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.
Ratios that refuse to sit still, then a star named Denebula that may or may not exist. Side A measures the ratios from slightly different angles and finds the whole thing rather flattering, lets the chicken wear the badge while the noise blushes, sets vibrant matter dancing so the gooseberry can nod along, cracks the cosmic egg into a sequel already writing its memoirs, keeps just moving with the diagrams packing a small suitcase, and lets the neon lights hum a little tune while the virtual woman is quite pleased about it. Side B seats the melancholia in a chair that already understands, lets the shades of light choose their favourites, sends the vector already in flight so the trick can land, lodges the rainmodulator while the dogs and the shadows negotiate a truce, keeps the northern furniture with Autobaba in the other room, and surveys a star named Denebula with the spear already pointing somewhere kind. Overall mood: Playful, and quietly flattered — full of nodding gooseberries, comfortable chairs, and stars that may or may not exist. Perfect for dusk listening, soft sofas, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A Mood mist: ratios that refuse to sit still, a chicken with a fondness for noise, matter that vibrates like a gooseberry in a good mood, an egg that cracked the cosmos and is now doing a sequel, something just moving because it can, neon lights that have opinions.
00:00:00 Altus – Parallax Ratios https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/parallax-ratios Album: Echo Bloom. Label: Altus Music The ratios already measuring each other from slightly different angles and finding the whole thing rather flattering. 00:08:17 Toxic Chicken – I Heart Noise https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/toxic-chicken-i-heart-noise-2 Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise The chicken already wearing the badge. The noise already blushing. 00:09:04 Soda Lite – Vibrant Matter https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/track/vibrant-matter Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry). Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By The matter already doing a little dance. The gooseberry already nodding along. 00:11:47 Michael Brückner – The Egg of Ecquirlo – Part 2 https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/the-egg-of-ecquirlo-part-2 Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165]. Label: Cyclical Dreams The crack already larger. The egg already writing its memoirs. 00:21:38 maps and diagrams – just moving https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/just-moving Album: returning light. Label: Home Normal The moving already under way. The diagrams already packing a small suitcase. 00:26:06 Virtual Woman – Neon Lights https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/track/virtual-woman-neon-lights Album: Cyberpunk. Label: Sounds for the Soul Records The lights already humming a little tune. The woman already virtual, and quite pleased about it.
Side B Mood mist: a melancholia that has found a comfortable chair, shades of light arranging themselves, a vector that knows where it’s going, a rainmodulator that has become stuck and is now taking up a hobby, furniture from the north, a star named Denebula that may or may not exist.
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.
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.
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 also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse 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, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands. The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect. Now the stage begins to turn.
A luminous, slightly forensic ambient journey through corridors of evidence, papery lanterns, and planets that have not finished burning. Side A opens an investigation the cameras invent as they roll, then cracks a cosmic oval, grows emerald armour between patio bricks, combs strings into sand that will not stay, squeezes two minutes of smear-test whimsy, and ends on a wind prayer written for people and cats.
Side B walks dry iron valleys toward utopian lullabies, cuts others from the seventh gemstone tray, argues a Messiah into demo clothes, wires splendour so slowly it can curve, refuses to hurry its illusions, and keeps Batov’s ten-year sun turning with all it can do. Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly jewelled — full of evidence the ghost leaves behind, sand still deciding, and light that knows which pocket it came from. Perfect for late listening, slow wiring, or sitting with the corridor while the next spool still waits.
00:03:06 Department of Light – Investigation #1 https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-1 Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ Label: The Dream Journal Institute Sofia walks a corridor that only exists when the cameras are rolling. Five triangles of evidence. The library fund gets whatever the ghost leaves behind. 00:09:07 Michael Brückner – Coda (A Pure Oval Shape) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/coda-a-pure-oval-shape Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165] Label: Cyclical Dreams An oval so clean it could be an eye or an Ei. The cosmic egg cracks, then politely puts itself back together for the coda. 00:13:06 Soda Lite – Emerald Armour https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/album/011-soda-lite-cape-gooseberry Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry) Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By Cape gooseberry armour — a papery lantern grown between patio bricks. The plant singing on a cliff that did not invite an audience. 00:16:05 Trem 77 – Staers https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/staers Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting Henrik’s strings combed into sand. A painting you are not allowed to keep; only to notice while the grains are still deciding. 00:22:47 Daily Mail Comments Section – A Short Song About Sex https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/a-short-song-about-sex Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test Two minutes of smear-test pop that arrived in a dream before Charli could steal the name. Whimsy wearing steel-capped boots. 00:23:37 Frank Pels – Wind Prayer https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/wind-prayer Album: Voyager Label: Ambient Cat A wind prayer written for people and for cats. Voyager opening a window the size of a synth trail and calling it home.
00:29:07 Fallen – From Dry Iron Valleys to Utopian Realms https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/from-dry-iron-valleys-to-utopian-realms-2 Album: Stars are Crashing, Home are Burning, Hearts are Changing-Notes from a Distant World/Detuned Lullabies for the Old Planet Label: Touched Music Dry iron valleys emptying into a realm that believes in lullabies. Forty-one records walking toward a planet that has not finished burning. 00:39:15 AeTopus – Others https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/aetopus-others Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166] Label: Cyclical Dreams Others, cut from the seventh tray of gemstones. Berlin School light bouncing off a stone that knows which pocket it came from. 00:43:25 SPTW – Messiah (demo version) https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/messiah-demo-version Album: EUTHYMIA Label: Mahorka. Messiah in demo clothes. SP-404 and an MPC arguing with pencils and bottles until euthymia agrees to sit still. 00:45:02 Dirk Serries – Slowly Wired https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/ Album: Curves of Splendor Label: Projekt Records Guitar wired so slowly the splendour has time to curve. VidnaObmana’s cousin taking the long way around the intrusive world. 00:56:21 DUSQ – Illusions https://daydreamerslabel.bandcamp.com/track/illusions Single: Illusions. Label: Daydreamers Illusions that refuse to hurry. Belarus folded into Daydreamers’ fourth quiet continuation. 00:58:55 Wax Machine – All I Can Do https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-can-do Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years Label: Batov Records All they can do is keep the ten-year sun turning. Batov’s suitcase still unpacked on the rotating floor.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 312. Travel safely between the frequencies. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 312
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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.
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 also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse 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, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands.
The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now the stage begins to turn.
A luminous, slightly forensic ambient journey through corridors of evidence, papery lanterns, and planets that have not finished burning.
Side A opens an investigation the cameras invent as they roll, then cracks a cosmic oval, grows emerald armour between patio bricks, combs strings into sand that will not stay, squeezes two minutes of smear-test whimsy, and ends on a wind prayer written for people and cats.
Side B walks dry iron valleys toward utopian lullabies, cuts others from the seventh gemstone tray, argues a Messiah into demo clothes, wires splendour so slowly it can curve, refuses to hurry its illusions, and keeps Batov’s ten-year sun turning with all it can do.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly jewelled — full of evidence the ghost leaves behind, sand still deciding, and light that knows which pocket it came from. Perfect for late listening, slow wiring, or sitting with the corridor while the next spool still waits.
00:03:06 Department of Light – Investigation #1
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-1
Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆
Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Sofia walks a corridor that only exists when the cameras are rolling. Five triangles of evidence. The library fund gets whatever the ghost leaves behind.
00:09:07 Michael Brückner – Coda (A Pure Oval Shape)
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/coda-a-pure-oval-shape
Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165]
Label: Cyclical Dreams
An oval so clean it could be an eye or an Ei. The cosmic egg cracks, then politely puts itself back together for the coda.
00:13:06 Soda Lite – Emerald Armour
https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/album/011-soda-lite-cape-gooseberry
Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry)
Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By
Cape gooseberry armour — a papery lantern grown between patio bricks. The plant singing on a cliff that did not invite an audience.
00:16:05 Trem 77 – Staers
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/staers
Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting
Henrik’s strings combed into sand. A painting you are not allowed to keep; only to notice while the grains are still deciding.
00:22:47 Daily Mail Comments Section – A Short Song About Sex
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/a-short-song-about-sex
Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test
Two minutes of smear-test pop that arrived in a dream before Charli could steal the name. Whimsy wearing steel-capped boots.
00:23:37 Frank Pels – Wind Prayer
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/wind-prayer
Album: Voyager
Label: Ambient Cat
A wind prayer written for people and for cats. Voyager opening a window the size of a synth trail and calling it home.
00:29:07 Fallen – From Dry Iron Valleys to Utopian Realms
https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/from-dry-iron-valleys-to-utopian-realms-2
Album: Stars are Crashing, Home are Burning, Hearts are Changing-Notes from a Distant World/Detuned Lullabies for the Old Planet
Label: Touched Music
Dry iron valleys emptying into a realm that believes in lullabies. Forty-one records walking toward a planet that has not finished burning.
00:39:15 AeTopus – Others
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/aetopus-others
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]
Label: Cyclical Dreams
Others, cut from the seventh tray of gemstones. Berlin School light bouncing off a stone that knows which pocket it came from.
00:43:25 SPTW – Messiah (demo version)
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/messiah-demo-version
Album: EUTHYMIA
Label: Mahorka.
Messiah in demo clothes. SP-404 and an MPC arguing with pencils and bottles until euthymia agrees to sit still.
00:45:02 Dirk Serries – Slowly Wired
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/
Album: Curves of Splendor
Label: Projekt Records
Guitar wired so slowly the splendour has time to curve. VidnaObmana’s cousin taking the long way around the intrusive world.
00:56:21 DUSQ – Illusions
https://daydreamerslabel.bandcamp.com/track/illusions
Single: Illusions.
Label: Daydreamers
Illusions that refuse to hurry. Belarus folded into Daydreamers’ fourth quiet continuation.
00:58:55 Wax Machine – All I Can Do
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-can-do
Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years
Label: Batov Records
All they can do is keep the ten-year sun turning. Batov’s suitcase still unpacked on the rotating floor.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 312.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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