussion. Time itself passes across cinematic landscapes that open into dramatic hope.
00:33:55 Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Moshi Exit
Moshi steps from ship to shore among butterfly towers. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Moshi Exit. Digital synth motifs and wood-workshop percussion drift with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts. Cave side-quests and shaman shoes mark the path across the 12th Isle.
00:40:02 Brandon Locher – A-R
Letters omitted from a longer cycle form their own constellation. Brandon Locher – A-R. Vedic planetary periods refract through remixes and companion pieces, each tone shaped by the same 264-day orbit of influence.
00:44:11 Anita Tatlow & Be Still the Earth – everything for a moment
Ethereal vocals float above deep ambient loops. Anita Tatlow & Be Still the Earth – everything for a moment. Melodic fragments turn slowly while the voice holds every transient beauty in soft sustained presence.
00:46:10 Miguel Otero – Light-Filled
A faint glow lingers after other lights fade. Miguel Otero – Light-Filled. Memory and illumination meet in delicate space. Four pieces breathe as reflections suspended, each one a small steady radiance that remains.
00:51:12 Taftir – Yaris
Desert town energy locks into dembow-leaning groove. Taftir – Yaris. Monotone synth chords open into layered guitars tracing Eastern scales. Percussion, bass and handclaps shift between full and half-time while the players explore freely in shared instinct.
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 284.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 282
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-282/
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 282. 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 1,111 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 reflective, slightly melancholic ambient journey through vanishing places, last forests, and hovering resonances.
Side A opens in dense brainforests and soft sanctuaries, then blooms through disk errors, chosen confusion, Tokyo pavilions, and tired roads halfway from nowhere. Side B drifts into possible villages, orbital last forests, electric roads of trials, chalk coastal paths, invisible hovering worlds, and ends in the hazed industrial interzone of Motor City.
Overall mood: Contemplative, atmospheric, and quietly expansive — full of soft disappearances, preserved light, and gentle forward motion. Perfect for deep listening, late-night reflection, or drifting through imagined landscapes.
The tape unspools its visions.
Woodwind and spidery guitars open a dense forest of homemade percussion. Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again. Tenor recorder, piano, drums and kalimba rise into insectile textures and weaving repetitive melodies. The Brainforest expands in childlike layered motion, every surface alive with loose and slack exploration.
Sanctuary forms in swirling so-longs and dreamy murmured goodbyes. Halftribe – Sanctuary. Immersive tones drift through quiet open space, the field settling into soft reflective presence.
A disk error blooms into luminous data patterns. maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]. Signal fragments rearrange across open digital ground, each one expanding into new radiant forms.
Confusion gathers around a chosen image. Suncastle – Confusion. Sonic colours rise to meet the visual surface, opening into shared imaginative light.
A pavilion stands inside the sleeping Cityfield of Tokyo. Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion. Offerings of orange light drift from a moving train window. Kami presence expands through electric piano and synthesizer duets, the urban subconscious glowing in mutual respect.
Tired tires roll across an unknown road of blurred memories. Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…. Ringing fills the open air while a storm moves through the mind. Halfway from nowhere the landscape stretches forward in steady motion.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
A village appears in quiet mirror light where realities fade into new truths. Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day. Field recordings from Tehran rise through heavy processing into thin layered soundscapes. Disappearances and vanishings open across the surface, time echoing deep within existence.
The last forests of Earth drift through silent orbital chambers. vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth. ARP 2600 and SEM tones expand across vast greenhouse domes. The landscape holds the soft glow of preserved green light moving through space.
A road of trials opens in electric layered motion. Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix). Shoegaze ambient textures rise into wide reflective fields, the path expanding in luminous presence.
Beachy Head rises along the foot of the Downs under muted Ravilious colours. Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head. Train windows carry undulating textures, tempos and modulations. Clarinet, trumpet, flute and voice drift through chalk paths and coastal light, crystallizing into open sonic form.
Hovering resonance maps an invisible world drawn in wind and granular synthesis. Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance. Organic drones and drifting textures expand across distant melodies, opening the boundaries of the ephemeral.
Motor City opens in dusty drum machinery and heavy echo. Sand Circles – Entering Motor City. Analog synths and derelict metropolis atmospheres rise through white sand, downtown haze and distant lights. The interzone expands in hazed industrial reverie.
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 282.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:03:52 Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again
Woodwind and spidery guitars open a dense forest of homemade percussion. Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again. Tenor recorder, piano, drums and kalimba rise into insectile textures and weaving repetitive melodies. The Brainforest expands in childlike layered motion, every surface alive with loose and slack exploration.
00:12:27 Halftribe – Sanctuary
Sanctuary forms in swirling so-longs and dreamy murmured goodbyes. Halftribe – Sanctuary. Immersive tones drift through quiet open space, the field settling into soft reflective presence.
00:14:20 maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]
A disk error blooms into luminous data patterns. maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]. Signal fragments rearrange across open digital ground, each one expanding into new radiant forms.
00:19:36 Suncastle – Confusion
Confusion gathers around a chosen image. Suncastle – Confusion. Sonic colours rise to meet the visual surface, opening into shared imaginative light.
00:21:15 Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion
A pavilion stands inside the sleeping Cityfield of Tokyo. Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion. Offerings of orange light drift from a moving train window. Kami presence expands through electric piano and synthesizer duets, the urban subconscious glowing in mutual respect.
00:25:34 Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…
Tired tires roll across an unknown road of blurred memories. Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…. Ringing fills the open air while a storm moves through the mind. Halfway from nowhere the landscape stretches forward in steady motion.
Side B
00:33:16 Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day
A village appears in quiet mirror light where realities fade into new truths. Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day. Field recordings from Tehran rise through heavy processing into thin layered soundscapes. Disappearances and vanishings open across the surface, time echoing deep within existence.
00:37:33 vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth
The last forests of Earth drift through silent orbital chambers. vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth. ARP 2600 and SEM tones expand across vast greenhouse domes. The landscape holds the soft glow of preserved green light moving through space.
00:39:39 Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix)
A road of trials opens in electric layered motion. Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix). Shoegaze ambient textures rise into wide reflective fields, the path expanding in luminous presence.
00:40:31 Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head
Beachy Head rises along the foot of the Downs under muted Ravilious colours. Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head. Train windows carry undulating textures, tempos and modulations. Clarinet, trumpet, flute and voice drift through chalk paths and coastal light, crystallizing into open sonic form.
00:45:07 Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance
Hovering resonance maps an invisible world drawn in wind and granular synthesis. Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance. Organic drones and drifting textures expand across distant melodies, opening the boundaries of the ephemeral.
00:47:21 Sand Circles – Entering Motor City
Motor City opens in dusty drum machinery and heavy echo. Sand Circles – Entering Motor City. Analog synths and derelict metropolis atmospheres rise through white sand, downtown haze and distant lights. The interzone expands in hazed industrial reverie.
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 281.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 281
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-281/
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 281. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
A quiet, luminous ambient journey through fog, silence, emergence, and dual light.
Side A drifts from museum fog and deep indigo silence into larval longing, early string tones, perpetual candle mornings, and distant postcard transmissions. Side B opens across bonnie banks and underwater echolocation into temple soundscapes, interplanetary stillness, dismal radiance, and mirrored dual forms.
Overall mood: Contemplative, tender, and gently expansive — full of soft emergence, reflective depth, and quiet shared presence. Perfect for deep listening, early mornings, or peaceful solitude.
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 1,108 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.
Fog drifts in thick luminous layers across open museum halls. Simon Cacheux – Fog. Field recordings and synthesized tones rise with shakuhachi breath and cymbal resonance. The entire landscape holds the quiet presence of an event already unfolding, the air filled with contemplative motion.
Silence expands through deep indigo space. Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – Silence In The Dark. Cello tones stretch into long translucent ribbons while spoken words dissolve into the surrounding drones. Texture and language move together in measured waves, the whole field opening into reflective presence.
Larval forms glow in soft emerging light. Florigenix – larval longing. Ambient and experimental tones sculpt the open spaces between notes into a melodic tapestry. Shared sonic connections rise in serene sequential layers, each one expanding the quiet field of reflection.
A single tone unfolds across violin and viola strings. Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Liian varhain. Subtle synthesizer textures rise around the layered strings in slow structures. Resonance and timbre move in quiet dialogue, the entire space holding acoustic closeness and gentle emergence.
Perpetual mornings open in soft candle-coloured light. Spirituals – Perpetual Mornings. Pedal steel and acoustic guitars drift with analog and virtual synths, vibraphone, cymbals, percussion, voice memos and field recordings. Each spontaneous composition rises as a glowing candle through the open air.
A postcard arrives carrying distant guitar tones and field-recorded air. Oberlin – Postcard #4. A Fernandes Telecaster voice moves through open landscape sounds recorded in May light, the whole surface expanding in quiet transmission.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
Bonnie banks stretch under soft folk-derived ambient skies. Arboresque – The Bonnie Banks. Traditional ballad imagery opens into new sonic forms. The entire field rises as a tribute landscape of shared creation flowing toward open environmental light.
Echolocation pulses move through dense underwater corridors. Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Echolocation. Sonic signals expand in mapping waves, each one revealing new luminous territories of shared presence.
A temple forms in dark sound. boycalledcrow – temple. Heavier beats and dub-inflected soundscapes rise around alien phenomena and personal memory. The entire space opens in immersive motion through grief-shaped and expansive fields.
Interplanetary time stretches across sparse electronic textures. TheAdelaidean – Interplanetary Time (featuring Lauren Jones). E-bow drones and heavily processed ambient recordings carry a passive traveller through prolonged motion. Voices whisper at the edge of consciousness while fractured melodies echo from distant harmonic turns, the whole journey unfolding in layered stillness.
Dismal radiance pours through liminal corridors of flowing memory. Philippe Blache – Through The Dismal Radiance. Meandering immersive textures and high emotional tones open into imaginary territories. The entire headspace expands in careful melancholic repetition and profound sonic depth.
Dual forms rise in mirrored light. Irène Blanc – Dual. Parallel tones move together across open space, each layer expanding the shared field in dual motion.
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 281.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:00:00 Simon Cacheux – Fog
Fog drifts in thick luminous layers across open museum halls. Simon Cacheux – Fog. Field recordings and synthesized tones rise with shakuhachi breath and cymbal resonance. The entire landscape holds the quiet presence of an event already unfolding, the air filled with contemplative motion.
00:08:39 Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – Silence In The Dark
Silence expands through deep indigo space. Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – Silence In The Dark. Cello tones stretch into long translucent ribbons while spoken words dissolve into the surrounding drones. Texture and language move together in steady measured waves, the whole field opening into reflective presence.
00:13:27 Florigenix – larval longing
Larval forms glow in soft emerging light. Florigenix – larval longing. Ambient and experimental tones sculpt the open spaces between notes into a melodic tapestry. Shared sonic connections rise in serene sequential layers, each one expanding the quiet field of reflection.
00:17:14 Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Liian varhain
A single tone unfolds across violin and viola strings. Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Liian varhain. Subtle synthesizer textures rise around the layered strings in slow structures. Resonance and timbre move in quiet dialogue, the entire space holding acoustic closeness and gentle emergence.
00:19:26 Spirituals – Perpetual Mornings
Perpetual mornings open in soft candle-coloured light. Spirituals – Perpetual Mornings. Pedal steel and acoustic guitars drift with analog and virtual synths, vibraphone, cymbals, percussion, voice memos and field recordings. Each spontaneous composition rises as a glowing candle through the open air.
00:21:28 Oberlin – Postcard #4
A postcard arrives carrying distant guitar tones and field-recorded air. Oberlin – Postcard #4. A Fernandes Telecaster voice moves through open landscape sounds recorded in May light, the whole surface expanding in quiet transmission.
Side B
00:25:32 Arboresque – The Bonnie Banks
Bonnie banks stretch under soft folk-derived ambient skies. Arboresque – The Bonnie Banks. Traditional ballad imagery opens into new sonic forms. The entire field rises as a tribute landscape of quiet shared creation flowing toward open environmental light.
00:31:38 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Echolocation
Echolocation pulses move through dense underwater corridors. Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Echolocation. Sonic signals expand in mapping waves, each one revealing new luminous territories of shared presence.
00:38:14 boycalledcrow – temple
A temple forms in dark continuous sound. boycalledcrow – temple. Heavier beats and dub-inflected soundscapes rise around alien phenomena and personal memory. The entire space opens in steady immersive motion through grief-shaped and expansive fields.
00:40:57 TheAdelaidean – Interplanetary Time (featuring Lauren Jones)
Interplanetary time stretches across sparse electronic textures. TheAdelaidean – Interplanetary Time (featuring Lauren Jones). E-bow drones and heavily processed ambient recordings carry a passive traveller through prolonged motion. Voices whisper at the edge of consciousness while fractured melodies echo from distant harmonic turns, the whole journey unfolding in continuous layered stillness.
00:46:20 Philippe Blache – Through The Dismal Radiance
Dismal radiance pours through liminal corridors of flowing memory. Philippe Blache – Through The Dismal Radiance. Meandering immersive textures and high emotional tones open into continuous imaginary territories. The entire headspace expands in careful melancholic repetition and profound sonic depth.
00:51:48 Irène Blanc – Dual
Dual forms rise in mirrored continuous light. Irène Blanc – Dual. Parallel tones move together across open space, each layer expanding the shared field in steady dual motion.
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.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 278
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-278/
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 278. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark. Whether you’re ready or not.
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 1,107 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.
A free-flowing, reflective ambient journey through sensory electronics, memory, and quiet personal growth.
Side A moves from biological-electrical parallels and anisotropic expansion into lo-fi peace, earth-toned experiments, momentary swells, and one-note joy. Side B drifts through early-synth sci-fi, molecular machinery, endless Ukrainian fields, youthful better ways, fluttering reassurance, and pleasant loss at C.
Overall mood: Contemplative, warm, and gently expansive — balancing scientific curiosity with emotional depth and soft analogue comfort. Perfect for deep listening, late-night reflection, or peaceful immersion.
Side A
Veins of living light pulse through a lattice of roots and circuit traces. The British Stereo Collective – Bloodrush. Biological pathways merge with electrical grids in a continuous glowing network. Neurological rivers flow into digital rivers. Sequencer patterns rise in free-form currents of sensory electronics, carrying the entire landscape forward in one unbroken surge of warm voltage.
Space stretches in every direction at unequal speeds. Ty Lumnus – Anisiotropic Expansion. Horizons lengthen into luminous corridors of shifting density. Particles drift along invisible axes, forming soft geometric clouds that keep expanding outward in quiet anisotropic bloom.
A solitary figure walks away from a city of fading neon into open starfields. LoveKrafty – Peace Out. Lo-fi cassette warmth coats every surface in soft analog grain. The path opens into a junkie space opera of surreal colour, where the traveller follows a new trajectory through swirling planetary dust and glowing debris fields.
Earth pigments swirl across an endless canvas of evolving texture. Analogue Path – Tempera Terra. Early exploratory tones layer themselves into rich mineral hues. The road ahead unfolds as a long sequence of warm analogue colours, each one revealing another stretch of open sonic ground.
A tide of soft harmony drifts across misted water. M. Cross Dougherty – Momentary. Melodic currents swell into pale horizons that dissolve at the edges. Every rise of the water carries deeper layers of luminous mist, the whole surface breathing in slow continuous motion.
A single pure note of C3 expands into thirty-one radiant nodes. aztechsounds – Nodes Of Infinite Joy. Each node blooms as its own complete world of infinite joy, all orbiting the shared frequency. The nodes rearrange themselves in endless new constellations, flowing seamlessly from one luminous form into the next.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
Side B
Vast synth environments open into deep-thought corridors of soft phosphorescence. Richard Francés – 2013. Early electronic clouds drift through sci-fi meditation chambers. Extraterrestrial light filters across Terry Riley-like cycles, creating a continuous pathway of inner and outer consciousness glowing in the same slow colour.
A complex molecular machine glides along a long strand of luminous code. Akinetic – Cryocoma. Protein structures read the intricate sequence with steady luminous precision. The entire cellular landscape unfolds as a quiet reading of infinite genetic light.
Endless fields stretch under a remembered Black Sea sky of liquid gold. Bohdan Stupak – endless fields. A low massive drone carries the horizon while high-pitched textures float above it in shifting emotional colours. Memory opens the fields into wider and wider expanses of warm drone light, ending in a soft closure of computer-generated bells and glowing crackles.
Small silent steps form a continuous path of fluid sound. hershel – Better way. Processed guitars and piano tones reshape themselves into new luminous forms. The landscape moves in gentle everlasting motion, each step revealing another layer of intimate hopeful atmosphere that keeps evolving forward.
A warm ambient blanket of soft fluttering echoes wraps the entire space. Ian Hawgood – Flutter Echo Refrain. Fourteen gentle layers of reassurance drift through the air in slow cascading waves. The echoes form a continuous field of transcendental calm that settles over everything in quiet luminous comfort.
The shared note of C expands into a pleasant drifting openness. BAK – Pleasantly lost at C. The frequency opens into wide soft territories where the listener floats among glowing harmonic islands, carried deeper into the pure tone with every slow turn of the current.
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 278.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:00:00 The British Stereo Collective – Bloodrush
Sensory electronic ambient drawing parallels between veins, roots, neural pathways and circuit boards. Intense, free-flowing, and richly textured.
00:05:19 Ty Lumnus – Anisiotropic Expansion
Expansive, directionally uneven ambient with subtle scientific tension and wide spatial growth. Cerebral and atmospheric.
00:12:15 LoveKrafty – Peace Out
Lo-fi, cassette-warmed ambient with surreal 70s/80s concept-album flavour and crunchy analogue comfort. Quirky and relaxed.
00:15:13 Analogue Path – Tempera Terra
Earth-toned exploratory ambient from early sonic experiments, soft and searching. Honest and grounded.
00:19:50 M. Cross Dougherty – Momentary
Drifting melodic ambient where soft harmonies blur into misty horizons. Gentle, swelling, and reflective.
00:22:15 aztechsounds – Nodes Of Infinite Joy
One-note ambient (C3) from a collective compilation, built around shared frequency and quiet joy. Minimal and uplifting.
Side B
00:27:30 Richard Francés – 2013
Early-synth ambient recalling Tangerine Dream and Terry Riley, with sci-fi meditation and extraterrestrial calm. Expansive and pioneering.
00:30:50 Akinetic – Cryocoma
Molecular, DNA-reading ambient imagining a complex protein machine at work. Precise, intricate, and quietly scientific.
00:35:28 Bohdan Stupak – endless fields
Emotional drone-ambient reflecting on lost places and memory’s tricks — tension, hope, and eventual soothing closure. Poignant and deep.
00:38:20 hershel – Better way
Intimate, youthful ambient shaped by personal growth and quiet transformation. Soft, hopeful, and melancholic in equal measure.
00:41:20 Ian Hawgood – Flutter Echo Refrain
Warm, reassuring ambient with fluttering echoes and gentle curative presence. Comforting and transcendental.
00:46:41 BAK – Pleasantly lost at C
Softly disoriented ambient circling the same note with pleasant, drifting ease. Light and free.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 276
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-276/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve just pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 276. A twelve-track virtual cassette that flips itself at the halfway mark, whether you’re ready or not.
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 nostalgic, gently varied ambient journey through parting regrets, haunted cities, wildlife, and liquid illusions.
Side A moves from crackling farewells and spectral urban spaces into sunflowers, foxes, returning places, and soft confusion. Side B shifts through weird islands, mythical unicorns, brief summer echoes, transistor revolutions, distant horizons, and ends in liquid dreams.
Overall mood: Warm, reflective, and lightly mysterious — blending personal nostalgia with quiet wonder and soft experimental edges. Perfect for relaxed listening, late afternoons, or peaceful immersion.
I’ll introduce Side A now. Side B will wait for the intermission, as is tradition.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,104 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series Veil Frequencies, recorded floor-by-floor inside the 24 buildings of a place called the Resonant Veil Enclave. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
Side A
On this episode you’ll hear Calgary, Alberta based Monroeville Music Center with a lovely nostalgic crackling piece from 2015 titled Parting Regrets from the name your price album Cave & Castle. Formerly available on cassette via Illuminated Paths.
Then Coventry, UK based artist Rich Johnson aka Visionary Lines sent me his latest haunted single The People’s City.
This will be followed by another UK based artist LoveKrafty and the also nostalgic track Sunflowers from the 2020 release Rainbow Drifter.
Then if I say Preston you’ll probably say Polypores. If you know Polypores then you’d probably not recognise this as being the same artist. I’ve chosen the track Foxes taken from his latest release Wildlife. It’s availabe on cassette through the Aural Canyon label.
After that we head to Italy and an artist who ended yesterdays episode Far away Nebraska with the drifting drone tones of a track titled It’s been a while since I’ve been here from the album Halfway from nowhere which is out on Seil Records sub-label Kordel Records.
Closing Side A is Tehran based Iranian artist Nahal Kavand and the lovely floating drones of the track Confusion from the album Echoes of a Fading Existence which is out on Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series which is the sub-label of rohs! records.
But first, to set the vibe: Monroeville Music Center with Parting Regrets.
Now settle in. Turn it up just a little. Let’s see where the tape takes us.
One side flip. Just the music.
Side B
Welcome back, sonic travellers. Six tracks down. Six still waiting.
You’ll hear another artist I played yesterday. Italian artist Gino Fioravanti (Aglaia) with the longest entry in todays episode at 13:50 titled Unicorn from their latest release Altitudes which is out on legenday Projekt Records.
After that we’ll head to my present city of resedence Stockholm and an older one from 2012 by Martin Herterich’s alter ego Sand Circles and the final track from his album Motor City, it’s also the shortest piece of the episode at 1:10 titled Summer Echoes II.
Then we find ourselves in Southsea, UK based artist swimming lesson. Now this is a super duper exclusive from a collective of absolutly wonderful souls that I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for a few years now. They’ve gotten together to form The Synthesis Co-Operative and the first release is out on the 4th of September and will be available on cassette, Minidisc and digital and will be accompanied with a 40 page zine. Preorders from 14th August. This swimming lesson track, is stunning, and is called Transistor Revolution. Other names on this first release which will go by the name The Synthesis Co-Op Volume One will include The Earl of Dean, Legacy Systems, HDRF, Scholars of the Peak, theMLFs, Visionary Lines, Warmfield and more.
Near the end we’re joined by another Projekt Records release by Kyiv, Ukraine artist Bohdan Stupak and the moving track horizon from the equally moving album a place in memories.
Finally, Paris, France based artist Philippe Deschamps together with Nathaniel James Goldblatt aka The Goodnight Project and the drifting track Liquid Illusions from the four track EP Maps of an Invisible World.
But first, a wonderfully weird track by Mensa Group International titled Southern Mauristemo Islands from the 2012 Album Split LP which is split with luxury elite and was released on the Ailanthus Recordings label.
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Monroeville Music Center – Parting Regrets
Nostalgic, crackling ambient with warm analogue haze and quiet farewell emotion. Bittersweet and comforting.
00:07:04 Visionary Lines – The People’s City
Haunted, urban ambient with spectral city presence and soft, lingering atmosphere. Atmospheric and reflective.
00:10:08 LoveKrafty – Sunflowers
Bright, nostalgic ambient with sunny, drifting textures and gentle 2020s warmth. Cheerful and light.
00:12:56 Polypores – Foxes
Organic, wildlife-inspired ambient with subtle animal movement and natural electronic detail. Curious and lively.
00:15:25 Far away Nebraska – It’s been a while since I’ve been here
Drifting, returning ambient with soft familiarity and quiet Italian spaciousness. Contemplative and open.
00:19:25 Nahal Kavand – Confusion
Floating, Iranian ambient drones with gentle uncertainty and fading emotional clarity. Serene and introspective.
Side B
00:25:26 Mensa Group International – Southern Mauristemo Islands
Wonderfully weird, island-hopping ambient with playful, off-kilter charm and 2012 lo-fi spirit. Quirky and fun.
00:26:57 Aglaia – Unicorn
Long-form, mythical electro-acoustic meditation with deep echoes and patient beauty. Immersive and expansive.
00:40:30 Sand Circles – Summer Echoes II
Brief, warm summer ambient with soft residual glow and Motor City nostalgia. Short and sunny.
00:41:25 Swimming Lesson – Transistor Revolution
Exclusive, revolutionary ambient with circuit warmth and collective energy. Fresh and compelling.
00:43:21 Bohdan Stupak – horizon
Moving, memory-tinged ambient with wide Ukrainian horizons and quiet emotional depth. Poignant and spacious.
00:46:47 Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – Liquid Illusions
Drifting, illusory ambient with fluid textures and soft collaborative haze. Dreamy and gentle.
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.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 272
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-272/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve just pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 272. A twelve-track virtual cassette that flips itself at the halfway mark, whether you’re ready or not.
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 varied, slightly quirky ambient and electronic journey mixing French precision, personal storytelling, and hauntological grit.
Side A moves from kinetic speed machines and diary entries into monolithic atmospheres, cherry-sweet narratives, and limbic depths. Side B shifts through soapworks hauntology, glass colours, ticking pianos, translucent synths, and ends on questions of reception and what comes next.
Overall mood: Contemplative yet playful, with a mix of intimacy, nostalgia, and quiet curiosity. Perfect for focused listening, late-afternoon drives, or evening immersion.
I’ll introduce Side A now. Side B will wait for the intermission, as is tradition.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,098 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series Veil Frequencies, recorded floor-by-floor inside the 24 buildings of a place called the Resonant Veil Enclave. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
Side A
On this episode you’ll hear Paris-based artist Stéphane Laporte, better known as DOMOTIC, and a track from an album I’ve been spinning a lot since its release. The album is Fourrure Sounds Vol. 3 to 6, and the track is “Bolide” (which translates as “Speed Machine”). It’s one of my favourite releases this year, and the 36-track cassette version is available through Astra Solaria Recordings.
Staying in France, we have artist and label curator Richard Francés with “12 Décembre 2024” from the album Afterwork III (Février 2024), out on his own Hylé Tapes — where you can still grab one of the five remaining cassettes.
Next, another Hylé Tapes artist, this time Tokyo-based Raphael Leray, with “Akurah” from the 2015 release MONOLITH.
Then something a little different: Salt Lake City singer-songwriter and indietronica artist Josaleigh Pollett, with her captivating storytelling on “Cherry” from the latest album If I Let It Quiet.
We’re back on Hylé Tapes for the title track from the 2024 album Biodiverse by the trio Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster.
Closing Side A is my Glaswegian mate Fragile X with “Limbic” from the 2021 album Hive (previously featured on the Trip FM compilation Blue Shift).
But first, to set the vibe, DOMOTIC with “Bolide”.
Now settle in. Turn it up just a little. Let’s see where the tape takes us.
One side flip. Just the music.
Side B
Welcome back, sonic travellers. Six tracks down. Six still waiting.
You’ll hear another track by Glass Roots from the 2020 album The Idiot — an older Triplicate Records release I’ve been revisiting lately (and all their older material is name-your-price, which is where my broke self tends to hang out). This is “Reds Blue”.
Then back to France for Mea Poulpa and the wonderful piano-based (dare I say almost trip-hop) piece “Clock” from the album Beyond Glass, out on Camembert Électrique.
Next we head to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and BVSMV (co-founder of Triplicate Records) with the 2017 synthwave track “Translucent” from the album Skies, available via Cardiff’s TimeSlave Recordings among other places.
Near the end we’re treated to an exclusive from the forthcoming compilation The Synthesis Co-Op Volume One — an amazing collective of artists, many of whom have appeared on this channel over the years (The Earl of Dean, Pulsliebhaber, HDRF, Swimming Lesson, Visionary Lines and more). The compilation drops 4 September. Go follow tscoop.bandcamp.com to stay in the know. Here is “Are You Receiving Us?” by the always delightful Drew Huddart, aka Scholars of the Peak.
And finally we travel to Buenos Aires for Aughflair and the 2017 piece “What Comes Next” from the album Rewritten, also available via the presently defunct Triplicate side-label Mangled Music Co.
But first, our friend Paul Broome, better known as Warmfield, with a track from the Woodford Halse compilation Undulating Waters 10. Warmfield has contributed to my first two compilations and also appears on the new Synthesis Co-Op Volume One (which isn’t out yet but is already stunning). This is “Waterton vs Walton Soapworks”.
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 DOMOTIC – Bolide
Sleek, kinetic electronic with speed-machine energy and polished French precision. Dynamic and driving.
00:07:02 Richard Francés – 12 Décembre 2024
Intimate, diary-like ambient capturing a specific December day with quiet, personal reflection. Soft and contemplative.
00:08:12 Raphael Leray – Akurah
Mysterious, monolithic ambient with Tokyo-tinged depth and restrained, atmospheric weight. Dark and focused.
00:12:18 Josaleigh Pollett – Cherry
Warm, storytelling indietronica with gentle vocals and bittersweet narrative charm. Intimate and captivating.
00:16:32 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Biodiverse
Lush, layered ambient exploring living systems with rich, collaborative textures. Organic and immersive.
00:24:17 Fragile X – Limbic
Emotional, brain-centred ambient with subtle electronic pulses and quiet psychological depth. Reflective and textured.
Side B
00:29:45 Warmfield – Waterton vs Walton Soapworks
Hauntological, industrial-tinged ambient with soapworks grit and regional British character. Atmospheric and grounded.
00:34:21 Glass Roots – Reds Blue
Colour-shifting ambient with transparent, glass-like tones and soft emotional contrast. Delicate and evocative.
00:37:31 Mea Poulpa – Clock
Piano-led, almost trip-hop ambient with measured, ticking elegance and quiet tension. Stylish and measured.
00:39:30 BVSMV – Translucent
Synthwave-tinged ambient with soft, glowing translucency and 2010s nostalgia. Smooth and luminous.
00:43:30 Scholars of the Peak – Are You Receiving Us?
Communicative, exclusive ambient with questioning warmth and gentle signal-seeking. Friendly and intriguing.
00:47:13 Aughflair – What Comes Next
Forward-looking ambient with quiet anticipation and open-ended atmosphere. Thoughtful and expansive.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, due 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.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 270
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-270/
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 270. 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 warm, emotionally rich journey blending folktronica, French charm, playful downtempo, and deep ambient reflection.
Side A moves from lovers’ carvings and apple-sweet whimsy into fragile unravelling and sunny British humour. Side B settles into forest loops, nostalgic balconies, aching screams, Eno’s calm, and ends with graceful pressure.
Overall mood: Intimate, nostalgic, and gently uplifting — full of soft emotion, playful moments, and quiet beauty. Perfect for relaxed evenings, reflective drives, or golden-hour listening.
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 1 095 other shows whenever they like.
As a subscriber you also get access to my 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.
Every 10th episode I do these special shows of music with that little extra that has stuck with me.
On this TVCL episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by an artist according to my Last.fm profile is my second most played artists right between Boards Of Canada and Air. It is the excentric Sébastien Tellier here with the track “Pomme” from his 2008 masterpiece “Sexuality”.
This is followed by Björk and the track “Unravel” from her 1997 album “Homogenic”. Released on One Little Indian Records.
Then, Lemon Jelly with “Nice Weather for Ducks” from the legendary 2002 album “Lost Horizons”. Released on XL Recordings
The penultimate track of the first side of the virtual cassette is by Funki Porcini and the final track from his 2002 classic Fast Asleep with an album cover that you’d think is AI created except that all the keys on the keyboards are in the right place and that it was created in 2002.
Finishing off the first half, Luke Sanger with a track I just love. That synth melody sends me afloat. It’s titled “Delusions of Chiral” and is from the 2023 album “Fool’s Fayre” which is out on the Frequency Domain label.
But first, Bibio with the beautiful guitar piece “Lovers’ Carvings” from the album anyone of you are wecome to gift me with a physical version of. The amazing 2009 “Ambivalence Avenue”. Out on Warp 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.
Welcome sonic travellers to the B side. Six tracks down and six to go.
You’ll hear fruity flutes in the little ditty by Canadian artist Koushik and the track “Forest Loop” from the 2008 album “Out My Window”. Available on Stones Throw records.
This is followed by my favoutite foundation of two. Polly Hulse and Jez Butler better known as The Twelve Hour Foundation with the opening track from their latest adventure. This track is titled “Balconville” and is from the shiney new release “Expanded & Repurposed”.
After that the landmark electronic soul ballad “The Wilhelm Scream” by James Blake from his 2011 self titled debut album.
Then the penultimate track for today comes in the form of legendary ambient pioneer and producer Brian Eno with the track “Bottomliners” from the 2005 album “Another Day on Earth.
Finishing us off is the stand out track “Grace Under Pressure” an anthemic indie outing from Elbow from their 2003 album “Cast of Thousands”. Which is a reference to the ending of the song with thousands of Glastonbury goers making it onto the final album cut.
But first, Simon Green aka Bonobo with the wonderful flute piece titled “Intro” from the amazing 2006 release “Days To Come”. Out on the Ninja Tune label.
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Bibio – Lovers’ Carvings
Warm, folktronic beauty with intricate guitar, soft melodies, and intimate, carved-in emotion. Tender and nostalgic.
00:07:19 Sébastien Tellier – Pomme
Dreamy French electronic with playful charm, soft vocals, and apple-sweet, whimsical atmosphere. Charming and light.
00:10:30 Björk – Unravel
Fragile, emotional electronic with Björk’s distinctive voice and a sense of quiet unravelling. Intimate and heartbreaking.
00:13:17 Lemon Jelly – Nice Weather For Ducks
Playful, sample-rich downtempo with sunny British humour and cheerful, duck-pond vibes. Fun and uplifting.
00:18:41 Funki Porcini – Back Home
Smooth, jazzy downtempo with warm grooves and a comforting sense of returning. Relaxed and soulful.
00:23:59 Luke Sanger – Delusions of Chiral
Intricate, left-field electronic with chiral twists and subtle, delusional beauty. Quirky and detailed.
Side B
00:28:50 Bonobo – Intro
Gentle, atmospheric downtempo opening with soft beats and inviting warmth. Calm and elegant.
00:29:43 Koushik – Forest Loop
Looping, psychedelic downtempo with forest-like layers and hazy, organic groove. Hypnotic and earthy.
00:30:42 The Twelve Hour Foundation – Balconville
Retro library-inspired electronica with balcony-like openness and nostalgic British charm. Whimsical and light.
00:33:11 James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream
Sparse, emotional electronic with Blake’s fragile vocals and deep, aching resonance. Poignant and powerful.
00:38:36 Brian Eno – Bottomliners
Ambient classic with Eno’s signature atmospheric depth and quiet, bottom-line beauty. Timeless and serene.
00:42:11 Elbow – Grace Under Pressure
Warm, anthemic indie with emotional grace and steady, pressure-tested strength. Heartfelt and uplifting.
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 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 266
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-266/
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 266. 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 gentle, introspective ambient journey through awareness, weightlessness, storms, and quiet reflection.
Side A moves from attentive listening and zero-gravity daydreams into open arms and sweltering heat. Side B drifts through afflicted warmth, dawn-to-dusk passage, dramatic storms, blank slates, mirrored reflections, and motivated absence.
Overall mood: Contemplative, tender, and atmospheric — balancing soft intimacy with moments of intensity. Ideal for deep listening, meditation, or peaceful solitude.
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 1 089 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 Japanese sound artist yolabmi rouses us with their soundworld in the track “Awareness” from the album “Internal Resurrection” available via the wonderful Lithuanian label Amulet of Tears.
Followed by the collaboration of Tobias Lorsbach aka Logic Moon and JJ Rogalski aka Piscean Daydreams in their deep drone, space ambient track “Life in Zero Gravity” from the album Musica Universalis which you can get through Chitra Records sub label Ambient Cat.
Then Paris based Italian modular composer Alessandro De Nicola bathes us in drone in the track titled “Open Arms” from the 27 track double baby pink cassette compilation “Connection: sculpting silence” from 2024 out on Hylé Tapes.
The penultimate track of the first side of the virtual cassette is by Danish artist øjeRum (eye space), and their piece titled “Et Pust I Sivet”(A Breath Among the Reeds) from the 2022 album Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers. Available through Amulet of Tears.
Finishing off the first half is Cincinnati, Ohio based friend Ed Herbers with a track many of us have felt recently titled “Sweltering” from the third of his four part album series titled “Season Cycle: Summer” from the always brilliant Passed Recordings label.
But first, to set the vibe is British producer Ryan Bissett, aka Halftribe, with a gentle, atmospheric invitation into the episode via the track “Listen” from the album “Disappear in Silent Ways” out on Dutch label DRONARIVM.
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 to the B side. Six tracks down and six to go.
You’ll hear Rick Jones better known as Dark Fidelity Hi Fi in a short colourful cascade in the track “Dawn To Dusk Passenger” from the Limited Edition CD album “Your Skyline Correspondent” and that’s out on Glasgow based super label Bricolage.
After that Minneapolis, Minnesota based duo Amy McNally and Matthew Hiram aka Visible Light with their immersive field recordings from El Yunque Bosque Nacional, Puerto Rico and a piece titled “La Tormenta” (The Storm) from the eco-friendly CD EP Sierra de Luquillo: A Living Soundscape.
Then Los Angeles, California based friend David Strother brings the track that inspired this episode titled “Tabula Rasa” a short suggestive violin piece from his latest release “A Brilliant Midnight”.
Then the penultimate track for today comes in the form of another track from that wonderful Hylé Tapes compilation “Connection: sculpting silence” this time by the amazing modular artist Andrea Cichecki and the bubbling sounds of “Mirrored reflections”.
Finishing us off is Québec based artist Mathieu Lamontagne better known as Arbee and the modular based track “Absence motivée” (excused absence) from the album “En vain” (In Vain) out on the ever astounding Ambient Cat label.
But first, Anthony Asher-Yates the artist behind Bålsam with a highly personal ambient track titled “Afligido” (Afflicted) from the album “Soñador” (Dreamer), available on a stunning cassette release from DRONARIVM sister label Le Mont Analogue, Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Halftribe – Listen
Quiet, attentive ambient with soft layers inviting deep listening. Calm, spacious, and meditative.
00:05:33 yolabmi – Awareness
Gentle, mindful ambient with soft focus and a sense of quiet presence. Intimate and reflective.
00:10:04 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Life in Zero Gravity
Weightless, floating ambient with dreamy, gravity-free drift and soft cosmic buoyancy.
00:13:27 Alessandro de Nicola – Open Arms
Warm, welcoming ambient with open, embracing textures and emotional generosity. Tender and inviting.
00:19:23 øjeRum – Et Pust I Sivet
Delicate, breath-in-the-reeds ambient with soft Danish minimalism and fragile, natural stillness.
00:23:22 Ed Herbers – Sweltering
Humid, heat-soaked ambient capturing thick summer air and sticky, immersive warmth.
Side B
00:25:03 Bålsam – Afligido
Melancholic, afflicted ambient with soft sorrow and balsam-like emotional soothe. Poignant and healing.
00:27:12 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Dawn To Dusk Passenger
Journeying synth tracing the arc from dawn to dusk with glowing, passenger-like motion. Warm and cinematic.
00:28:23 Visible Light – La Tormenta
Dramatic, storm-driven ambient with turbulent energy and Puerto Rican intensity. Powerful and immersive.
00:41:24 David Strother – Tabula Rasa
Clean, blank-slate ambient with pure, reset textures and quiet potential. Minimal and open.
00:42:00 Andrea Cichecki – Mirrored reflections
Reflective, mirrored ambient with doubling layers and soft, self-regarding beauty. Contemplative and elegant.
00:46:03 Arbee – Absence motivée
Motivated absence ambient with deliberate emptiness and French-titled quiet space. Thoughtful and sparse.
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 262
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Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 262. 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 mystical, quirky, and emotionally varied ambient journey through alchemy, jungles, societal decay, and warrior cries.
Side A moves from occult geometry and evening bonsoirs into fragile qualia, jungle scans, and solipsistic isolation. Side B shifts through tungsten pillows, multiple ways, lonely days, crying warriors, and fried naptime whimsy.
Overall mood: Atmospheric, contemplative, and eccentric with a mix of dark mystery, gentle warmth, and playful chaos. Perfect for late-night immersion, reflective listening, or adventurous evenings.
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 to give the “virtual cassette” title a meaning. The shows are free for the first week and then go to my very few Mixcloud subscribers who get to enjoy the 262 episodes plus the 826 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.
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 from the 24 buildings in the veil. Mixcloud subscribers also get the ever expanding version of the upcoming compilation titled Quiet Figures.
This episode of The Virtual Cassette Library is inspired by the track “Naptime” by an artist with the fantastic name “Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota” from the album “Music for Babies” which is out on the channel sponsoring Mystery Circles label.
Also on this episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by Paris, France based modular artist Aurel Val in the rather housey track “Bonsoir” from the latest release on Hylé Tapes titled Mods-1.
Then I’ve dived into the crates a bit with a 2020 track by Glasgow based Fragile X and the track “Qualia” from a fantastic Trip FM compilation called “Red Shift”. It also appears on the Fragile X album Hive.
After that another Hylé Tapes release this time from the 2024 album Biodiverse by Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster. I’ve chosen the rather fun 9 minute track “Jungle Scan”.
Ending the A side with some braindance techno is Craig Murphy aka Solipsism and the track “Sierra Oscar Kilo” from the latest release on the Mighty Force label.
Starting off Side B is Buffalo, New York based Matt Donatelli aka SURVEY CHANNEL with an older track originally from 2020 the lovely wonky “Tungsten Pillow” from the 2025 Remastered album Along the Wind Spear.
After that Limoges, France based Mea Poulpa and the chilled bass lines and beats of the track “Ways” from the album Beyond Glass which is out on Camembert Électrique
Then some Eastern block Jungle from Plovdiv based Jawhinge and the track “post_soc” from the album WeirdWired out on Bulgarian label Mahorka.
This leads into some trip hop stylings from a Protuberance remix of the Discknocked feat. Montse track “Lonely day” taken from the 2014 album Recollections also out on Mahorka.
We continue with another piece from this great album, the super chilled beat driven Protuberance track “Crying Warrior”.
Then the penultimate piece for today comes in the form of the episode inspired piece “Naptime” by Seattle, Washington based duo Julia Shapiro and Samur Khouja who call themselves Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota.
Finishing us off is the rather funky “Permafried” by another duo in the form of Hz & Fisty Kendal who are Nicholas Langley and Stephen Cousins. this is from the album Now What? which is out on Langley curated label Third Kind Records.
But first, to set the vibe is a friend of the show from Bristol, UK, James McKeown aka Hawksmoor with a Teenage Engineering medieval folksy new creation from the album “Yclept Thorn” this is the track “Trismosin”.
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 Hawksmoor – Trismosin
Mystical, alchemical ambient with Trismosin-inspired esoteric resonance and dark, occult elegance. Haunting and immersive.
00:08:56 Aurel Val – Bonsoir
Gentle, evening ambient with French “good evening” warmth and soft, twilight textures. Peaceful and intimate.
00:14:06 Fragile X – Qualia
Delicate, subjective-experience ambient with qualia-like textures and emotional vulnerability. Introspective and tender.
00:17:08 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Jungle Scan
Dense, biodiverse ambient with scanning jungle rhythms and vibrant, layered life. Lush and exploratory.
00:25:56 Solipsism – Sierra Oscar Kilo
Solipsistic, military-coded ambient with isolated, phonetic intensity and stark, personal focus.
Side B
00:33:33 SURVEY CHANNEL – Tungsten Pillow
Metallic, pillow-soft ambient with tungsten strength and dreamlike, resting contrast. Quirky and atmospheric.
00:38:14 Mea Poulpa – Ways
Organic, path-exploring ambient with gentle, “poulpa” (octopus-like) fluidity and multiple ways. Curious and flowing.
00:40:25 Jawhinge – post_soc
Post-societal ambient with hinge-like transitions and mechanical, societal decay textures. Stark and reflective.
00:42:34 Discknocked feat. Montse – Lonely day (Protuberance Hawk spirit chill mix)
Chill, lonely-day ambient with hawk-spirit chill and emotional, knocked-out resonance. Melancholic and soothing.
00:47:55 Protuberance – Crying Warrior
Emotional, warrior-like ambient with crying intensity and powerful, protruding strength. Dramatic and cathartic.
00:52:18 Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Naptime
Cosy, nap-time ambient with playful, bartender whimsy and gentle, relaxing vibes. Light-hearted and comforting.
00:55:31 Hz & Fisty Kendal – Permafried
Permanently fried, glitchy ambient with permanent, hazy distortion and quirky, fried energy. Eccentric and chaotic.
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
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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 283
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-283/
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 283. 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 1,113 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 luminous, cyclical ambient journey through growth, presence, and quiet residual signals.
Side A moves from synthesizer motivation and passionflower florescence into thunderous self-declaration, whimsical DNA colours, whispering forests, and noctilucent evening light. Side B drifts through reconstructed Vietnamese microcosms, Windham Hill shadows, rain-soaked baseline drift, honey-warm communal jazz, silent Wardenclyffe towers, and ends with a dark horse moving through open fields.
Overall mood: Contemplative, organic, and gently radiant — full of cycles of growth, soft illumination, and quiet architectural presence. Perfect for deep listening, reflective evenings, or following the continuous unfolding of sound.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:00:00 Marc Melià – Cycle of Motivation
Synthesizer circuitry opens into quiet luminous beauty. Marc Melià – Cycle of Motivation. Ambient and experimental tones sculpt the open spaces between notes into a melodic tapestry. Shared sonic connections rise in serene sequential layers across the field of reflection.
00:04:36 KiF Productions – Florescence
A passionflower climbs through stages of growth in soft plant light. KiF Productions – Florescence. Secret seeds wait in darkness before the first stir of movement. Vines reach toward open light, drinking and climbing until full bloom arrives in pollination dreams. Fruiting returns the cycle to earth in patient unfolding motion.
00:09:22 Le Morte d’Abby – That I Am
Thunder and lightning gather around the declaration of presence. Le Morte d’Abby – That I Am. Lush chords whoosh into existence while arpeggios and percussive energy expand across the surface. The entire piece rises in spiritual comfort and unbridled radiant motion.
00:15:51 Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Milkshake
A dream of new sound opens into whimsical smear-test colours. Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Milkshake. Sonic DNA from shared lives drifts through the air, the surface expanding in inventive playful light.
00:17:27 Enofa – The Whispering Forest
A whispering forest surrounds a small modernist house in woodland setting. Enofa – The Whispering Forest. Acoustic and digital tones mesh across eighty minutes of personal vista. Ancient modernity rises through nature’s unstoppable force, the entire landscape holding claustrophobic and open power in steady motion.
00:20:57 The Green Kingdom – Noctilucent
Noctilucent light drifts across evening skies of soft piano and reverb-soaked guitar. The Green Kingdom – Noctilucent. Sampled textures and occasional synthesizer layers settle into calm airy space. The sounds open in dusky reflective presence.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:24:10 Dexba – Hồ Bán Cạn Việt Nam
A quirky melody reconstructs outdoor nature while classical piano gives structure. Dexba – Hồ Bán Cạn Việt Nam. The entire microcosm expands in self-contained luminous motion.
00:28:51 Akira Film Script – The Shadow of Windham Hill
Shadows of Windham Hill open across bidirectional cycles of existence. Akira Film Script – The Shadow of Windham Hill. Life and death, memory and presence move together in exchange. The track looks backward and forward at once, finding beauty in endings and beginnings.
00:33:20 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Baseline Drift
Baseline drift carries the music of the spheres through rain-soaked cityscapes. Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Baseline Drift. Vast drones and spectral textures rise with richly layered field recordings. Organic and synthetic boundaries blur across industrial ruins and desolate rural landscapes, the cosmos holding hidden resonance.
00:36:52 Hill Collective – A House Is A Home Like Honey
A house opens like honey in warm communal light. Hill Collective – A House Is A Home Like Honey. Spiritual jazz tones breathe through collective improvisation. Saxophone, flute, piano, double bass and congas expand in earthy shared motion, the ensemble generating warmth and illumination together.
00:44:41 Paul Beaudoin – Wardenclyffe (Nothing returned)
Wardenclyffe towers stand in quiet residual signal. Paul Beaudoin – Wardenclyffe (Nothing returned). Granular field recordings and low-voltage processes form disrupted circuits. Tone, breath and resonance hum at the threshold of presence, the architecture listening to what remains.
00:49:21 Asha Patera – A Dark Horse
A dark horse moves through open sonic fields. Asha Patera – A Dark Horse. The landscape expands in steady luminous presence.
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 283.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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