Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 223
Atlas Dream Habit
Based on the track “Escape to Dream” from the album “Escape to Dream” by “Solace Road”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A tender, atmospheric ambient journey centered on introspection, escape, and emotional depth.
Side A drifts through gentle dreamscapes, delicate melodies, and fragile, watery textures — evoking longing, memory, and quiet reflection. Side B expands into luminous, slowed, and alchemical territory before shifting toward vivid cosmic and dark energy realms.
Overall mood: Dreamy, melancholic, and emotionally resonant with a strong sense of space and solitude. It feels intimate yet vast — like drifting between inner thoughts and the cosmos. Ideal for deep listening, late-night reflection, meditation, or unwinding.
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.
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 Solace Road – Escape to Dream – Escape to Dream – 2026
Gentle, flowing ambient with soft pads and dreamy escapism. Warm, hopeful, and soothing.
00:08:30 Arbee & Kilometre Club – Once is not a habit – Once is not a habit – 2025
Minimal, tape-warmed ambient with delicate textures and quiet repetition. Intimate and reflective.
00:09:54 Garda – Likimas – Sąlyga – 2025
Atmospheric Lithuanian ambient with emotional depth and subtle cinematic tension. Melancholic and elegant.
00:14:57 Scyye – outside – 2018
Sparse, drifting electronic ambient with open space and gentle detachment. Calm and airy.
00:18:25 Woo – Celeste
Light, whimsical ambient with charming melodies and signature Woo warmth. Playful and dreamy.
00:19:40 Spheruleus – Atlas Days – The Lost Catalogue – 2026
Subtle, weathered ambient with lost-catalogue nostalgia and soft decaying tones. Poignant and nostalgic.
00:23:43 Ekin Fil – bazille-water drop – Bora Boreas – 2025
Delicate, watery ambient with fragile beauty and emotional translucence. Ethereal and touching.
Side B
00:26:43 Solar Phasing – Luminescence (432hz) – Electronic Patterns – 2025
Luminous, tuned ambient with soft glowing layers and healing calm. Radiant and meditative.
00:30:44 Willebrant – Emerge (slowed and reverb) – The Pilgrim – Slowed and Reverb – 2025
Deep, slowed ambient with heavy reverb and emotional emergence. Immersive and cinematic.
00:35:57 Paul Beaudoin – Prima Materia – Alchemies – 2025
Alchemical ambient exploring raw sonic matter with rich, evolving textures. Mystical and grounded.
00:40:28 SURVEY CHANNEL – Outside the Coding Region – Triplicate Tapes Vol. 2: Space Invaders – 2021
Glitchy, coded electronic ambient with sci-fi unease and digital drift. Abstract and intriguing.
00:45:03 Loneward – Crimson Canvas – Musings of a Painted Sky – 2025
Vivid, painterly ambient with warm glowing tones and emotional brushstrokes. Beautiful and expressive.
00:52:31 Substak – Dark Energy Singularity – Black Noise Constellation – 2025
Cosmic, low-frequency dark ambient with massive scale and gravitational pull. Deep and powerful.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 159
26 December 2025
Virtual 90 minute mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 30 artists, two 45 minute sets. A spoken intro followed by music only show. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
“Hello, I’m Trevor, and this is episode one‑five‑nine of the Virtual Cassette Library. Today’s theme is Twist Fondest Waffle—which, as usual, is both the track you’re hearing underneath and a location you can find on a map, if you’re the sort who enjoys chasing coordinates on What3Words. We’ve got ninety minutes ahead—two sides, fifteen tracks each. Some names you’ll know, some you won’t, and that’s half the fun. We begin with Arbee & Norvik drifting through a Montréal alleyway, Bary Center disappearing into the trees, and Pocket Lint reminding us that we grow through our friends. There’s a rise‑in‑love from micca, diamond‑cracking teeth from pjpriiincess, and a new sun courtesy of GODTET. Now then, starting back on episode 156, there’s a little cipher game running through the series. Each episode, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten episodes, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ll get it right. Later on, we’ll hear winter choruses from Unruly Disturbance, a 2025 remaster from Ian Boddy & Chris Carter, and a snowy Christmas‑Eve vignette from On Idyl. Leisure Prison gives us another living space, Tim Story offers a dust bale hole, and Clearways pings us exactly once before Michael D. Tidwell closes the A side. On the flip side, Tapemoth brings entropy, Marie dissolves into a Bahrambient remix, and IKSRE gives us granite from Imaginary North. There’s cartography from Droning Cats with NRV, Italian library breaks from Modern Sound Quartet, and a fading coordinate from Grant Beasley. Roedelius appears, as he often does, like a quiet blessing. I’ve slipped in one of my own—Another Oddly Screamed—before Floating Points and Raphah carry us gently to the end. It’s ambient, kosmische, wintery, slightly haunted, and occasionally festive in a sideways sort of way. The sort of thing you might stumble across late at night on a shortwave dial, wondering if you imagined it. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you. First track up: Arbee & Norvik, Dans une ruelle, suite…”
Intro – 00:00
Arbee & Norvik – Dans une ruelle, suite – 03:21
Bary Center – Disappears (Into The Trees) – 05:21
Pocket Lint – we grow through our friends – 08:25
micca – Rise in love – 11:47
pjpriiincess – teeth – 15:42
GODTET – New Sun – 18:17
Spooqs – Laruna, Memory of the Tide – 21:24
Unruly Disturbance – Winter Chorus – 24:14
Ian Boddy & Chris Carter – Slab (2025 Remaster) – 27:26
Young Tribe – Tomorrow – 31:00
On Idyl – Sipping whiskey on Christmas Eve, out in the snow, under a full moon – 32:37
Leisure Prison – Living Space Three – 36:00
Tim Story – Dust Bale Hole – 38:54
Clearways – OnePingOnly – 43:00
Michael D. Tidwell – Cetrion – 46:39
B Side – 48:31
Tapemoth – Entropy – 49:05
Marie – Remaining (Bahrambient Rework) – 51:15
IKSRE – Granite – 53:45
Droning Cats with NRV – When Two Longitudes Overlap – 56:18
Solar Phasing – Welcome To The Core – Intro – 1:01:21
Allmanna Town – Sample 13 – 1:05:42
Modern Sound Quartet – Campanule – 1:06:57
Grant Beasley – Fading Coordinate – 1:09:17
Richard Davies – the spiritual embrace of the ether – 1:12:21
The Balloonist – A Modern Shopping Experience – 1:15:52
Roedelius – Veilchenwurzeln – 1:19:19
Trevlad – Another Oddly Screamed – 1:23:23
Ryan Hooper – This Will Pass – 1:26:00
Floating Points – Elaenia – 1:26:59
Raphah – Early Rise – 1:30:16
Outro – 1:34:00
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 144
21 November 2025
“Evening all. Episode one-four-four of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Decades Copying Observer. That’s the track you can hear underneath, and, oddly enough, it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—up on YouTube if you’re curious.”
“I’m Trevor. Ninety minutes here, two sides, forty-five minutes each. Fifteen tracks per set. No chatter, no interruptions. Just the music, rolling on like a festival stage that turns—one act fading, another coming into view.”
“Keys in focus this time: D sharp, E flat, and C minor. New friends joining us, Solar Phasing, Bary Center, and Futurum. familiar names returning, Floating Points, The Future Sound of London, The Twelve Hour Foundation, Ian Boddy and more. labels like Cyclical Dreams, Mahorka, Mortality Tables, Buried Treasure, Projekt Records, and Ingrown Records keeping the whole thing alive. They’re the soul of the show, really. There’s even an exclusive track from WHI Recordings from the album General Purpose Electronic Sound Vol.4 dropping December 5th.”
“If you’d like to be part of these missions, send your work to trevlad@gmail.com. Track links are at trevor.se, and marked in the Mixcloud timeline. The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre-order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. And the first compilation, Murmurs in the Mist, is out now, with forty-five artists involved.”
“Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
Marek Manowski – Lake I – 02:15
Solar Phasing – Gaia Pulse – 05:11
Pandacetamol – Cold Horizon – 08:09
Fu Kaisha – Hjalli – 11:15
Floating Points – For Marmish – 14:15
THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON – Optogram – 17:21
The Twelve Hour Foundation – 3-D Shadows – 20:20
Ian Boddy – LCM360 – 23:15
Exotic Gardens – Manifest XTC – 26:09
Wayne DeFehr – Wistful Sunset – 29:14
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Even Though It Was The Blink Of An Eye, I’m Sorry For What We Have Become – 32:14
Clearways – Delver – 35:17
Tim Hill – Whirl Me Round – 38:16
Rüdiger Lorenz – Southland (bureau b edit) – 41:13
Animal Visions – any kind of center – 44:05
B Side – 47:16
rikardfvs – The Hat Man – 47:48
Bary Center – Bound In The Beyond – 50:51
Don Slepian – March Of The Spirits – 55:02
Grant Beasley – Infinite Corridor – 56:52
Spooqs – Aelric, The Bathysphere – 59:46
autodealer – Shoreline Lost – 1:02:22
Harp & Arp – Draumur – 1:05:28
Dionisaf – Ice Kingdom – 1:08:51
*WHI Recordings – Breath – 1:11:51
Coque Yturriaga – Todo va bien – 1:14:52
dark blue moon – taken – 1:17:50
Futurum – Prado – 1:20:51
Collin Russell – Play – 1:23:52
E Ruscha V – The Sinking Summit – 1:26:50
Vivek – Chords of Forgiveness – 1:30:59
Outro – 1:32:51
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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