Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 311
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Right then, my glittering cassette moths…
It’s time I had a quiet word with the universe about this Virtual Cassette Library lark of mine. Lately it’s been drifting off like a helium balloon made of old mixtape innards, floating away from the original bonfire of my intentions. I need to yank it back by its magnetic tape tail before it disappears into a cloud of forgotten B-sides.
I’ve just been bathing in the first episode of The Signal by Wall of Ambient — Harry Towell and James Osland swimming through the ambient oceans like two elegant seahorses in velvet capes. Go and drink it in on Substack. And while you’re there, follow me like a loyal moth to my flickering neon sign.
Anyway, Harry said something that pinged my third eye: concept is the beating heart of an album. And I suddenly realised that even though I pluck these tracks from their original conceptual wombs, my shows are actually stitched together with their own secret concepts. Lately I’ve been chattering between tracks like a magpie on a telephone wire and the concept has been leaking out like cheese from a toasted sandwich.
So what’s the concept, you ask, while adjusting your imaginary pipe?
Well, I’ve spent my entire working life lurking on and around stages like a quiet caretaker with glitter under his nails. I see each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. The audience only ever glimpses a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view like a peacock into fog, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands — slow and syrupy or frantic and glittering.
I still want to whisper the names of the artists, the albums and the labels, so I’ll do that before each set — or “side,” as we cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per side, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now… shall we let the stage begin to turn?
So episode 311 is a weathered, slightly spectral ambient journey through closing dive bars, overlapping canopies, and monuments that have already begun to kneel.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly dilapidated — full of forgotten light, phase transitions, and sockets still whispering in the dark. Perfect for late listening, empty stages, or sitting with the ivy while it finishes the sentence.
Side A lets shadows clock off at the edge of the universe, waves from a missed railway cutting, shares a stereo canopy, opens a December jar six months late, weathers the ivy through human architecture, and climbs dilapidated monuments only to accept itself.
00:05:30 Kh3rtis – As Shadows Fall Away
https://kh3rtis.bandcamp.com/track/as-shadows-fall-away
A dive bar at the edge of the universe closing its curtains. Shadows clocking off. You are left holding the light they forgot to take.
00:10:28 Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine – The Ultimate
A MicroKorg dressed as 1974 television, waving from a railway cutting that only exists when you miss it.
00:12:06 Chihei Hatakeyama & Jupi/ter – Canopy
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/track/canopy
Two canopies overlapping until the stereo field forgets which tree belongs to which country. Peace wearing someone else’s coat.
00:19:04 Matt Lowery – 12-13-24
https://mattlowery.bandcamp.com/track/12-13-24
The thirteenth of December kept in a jar and opened six months later. Modular dust that still remembers the day it was captured.
00:20:20 The Microgram – Weathered
https://kaisekidigital.bandcamp.com/track/weathered
Human architecture kneeling so the ivy can finish the sentence. A facility learning how to weather.
00:24:05 Blank Embrace – Dilapidated Monuments
https://kaisekidigital.bandcamp.com/track/dilapidated-monuments
Dilapidated monuments on a tundra that ends in a mountain you climb only to accept yourself. The stage turns very slowly here.
Side B argues in black and white until a drop becomes a drum, leaves the singers behind in Midas plumbing, hands in exam music before the piece ends, leaks a green chorus through melted glass, takes on new Beagle waters, and coils after midnight on a Yamaha four-track.
00:33:21 Amotken – Gota
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/gota
Black and white arguing inside a twenty-year-old Mexican machine. A drop of water deciding it is also a drum.
00:37:39 El Michels Affair – Anticipate (Instrumental)
https://elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com/track/anticipate-instrumental
The singers have left the building. What remains is the Midas plumbing — brass, choir-shaped air, a saxophone ghost clocking in for overtime.
00:40:31 The Sound Catelouge – Phase Transitions
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/phase-transitions
Exam music found inside a textbook sleeve. Phase transitions for students who must hand in their papers before the piece ends.
00:42:50 Phil Geraldi – Chorus in Green
https://chakrawhip.bandcamp.com/track/chorus-in-green
Alien country radio leaking through melted glass. A chorus in green that never quite reaches the hook.
00:45:35 Tim Stebbing – New Waters
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/new-waters
HMS Beagle still taking on new water in 2026. Sequencers collecting specimens the Atlantic has not finished naming.
00:52:28 DOMOTIC – Serpenting
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/track/serpenting
*A Yamaha four-track recorded after midnight, coiling like fur that learned to hiss. Vintage sockets whispering to each other in the dark.
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This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 311.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 143
14 November 2025
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 143 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Plank Glides Enigma is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and its geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube.
I’m Trevor and I curate these 90-minute genre bending drifts through frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Two, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per set with a side change half way.
Imagine the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view.
Styles for this episode range from beats to nature, from funk to new classical. The musical keys in focus are G sharp / A flat and F minor.
In this episode we’re joined by some new friends of the channel like Sævar Jóhannsson and Red Stars Over Tokyo. As well as some familiar names like THE GAYE DEVICE, Mike Dickinson and Listening Center as well as supporting labels like Cyclical Dreams, Buried Treasure, Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Ingrown Records, Mahorka, Castles in Space and many more. All the artists and labels are the soul of this show.
If you’d like to be included on future episodes send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Links to all the tracks are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline.
Pre-order the 8th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Also you can now grab the first compilation album Murmurs in the Mist with 45 artists. Subscribe to the Mixcloud channel and unlock 877 archived shows.
Remember, every comment, every like, every follow, subscription and, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing.
So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
Allmanna Town – Sample 23 – 02:42
Paddy Steer – Wool Roll – 03:31
Sophos – Pentameric symmetry – 06:08
Sam Prekop – Para – 08:32
Albin – MAFD – 11:02
Language Field – Ghosts Are Petty – 16:14
Synthotherapy – Medication Time – 19:16
THE GAYE DEVICE – Quantum Leaf – 22:26
Meemo Comma – The Soldier – 26:29
Leonardo Soundweaver – Air – 28:31
Zazie Productions – Moving in Perpetual Slumber – 32:44
seanderrickcoopermarquardt – Ode to the West Wind – 34:20
Fimnur – Caelestigris – 35:03
Hiro Ama – Find Me In The Nearest Forest – 38:25
Pariah – 3 + 0 – 41:12
B Side – 46:01
The Sorcerers – Moth – 46:33
DTime – Archive Of The Unseen – 49:43
Paul Ellis & Pabellón Sintético – Synonymous – 54:15
Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone – The Gathering Storm (ARP remix) – 56:56
Mike Dickinson – HI-REM – 1:00:33
David Baron – XAX – 1:04:03
Sævar Jóhannsson – Lighthouse Visits – 1:07:28
a mild wizard – cats we remember – 1:11:05
Austin Potter – Merrymakers – 1:15:19
Matthew Mirliani – Utopian Scholastic – 1:16:02
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki – After the Snow – 1:19:14
Listening Center – The Death Of Group D Meter – 1:22:33
Red Stars Over Tokyo – Avery Loop – 1:25:35
Federica Deiana – The Hour Between – 1:30:26
James Stevens – 3M4 Lee, I’ve Got To Talk To You – 1:32:03
Outro – 1:32:32
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 072
Energy Sculpting.
A series of 90-minute expeditions, punctuated by a transition halfway. Perfect for a walk, reflecting, and knowing just when to turn homeward.
🔮 Today’s journey is partially sponsored by visionary labels: The ÁST Project, Four Flies Records, Mahorka, i u we records, rohs! records, Driftworks, Cyclical Dreams, Sonor Music Editions, Mystery Circles, Binaural Space, and, Waxing Crescent Records.🚀
Our sponsoring artist bringing transmissions to life: The Green Kingdom, Pietro Zollo, and, survey channel.
Today’s show features 1 exclusive by La French, and the track, Fløyel. Iona/Fløyel is a two-track release that began with simple vocal melodies but evolved into a deeply ethereal and emotional work, reflecting themes of love, loss, and the beauty in between.
Set to release on June 27, 2025, the record will be available as a 7” lathe cut vinyl and digital format via Waxing Crescent Records. The A-side features “Iona”, produced, mixed, and mastered by Tim Crompton, while the B-side, “Fløyel,” was produced and mixed by Stephen James Buckley and mastered by Crompton. The album artwork was created by Megmayo.
Special thanks to the force ensuring chosen frequencies find their way here—✨ Free Album Codes.
🌞 Shoutouts to the listeners shaping today’s odyssey Fonodroom, Iso Brown, Adam Straub, and, Fragile X🌿. for the likes and comments. You all are legends in my eyes.🌿
The tracks played are marked in the timeline—dive in, comment your favorites and leave your imprint on the mix. 🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—send forth your sonic offerings: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Trevs Intro – 00:00
Mark Ellery Griffiths – On the way to here (Emulator I & III) – 02:43
Trevlad – Shimmering Portal – 05:07
Silentwave – Miraihe – 07:33
Paolo Zavallone – Green – 12:37
Steve Roach – Sensual Sonic – 17:07
Grosso Gadgetto + Brainquake – The Builders – 27:07
To Rococo Rot – Rocket Fuel – 33:55
https://torococorot.bandcamp.com/track/rocket-fuel-2
Danielle Nia – into the light – 37:31
Krystian Shek – Without You – 40:31
B Side – 46:45
Pete Kvidera – Stitched Together – 47:28
The Green Kingdom – Monorail – 50:55
Pietro Zollo – Timeless – 53:30
survey channel – Daffodil Dream – 59:14
Krakenkraft – Bolzmann Brains Reverie – 1:03:21
Lights in Pairs – Misinformation – 1:10:36
Mick Chillage – Acid Arena – 1:12:48
JJ Whitefield – Bedouin Bounce No. 1 – 1:17:26
Tatsuro Murakami – Unnoticed Stagnation – 1:18:48
Crane – Fireside Reverie – 1:21:11
Uncle Fido – They Discover Poetry – 1:24:43
*La French – Fløyel – 1:27:07
Trevs Outro – 1:30:48
track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 071
Crystalline Vines.
🔮 Today’s journey is partially sponsored by visionary labels: okla records, Audiobulb, Mahorka, Cyclical Dreams, Discus Music, Downstream Records, Buried Treasure, and, Preston Capes (Woodford Halse). 🚀 Our sponsoring artist bringing transmissions to life: Mirai No Hagaki and free album codes.
Today’s show features 3 exclusives. The A side includes Autistici, and the track, Fluctuating State, from the album, Familiarity Folded. The first in a three-part series by Autistici, highlighting online collaboration with experimental musicians. The album consists of four tracks, featuring contributions from Jacek Doroszenko, Russ Young, and Corey Gordon, and explores remixing and layered sound composition.
A listening party for “Familiarity Unfolded” is set for July 23, 2025, with the full release of “Familiarity Folded” on July 25, 2025. Pre-orders grant access to one track before the official launch. Autistici’s work blends organic and synthetic sounds.
The B side includes. Flux Of Sensations, and the track, Hidden Entrance, from the album, “Hidden Secrets” An ambient electronic album inspired by the experience of moving house and a novel about discovering mysterious artifacts linked to past crimes. The album, releasing on June 18, 2025, features nine tracks, including “Secret Door” and “Locked In An Attic,” reflecting themes of dusty rooms, forgotten spaces, and eerie discoveries through atmospheric soundscapes.
Pre-orders grant access to three tracks before the full release, available for streaming and download in various formats. Released under Downstream Records.
Also on the B side, the track, Clothes, from, The Sky original soundtrack by Eric Wetherell, released as a limited promo download, features music from the 1970s HTV children’s sci-fi drama Sky, created by Doctor Who writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin. The series blends ecological themes with science fiction, following an alien seeking an ancient portal to correct his misplaced arrival in time.
The soundtrack, transferred from Wetherell’s masters, is presented on a 10-inch transparent ice blue vinyl LP, including 26 cues with unused and alternative takes. The music, featuring harpsichord, glockenspiel, timpani, cello, and electronics, is tense and atonal, enhancing the show’s eerie atmosphere.
The album will be available for pre-order on Bandcamp from August 1st, on Buried Treasure records, with store releases in early September. It includes a TV Times postcard and an A3 poster of the Sky magazine cover illustrated by Arnaldo Putzu.
🌞 Shoutouts to the listeners shaping today’s odyssey Farmacia, and Otis🌿. for the likes and comments. And welcome new explorer: Farmacia who I featured on episode 70. You all are legends in my eyes.🌿
The tracks played are marked in the timeline—dive in, comment your favorites and leave your imprint on the mix. 🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—send forth your sonic offerings: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Trevs Intro – 00:00
Andrulian – Waiting for the Larks – 04:40
Monika Pich – Slowmotion A (excerpt) – 06:42
Desh – Diastole – 10:43
*Autistici – Fluctuating State – 17:18
Driftmachine – Soon I will disappear – 21:51
Christophe Bailleau O’Farrell – Elysium – 30:18
The Soviet Space Dog Project – Modular Piece No. 2 – 33:34
Trevlad – Dreamscape – 37:32
John Scott Shepherd & Jamie Zarfas – Shifting Paragons – 40:07
B Side – 48:37
Inclusion Principle – interlude i – commensurability – 49:23
The Sorcerers – The Great Belt – 53:49
Mirai No Hagaki – Within the heartbeat of stars – 57:24
Simon Bridgestock – The Univac Incident – 59:41
*Flux Of Sensations – Hidden Entrance – 1:02:47
Marie Wilhelmine Anders – A Chink or Two – 1:06:06
*Eric Wetherell – Clothes – 1:08:07
CIALYN – Rhodia Brownfield (rmx) – 1:09:05
Wave Resistance – Combustion – 1:11:39
Giants of Discovery – 52 Hertz – 1:17:24
Meadow Argus – Little Tree Pt.1 – 1:25:56
Angelwail – Yazatas (The Night Journey Into The Heavenly Spheres) – 1:28:25
Trevs Outro – 1:33:45
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
