Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 352
Hi folks and welcome to Light In the Tunnel episode 352 of my Virtual cassette library. It’s Tuesday and I hope your week is off to a great start. Please let me know if you want something mentioned in future episodes as I do realise that social media just doesn’t connect us. I know this as I’m sending actual physical mix tapes to anyone who suggests a piece of music they love at the moment and I’ll make a personal cassette based on it. New subscribers or tip givers jump to the top of the que of course. What surprizes me is the lack of enthusiasm and response to this. I’ve had one comment and I’ve lost 6% of my subscribers since posting this offer. I don’t get it.
Anyway on to the show.
Shout out to Fragile X, MoiCflo, Musiccity Official Radio, Tempest Recordings and aeon for favoriting previous episodes.
The first side will include Cub\cub with the track The horizon becomes narrower. It’s the music of getting closer and closer until closer stops being a place and starts being a condition. From the compilation All About HER (a benefit compilation for Hollow Earth Radio). Out on Hollow Earth Radio. Also Robin Rimboud aka Scanner who I plan on bumping physically tomorrow here in Stockholm. You’ll be blessed with the track Nightwalk from the EP Scanner Librarian EP 1. There’s a librarian involved, which means someone is supposed to be quiet, but the night is not cooperating.
This floats into the track Som solsken which is Swedish and means Like Sunshine. It’s by Ingmar Wennerberg aka Snufmumriko and is from the album Talisman. Out on the Le Mont Analogue label. It’s gentle. A little rhythmic, but the kind of rhythmic that doesn’t want to make a scene. Like sunlight that has decided to take the long way around instead of coming straight through the window.
Then Matthew Hiram with the track Viridis Which is Latin for green, I looked it up so I wouldn’t sound like someone who just guessed. From the album Shade Songs. Minimal and patient, like it’s fine waiting for you to notice the difference between being in the light and being under it.
Finally before the tape flip another friend Alex Ringess and his 10 minute opening piece 13/8 from his self released Experiments album. The track saying “this is how many beats there are today” and the rest of us can catch up or not. Music that refuses to round itself down. After that side B will flip itself like a polite pancake while you notice a detail in your soul.
First off is long time friend of the show Binaural Space with “Light In the Tunnel” from the self released album Luvisgod. Close your eyes and start walking through whatever tunnel this is.
Enjoy…
Welcome to the intermission aka the flip side. You just heard the track “13/8” by Alex Ringess. Remember If you make music, run a label, or hold a private stash of sounds that have not yet found more ears, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is considered. Today’s album of the day is by Buffalo, New York’s finest pollsign and the EP Asymptote which is mastered by Michael Southard aka Time Rival and released on the super duper Triplicate Records label.
Okay, so this album. Asymptote. By the guy. Pollsign. I put it on and immediately I’m like, “What is this floaty thing doing to my brain?” It’s ambient, right? Late-night, never-quite-arrives, the line that keeps getting closer but doesn’t touch. Like when you’re trying to high-five yourself in a mirror and you keep missing and then you just start narrating it.
I listened to it twice and both times I forgot what I was supposed to be doing. That’s either a review or a cry for help. Either way, it’s good. The incomplete kind of good. The kind where the missing part is the part that makes it work.
https://pollsign.bandcamp.com/album/asymptote
The next set will feature the longest piece of the episode at just over 13 minutes. It’s hershel with the closing track from the album silent steps for a better way titled We’re almost there. Out on the one of a kind whitelabrecs. The kind of music that makes you feel like you’re walking toward a door that keeps moving back at the same speed you’re walking. This drifts into Illume by Tewksbury from the album rust/wave out on Imaginary North. When you want to drift without having to explain where you’re going. Then Sevensy + Ikipr with Delicate Morning from the album Stretch Out Above The Clouds out on the super prolific label of quality stuff Mahorka. Morning light, the early kind, before the regular light shows up and starts making plans. When you want to stretch out above whatever the clouds are doing today without having to explain. We stick with the Mahorka label for the penultimate piece by Record Of Tides and the closing track Fish Tank from the album Intercelestial. When the fish are looking at you and you want a groove that doesn’t mind coming undone. We end episode 352 with the shortest track of the day by April Emily aka ff8282 titled myla from the album taunt_taunt which will be released on November 12 on the great 4000 Records. A name someone whispered. Brazilian traditions and visceral poetry somewhere in the mix. Experimental enough that the edges don’t stay put, intimate enough that you notice when they move.
But first another long track at 9:45 by Mike Hans STEFFL and the track “sequencedARPverage” from the album average of the average out on the Aural Films label. Mikes been making music since the 70s so he knows his way around an arp. Music that has already done the math so you don’t have to.
Enjoy…
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.
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Mind the flip.
Light in the tunnel across twelve rooms. Side A opens with a light already in the tunnel, moves through a horizon that becomes narrower, a nightwalk with a librarian, sunlight that takes the long way around, a green that waits, and a 13/8 that refuses to round itself down. Side B continues with a sequenced ARP average, a walk toward a door that keeps moving, an illume, a delicate morning, a fish tank that doesn’t mind coming undone, and a myla that arrives just before the release. The joins sit inside the grain. The sequence is the form.
Light already in the tunnel, then a myla that arrives just before the release.
Side A opens the tunnel with the light already there so the eyes can close and the walking begin, narrows the horizon until the closer becomes a condition it already agrees to, walks the night with a librarian who stays quiet while the night refuses to cooperate, lets the sunlight take the long way around a patient window, waits in the green that notices the difference between being in the light and under it, and counts the 13/8 that refuses to round itself down. Side B sequences the ARP so the average is already done and no one else has to, walks toward a door that keeps moving with the steps already silent and the almost already kind, illuminates without needing the explanation, stretches a delicate morning already early and above whatever the clouds are doing, lets the fish tank come undone while the fish keep looking and the groove is fine with it, and arrives the myla just before the release with the name already whispered and the intimacy already noticed.
Overall mood: Precise, and quietly open — full of open tunnels, refused roundings, and doors that prefer to keep moving. Perfect for dusk listening, soft libraries, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: light already in the tunnel, a horizon that becomes narrower, a nightwalk with a librarian, sunlight that takes the long way around, a green that waits, a 13/8 that refuses to round itself down.
00:04:10 Binaural Space – Light In the Tunnel
https://binaural-space.bandcamp.com/track/light-in-the-tunnel
Album: Luvisgod.
The tunnel already open. Close your eyes and start walking.
00:08:24 Cub\cub – The horizon becomes narrower
https://herbenefit.bandcamp.com/track/cub-cub-the-horizon-becomes-narrower
Album: All About HER (a benefit compilation for Hollow Earth Radio). Label: Hollow Earth Radio
The closer already becoming a condition. The horizon already agreeing.
00:09:29 Scanner – Nightwalk
https://scanner.bandcamp.com/track/nightwalk
Album: Scanner Librarian EP 1.
The librarian already quiet. The night already not cooperating.
00:12:33 Snufmumriko – Som solsken
https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/track/som-solsken
Album: Talisman. Label: Le Mont Analogue, Dronarivm
The sunlight already taking the long way. The window already patient.
00:15:43 Hiram – Viridis
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/viridis
Album: Shade Songs.
The green already waiting. The difference between in the light and under it already noticed.
00:19:07 Alex Ringess – 13/8
https://alexringess.bandcamp.com/track/13-8
Album: Experiments.
The beats already counted. The rounding already refused.
Side B
Mood mist: a sequenced ARP average, a walk toward a door that keeps moving, an illume, a delicate morning, a fish tank that doesn’t mind coming undone, a myla that arrives just before the release.
00:32:22 Mike Hans STEFFL – sequencedARPverage
https://mikehanssteffl.bandcamp.com/track/sequencedarpverage
Album: average of the average. Label: Aural Films
The math already done. The ARP already sequenced. You don’t have to.
00:42:27 hershel – We’re almost there
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/were-almost-there
Album: silent steps for a better way. Label: whitelabrecs
he door already moving. The steps already silent. The almost already kind.
00:53:26 Tewksbury – Illume
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/illume
Album: rust/wave. Label: Imaginary North
The drift already under way. The explanation already unnecessary.
00:54:39 Sevensy + Ikipr – Delicate Morning
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/delicate-morning
Album: Stretch Out Above The Clouds. Label: Mahorka
The morning already early. The stretch already above whatever the clouds are doing.
00:58:06 Record Of Tides – Fish Tank
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/fish-tank
Album: Intercelestial. Label: Mahorka
The fish already looking. The groove already coming undone, and fine with it.
01:02:12 ff8282 – myla
https://ff8282-4000.bandcamp.com/track/myla
Album: taunt_taunt. Label: 4000 Records
The name already whispered. The edges already moving. The intimacy already noticed.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 256
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 256. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
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An eclectic, atmospheric journey blending whimsical dawn grooves, northern flows, and ancient mystical energies.
Side A moves from sardine sunrises and titanium explorations into nodal precision, soft focus, and prime matter. Side B shifts through metropolitan gothic, leaping sorcery, seasonal transformation, and ancient tumuli.
Overall mood: Playful yet contemplative, warm, and mysterious with a mix of light whimsy and deeper resonance. Perfect for adventurous listening, golden-hour drives, or late-night immersion.
Episode 256 is based, appropriately, on the bubbling track “Hylé” by “Denis Violet” from the release “Connection: sculpting silence” out on Paris based Hylé Tapes label. Shout out to Richard Francés who has sent me a load of releases from his label this week.
Thanks also to Paul Beaudoin, and Substak for sending me your latest works I’ll be featuring you very soon.
In this episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by unmistakeably Polish artist Marek Kwiatkowski,
An artists that has gone under the radar for years is the UK based Mark Ellery Griffiths. If you’re into vintage synths then dive into his vast name your price catalogue on Bandcamp. Mark gives us some brutalist electronica.
Another regular of the episodes is Rick Jones aka DARK FIDELITY HIFI with Orb flavoured Idm out on his sight and sound label. Also London based Rodrigo Passannantis’ latest I can’t seem to get enough of those soaring synth lines lately. From the Cyclical Dreams label.
Ivo Petrovs Mahorka label is almost always included. This time with quirky dub vibes from Mülheim, Germany based Record Of Tides.
The B side opens with the 27 minute track showing us what the Nord Modular G1 can do by Switzerland based Rupert Lally. This track would have made it onto an Expansive Waves episode but I’ve decided to discontinue those due to lack of motivation.
Clarinet based braindance from Berlin duo Meier & Erdmann.
Then Leeds based Ethiopian Jazz flavours from The Source on ATA records.
Then my friend Gavin Brick aka The Metamorph chills us out with live sci-fi injected ambient.
Ending episode 256 is the great combo of Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate with a haunted finale via Subexotic Records.
But setting the tape rolling today is an almost avant-garde Idm setting with Liryc303, here as, Cylander together with friend of the channel Fluffy Inside and their track Sardine Sunrise the Fluffy Inside’s Cloudy Dawn Mix. Available through the Neo Ouija label.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Cylander & Friends – Sardine Sunrise (Fluffy Inside’s Cloudy Dawn Mix)
Playful, sardine-tinged ambient with cloudy dawn warmth and quirky, fluffy textures. Light and whimsical. Artist Bio: Cylander & Friends create here playful, collaborative ambient works with whimsical and dawn-inspired themes.
00:09:40 Marek Kwiatkowski – Łazikiem po Tytanie
Polish-tinged ambient with urban exploration and titanium-like metallic sheen. Adventurous and atmospheric. Artist Bio: Marek Kwiatkowski is a Polish ambient artist exploring urban and material-inspired soundscapes.
00:15:04 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Node
Precise, nodal ambient with interconnected points and subtle, linking resonance. Focused and geometric. Artist Bio: Mark Ellery Griffiths is a UK ambient composer creating cosmic and textural works often inspired by space and nature.
00:16:50 DARK FIDELITY HIFI – soft focus
Warm, blurred ambient with soft-focus glow and gentle, emotional diffusion. Comforting and hazy. Artist Bio: Dark Fidelity Hi Fi (Rick Jones) is a Manchester producer blending electronic atmospheres with emotional depth and personal reflection.
00:21:34 Rodrigo Passannanti – End Motion
Minimal, motion-ending ambient with final, decelerating textures and quiet closure. Reflective and still. Artist Bio: Rodrigo Passannanti is a London-based Italian electronic composer known for immersive, time-focused ambient works and vintage synth explorations.
00:26:04 Denis Violet – Hylé
Prime matter ambient with raw, elemental hylé textures and philosophical depth. Primal and contemplative. Artist Bio: Denis Violet is an ambient artist exploring prime matter, elemental, and philosophical themes.
00:35:07 Record Of Tides – The Beach Crate
Beach-found ambient with tidal memories and crate-like discovered warmth. Nostalgic and organic. Artist Bio: Record Of Tides is an ambient project focused on tidal, beach-found, and nostalgic sound discoveries.
Side B
00:42:28 Rupert Lally – Nord E
Northern, directional ambient with cold elegance and steady, eastward flow. Crisp and expansive. Artist Bio: Rupert Lally is a UK, Swiss based, ambient artist creating directional, northern, and elegant electronic works.
01:09:32 Meier & Erdmann – Nosferatu Metropolitain
Gothic, metropolitan ambient evoking Nosferatu in a city with dark, dramatic tension. Artist Bio: Meier & Erdmann create cinematic, gothic, and urban-inspired ambient soundtracks.
01:13:25 The Sorcerers – He Who Kills with One Leap
Mystical, leaping funk-jazz ambient with powerful, sorcerous energy and ritualistic drive. Artist Bio: The Sorcerers are a psychedelic jazz-funk group known for mystical, energetic, and ritualistic grooves.
01:17:36 The Metamorph – Spring into Summer
Seasonal, transforming ambient capturing the shift from spring to summer with lush growth. Artist Bio: The Metamorph is an analogue electronics project exploring scifi synth and transformation.
01:21:11 Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate – Tumulus
Ancient, burial-mound ambient with barrow-like resonance and mystical, earthen depth. Artist Bio: Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate collaborate on ancient, mystical, and folklore-inspired ambient works.
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 189
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
03 April 2026
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Brams burgers – great burger joint. Now it’s just a coordinate for whatever this episode is.
Hey.
Welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the drywall.
This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Episode one-eight-nine.
We’re still pretending it’s a radio show for the sonically adventurous, but really it’s just me and the frequencies arguing in an empty apartment while the world outside forgets I exist.
Headphones on.
Let time dissolve.
And let the frequencies claim you.
We’re bunching it tonight – four transmissions at a time, like weird little dreams stitched into the set. No schedule. Just the mood and the margins.
FIRST CLUSTER
Four signals crawling out of the high passes and the liberation fronts.
Sonic-Soma – Kinnaur Calling – Cities and Memory, Nepal field recordings turned into sonic soma.
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Astra Shambotica – Submarine Broadcasting, astral jazz revolution.
Grosso Gadgetto – Quadrata Dodus Act 2 – Bulgarian label Mahorka, who might be the reason for me not doing these episodes for a few days. Keep an eye and ear out for future Planck Tone episodes I may be guesting.
Willebrant – Dell – atmospheric drone from down under. Birds in the rain. A must.
You just survived the first transmission: Sonic-Soma, The Music Liberation Front Sweden, Grosso Gadgetto, and Willebrant.
The space between us is definitely thinner now.
SECOND CLUSTER Brain shells cracking open, hits amended, voids flattered, dust explained. Zerfranzt – Hirnschale – which means skull or, the nicer translation of, Brain case from Kaiseki Digital, who I’ve been playing lately as Free Album Codes has provided me with codes for some early releases from 2018. German synaptic spill. Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – self-released soundscape from the episode of the same name. A repeat name from the spot where I try and sleep most nights. This one’s from the album TVCL 10 and has nothing to do with the track of the same name from TVCL 09. Puscha – Sycophanatic – NEN, Melbourne cinematic hypnosis. Provided by Fonodroom. Everyday Dust – Without Explanation – Dustopian Frequencies, Scottish drone stories that evaporate.
You just floated through Zerfranzt, Trevlad, Puscha, and Everyday Dust. Halfway mark is creeping up. I’m starting to feel that metaphysical flip? The universe just winked at you and kept walking.
THIRD CLUSTER (pre-B Side)
Edges blurring, bodies floating.
phorme – blur – Kaiseki Digital, Australian meditative haze from NSW. Also from 2018.
Takashi Kusano – Floating – Sounds for the Soul, Japanese levitation.
And then comes the B Side…
phorme and Takashi Kusano just lifted you clean out of gravity.
Now the bench is empty and the cats are from hell.
FOURTH CLUSTER (B Side)
Empty benches, hellcat beats, half-human wires, clinical worms.
Substak – Empty Bench – Daydreamers, Greek meditative park-bench snippet.
Le Morte d’Abby – Nyanko No Jigoku Beat – dark electro from the neon underworld.
Jilk – Half-Human – Bricolage, Glasgow idm hybrid soul.
The Foot & Leg Clinic – Worms 2 – alternative rock diagnosis under fluorescent lights.
You just sat on Substak’s Empty Bench, got bitten by Le Morte d’Abby’s hellcats, glitched with Jilk, and received a full worm examination from The Foot & Leg Clinic.
Your body is now 40% frequency.
FIFTH CLUSTER
Appetizers of life, grace with nothing, tidal animation tags, Nordic sea breath.
The Appetizers – The Life – Italian roots reggae funk from Rome.
Rejoicer – Grace Was Happy (I Found Nothing) – LA epiphany of joyful emptiness. Sounds as if Weather Report did music for film.
Record Of Tides – Yoshimoto Animation Tag – Mahorka hauntological Japanese cels on the tide. Glitchy 8-bit crackles.
Albin – Havet – Paltunes, Swedish sea inhaling your thoughts. Everything Albin Johansson touches glows with a nostalgic warmth I can never get enough of.
You just tasted The Appetizers, let Rejoicer’s Grace smile at nothing, rode Record Of Tides’ animation waves, and sank into Albin’s Havet.
The apartment is underwater now.
FINAL CLUSTER
Rain shelter geometry and half-a-day London melt.
Kikagaku Moyo – Amayadori – Guruguru Brain, psychedelic Tokyo forest clearing.
ff8282 – london / half the day – 4000 Records, fractured electronic daydreams.
You just sheltered with Kikagaku Moyo and melted through half a London day with ff8282.
That’s the whole set.
Thanks for floating here with me.
I hope the journey sends you in the direction of these artists. All the links, and purchase paths are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in the timeline.
If you’re still listening… you’re in the club.
No meetings. No rules. Just dust and frequencies.
Send files, confessions, whatever, to trevlad@gmail.com.
Send stories for Chord Confessions. I’ll read them in my sleep-voice.
See you in the next crack in the drywall.
Cheerio…
END OF BROADCAST Stream free for 7 days on Mixcloud. Background track: Trevlad’s TVCL 11. A sonic journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark – perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe
Intro – 00:00
Sonic-Soma – Kinnaur calling (Nepal) – 02:09
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Astra Shambotica – 10:15
Grosso Gadgetto – Quadrata Dodus Act 2 – 14:00
Willebrant – Dell – 22:00
Zerfranzt – Hirnschale – 25:30
Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – 28:20
Puscha – Sycophanatic – 30:29
Everyday Dust – Without Explanation – 36:15
phorme – blur – 41:00
Takashi Kusano – Floating – 44:54
B Side – 50:45
Substak – Empty Bench – 51:30
Le Morte d’Abby – Nyanko No Jigoku Beat – 53:19
Jilk – Half-Human – 58:10
The Foot & Leg Clinic – Worms 2 – 1:03:29
The Appetizers – The Life – 1:05:55
Rejoicer – Grace Was Happy (I Found Nothing) – 1:09:50
Record Of Tides – Yoshimoto Animation Tag – 1:12:43
Albin – Havet – 1:15:03
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 – Amayadori – 1:19:45
ff8282 – london / half the day – 1:21:40
Outro – 1:27:39
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