Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 333
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. 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 system number left on a faded sign, then a horizon the colour of the title.
Side A leaves the lettering still readable if you stand at the right angle, remixes ladders through a Sussex exchange with the rungs already warm, keeps the amniotic membrane grateful for the quiet, lets dust remember the sea just close enough for a little silt, edits a nomad for a decade of Batov still open in the stacks, and lets the dub smoulder so the ember does the work of the flame. Side B reconnects a piano and a vibraphone after thirty years with the conversation still open, holds the tunnel’s echo of the last train and the next that may yet come, lets the ornamental letter arrive with its loops intact, teaches seagulls the steps while the shoreline keeps time, keeps a Toronto live tape warm from the floor with the imperfections as the point, and stays where the sky decides to stay.
Overall mood: Slightly archival, and quietly warm — full of faded signs, open conversations, and horizons that know their own colour. Perfect for dusk listening, abandoned locations still holding sound, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a system number left on a faded sign, ladders remixed by a Sussex exchange, a membrane of amniotic calm, dust that still remembers the sea, a nomad edited for a decade of Batov, a dub that prefers to smoulder.
00:02:18 fluXus – SYS826
(Exclusive track)
Album: Ghost Signs. Label: Castles In Space
https://fluxus-cis.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-signs
The lettering still readable if you stand at the right angle. The system still answering.
00:09:08 Hattie Cooke – Ladders (Sussex Telecom remix)
https://rupertlally.bandcamp.com/track/hattie-cooke-ladders-sussex-telecom-remix
Album: Happy New Year / Ladders.
Happy New Year on the other side of the single. Rupert Lally running the exchange, the rungs already warm.
00:11:45 Kinoscape – Amnion
https://inthemood2.bandcamp.com/track/amnion
Album: Ambient Factory I. Label: In The Mood
The membrane that keeps the quiet in, and the quiet grateful.
00:17:25 Ghostloop – Into Dust
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/into-dust
Album: The Distant Sea. Label: Noray Records
The water far enough to hear, close enough to leave a little silt on the sleeve.
00:19:39 Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel – Nomadic (Batov Edit)
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/nomadic-batov-edit
Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years. Label: Batov Records
The caravan still moving, Kobayashi’s selection still open somewhere in the stacks.
00:21:56 [moosdohmen] x Press any Key – Slow Burn Dub
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/slow-burn-dub-2
Album: BURNED DUBS. Label: Camembert Électrique
The ember doing the work of the flame, and taking its time.
Side B
Mood mist: a piano and a vibraphone catching up after thirty years, a tunnel still holding its echo, a correspondence in ornamental script, seagulls learning the steps, a Toronto live tape still warm from the floor, a horizon the colour of the title.
00:29:24 Robert Mitchell & Corey Mwamba – In The Blood
(Exclusive Track)
Album: In The Blood. Label: DISCUS MUSIC
http://www.discusmusic.bandcamp.com
Piano and vibraphone, Steinway Studios near Grantham, a few hours that felt like a long reconnection. Discus. Full release the 13th of November. Listen through if you can. The conversation is still open.
00:33:05 Dave Clarkson – Thurgoland Tunnel
https://cavendishhouse.bandcamp.com/track/thurgoland-tunnel
Album: A Pocket Guide to Abandoned Locations of the British Isles. Label: cavendish house
The brick still keeping the sound of the last train, and the next one that may yet come.
00:36:46 Lamasz – Correspondance
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/correspondance
Album: Fioritures. Label: DRONARIVM
The flourishes. DRONARIVM letting the letter arrive with its loops intact.
00:41:27 x.y.r. – seagulls dance
https://xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/track/seagulls-dance
Single: seagulls dance. Label: Not Not Fun Records
The birds already in step, the shoreline keeping time.
00:49:59 Astrolope – Disinformation
(Exclusive track)
Album: Bass Node Tapes, volume one. Label: Imaginary North
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/
Live off the floor, modular and drummer’s hands, Kilometre Club, Measure, cellsync in the room. Imaginary North. Out the 30th of October. The imperfections are the point, and they are lovely.
00:54:56 The Gaye Device – Blue Azure Horizon
https://machinaadnoctem.bandcamp.com/track/blue-azure-horizon
Album: Evolution – An Anthology 2012-2023 Volume One. Label: Machina ad Noctem
Title of the hour. The line where the sky decides to stay.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 333.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 190
04 April 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Hey.
Welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the wall.
This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Episode one-nine-zero.
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.
Stream free for seven days on Mixcloud.
Background track tonight available on 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.
Massive shout out to Iso Brown for spotlighting the channel — gave me about three hundred new followers and maybe one new listener. Also big love to my latest follower Alan Ranta, who’s recently done an astonishing 11 and half hour retro library mix.
Anyway
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.
Tonight’s episode is broadcasting from… healers.dominate.slices.
Eric Ericsonhallen — Event centre in Stockholm. Now it’s just a coordinate for whatever this episode is.
Let’s go.
FIRST CLUSTER
First — Apta with “Falter”. Manchester, UK,Dream-pop haze wrapped in post-punk bones.
Then Passepartout Duo — “From Belgrade”. Verona, Italy, Live-wire travelogue piece from their Pieces from Places series. Synth lines that feel like walking through the city.
Third — Pulselovers and “Timbral Awake”. Deep electronic drift from Doncaster, UK, textures that shift like light through old film stock. Via Woodford Halse.
And closing this one out: Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell & Alya Al Sultani — “Inner Sanctum”. Intimate, improvised vocal and piano ritual. Three voices weaving a small cathedral out of breath and keys. via Discus Music.
Here we go.
SECOND CLUSTER
Next bundle of four, fresh from the margins:
Italian artist Lorenzo Bracaloni aka Fallen — “This World is quickly Fading”. Fragile, dissolving sound that feels like the last light of an ending day. Via Bulgarias Mahorka label who I am guesting soon on their Planck Tones channel.
Then my own little transmission: Trevlad with “Retrial Twinge Memo”. Taken from the TVCL 10 vaults. A twinge of memory on retrial and a spot on the platform of my local train station.
Followed by Lorna Dune — “Void Coefficient”. Milwaukee, Wisconsin based, Sharp, precise electronic study from her Mosfet EP. Power flows and empty spaces.
And rounding it off: Hong Kong based Anita Tatlow & Runaway Horses with “lunar phase”. Gentle ambient vocal drift, like moonlight leaking through blinds. Via Echoes Blue Music.
Drift with me.
THIRD CLUSTER (pre-B Side)
Third cluster already. The night is getting loose.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — “Doom City”. Melbourne, Australia, Microtonal chaos from Flying Microtonal Banana. The pollution gods are laughing. Via the p(doom) label.
Then Mark Ellery Griffiths with “Synthi Sequence A”. Pure UK synth archaeology. Sequences breathing through old EMS circuitry like ghosts in the machine.
FOURTH CLUSTER (B Side)
Alright. Four more transmissions bleeding through.
Adrian Lane — “Reach For The Horizon”. Warm, horizon-staring ambient. Via whitelabrecs.
Benge — “Four Forty Two”. Precise, machine-soul electronics.
Asheville, North Carolina based Spooqs — “Hygge (Demo)”. Cozy but slightly unhinged.
And Djrum — “Three Foxes Chasing Each Other”. Breakbeat mysticism in full flight. Via Houndstooth.
Side B is now live.
FIFTH CLUSTER
Fifth cluster. We’re deep in it now.
CIALYN — “Sun Childs”. Bright, glowing electronic lullaby from Lille, France
Aucuba Replica — “Noni”. Strange fruit, stranger frequencies. Via Secuencias Temporales.
Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed — “Shangri La”. Mystical, searching jazz-tinged wander. Via Batov Records.
And Psyché — “Sabir”. Hypnotic, ancient-future pulse. Via Four Flies Records.
Still with me?
FINAL CLUSTER
Last cluster. Final transmission before the static wins. A long and a short piece.
Frankfurt Am Main, Germany based Jogging House — “Parker”. Slow-burn ambient reflection. Via artist curated Seil Records.
And finally Los Angeles, California based Elijah Fox — “Glass House / Clear Pool”. Crystalline, watery piano and electronics.
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, on Trevor Lewis on Substack, 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 wall.
Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Apta – Falter – 01:35
Passepartout Duo – From Belgrade – 09:05
Pulselovers – Timbral Awake – 11:35
Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell, Alya Al Sultani – Inner Sanctum – 16:40
Fallen – This World is quickly Fading – 20:05
Trevlad – Retrial Twinge Memo – 25:45
Lorna Dune – Void Coefficient – 27:00
Anita Tatlow & Runaway Horses – lunar phase – 29:50
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Doom City – 33:30
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Sequence A – 37:17
B Side – 40:10
Adrian Lane – Reach For The Horizon – 40:45
Benge – Four Forty Two – 45:25
Spooqs – Hygge (Demo) – 49:15
Djrum – Three Foxes Chasing Each Other – 51:55
CIALYN – Sun Childs – 59:35
Aucuba Replica – Noni – 1:03:15
Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Shangri La – 1:09:05
Psyché – Sabir – 1:11:47
Jogging House – Parker – 1:15:30
Elijah Fox – Glass House/ Clear Pool – 1:21:12
Outro – 1:21:39
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 166
12 January 2026
Virtual mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists, two sets. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Intro – 00:00
Drew Mulholland – Serpents – 01:39
Animal Visions – sassafras – 02:40
EKT – Burn Bag – 06:29
LuC. – BODY (The After World) – 11:44
Nonima + Abdicant – AMBERSEQ – 20:15
Le Morte d’Abby – Escape Velocity – 25:57
Stephen Lopkin – Pigment (Part 1) – 31:24
Agnes Martian – Elsewhere – 36:23
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Different Rooms (feat. Josh Johnson) – 42:38
B Side – 49:55
Dunya – Gravity Elastic Feelings – 50:17
S. Costa – Truth Home – 54:47
Constant Little Ghost – sandcastles – 1:00:05
Talkdemonic – Awake in the Dark – 1:05:26
Christian Wittman – Blue Snowball Nebula – 1:09:32
o[rlawren] – poiesis – 1:14:52
Thme – Moving, So Slowly – 1:19:56
Eucalyptus – Up Express – 1:25:16
Trevlad – Awoken Fancied Powers – 1:33:20
*Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell, Alya Al Sultani – Let The Light In – 1:37:12
madebyitself – f33lings – 1:45:11
Outro – 1:49:58
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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