Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 344
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.
A Finnish distance that began in a Bristol record shop, then the domain of the moment.
Side A walks the distance already handed over in Rough Trade with the humility already charming, lets the decaying metal frame become an elegant skeleton with good bones, channels the alchemist’s random water so the gold is already considering it, keeps the corridors of glass already listening, wears the desire paths by feet that preferred them while the sun sets in agreement, and dries the tears at the west gate so they can be filed under west. Side B lets the reign of dust live gently, cools the logic as it approaches its asymptote and keeps approaching, focuses stones through forty-year-old tape machines whose edges are already soft, opens the inner so the mystical is already at home, dissolves with the universal solvent until the remainder is interesting, and hands the domain to the moment while the night looks forward to it.
Overall mood: Alchemical, and quietly charming — full of soft edges, open gates, and moments already in charge. Perfect for dusk listening, transparent corridors, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a Finnish distance that began in a Bristol record shop, a metal frame that has become a skeleton, an alchemist who channels the random movements of water, corridors of glass, desire paths for a setting sun, dried tears at a west gate.
00:01:28 Arvik Torrenssen – Sateessa – Part 1
(Exclusive track)
Album: In Distance. Label: whitelabrecs
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/in-distance
Arvik Torrenssen – In Distance
Met in Rough Trade Bristol, handed over some CDs, discovered afterwards that the quiet man across the table was already making this. Eurorack, artwork by Nkl. The distance already walked. The humility already charming.
00:06:21 Visionary Lines – The Decaying Metal Frame Of A Long Abandoned Building
https://dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com/track/visionary-lines-the-decaying-metal-frame-of-a-long-abandoned-building
Album: Skeletons. Label: Dustopian Frequencies
The frame already elegant. The building already a memory with good bones.
00:09:40 Ogle – The Alchemist
(Exclusive track)
Album: Magneto. Label: Subexotic Records
https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/
Title of the hour. Buchla Music Easel and granular synthesis, improvised, channelling the random movements of water. The water already cooperating. The gold already considering it.
00:12:21 4T Thieves – Corridors
https://4t-thieves.bandcamp.com/track/corridors
Album: Glass EP. Label: Mahorka
The corridors already transparent. The glass already listening.
00:18:26 CommsBreakdown + Socool – Desire Paths
https://commsbreakdown.bandcamp.com/track/desire-paths
Album:For The Setting Sun.
The paths already worn by feet that preferred them. The sun already setting in agreement.
00:21:50 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – Dried Tears At The West Gate
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-west-gate
Album: House with a Curse. Label: Clay Pipe Music
The gate already open. The tears already dried and filed under west.
Side B
Mood mist: a reign of dust that still lives, cold logic approaching its asymptote, stones focused through forty-year-old tape machines, an inner that is mystical, the universal solvent, the domain of the moment.
00:23:20 Hainbach – The Reign Of Dust
https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/track/the-reign-of-dust
Album: Vive. Label: Seil Records
The dust already in charge. The reign already gentle.
00:25:49 pollsign – Cold Logic
https://pollsign.bandcamp.com/track/cold-logic
Album: Asymptote. Label: Triplicate Records
The logic already cool. The asymptote already approached, and still approaching.
00:33:05 Rekombinant – Focused on Stones
(Exclusive track)
Album: Magneto. Label: Subexotic Records
https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/
Tape machines from Japan, Italy, Germany, all older than forty. Sounds losing their edges, finding new ones. The stones already focused. The edges already soft.
00:36:04 Suseti – Inner
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/inner
Album: Mystical. Label: Ambient Cat
The inner already open. The mystical already at home.
00:38:59 Deficit & Letargy – Alkahest
https://grimmgoatrecords.bandcamp.com/track/alkahest
Album: Alchemy. Label: Grimm Goat
The universal solvent already dissolving what it was asked to. The remainder already interesting.
00:42:30 Government Alpha & Vanity Productions – The Domain of the Moment (feat. Rush Falknor)
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/track/the-domain-of-the-moment-feat-rush-falknor
Album: Anticipation of the Night. Label: Amulet of Tears
The moment already in charge. The night already anticipated, and rather looking forward to it.
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.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 343
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.
A sunset on Venus that trusts the guide, then virga that falls and then thinks better of it.
Side A trusts the guide so the glide is already under way and Venus looks rather pleased, reaches the destination and then politely asks to rewind the last bit, practises the art of being young with the exclusive already warm, lets the echo accept its past with the signature already signed, finds the sprite and the bride both slightly surprised to be in the same room, and accounts for someone who was there in New South Wales. Side B thickens a Finnish mist until it becomes itself, terraces the terrace so thoroughly the cat is already elegant about it, brings the wind from the sea with the sea already agreeing, keeps the world still loved on a kind remaster, cares totally with the ears already filed on the tenth, and lets the virga fall so the third can be the one that stays.
Overall mood: Elegant, and quietly accepted — full of trusted guides, signed acceptances, and thirds that decide to stay. Perfect for dusk listening, open terraces, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a sunset on Venus that trusts the guide, a destination that prefers to rewind, the art of being young still practising, an echo that has accepted its past, a sprite and a bride found and found again, someone who was there in New South Wales.
00:01:28 Matthewdavid – Venusian Sunset
https://matthewdavidmcq.bandcamp.com/track/venusian-sunset
Album: Trust the Guide and Glide. Label: LEAVING RECORDS
The guide already trusted. The glide already under way. Venus looking rather pleased with itself.
00:13:08 Dirk Serries – Destination Rewind
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/destination-rewind
Album: Label: Projekt Records
The destination already reached, then politely asked to go back and try the last bit again. The curves already agreeing.
00:24:37 Sons of Faust – The Art of Being Young
(Exclusive track)
https://sonsoffaust.bandcamp.com/
The youth already posing. The exclusive already warm.
00:34:00 HERE – The Echo Of What Was
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/the-echo-of-what-was
Album: Acceptance. Label: whitelabrecs
The echo already settled. The acceptance already signed.
00:35:51 Nitai Hershkovits & Daniel Dor – The Sprite and The Bride
https://nitaihershkovits-danieldor.bandcamp.com/track/the-sprite-and-the-bride
Album: Found & Found. Label: Raw Tapes
The sprite already found. The bride already found. Both of them slightly surprised to be in the same room.
00:38:54 Jics – She Was There
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/she-was-there
Album: New South Wales. Label: whitelabrecs
The there already located. The she already accounted for.
Side B
Mood mist: a Finnish mist becoming itself, a terrace that has been thoroughly terraced, a wind from the sea, a world still loved, ears that are totally caring, virga that falls and then thinks better of it.
00:40:14 Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Usvaantuu
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/usvaantuu
Album: Viriää. Label: whitelabrecs
The mist already thickening in Finnish. The viriää already waking.
00:42:44 Bolbec – Terrassée
https://bolbec.bandcamp.com/track/terrasse-e
Album: Foutu Félin. Label: Batov Records
The cat already foutu, and rather elegant about it.
00:46:38 Albin – Vinden
https://paltunes.bandcamp.com/track/vinden
Album: Havet och vinden. Label: Paltunes
The wind already from the sea. The sea already agreeing.
00:50:30 AutopsiA – God So Loved The World [remastered 2026]
https://autopsia.bandcamp.com/track/god-so-loved-the-world-remastered-2026
Album: Humanity Is The Devil 2026.
The love already on the tape. The remaster already kind.
00:58:07 Trevlad – Totally Ears Caring
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/totally-ears-caring
Album: TVCL 10.
The caring already total. The tenth already filed.
01:02:33 Eluvium – Virga III
https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/track/virga-iii
Album: Virga III. Label: Temporary Residence Ltd.
The virga already falling. The third already the one that stays.
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.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 339
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.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. 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 whistle mapped into silence, then a spring that prefers to vanish quietly.
Side A draws the map so the silence can answer, lets the music of the spheres burn bright and kind, rests the tongue in cold shadows under a solar scream, warms a tiny stone in a brief perfect drift, holds quiet music from Toronto in the lake, and draws a crystal so the page already shines. Side B cooks a beacon for a kind visitation, lengthens an afternoon in warm fur, grows an organic vibe in the factory that is already alive, shares a symbiosis in a lost city already found, opens a Shangri-La reverie for the valley, and lets the spring arrive so the vanishing can stay soft.
Overall mood: Luminous, and quietly kind — full of answering silences, shared rooms, and springs that know how to leave. Perfect for dusk listening, soft cities, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a whistle mapped into silence, a bright burn from the music of the spheres, a tongue resting in cold shadows under a solar scream, a tiny stone drifting, quiet music from Toronto, a crystal drawn rather than cut.
00:02:18 Anhnch – a whistle, then echoing silence
https://anhnch.bandcamp.com/track/a-whistle-then-echoing-silence
Album: Cartography of Expression.
The map already drawn. The silence already answering.
00:09:15 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Brightburn
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/brightburn
Album: Musica Universalis. Label: Ambient Cat
The spheres already singing. The burn already kind.
00:13:11 Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Let Your Tongue Lie Still In Their Cold Shadows
https://ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/track/let-your-tongue-lie-still-in-their-cold-shadows
Album: The Blessed Brethren of the Sacred Solar Scream.
The rural district already listening. The tongue already at rest.
00:14:50 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 4
https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/track/microlith-4-3
Album: Microliths and Momentary Drifts.
The small stone already warm. The drift already brief and perfect.
00:16:15 anthéne – wallace emerson
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/anth-ne-wallace-emerson
Album: Lake Effect: Quiet Music From Toronto. Label: Imaginary North
The lake already holding the sound. The city already soft.
00:19:10 Ryuuta Takaki – Drawing a Crystal
https://ryuuta-takaki.bandcamp.com/track/drawing-a-crystal
Album: Drawing a Crystal.
The pencil already finding the facets. The page already shining.
Side B
Mood mist: a beacon cooked for a visitation, an afternoon in fur, an organic vibe from the factory, a symbiosis in a lost city, a reverie named Shangri-La, a spring that prefers to vanish quietly.
00:24:42 Time Rival – Beacon Beauty
https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/track/beacon-beauty
Album: Cooked (Visitation No. 3). Label: CONDITION HUMAN
The light already on. The visit already kind.
00:29:38 DOMOTIC – Afternoon
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/track/afternoon
Album: Fourrure Sounds Vol. 3 to 6. Label: Astra Solaria Recordings
The fur already warm. The afternoon already long.
00:32:13 Williams Marx – Organic Vibe
https://inthemood2.bandcamp.com/track/organic-vibe
Album: Ambient Factory I. Label: In The Mood
Title of the hour. The factory already growing its own. The vibe already alive.
00:35:04 Sylvain Carel – Symbiosis
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/symbiosis
Album: Naharim, the Lost City [CYD 0169]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Two organisms already sharing the room. The city already found.
00:40:18 Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Shangri La
https://orikaplanlihumelamed.bandcamp.com/track/shangri-la-2
Album: Reverie. Label: Batov Records
The valley already open. The reverie already shared.
00:42:49 Halftribe – Vernal
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/vernal
Album: Disappear in Silent Ways. Label: DRONARIVM
The spring already here. The vanishing already soft.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 339.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 338
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.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. 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 moon and her sisters in the retort, then a hop that is already well.
Side A keeps the moons already in the flask while the gold forms, holds home at a gentle distance with something greater already walking beside you, lets everything shine from within with the glow still in the grain, sighs a heart across the galaxy while despair and hope share the EP, leaves the plea soft after the kilometre is walked, and warms an egg in the suburbs with the hedge already quiet. Side B takes one small step with the boot already on the surface, opens the code in the swirl so it can read itself, populates a soft suburb with eleven marble dogs, lets the river know the way so you may follow, leaves a lost city still waiting in the hidden kingdoms, and lands the hop already well with the mezze on the table.
Overall mood: Luminous, and quietly kind — full of warm shells, open ciphers, and tables already set. Perfect for dusk listening, soft suburbs, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a moon and her sisters in the retort, a home kept at a gentle distance, everything shining from within, a heart sighing across the galaxy, a plea left soft, an egg in the suburbs.
00:02:18 Brapscallion – Callisto And Her Sisters
https://waxingcrescentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/callisto-and-her-sisters
Album: Alchemy. Label: Waxing Crescent Records
oons already in the flask. The gold already forming.
00:05:07 Walls of Ashes – Home Is Way Too Far to Be Reached Again
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/home-is-way-too-far-to-be-reached-again
Album: Something Greater Than Ourselves. Label: Ambient Cat
The distance already kind. The greater thing already walking beside you.
00:10:57 Trem 77 – Everything Always Shine (Bioluminescence Mix)
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/everything-always-shine-bioluminescence-mix
Album: Aepochs.
The light coming from the thing itself. Henrik’s glow still in the grain.
00:13:25 Moonlit Workhouse/Persephonic Sprawl – Across the Galaxy is Where My Heart Sighs
https://prozapine.bandcamp.com/track/across-the-galaxy-is-where-my-heart-sighs
Album: Despair/Hope EP.
Despair and hope sharing the EP. Prozapine. The sigh already travelling. The galaxy already listening.
00:21:28 Arbee & Kilometre Club – Don’t be too hard on me
https://kilometreclub.bandcamp.com/track/dont-be-too-hard-on-me
Album: Once is not a habit.
The request already soft. The kilometre already walked.
00:23:38 Calm Pieces – Egg
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/egg
Album: Suburbia, Still. Label: whitelabrecs
The shell already warm. The hedge already quiet.
Side B
Mood mist: a step small enough for the moon, a code in the swirl, eleven marble dogs in a soft suburb, a river crossing the land, a city still waiting to be found, a hop that is already well.
00:29:35 The Hamiltones – One Small Step
https://bigneckrecords1.bandcamp.com/track/one-small-step
Album: IN SPACE. Label: Swimming Faith Records
The boot already on the surface. The flag already waving in the vacuum’s imagination.
00:32:48 Flora Hibberd – Code
https://flora-hibberd.bandcamp.com/track/code-3
Album: Swirl (Deluxe). Label: 22TWENTY
The cipher already open. The swirl already reading it.
00:35:40 Kenny Ueda – Eleven Marble Poodles
https://kenjiueda.bandcamp.com/track/eleven-marble-poodles
Album: Soft Suburbia. Label: Mystery Circles
The garden already populated. The stone already soft.
00:38:53 Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance – The River
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/track/the-river
Album: Land. Label: Driftworks
Title of the hour. The water already knowing the way. You may follow.
00:42:58 Asha Patera – Lost City
(Exclusive track)
Album: Label: Trevlad
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-kingdoms
Entries still welcome — artist, track, a link to other work — trevlad@gmail.com, before the 29th of December.
00:47:23 Sababa 5 – Hop
https://sababa5.bandcamp.com/track/hop
Album: Ça va Ça va. Label: Batov Records
All is well. The hop already landed. The mezze already on the table.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 338.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 335
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.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. 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 monster, a music box and a toy Dalek sharing a loch, then a scream addressed to you.
Side A makes tea for three guests at the same water, finds houses for the long-haired with the roof already on, leaves a face deciding to arrive at the free fire, thinks on a Swedish summer afternoon while the pond remembers Atlantis, rings a modern call during migration, and lets the waterfall do the drapery for the live figure. Side B distils essences numbered one-point-one with the exploration still open, scans the stacks with the card catalogue still listening, faces the chorale toward the warmer wall, invites you across the threshold with the kettle already on, holds the room in a thrice-holy hymn, and keeps a place for the scream that already knows your name.
Overall mood: Eccentric, and quietly welcoming — full of open doors, free fires, and co-ops that keep a place for the loud one. Perfect for dusk listening, garden ponds, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a monster, a music box and a toy Dalek sharing a loch, houses for the long-haired, a face left at the door, thoughts on a Swedish summer afternoon, a modern call during migration, a figure by falling water, live and unclothed.
00:02:18 M-Corp – Loch Ness, Hungarian Music Box & Toy Dalek
(Exclusive track)
Album: The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two. Label: The Synthesis Co-Op
https://tscoop.bandcamp.com/
The Synthesis Co-Op, volume two. Three guests at the same water. The monster already making tea.
00:07:17 Slate Trio – Hippies Need Houses
https://pigrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hippies-need-houses
Album: Label: Pig Records
Title of the hour. The commune has found the keys. The roof is already on.
00:16:03 Slobject. – I Have No Face
(Exclusive track)
Album: Bonfire Pro Bono. Label: Waxing Crescent Records
https://waxingcrescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
The fire lit for free, the features still deciding to arrive.
00:19:10 Snufmumriko – Tankar en sommareftermiddag
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/tankar-en-sommareftermiddag
Album: Talisman. Label: Le Mont Analogue, DRONARIVM
Thoughts on a summer afternoon. Talisman, Le Mont Analogue. The garden pond still remembering Atlantis.
00:22:18 Heron & Crane – Modern Calling
https://heronandcranemusic.bandcamp.com/track/modern-calling-2
Album: Migrations.
The birds already on the wire, the telephone already ringing in a newer key.
00:25:13 Jez Thelwell – Nude Woman By Waterfall
https://jezthelwell.bandcamp.com/track/nude-woman-by-waterfall-live-fact-8th-sept-2026
Single: Nude Woman By Waterfall – Live FACT 8th Sept 2026. Label: Moolakii Club Audio Interface
Moolakii Club. The water doing the drapery. The room already quiet.
Side B
Mood mist: essences numbered one-point-one, a librarian scanning the stacks, a chorale facing south, an invitation across the threshold, a thrice-holy hymn, a scream addressed to you.
00:37:26 Radio Free London – Essences of Explorations I.I
https://radiofreelondon.bandcamp.com/track/essences-of-explorations-i-i
Album: Essences of Explorations I.
https://radiofreelondon.bandcamp.com/album/essences-of-explorations-i
The broadcast already in the air. The essence distilled, the exploration still open.
00:40:34 Scanner – Phontrd
https://scanner.bandcamp.com/track/phontrd
Album: Scanner Librarian EP 1.
Robin Rimbaud filing the frequencies. The card catalogue still listening.
00:43:57 Mark Donlon – Chorale
https://sermakmusic.bandcamp.com/track/chorale
Album: Southern Shift. Label: SERMAK MUSIC
The voices already facing the warmer wall. The hymn still rising.
00:48:59 this occasional society – Come Away In
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/come-away-in
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
Grass roots, MEANS. The door already open. The kettle already on.
00:50:21 CZiGO – Trysagion
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/track/trysagion
Album:Eight Contemplations of Sorrowful Things. Label: Machine Records
Thrice holy. Eight contemplations of sorrowful things, Machine Records. The chant still holding the room.
00:56:08 orchidbunny – Scream4u
(Exclusive track)
Album: The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two. Label: The Synthesis Co-Op
https://tscoop.bandcamp.com/
The Synthesis Co-Op, volume two again. The co-op keeping a place for the loud one. The scream already personal.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 335.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 331
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, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. 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. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A sundial turned inward, then a boat named in two languages.
Side A writes its hours in a Canadian winter while the light inside learns to keep its own, holds the shape of callers who have already left, leaves a glimmer on for the night, lets the ocean breathe along the path, builds architecture that knows its own duration and still stands, and rearranges the light so it remains in the living room. Side B follows the grey sea whose fog already knows the way, crosses a forest at funk speed in under a minute, walks an old earthwork in a hidden kingdom still open for entries, listens to an Estonian runway listening back, switches on the first light of a galactic passenger, and names the boat once on each side of the hull.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly seasonal, and quietly luminous — full of little lights left on, temporary buildings, and seas that already know the way. Perfect for dusk listening, houses with a curse, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a sundial turned inward, callers who have already left the hall, a glimmer left on overnight, an ocean breathing along a path, architecture that knows it is temporary, light pulled gently into a living room.
00:02:18 Gollden – november 19th
(Exclusive track)
Album: Sundial. Label: Anjunabeats
https://anjunabeats.bandcamp.com/
Sundial — written in a Canadian winter, when the light outside stepped back and the light inside learned to keep its own hours. Anjunabeats Circadian. Full release the 26th of October. The compass is already warm.
00:05:18 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – Callers Have Departed
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/callers-have-departed
Album: House with a Curse. Label: Clay Pipe Music
House with a Curse, Clay Pipe. The hall still holding the shape of the visit. The hymn book left open on the sideboard.
00:07:45 Arbee – Une lueur
https://arbee.bandcamp.com/track/une-lueur
Album: Veilleuses.
A glimmer. Veilleuses — the little lights left on for the night. The room already softer.
00:10:23 Philippe Deschamps – Breath of the Ocean
https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/track/breath-of-the-ocean
Album: Wind Paths.
Wind paths, the Goodnight Project still walking them. The tide exhaling in time with the path.
00:11:52 Pabellon Sintetico – Fuge
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/fuge
Album: Ephemeral Architecture [CYD 0168]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Ephemeral architecture, Cyclical Dreams. A building that knows its own duration, and still stands for the length of the piece.
00:14:29 Hainbach – Torn From Light
https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/track/torn-from-light
Album: Vive. Label: Seil Records
Vive — to live. Seil Records keeping the torn edge soft. The light still in the room, just rearranged.
Side B
Mood mist: a grey sea asking to be followed, a forest crossed at funk speed, an earthwork from a hidden kingdom, a drone listening to an airport in Estonia, the first light of a galactic passenger, a boat named in two languages.
00:18:18 Sven Laux & Logic Moon – Follow The Waves
(Exclusive track)
Album: Sea of Grey. Label: whitelabrecs
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-grey
Sea of Grey, whitelabrecs. Title of the hour. The fog already knows the way. You may follow.
00:21:52 Prana Crafter – Quickly Through the Forest Funk
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/prana-crafter-quickly-through-the-forest-funk
Album: IHNDIGS015 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 4. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, volume four. I Heart Noise letting the trees keep the beat.
00:22:36 Warmfield – Grim’s Ditch
(Exclusive track)
Album: Hidden Kingdoms. Label: Trevlad
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-kingdoms
Hidden Kingdoms, the next compilation, still open. Trevlad walking the old earthwork. Entries still welcome at trevlad@gmail.com — artist, track, a link to other work, before the 29th of December.
00:27:21 rikardfvs – airport-drone-gqrx-surveillance
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/airport-drone-gqrx-surveillance
Album: TARTU. Label: Camembert Électrique
GQRX surveillance. Tartu, Camembert Électrique. The radio listening to the runway, the runway listening back.
00:31:51 Surbahar – The Genesis of Light
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/the-genesis-of-light
Album: Passenger of the Galaxy. Label: Mahorka
Passenger of the galaxy, Mahorka. The first switch, the cabin already warm.
00:39:25 NDORFIK, DEE-KEY – Laivu
(Exclusive track)
Album: Laivu. Label: Local Gods
https://localgodslabel.bandcamp.com/
The boat, Local Gods. Two names on the hull, one wake.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 331.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 325
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, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. 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. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A porch that has already sat down, then a future you already remind someone of.
Side A cools piano phrases on a veranda still holding salt in the grain, teaches a scrap giant to stay kind while made of girders, paints sand purple-black for as long as you are looking, lets a Finnish sentence glide away, shares rust and wave in a hallway with every door on the latch, and finds winter already standing behind the pane. Side B leaves offerings past the last familiar planet, walks false suns politely in their lanes, keeps the hands through a damp postcard, rings a suburban tram once at a stop that knows your name, continues the second investigation under five triangles, and remembers a future in three parts with sense set aside.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly seasonal, and quietly kind — full of unlatched corridors, damp postcards, and titles that have already arrived. Perfect for dusk listening, porches after the heat, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a porch that has already sat down, a giant made of scrap learning manners, sand painted purple-black, Finnish for something slipping softly off, corridors of rust and wave, a pane with the cold season standing behind it.
00:02:18 Jogging House – Veranda
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/veranda
Album: Really.
The porch where the piano phrases come to cool their hands. Salt’s notes still in the grain of the wood.
00:05:59 Mike Dickinson – Iron Man’s Challenge
https://mikedickinson.bandcamp.com/track/iron-mans-challenge
Album: The Iron Man by Ted Hughes – OST.
Ted Hughes’ giant, scored. Scrap learning to be a guest. The challenge is to stay kind while you are made of girders.
00:08:29 Trem 77 – Purple Black Texture (Strings Mix)
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/purple-black-texture-strings-mix
Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting.
Sandpainting that keeps its colour for as long as you are looking. Henrik’s bow still in the grain.
00:11:25 Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – …lipuu pois
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/lipuu-pois
Album: Viriää- Label: whitelabrecs
It glides away. Viriää, the stirring. Whitelabrecs letting the sentence finish in Finnish and in air.
00:17:35 Tewksbury – Corridors
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/corridors
Album: rust/wave. Label: Imaginary North
Rust and wave sharing a hallway. Imaginary North leaving every door on the latch.
00:18:42 Lab’s Cloud – Winter is Coming
https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/track/winter-is-coming
Album: Behind the Pane. Label: Le Mont Analogue, DRONARIVM, fonodroom
Behind the pane, already. Le Mont Analogue, DRONARIVM, fonodroom, three names for the same glass. Title of the hour.
Mood mist: deities past the last familiar planet, false suns in a kind sky, hands kept through a shower, a tram that knows every hedge, a second investigation, a future you already remind someone of.
00:25:13 Wayside Shrine – Gods of the Outer System
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/gods-of-the-outer-system
Album: Gods of the Outer System. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
A shrine by the road, and the road has left the solar system. The Dream Journal keeping the offerings.
00:35:39 Green-House – Sun Dogs
https://green-house.bandcamp.com/track/sun-dogs
Album: Hinterlands. Label: Ghostly International
Two bright companions walking either side of the real sun, polite enough to stay in their lanes.
00:38:12 BVSMV – Holding Hands in the Rain
https://tripfm.bandcamp.com/track/bvsmv-holding-hands-in-the-rain
Album: Label: TRIP FM, Triplicate Records
Space invaders, volume two, and still someone remembered the hands. Triplicate printing the postcard three times, all of them damp.
00:42:29 Calm Pieces – Suburban Tram
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/suburban-tram
Album: Suburbia, Still. Label: whitelabrecs
Whitelabrecs letting the bell ring once, softly, at a stop that already knows your name.
00:45:37 Department of Light – Investigation #2
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-2
Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Five triangles, the case still open. The Dream Journal filing Sofia’s notes under “continuing.”
00:51:40 primeiro – Me hacés acordar al futuro III
https://primeiro-segundo.bandcamp.com/track/me-hace-s-acordar-al-futuro-iii
Album: Senza Senzo.
You remind me of the future, part three. Senza senzo — sense set aside, memory doing the work.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 325.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 324
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, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. 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. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A water lily at a threshold, then a seven that has already shifted south.
Side A opens the door on a nymphaea before the official date, shares fear, rage and love in under a minute, walks the warm marble of a city still standing in the name, lets the wind keep both hands in its pockets and still carry you, files roots under a clause, and blushes a 1970 library record with the flute still warm. Side B marries a rope to itself, lets undesignated buildings prefer to meet, studies a field still learning the season, treats the tuning as the piece, lets the night accept the fire, and turns seven toward the warmer wall.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly tender, and quietly architectural — full of thresholds, pencil blueprints, and gardens that leave the gate open. Perfect for dusk listening, fields still learning the season, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a water lily at a threshold, three feelings in under a minute, a city of marble still standing in the name, a wind that kept us, roots under a clause, a library record blushing in 1970.
00:02:18 (Exclusive) Corrado Saija and Elia Piana – Nymphaea II
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/
Album: Limen. Label: Driftworks Full release – Friday 16th October
Limen — the threshold. Piano talking to algorithms, stone porous, water fluent. Driftworks opening the door on the 16th. You may step through now.
00:08:15 Concretism – Fear, Rage, and Love
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/concretism-fear-rage-and-love
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which is plenty for three weathers of the heart. I Heart Noise letting them share the minute.
00:09:01 Still & JRNDM – EFESO
https://pablosanguinetti.bandcamp.com/track/efeso
Ephesus, the marble still warm in the name. A library of columns, and the groove walking between them.
00:11:56 Scholars of the Peak & Warmfield – The Way the Wind Held Us
https://warmfield.bandcamp.com/track/the-way-the-wind-held-us
Single: The Way the Wind Held Us.
Title of the hour. A single that keeps both hands in its pockets and still manages to carry you.
00:15:05 Subordinate Clause – Cafraster
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/cafraster
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
Grass roots, the clause under the sentence. MEANS filing the soil with the syntax.
00:19:07 Larry Manteca – EROTICA
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/erotica
Album: Erotica 70. Label: Four Flies Records
Seventy, restored. Four Flies lifting the velvet and finding the flute still warm.
Mood mist: a rope married to itself, buildings that prefer to meet, a field still learning the season, a tuning that is the piece, a night glad of the flame, a seven that has already shifted south.
00:23:10 Nickolas Mohanna – Eye Splice
https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/track/eye-splice
Album: Whistler.
The knot that lets a rope become its own companion. Whistler, the note you hear when the air is pleased.
00:29:58 The Architect – Formations and Collisions
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/formations-and-collisions
Album: Undesignated. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Undesignated, which is a fine category for a dream. The Journal keeping the blueprint in pencil.
00:37:10 Kiu Siu – In Spring
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/in-spring
Album: Field Studies, Volume 5. Label: The Jewel Garden
Field studies, volume five, the season arriving with its pockets full of green. The Jewel Garden leaving the gate open.
00:48:46 Ótal – Tuning Study
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/tuning-study
Album: Field Studies, Volume 5. Label: The Jewel Garden
The same garden, a few beds along. The piece is the tuning. The Jewel Garden letting the string find itself.
00:57:43 Black Sun High Desert – The Night Accepts The Fire
https://blacksunhighdesert.bandcamp.com/track/the-night-accepts-the-fire
Album: The Weight Of The Night Sky.
The weight of the night sky, glad of the company. A desert holding both.
00:59:44 Mark Donlon – Seven
https://sermakmusic.bandcamp.com/track/seven
Album: Label: SERMAK MUSIC
Southern shift, the number already facing the warmer wall. Sermak keeping the count.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 323.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 320
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, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. 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. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A sentence that will not finish, then time asked to smile and, for once, agreeing.
Side A never changes to stop, opens doors until a room becomes a corridor, remixes Melody Day until it is handed back still humming, sits in the unfurnished space between, tunes a beautiful place out in the country from a congregation you were invited to, and arrives late to a videotape whose chorus has already been recorded. Side B launches Big Face like a boat, files a sensual woman under mercenary, wants you with the band waiting outside, cruises a street that only exists after the streetlights give up, interviews little fluffy clouds in a West Country accent, and puts a smile on a DJ’s face before keeping the change.
Overall mood: Warm, slightly nostalgic, and gently unfinished — full of souvenirs, velvet ropes left on the floor, and last pages that knew they were last. Perfect for dusk drives, rooms that decide to be corridors, or sitting still while the next spool still waits
Side A
Mood mist: a sentence that will not finish, doors agreeing to open, a day remixed until it smiles, a gap you can sit in, a beautiful place that may be a field recording of a sermon, a tape that knows it is the last song.
00:02:18 The Books – It Never Changes To Stop
https://books.bandcamp.com/track/it-never-changes-to-stop
Album: Lost and Safe. Label: Temporary Residence Ltd.
It never changes to stop. Lost and safe, which is a strange pair of instructions. The sample keeps walking. Temporary Residence lets it.
00:06:20 Maston with L’éclair – The Doors Are Opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDgvTx1NIbQ
Album: Souvenir. Label: Calico Discos
The doors are opening. A souvenir from a room that has decided to be a corridor. Calico Discos holding the handle.
00:09:21 Caribou – Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)
https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/melody-day-four-tet-remix
Album: Melody Day.
Melody Day, Four Tet’s hands on the hem. The day lengthened, then folded, then handed back still humming.
00:13:53 Zero 7 – The Space Between
https://zero7.bandcamp.com/track/the-space-between-1
Album: When It Falls (Special Edition). Label: Chrysalis Records
The space between. When it falls, this is what it falls into. Chrysalis leaving the gap unfurnished.
00:19:25 Boards of Canada – Amo Bishop Roden
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/track/amo-bishop-roden
Album: In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country. Label: Warp Records
Amo Bishop Roden. A beautiful place out in the country, broadcast from a congregation you were invited to.
00:25:10 Radiohead – Videotape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF83_PR2EsA
Album: In Rainbows.
Videotape. In Rainbows, last page. The chorus you were meant to sing along to has already been recorded. You are late, and that is the point.
Side B
Mood mist: a face launched like a boat, a woman filed under mercenary, a want with the band removed, a cruise that only runs after dark, clouds interviewed and found to be little, time asked to smile and, for once, agreeing.
00:30:32 Plaid & Bob Jaroc – The Launching Of Big Face
https://plaid.bandcamp.com/track/the-launching-of-big-face
Album: Greedy Baby. Label: Warp Records
The launching of Big Face. Greedy Baby sending a portrait out to sea. Warp counting down from a number that isn’t a number.
00:34:36 The Herbaliser – The Sensual Woman
https://theherbaliser.bandcamp.com/track/the-sensual-woman-1
Album: Very Mercenary. Label: Ninja Tune
The sensual woman. Very mercenary, which is to say the groove has a price and has already been paid. Ninja Tune leaving the velvet rope on the floor.
00:37:32 Marvin Gaye – I Want You (Acapella)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbfh30z1_u8
Album: I Want You (Expanded Deluxe Edition) Label: Universal Music Group
I want you, and nothing else in the room. The band has been asked to wait outside. The want remains.
00:42:14 DāM-FunK – Night Kruise
https://soundcloud.com/dam-funk/night-kruise
Album: Architecture III. Label: Glydezone Recordings
Night kruise. Architecture for a street that only exists after the streetlights give up. Glydezone keeping the tank full.
00:46:08 The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfjpmvbQG0
Album: The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. Label: Big Life
Little fluffy clouds. Rickie Lee talking to the sky, the sky talking back in a West Country accent. Ultraworld, first postcard.
00:49:30 Khruangbin & Felix Dickinson – Time (You and I) (Put a Smile on DJ’s Face Mix)
https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/track/time-you-and-i-put-a-smile-on-djs-face-mix
Album: Mordechai Remixes. Label: Dead Oceans
Time, you and I. The mix that was asked to put a smile on a DJ’s face, and did, and then kept the change. Dead Oceans closing the case.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 320.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 319
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, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. 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-set 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. Unless you look. Don’t look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A clock that insists the world is already the argument, then a house that hums because it was cursed to.
Side A opens the door unlatched on a cuckoo that has already said what it came to say, builds a choir from stones that will not give the words, fidgets in Latin for a sound that will not sit still, files tears under ocean and returns the glass, sets a plate for a love that left no chair pushed in, and steps into a puddle that learned to be a room. Side B runs a rite hotter than the room agreed to, cuts a faun from the seventh tray of stones, reaches the far point of an orbit, refuses a capital letter for nights that would rather not be introduced, walks the last few steps into silence, and keeps the hymn book and the haunting on the same shelf.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly haunted, and quietly ritual — full of unlatched doors, lowercase dreams, and sanctuaries that sing whether you asked or not. Perfect for dusk listening, houses with a curse, or sitting still while the ripples never quite reach the edge.
Mood mist: a clock that insists the world is already the argument, a choir built from stones, Latin for a sound that will not sit still, tears filed under ocean, a love that left its plate, a puddle that learned to be a room.
00:02:12 Portland Vows – Everything Is The Case
https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/track/everything-is-the-case
Album: Cuckoo. Label: Third Kind Records
Cuckoo, and the case is the clock, and the clock has already said what it came to say. Third Kind leaving the door unlatched.
00:06:02 bluhm – stonechoir
https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/track/stonechoir
Album: signals in the static. Label: handstitched*
Signals in the static, sung by a wall that handstitched taught to hold a note. Don’t ask the mortar for the words.*
00:09:12 Sebastian Zawadzki – Fluctuans in Sonitus Ambientis
https://sebastianzawadzkimusic.bandcamp.com/track/fluctuans-in-sonitus-ambientis
Album:Pax Elysium.
A fluctuation in the sound of the room, dressed for Pax Elysium and still fidgeting with its cuffs.
00:10:55 TREVØR – Tears
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/tears
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans keeping the salt and returning the glass.
00:13:22 Eje Eje – Phantom Love
https://ejeeje.bandcamp.com/track/phantom-love
Album: Mezze. Label: Batov Records
Mezze for a guest who ate and left no chair pushed in. Batov setting a plate anyway.
00:16:08 Salamanda – Puddle Underwater
https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/track/puddle-underwater
Album: Sphere. Label: Métron Records
A sphere you can step in without wetting the hem. Métron counting the ripples that never reach the edge.
Mood mist: a rite that runs hot, a faun cut from the seventh tray of stones, the far point of an orbit, nights that refuse a capital letter, a walk that ends in quiet, a house that sings because it was cursed to.
00:20:17 Electric Circus – High Fever
https://electriccircus3.bandcamp.com/track/high-fever-2
Album: Rites. Label: Killer Groove Records
Rites performed at a temperature the room did not agree to. Killer Groove leaving the window shut.
00:23:26 Cartas de Japón – Faune III
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/cartas-de-jap-n-faune-iii
Album: Label: Cyclical Dreams
A letter from nowhere in particular, pressed into Gemstones VII until the faun agreed to be a facet.
00:32:57 Erik Wøllo – Aphelion
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/aphelion
Album: Earthshine. Label: Projekt Records
Earthshine at its furthest from the thing that lights it. Projekt letting the tape run slow enough to feel the distance.
00:34:39 Jupi/ter – dreams.
https://jupitersound.bandcamp.com/track/dreams
Album: Nights
Lower case, full stop. Nights that would rather not be introduced.
00:38:51 Fumana – Into Silence
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/fumana-into-silence
Album: Imaginary North Transmission 012. Label: Imaginary North
Imaginary North transmitting the last few steps before the signal decides it has said enough.
00:41:02 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – The Sanctuary Of Song
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-sanctuary-of-song
Album: House with a Curse. Label: Clay Pipe Music
The sanctuary of song, inside a house with a curse. Clay Pipe keeping the hymn book and the haunting on the same shelf.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 319.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 315
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.
Moss collecting light before the record exists, then tour days that travel only as far as their own shadow.
Side A gathers moss on a lotus that has not officially opened, parks Sol in the cat’s window, breaks Kerala dawn against industrial dusk, coils organisms above the weather, circumnavigates on a borrowed lighthouse, and smears 1982 until the hair still looks like a forecast. Side B lives in the umbra that remembers what cast it, opens water with no coastline drawn on it, retires speech for the evening, keeps a 2012 hold tone wearing pearls, jams Golden Acres until the punchline clocks out, and packs IDM for a journey only a shadow completes.
Overall mood: Contemplative, prismatic, and quietly migratory — full of exclusive October light, borrowed signals, and harbour lamps left on anyway. Perfect for dusk listening, hold music that never connects, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Shout out to my new subscriber Vivid Stars Forgotten. One more subscriber and we hit the Mixcloud minimum for a payout — the kind that keeps the channel’s lights on after dark. If you’ve been hovering at the door, this is the hour to step in.
Mood mist: moss collecting light before the record exists, a sun parked in the cat’s window, dawn as deconstructed club, organisms coiled above the weather, a borrowed lighthouse for a full orbit, 1982 seen through a lens that will not sharpen.
00:04:33 Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Gathering Moss
https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic-fields
Exclusive track.
From the album: Prismatic Fields. Label: Open Universe. Releases: October 16, 2026
Gathering moss on a lotus that Open Universe has not officially opened yet. Metaphysical pop from a Cornish hill, waiting for October to switch the prisms on.
00:07:15 John Louis Kluck – Sol
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/sol
From the album: Ethereal Space. Label: Ambient Cat. Year:2026
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-space
Sol hanging in ethereal space like a coin no one has spent. Ambient Cat leaving the curtains open for people and for the neighbouring households.
00:13:22 Sunken Cages – Kerala
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/kerala
From the album: Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks. Label: Mahorka. Year: 2026
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/neram-pularumbol-as-the-dawn-breaks
Kerala at the hour the title names — as the dawn breaks. South Indian folk arguing with industrial dusk until neither will admit who started it.
00:16:34 øjeRum – Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/track/recurring-dream-of-coiled-organisms-in-the-sky
From the album: Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers. Label: Amulet of Tears. Year: 2022
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-tongues-more-ancient-than-flowers
A recurring dream of coiled organisms in the sky. Butterfly tongues older than the flowers drink from. The stage turns very slowly here.
00:26:10 Rising Galaxy, Arcane Trickster – Circumnavigation
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/track/circumnavigation
From the release: Borrowed Signal. Label: Cosmicleaf Records. Year: 2026
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/album/borrowed-signal
Circumnavigation on a borrowed signal. You complete the circle using someone else’s lighthouse and call it your own weather.
00:32:20 Craig Aalders – Soft Focus ’82
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/craig-aalders-soft-focus-82
From the album: Imaginary North Transmission 012. Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-north-transmission-012
Soft Focus ’82. The year smeared just enough that the hair still looks like a forecast.
Mood mist: songs that live in the shade, water with no map drawn on it, speech retired for the evening, a hold tone wearing pearls, a jam in the golden acres, tour days that travel only as far as their own shadow.
00:39:59 Hiram – Umbra
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/umbra
From the album: Shade Songs. Year: 2026
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/album/shade-songs
Umbra. The part of the shade that still remembers the object that cast it. Shade Songs filing the silhouette under “unfinished business.”
00:46:06 maps and diagrams – open water
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/open-water
From the album: returning light. Label: Home Normal. Year: 2026
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/returning-light
Open water. Returning light that forgot to bring the coastline. Home Normal leaving the harbour lights on anyway.
00:51:18 David Cordero – Sin necesidad de palabras
Exclusive track.
From the album: Más allá de las palabras. Label: Noray Records. Year: 2026
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-s-all-de-las-palabras
Without need of words. Beyond them, even. Noray handing you a minute that refuses to be subtitled.
00:52:20 luxury elite – your call is very important to us
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/your-call-is-very-important-to-us
From the album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings. Year: 2012
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/split-lp
Your call is very important to us. 2012 hold music still waiting for an operator who retired to a mall fountain.
00:53:41 Adel Music Club – TDC Jam (Remix)
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/track/tdc-jam-remix
From the album: Golden Acres. Label: FRBH Recordings. Year: 2026
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/album/golden-acres
TDC Jam, remixed across Golden Acres until the original punchline clocks out. The lotus spinning at club speed
01:01:57 SURVEY CHANNEL – Tour & Shadow Days
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/tour-shadow-days
From the album: Along the Wind Spear. Label: Triplicate Records. Year: 2020
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/along-the-wind-spear
Tour and shadow days along the wind spear. IDM packed for a journey that only a shadow complets.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 315.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 313
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 doorway that reboots itself, then a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
Side A coughs the portal awake, paints Milan limb by limb in grey-cheek library jazz, docks Ishtar’s goddess-ship, waits for Blue Bell Hill to switch from black-and-white to blossom, folds a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, and hums a 7-inch bodega under fluorescent strip-light.
Side B parks godhead in the sprawl, waltzes a chest-pain name you cannot pronounce, pours top brass that refuses to complicate, walks the talk until it grows bass strings, holds the only hands that exist to be held, and ends on the dark side of the earth — the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting.
Overall mood: Playful, cinematic, and quietly cosmic — full of Clay Pipe colour, Batov half-shut eyes, and infrastructure filed under prayer. Perfect for late listening, bodega aisles after hours, or sitting with the drawbridge down while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a doorway that reboots itself, Milan painted limb by limb, a goddess-ship docking on the lotus, a council estate coming into colour, a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, a 7-inch bodega humming under fluorescent strip-light.
00:03:30 DaoLogic – Portal Reload
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/portal-reload
From the album: Source Vive Label: Mahorka
The portal coughs, then remembers its password. Warm crispy beats walking you through without extrasystoles. You enter. The source is still alive.
00:07:27 Barigozzi Group – Grey Cheeks
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/grey-cheeks
From the album: Woman’s Colours Label: Four Flies Records
the last colour on a body mapped in library jazz. Wurlitzer blushing while the flute keeps the secret.
00:09:34 Gong – Ship Of Ishtar
https://gongband.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-ishtar
From the album: Unending Ascending.
Venus at the tiller. Sacred cargo under the sails, clocks not yet reset. Climb aboard — the guitar is already a spaceship, but tonight the ship is Ishtar.
00:17:50 David Boulter – Blue Bell Hill
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/blue-bell-hill
From the album: St Ann’s Label: Clay Pipe Music
Blue Bell Hill before the demolition learned its manners. Black-and-white streets waiting for the cherry blossom to switch the world to colour.
00:20:04 Taftir – Tavasim
https://taftir.bandcamp.com/track/tavasim-2
From the EP: Od Layla Ba Ayara Label: Batov Records
Desert town, five players, a soul ballad they almost never play live. Feathers folded. The groove keeps its eyes half-shut.
00:23:05 East Side Supply – The Bodega
https://eastsidesupply.bandcamp.com/track/the-bodega
From the single: DELICATESSEN / THE BODEGA Label: Sonor Music Editions
Harpsichord and flute shopping the aisles. Axelrod hits between the tinned peaches. The bodega closes the side before the lotus can blink.
Mood mist: sprawl praying to itself, a chest-pain waltz with a name you cannot pronounce, brass that refuses to complicate, Watt walking the talk into orbit, hands that only exist to be held, a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
00:27:57 boycalledcrow – godhead
https://boycalledcrow.bandcamp.com/track/godhead
From the album: the sprawl Label: Mortality Tables
Godhead parked in the sprawl. Mortality Tables filing the prayer under “infrastructure.”
00:29:59 Angine de Poitrine – Tohogd
https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/tohogd
From the album: Vol.1 Label: Republic of Music
a syllable that arrived before the translation. Vol.1 still catching its breath.
00:33:53 Matt Berry – Top Brass Two
https://mattberry.bandcamp.com/track/top-brass-two
From the album: Simplicity Label: Acid Jazz Records
Top brass, second helping. Simplicity wearing a tie it does not need. Acid Jazz pouring the good stuff and leaving the bottle.
00:36:50 Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Walk the Talk
https://galecstasy.bandcamp.com/track/walk-the-talk
From the album: Wattzotica Label: Mystery Circles
Walk the talk until the talk grows bass strings. Wattzotica: the stage spinning at walking pace, then suddenly not.
00:40:15 The Mistys – A Hand Is To Hold
https://themistysband.bandcamp.com/track/a-hand-is-to-hold
From the album: Situations | Useless Mouths Label: Castles In Space
A hand is to hold. Useless mouths taking the night off. Castles In Space leaving the drawbridge down.
00:43:46 Martin Solos – Dark Side of the Earth
https://martinsolos.bandcamp.com/track/dark-side-of-the-earth
From the album: Heart of a Dying Star.
the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting. Heart still beating in the shade.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 313.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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.
*
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 310
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 310. 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.
A humid, analog journey through Chicago weather, dub earth, and a looking-glass that still grows.
Side A drifts through Bitchin Bajas organ-tape zones, Album Leaf story frames, Laswell’s lowered Marley devotion, Young Gun silver-fox chrome, Eels in a small room of memory, and Quiet Village pool-light haze. Side B drops into Coki’s ruff lovin’ pressure, FSOL mango-tree humidity, Röyksopp’s Late Night bounce, Tellier’s tender river, a brief Kendall Miles afterglow, and ends at Jefferson Airplane’s white rabbit.
Overall mood: Warm, cinematic, and slightly psychedelic — full of analog silk, sub-bass weather, and neon that refuses to cool. Perfect for late drives, pool-side dusk, or sitting with the credits while the mushroom keeps growing.
This is episode 310 which makes it a best of show. Where I’ve chosen 12 favourites from over the years.
The best of shows remain free but everything else slips quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers after 7 days. Subscribers currently have 1,135 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. They also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, and get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
00:00:00 Bitchin Bajas – Zone 4
https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/track/zone-4-2
Organ, tape and analog drift. Chicago psychedelia as weather.
00:04:56 The Album Leaf – Story Board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GcS8kyabKA
Jimmy LaValle’s guitar and electronics paint frames in sequence.
00:09:05 Bill Laswell – Is This Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJyjCidPTiY
Marley melody lowered into dub earth. Low-end devotion.
00:13:07 Young Gun Silver Fox – Better
https://younggunsilverfox.bandcamp.com/track/better-2
West-coast silk. Harmony and chrome sunset.
00:16:54 Eels – Manchild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsiIn-VNDs
Mark Oliver Everett’s voice in a small room of memory.
00:20:46 Quiet Village – Victoria’s Secret
https://quietvillageofc.bandcamp.com/track/victorias-secret
Balearic library haze. Perfume and pool light.
00:24:19 Coki – Ruff Lovin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2u91BJc5vM
South London pressure. Sub-bass as body weather.
00:27:47 The Future Sound Of London – Mango Tree (Original)
https://readdork.com/music-videos/the-future-sound-of-london-mango-tree-dvuecpx0
Humid electronics. Fruit hanging in machine air.
00:32:34 Röyksopp – Daddy’s Groove
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/daddys-groove-exclusive-new-track
Late Night Tales exclusive. Scandinavian bounce and soft neon.
00:35:16 Sébastien Tellier – Le Long De La Rivière Tendre
https://sebastientellier.bandcamp.com/track/le-long-de-la-rivi-re-tendre
A tender river. French hush and analog shimmer.
00:37:46 Kendall Miles – Life (bonus outro)
https://kendallmiles.bandcamp.com/track/life-bonus-outro
Brief afterglow. Credits rolling.
00:38:25 Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4
Grace Slick at the looking-glass. One pill, one bottle, the mushroom growing.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 308
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.
A between-worlds ambient journey through vanished lanes, quiet trees, and maps that keep leaving the paper.
Side A walks you home along a Lincolnshire lane that no longer exists, docks in a corridor of light, holds its breath beneath Yiddish trees, answers every name water has ever been given, climbs an Atlas ascent through drowned architecture, and posts a wet summer postcard from Koblenz. Side B decides the right thing is just to leave, sits at a hummingbird campfire, hums the normal order of things after midnight, names an uncatalogued creature, paints the moon with earthshine, and ends on an atlas of shifting clouds.
Overall mood: Melancholic, luminous, and quietly migratory — full of Passed Oceans, analog weight, and weather with no name in the rear-view. Perfect for late listening, leaving rooms gently, or sitting still while the tide rearranges the map.
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. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:01:56 gribbles – As then, so now
https://gribbles.bandcamp.com/track/as-then-so-now-3
We begin with a friend of the library, Graham Thorpe. From the album “Agatewards” released September 4, 2026.
Picture two old voices walking you home along a Lincolnshire lane that no longer exists, a gramophone left open in a 1920s church field, the dialect still warm in the hedges.
00:06:07 Ancient Astronaut – Between Worlds
https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/track/between-worlds
Aka Eric Allietta. From the album “Inner Worlds”.
A French satellite parked in a corridor of light where only love is permitted to dock. You are invited to step out of the airlock and into the quiet rooms you keep behind your own ribs.
00:09:50 Beymer – Shtil (Hush)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/shtil-hush
All music performed, mixed, and mastered by Daniel Field. From the album “Beneath the Trees” out on Imaginary North, Toronto, Ontario.
Yiddish trees holding their breath. A Toronto dusk folded into four minutes of leaves that refuse to rustle.
00:11:35 passage. – Thálassa
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/th-lassa
From the compilation I can’t get enough of Passed Oceans on Passed Recordings.
released September 11, 2026
Water answering to every name it has ever been given. Lighthouses blink on a sphere so small the moon can still reach down and rearrange the tide.
00:20:41 deepspace – Atlas 8 – Ascent Theme
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/atlas-8-ascent-theme
From the album “The Atlas Sector” out on Projekt Records. Portland, Oregon.
Deepspace, the soundrealm of Australian musician Mirko Ruckels
Emerald observatory on a planet that forgot Earth. The Juno climbs through drowned architecture and the last radio station still pulsing with soft blue light.
00:24:06 Oberlin – Postcard #6
https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/track/postcard-6
From the album “Ambient Postcards” self released. A. Holtz
released June 21, 2026
A Fernandes Telecaster written in May light and posted from Koblenz. Field recordings as stamps. Summer still wet on the card.
00:25:53 Far away Nebraska – Sometimes the right thing to do is just leave
https://kordelrecords.bandcamp.com/track/sometimes-the-right-thing-to-do-is-just-leave
From the album “Halfway from nowhere” Kordel Records, Seil Records.
released July 28, 2026
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Tired tyres eating the same mile twice. Nothing in the rear-view except nameless weather.
00:33:05 Eje Eje – Beja Flor
https://ejeeje.bandcamp.com/track/beija-flor
From the album “Mezze” out on Batov Records. Itamar Kluger.
A hummingbird at a Turkish campfire. Five small dishes passed around the same table: psychedelic thyme, Gulf dusk, a Greek melody that never quite sits down.
00:34:48 Raphael Leray – The normal order of things
https://hyletapes.bandcamp.com/track/the-normal-order-of-things
From the album “MONOLITH“.
A monolith humming in Tokyo after midnight. The old anxiety of simply being, recorded before the world remembered how to pretend everything was ok.
00:37:36 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Mia Theme
https://hyletapes.bandcamp.com/track/mia-theme
From the album “BIODIVERSE” Title: BIODIVERSE
Amandine Pedoux, Cédric Steffens
Label: Hylé Tapes
released November 22, 2024
A theme for a creature that has not yet been catalogued. Circuits breathing the same air as moss.
00:43:12 Erik Wøllo – Earthshine 2
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/earthshine-2
From the album “Earthshine”.
released September 18, 2026
Sunlight bouncing off us and painting the dark side of the moon. Analog tape running slow enough for the notes to remember they once had weight.
00:46:45 Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – Atlas of Shifting Clouds
https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/track/atlas-of-shifting-clouds
From the album “Maps of an Invisible World”.
A map drawn in wind and granular dust. Every contour already leaving the paper.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 308.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 305
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.
A cliffside, slightly occult ambient journey through spirit bridges, distant evenings, and questions that keep answering themselves.
Side A opens among Provo cliffdwellers and castle waters, then dreams through 808 notebook sequences, sits with Scottish-Swedish darkness, tunes the senses to E.S.P., and holds surface tension across Passed Oceans. Side B begins a mysterious Mechanicus chapter, places the world at your feet for Phantom’s centenary, spices the reel with French library flute and Leipzig afrobeat, flashes a fourteen-second miniature, and ends decaying underwater — however oceanic of you.
Overall mood: Contemplative, faintly eerie, and quietly playful — full of exclusive darkness, compilation water, and short surprises after the flip. Perfect for late listening, sitting with the unexplained, or letting the tape keep asking while the ocean answers.
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. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:02:21 spaceseer – Cliffdwellers
I start with an apology to the artist EBlo who in the last episode I mixed up with an artist of the same name. EBlo is in fact based in Malmö, Sweden and not the US. Also a shout out to the wonderful aeon who not only is one of my only subscribers but also left a comment on a show a while back and asked me to do an episode of his amazing CAMP radio monthly series Fragments. Opening this episode with a piece from the new compilation album Gemstones VII out on Cyclical Dreams that Record label focused on Berlin School, Ambient, Soundscape, Space Music, Drone, and electronic music. Provo, Utah based spaceseerer who’s described themselves as doom-synth and dark ambient.
00:07:20 Klaus Wolfe – Castle Waters – Spirit Bridge
This is followed by another track from the same Cyclical Dreams compilation. Klaus Wolfe is the only artist that has released work on The Dream Journal Institute label that seems to actually exist anywhere else
00:12:20 Akira Film Script – Dream
from the album Holo which is released on Ethereal Projector which is a sub label of Ambient Cat which in turn is a sub label of Chitra Records or something like that.
Ryan Watts. 808, Bass Station II and 303 from 2018, a daughter’s number sequences in the notebook. Hiroshi Watanabe masters. Meaghan Watts covers.
00:17:11 Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – The Evening Seems So Distant
The first exclusive track today comes from this Scottish Swedish collaboration. From the album Darkness Is Just Darkness which will be released on September 22 on the Audiobulb label.
Synths, drones and cello. Spoken passages sit inside the music. Darkness as a state to sit with.
00:22:39 The British Stereo Collective – E.S.P.
The penultimate track of side A and an aboloute legend of the synth world. From the self released album TeleKinesis The trilogy that began with ExoGenesis and continued with ProtoSynthesis now concludes with TeleKinesis: a journey through the mind and the senses; through consciousness and altered states.
00:24:11 Trees Can Talk – Surface Tension
The final track of side A and the longest piece on the episode at 7:51. From that must have new Passed Recording compilation Passed Oceans. Classical instruments, punk years, electronica as therapy. Half of sales to Doctors Without Borders.
After that the cassette reaches its midpoint and flips.
00:31:25 Adeptus Mechanicus – A new mysterious Beginning
We open with annother long track of the episode at 7:42 from two compilation albums recently released. First the whopping 53 track name your price album Summoning 4 out on Hull, UK based Netlabel for sounds of horror, the occult and the unexplained “Dittany of Crete” and also on channel supporting Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams stunning Gemstones VII.
Adeptus Mechanicus is Dutch noise, dark space ambient and sound art.
00:39:06 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – I Placed The World At Your Feet #2
The second exclusive track of the episode and a shorter one at 1:42. From the album House with a Curse which releases October 16 on one of our favorite labels Clay Pipe Music. I love when these two get together. Shout out to Tommy for sending me this.
Score for the 1925 Phantom of the Opera centenary. Cinema screenings across the UK and Ireland.
00:40:25 Bolbec – À L’instar Du Flair
And now for something very different with some French floating flute library just to spice it up a bit. From yet another wonderful compilation album on the fantastic Batov Records label titled Around The Sun.
Batov Records celebrates ten years with a landmark compilation
Imaginary soundtrack beside Piccioni and Legrand. DJ Kobayashi selects. November 6.
00:42:44 Sandman Project – Questions Answers
Staying on Batov Records. Leipzig, Germany based afrobeat from the album, Hearts Forever. releases October 23, 2026. Tal Sandman. Desert-rock guitar and brass call-and-response. Golden Rules Studio.
00:47:07 ndrw cnry – Probably should have got the hang of this by now
Now, probably the shortest track I’ve ever had on the show clocking in at just 14 seconds. From the self released album A Certain Distance.
Miniature flashes. Photographs in the download.
00:48:35 Stewart Keller – How Oceanic Of You
This one confused me. I have it in my collection as being titled How Oceanic Of You but on the EP it’s called Ambient Calm. Anyway it’s from SHRIMP GAME: OVERKRILL OST (Contributions). Stewarts individual contributions to the SHRIMP GAME: OVERKRILL OST.
Decaying underwater world. CorrodedParadox artwork.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 305.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 304
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.
A liquid, slightly haunted ambient journey through West Riding flocks, kudzu moonlight, and cities that refuse to end.
Side A watches the pinder keep the flock, then drifts under a kudzu moon, through solemn dreams beneath hushed currents, a Bethlehem journey, night-time puzzle sequences, and the slow pressure of mane nobiscum. Side B opens eternal cities, stirs a storm in a water-glass, presses a dystopian button, walks Verona’s water, swells with tide, and ends in soft cyber-space pulses.
Overall mood: Contemplative, damp, and quietly expansive — full of exclusive compilations, recorded liquids, and urban pull that keeps looping after the flip. Perfect for dusk listening, cassette-repeat evenings, or sitting with the water while the figures still gather.
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. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:01:18 Warmfield – The Pinder Watches the Flock
An exclusive track from my own upcoming compilation album Quiet Figures which premiers on the 26 of September. So there’s still time to goet an entry in. At the moment this is the opening track. Just because it’s that good.
Paul Broome’s parageography of the West Riding. Electronics and words. Entries still welcome until the 24th.
00:05:59 Heron & Crane – Kudzu Moon
Yet another exclusive track and the opener from the upcoming self released album “Migrations”
Celtic harp meets 80s new-age synth. Dave Gibson and Travis Kokas. Charlottesville and Columbus. Hibernator Gigs, 2 October. Antony Ryan of Pawpaw masters.
00:08:28 On Idyl – Solemn dreams diffracting beneath hushed currents
The fantstic global collective of artists known as Passed Recordings have just dropped a whopping 47 track water themed compilation. I’ll probably play most of them on the channel as I’m a sucker for recorded liquids.
Solemn dreams diffract beneath hushed currents. John Overturf of Bellingham. Passed Oceans water compilation. Forty-seven tracks. Half of sales to Doctors Without Borders.
00:11:10 EBlo – The Journey
Yet another exclusive from yet another great 13 track compilation. This time Imaginary Norths Transmission 012.
releases September 18, 2026.
EBlo is from Malmö, Sweden.
00:13:53 Jupi/ter – +puzzle
From the self released album “Nights”. Cheers Alex for sending this in.
Alex Glynn. Field recordings, effected guitars, analogue synths and evolving sequences. Chihei Hatakeyama masters.
00:17:07 Heavens Spin Gray – Mane Nobiscum
The last track of Side A and new artist for me. From the self released album “Imminence”. Cheers to the artist Shawn Garvey for sending me a code for this yesterday. Sustained tones and slow pressure of arrival.
After that the cassette reaches its midpoint and flips.
00:27:23 BUNKR – Eternal Cities
Another exclusive by a good friend of the show and a contributer to my upcoming Quiet Figures compilation. From the EP “signs”. Dropping on VLSI Records on September 18. Hypnotic loops and urban pull.
00:35:16 Christian Schwöbel – Sturm im Wasserglas
Here’s another damp entry from that Passed Recordings compilation Passed Oceans.
Experimental ambient drone producer from Berlin, Germany.
00:39:20 Moonlit Workhouse/Persephonic Sprawl – The Button
From a little retro dystopian gem of a self release titled Despair/Hope EP. Which sees light of day on September 18. The artist Greg Wye sent me a physical cassette of this a couple of weeks ago and it’s been on repeat pretty much since then. Ghost voices, desolate dub, then ambient space meditation. 18 September. Persephonic Audio.
00:43:15 Celestial Echoes – Verona
More water you say? Of course. Here’s another Passed Oceans entry.
CelestialEchoes an ambient project by Morteza Jahangiri from Bielefeld, Germany
00:45:55 Jason Chaffee – Tidal Swell
The fifth exclusive of the episode and another one from that Imaginary North Transmission 012 release. Atmospheric rock toward The Weight of the Sky.
00:48:44 John Louis Kluck – Cyber Space
The final piece of episode 304 of Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Released on the Ambient Cat Label.
Soft pulses and distant echoes. Dionisaf designs the cover.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 304.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 303
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.
A luminous, slightly mythic ambient journey through leaps of heart, early fog, and skies that finally crack.
Side A opens in analog gemstone narrative and rough-edged improg driftwood, then eases through Imaginary North fog, psychill easing, Tsukuba shinonome, and a silken harp that frees its shadow. Side B contemplates Gnawa sorrow by hand, sits in blue, fades into a brighter age with trumpet, locks onto frequency of light, follows a sea diver down, and ends when the sky cracks over the rocky shore.
Overall mood: Expansive, contemplative, and quietly oceanic — full of exclusive transmissions, handmade sonorities, and light arriving after long water. Perfect for deep listening, late hours, or sitting with the shoreline while the next reel still waits.
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. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:01:18 Carolyn Fok – A Leap of Heart (Origin Mix)
Analog textures and personal narrative. Gemstones VII on Cyclical Dreams. Berlin School jewel.
00:07:57 (Exclusive) Das Rad – The Driftwood Man
The first of 5 episode exclusives. Nick Robinson, Peter Rophone, Martin Archer, Jon Short, Steve Dinsdale. Improg from studio scratch. Discus Music, 25 September. Voice, guitar, organ, sax and drums keep their rough edges.
00:14:22 (Exclusive) SeniorBeatBox – Early Fog
Exclusive #2. Savino M on Imaginary North Transmission 012. 18 September.
00:17:03 Rising Galaxy, Arcane Trickster – Easing
Psychill and psybient from Rising Galaxy and Arcane Trickster at Tempest Studios. Christopher Innes, Nikolaos Bitsimeas, Damiano Verna. Cosmicleaf. Takis Stavrou does the cover.
00:22:52 (Exclusive) Yusaku Iida ‘NYORAI’ – 東雲 (Shinonome)
Exclusive #3. Tsukuba IDM, ambient and glitch. Zen roots and modern machines. Senpenbanka on EC Underground, 9 October. Mattia Travaglini on the artwork.
00:26:40 (Exclusive) Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Free My Shadow
Exclusive #4. Jon Tye and Bethany Ley. Silken harp, synth waves and enchanted vocal tones. Open Universe, 16 October. Live with Sonic Boom and Alexis Taylor in Hamburg.
After that the cassette reaches its midpoint and flips.
00:30:09 (Exclusive) CZiGO – Gnawa
Exclusive #5. Mark Donlon’s fourth Machine Records release. Drone, ambient, jazz and handmade sonorities. Eight Contemplations of Sorrowful Things. December 4. Human-hand sound design.
00:35:23 Wolfgang Merx – In Blue
Gemstones VII again. Minimal solo pieces and ethereal soundscapes. Twitch studio streams.
00:49:08 Pulsar + Demetrio Cecchitelli – Fade In Brighter Age
Foligno and Mahorka. Leonardo Pucci and Demetrio Cecchitelli. Jacopo Buda’s trumpet. Liquid space-ambient cassette. Nick Foglia masters.
00:57:08 Correlations – FREQUENCY OF LIGHT
August 30. Luminous signal.
01:08:39 Ozymandiaz – the death of a sea diver
Passed Oceans. Water in every language. Half of sales to Doctors Without Borders.
01:14:14 Quait Salt Archive – Then The Sky Cracked
Same Passed Recordings compilation. Atmospheric collective. Final illumination of the rocky shoreline.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 303.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 302
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-302/
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.
A rooted, coastal ambient journey through square sequences, wetland ghosts, and what does not remain.
Side A locks everything square in Coventry co-op rooms, then takes hold among London observations, Belbury wetlands, Humber mist, Kyiv fireflies, and red coral gathered from five years of parallel worlds. Side B floats piano light that will not stay, Titchwell near-silence, drifting lullabies, Valencia suburbia still, Brussels respiration against synth, and ends probing reminiscence through derisory signs.
Overall mood: Contemplative, gently hauntological, and quietly coastal — full of mist, fireflies, and stillness that knows it will not last. Perfect for dusk listening, near-silence, or sitting with what remains after the tape turns.
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. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:01:18 Visionary Lines – Everything Square
Rich Johnson sequences The Synthesis Co-Op Volume One. Artist-run not-for-profit. Profits travel to CALM. Paul Broome masters. Coventry rooms.
00:04:31 ambalek – Rooted
London observation and photography. My Ambient Machines number seven. Small moments take hold.
00:10:02 Belbury Poly – Wetland
Jim Jupp’s vintage analogue, melodica, psaltery and bells. Twelve stops through fictional Belbury. Ghost Box 2006 returns in vinyl light.
00:11:47 dreamSTATE – Humber Mist
Exclusive for this episode. Scott M2 and Jamie Todd. Imaginary North Transmission 012, 18 September. AMBiENT PiNG and DRONE:KLUB lineage.
00:14:38 Bohdan Stupak – fireflies
Kyiv drone-ambient. Black Sea 2017 as a point in time. Low massive drone meets high-pitched textures. Computer bells, crackles and plucks close the sequence.
00:17:12 Dionisaf – Red Coral
Modular and granular synths, guitars, field recordings. Five years of compilation pieces gathered as Parallel Worlds.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:20:06 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Lo que no permanece
Piano notes float as points of light. Modular tones gather in soft waves. Ian Hawgood masters. George Korunov covers.
00:22:07 Richard Sage – Titchwell
Zoom and iPhone seeds from seven coastal locations. Near silence wears its own palette. Andrew Heath masters. Driftworks, 11 September.
00:27:03 Samatha – Drift XI
Spontaneous layering and looping. Lullabies of drifting emotion. Ronald Mariën masters. Aoki & Matsumoto design.
00:27:34 Calm Pieces – Return
Rafa Ramos Sania’s Valencia piano, double bass, cello and worn 1990s tape. Whitelabrecs, 19 September. Familiar surroundings in a moment of stillness.
00:30:24 Jonathan Poliart – Lupina
Four layers: textures, melodies and respiration against synthesizer. Brussels summer and autumn of 2025. Adventurous Music. Penultimate stop.
00:40:11 Tern – Through Derisory Signs
Final track. Grégoire Couvert’s loops probe reminiscence. Connection: sculpting silence. Hylé Tapes. Jean-Charles Bastion masters.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 302.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 292
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-292/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the 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.
A seasonal, slightly restless ambient journey through summer heat, stored sequences, and coastal gaps.
Side A opens in Indiana solstice light and green energy, then moves through overloaded London rooms, shifting Quiet Figures, 1980s earthshine slowness, and warped inner-weather shelves. Side B holds Mediterranean headland water, rusty robot dreams, Mersey light, Tokyo sequences from some other time, a choked dub-techno pulse, and ends at Hope Gap under Ravilious colours.
Overall mood: Warm, nostalgic, and quietly unstable — full of stored time, coastal air, and communities hanging together. Perfect for late-summer listening, train windows, or sitting with what the season still holds.
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. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:00:00 odd person – all skeletons come from indiana
odd person – all skeletons come from indiana. Solstice heat marks part two of four seasons. Spirit faces south at zenith. The sun arrives in recorded summer light.
00:04:11 Rai Mondo – Green Energy
Rai Mondo – Green Energy. Austrian grandeur opens into fusion and progressive colour on Art Form 5. FORM@ gathers submissions into one shared compilation breath.
00:09:50 The Both And – we have this
The Both And – we have this. Programmable systems meet live intervention. Edges overload and new rooms appear. Communities of musicians and workers hang together in London rooms.
00:14:26 philippe neau – payysages.mouvements.
philippe neau – payysages.mouvements. Quiet Figures gather as nobodiosundz drift through shifting terrain.
00:17:55 Erik Wøllo – Fast and Slow
Erik Wøllo – Fast and Slow. Earthshine lights the unseen face. Four-track and eight-track machines return 1980s slowness. Drones and sequencer pulses rise and subside across twenty short crossings.
00:20:56 SPTW – Shelves
SPTW – Shelves. Warped loops, liquefied vocals and analog tape textures sit beside pencils, desks and bottles. Two collagists keep their heads above water in a time-capsule of inner weather.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:23:21 Neglect – Cap De Creus (original mix)
Neglect – Cap De Creus (original mix). Headland light and Mediterranean water hold the coast.
00:29:16 Autonomaton – Rusty robots dream
Autonomaton – Rusty robots dream. Collected work from 2015 to 2025 moves from noise and drone toward fluffy ambient, then into dub and breakz. Hardware and computer share the same long sleep.
00:33:04 autumna – helen and her cousin
autumna – helen and her cousin. Capstone festival days give way to quieter corners. Light over the Mersey and street sound set the pace.
00:36:41 Nekomachi – Some Other Time
Nekomachi – Some Other Time. Fifteen years of stored sequences run through effects and samples in Tokyo rooms, no DAW required.
00:38:09 Yunze Ou – Choke Array
Yunze Ou – Choke Array. One hundred and seventy BPM carries dub-techno depth and halftime pulse. Ableton layers expand the loop into personal language.
00:42:23 Gilroy Mere – Hope Gap
Gilroy Mere – Hope Gap. Forty-mile train journeys from St Leonard’s feed laptop sketches. Ravilious colours become texture and tempo. Clarinet, flute, trumpet and voice join the laundry-studio air.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 292.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 286
https://www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-286/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 286. 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.
A tender, slightly wondrous ambient journey through closed-eye geometries, night markets, living systems, and working-class fanfares.
Side A rearranges itself behind the eyelids, then drifts through Toronto lanterns, cello architecture, space-IDM bloom, pre-language fingertips, and a well of the world. Side B opens with Ramsgate vocal collage and gentle signs, holds the line, raises a fanfare for the working man, conjures pagan stones among the Weaver Hills, and ends with a star-song demo from the cliff top.
Overall mood: Warm, curious, and quietly celebratory — mixing intimate care, city-night haze, and nostalgic industrial glow. Perfect for late evenings, headphones, or sitting still while things change behind closed eyes.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,117 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:03:39 Soundshift – When I Close My Eyes Things Change
Eyelids close and the air rearranges itself. Soundshift – When I Close My Eyes Things Change. Colours fold inward, surfaces soften, and new geometries rise in the dark behind the lids.
00:07:48 Drones Over Dufferin – Night Market
Night market stalls glow under Toronto streetlamps. Drones Over Dufferin – Night Market. Ambient currents drift between lanterns and late-hour voices, each tone shaped by the city’s quiet corners.
00:10:41 arc rae – I See You
Cello and voice fragments reassemble into living architecture. arc rae – I See You. Improvised performances become collaged motifs, generative textures and tactile beats discovering their own shape in real time.
00:12:47 Andy Wiseman – Thrust
Thrust carries seventeen space-IDM voices into one amorphous bloom of earcandy. Andy Wiseman – Thrust. Composition after composition opens in phantasmic sequence, each reason to listen arriving already luminous.
00:19:45 Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Fingertips
Fingertips brush the first possible encounter with sound. Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Fingertips. Tenderness and experiment meet as lullaby, ambient composition and care, music made to accompany a listener before language.
00:22:50 Green-House – Well of the World
A well of the world opens in joyous layered synthesis. Green-House – Well of the World. Melody and harmonics helix together. Kaleidoscopic guitar, bubbling synths and orchestral radiance mimic larger living systems, droplets magnifying Yosemite and Inyo into auditory microcosms of wonder.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:29:59 Lone Bison – Vocal Collage
Voices sampled and sung form a collage beside the Ramsgate sea. Lone Bison – Vocal Collage. Hydrasynth textures pack into concise songs, wonky piano loops and groove-based jams rising from park recordings and garage-rock guitar.
00:33:53 Mea Poulpa – Signs
Gentle rhythms and textured samples settle into signs. Mea Poulpa – Signs. Slow tempos, subtle electronics and acoustic guitar create relaxing soundscapes for concentration and meditation.
00:36:02 luxury elite – thank you for holding
Hold music stretches into open waiting space. luxury elite – thank you for holding. Soft tones remain on the line, glowing in patient presence.
00:37:16 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Fanfare for the Working Man
A fanfare rises for the working man among late-seventies chimneys. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Fanfare for the Working Man. Prophet synths and reverb celebrate coal, chemicals and cars. Industry glows in nostalgic electronica looking forty years forward.
00:38:05 Geology Disco – Distant Point
Distant points appear among Weaver Hills and dark woods. Geology Disco – Distant Point. Harmonium, accordion, woodwinds, guitar and percussion mix with electronics and field recordings. Monolithic stones and ancient caves conjure pagan memory in Wootton under Wever.
00:45:12 Mike Dickinson – Bonus Track – Song of The Stars (Demo)
The Iron Man reaches the cliff top while stars begin their song. Mike Dickinson – Bonus Track – Song of The Stars (Demo). Microkorg, Maschine, Odyssey and Minilogue voices soundtrack the outsider who saves the world, Mrs Moore’s desk-climbing dragon still vivid in the telling.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 286.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 282
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-282/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 282. 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 1,111 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
A reflective, slightly melancholic ambient journey through vanishing places, last forests, and hovering resonances.
Side A opens in dense brainforests and soft sanctuaries, then blooms through disk errors, chosen confusion, Tokyo pavilions, and tired roads halfway from nowhere. Side B drifts into possible villages, orbital last forests, electric roads of trials, chalk coastal paths, invisible hovering worlds, and ends in the hazed industrial interzone of Motor City.
Overall mood: Contemplative, atmospheric, and quietly expansive — full of soft disappearances, preserved light, and gentle forward motion. Perfect for deep listening, late-night reflection, or drifting through imagined landscapes.
The tape unspools its visions.
Woodwind and spidery guitars open a dense forest of homemade percussion. Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again. Tenor recorder, piano, drums and kalimba rise into insectile textures and weaving repetitive melodies. The Brainforest expands in childlike layered motion, every surface alive with loose and slack exploration.
Sanctuary forms in swirling so-longs and dreamy murmured goodbyes. Halftribe – Sanctuary. Immersive tones drift through quiet open space, the field settling into soft reflective presence.
A disk error blooms into luminous data patterns. maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]. Signal fragments rearrange across open digital ground, each one expanding into new radiant forms.
Confusion gathers around a chosen image. Suncastle – Confusion. Sonic colours rise to meet the visual surface, opening into shared imaginative light.
A pavilion stands inside the sleeping Cityfield of Tokyo. Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion. Offerings of orange light drift from a moving train window. Kami presence expands through electric piano and synthesizer duets, the urban subconscious glowing in mutual respect.
Tired tires roll across an unknown road of blurred memories. Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…. Ringing fills the open air while a storm moves through the mind. Halfway from nowhere the landscape stretches forward in steady motion.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
A village appears in quiet mirror light where realities fade into new truths. Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day. Field recordings from Tehran rise through heavy processing into thin layered soundscapes. Disappearances and vanishings open across the surface, time echoing deep within existence.
The last forests of Earth drift through silent orbital chambers. vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth. ARP 2600 and SEM tones expand across vast greenhouse domes. The landscape holds the soft glow of preserved green light moving through space.
A road of trials opens in electric layered motion. Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix). Shoegaze ambient textures rise into wide reflective fields, the path expanding in luminous presence.
Beachy Head rises along the foot of the Downs under muted Ravilious colours. Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head. Train windows carry undulating textures, tempos and modulations. Clarinet, trumpet, flute and voice drift through chalk paths and coastal light, crystallizing into open sonic form.
Hovering resonance maps an invisible world drawn in wind and granular synthesis. Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance. Organic drones and drifting textures expand across distant melodies, opening the boundaries of the ephemeral.
Motor City opens in dusty drum machinery and heavy echo. Sand Circles – Entering Motor City. Analog synths and derelict metropolis atmospheres rise through white sand, downtown haze and distant lights. The interzone expands in hazed industrial reverie.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 282.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:03:52 Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again
Woodwind and spidery guitars open a dense forest of homemade percussion. Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again. Tenor recorder, piano, drums and kalimba rise into insectile textures and weaving repetitive melodies. The Brainforest expands in childlike layered motion, every surface alive with loose and slack exploration.
00:12:27 Halftribe – Sanctuary
Sanctuary forms in swirling so-longs and dreamy murmured goodbyes. Halftribe – Sanctuary. Immersive tones drift through quiet open space, the field settling into soft reflective presence.
00:14:20 maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]
A disk error blooms into luminous data patterns. maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]. Signal fragments rearrange across open digital ground, each one expanding into new radiant forms.
00:19:36 Suncastle – Confusion
Confusion gathers around a chosen image. Suncastle – Confusion. Sonic colours rise to meet the visual surface, opening into shared imaginative light.
00:21:15 Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion
A pavilion stands inside the sleeping Cityfield of Tokyo. Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion. Offerings of orange light drift from a moving train window. Kami presence expands through electric piano and synthesizer duets, the urban subconscious glowing in mutual respect.
00:25:34 Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…
Tired tires roll across an unknown road of blurred memories. Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…. Ringing fills the open air while a storm moves through the mind. Halfway from nowhere the landscape stretches forward in steady motion.
Side B
00:33:16 Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day
A village appears in quiet mirror light where realities fade into new truths. Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day. Field recordings from Tehran rise through heavy processing into thin layered soundscapes. Disappearances and vanishings open across the surface, time echoing deep within existence.
00:37:33 vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth
The last forests of Earth drift through silent orbital chambers. vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth. ARP 2600 and SEM tones expand across vast greenhouse domes. The landscape holds the soft glow of preserved green light moving through space.
00:39:39 Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix)
A road of trials opens in electric layered motion. Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix). Shoegaze ambient textures rise into wide reflective fields, the path expanding in luminous presence.
00:40:31 Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head
Beachy Head rises along the foot of the Downs under muted Ravilious colours. Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head. Train windows carry undulating textures, tempos and modulations. Clarinet, trumpet, flute and voice drift through chalk paths and coastal light, crystallizing into open sonic form.
00:45:07 Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance
Hovering resonance maps an invisible world drawn in wind and granular synthesis. Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance. Organic drones and drifting textures expand across distant melodies, opening the boundaries of the ephemeral.
00:47:21 Sand Circles – Entering Motor City
Motor City opens in dusty drum machinery and heavy echo. Sand Circles – Entering Motor City. Analog synths and derelict metropolis atmospheres rise through white sand, downtown haze and distant lights. The interzone expands in hazed industrial reverie.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 281.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 277
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-277/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve just pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 277. A twelve-track virtual cassette that flips itself at the halfway mark, whether you’re ready or not.
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.
I’m trying something new by not introducing the artists, but instead incorporation their work into an incatation of sorts.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,104 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3 hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
A dreamlike, luminous ambient journey through nameless cities, rising rain, forgotten trails, and golden light.
Side A drifts from violet fog and modular labyrinths into voltage nests, Apalachee trails, hauntological villages, deep indigo night, and lost map coordinates. Side B lifts with rain falling upward, vast interlocking machines, Bach-coloured bird calls, sideways golden rays, wide unknowable valleys, and a single golden earring turning in zero gravity.
Overall mood: Contemplative, otherworldly, and quietly radiant — full of soft wonder, spectral warmth, and gentle expansion. Perfect for deep listening, late-night immersion, or drifting through imagined landscapes.
Side A
00:00:00 Almost Random – Night at the Nameless city
A city without name rises from violet fog. Docks of Celephais stretch into endless water the colour of old mercury. Towers lean at angles that fold inward. Almost Random – Night at the Nameless City. Modular currents braid through the streets. A single lead voice climbs like a pale recorder note, threading the labyrinth where colours bloom outside the spectrum and a lecturer’s silhouette watches from every window at once.
00:05:07 LOULA YORKE – Broody
The roof opens. A nest of voltage and feathers pulses with heat. LOULA YORKE – Broody. Shared-system circuits glow amber and emerald. Nestlings open their beaks in perfect rhythm with the rising sequences. The air fills with starling-shaped waveforms that scatter across the studio ceiling and reform as constellations.
00:07:57 Dionisaf – Forgotten Trails of the Apalachee (ft. Liesbet Leroy)
Cotton fields unroll under a sky of molten copper. An ageing horse moves through tall grass that whispers in kalimba tones. Dionisaf – Forgotten Trails of the Apalachee. Liesbet’s flute drifts above the restored guitar like river mist carrying the scent of magnolias and dry October leaves. Forest trails glow with soft bioluminescence. Seven years of Mississippi light gather into a single warm horizon that keeps expanding.
00:10:03 Belbury Poly – The People
A village appears between the hedges, built entirely of library jingles and children’s television ghosts. Belbury Poly – The People. Minimoog laughter curls through the lanes. Melodica and psaltery ring from open windows. Vines part to reveal Pan’s Garden where the InterCity 125 glides past in slow silver arcs and every face in the square turns toward the listener with the same knowing smile.
00:13:34 Euan Alexander Millar & Henrik Meierkord – Shades Of Night
Night gathers in layers of deep indigo and charcoal. Euan Alexander Millar & Henrik Meierkord – Shades Of Night. Cello tones stretch into long translucent ribbons. Spoken words rise from within the drones and dissolve back into them. The entire field breathes at the pace of a single sustained note.
00:17:19 maps and diagrams – Echo.atlas-B2 [lost.wav]
A map unfolds made of missing coordinates. maps and diagrams – Echo.atlas-B2 [lost.wav]. Waves of pure signal drift across blank paper, leaving faint luminous traces that rearrange themselves into new continents every few seconds.
Side B
00:23:01 Spirituals – Rain Falling Up
Rain lifts from the ground in slow silver columns and continues upward into a sky the colour of candle flame. Spirituals – Rain Falling Up. Pedal steel and vibraphone form soft glowing orbs that float beside the rising water. Field recordings and voice memos drift through the air as tiny points of warm light, each one a living candle carried through the open dark.
00:27:18 Dadanaut – Interferenzen
Gears the size of towers interlock across a black-and-gold cityscape. Dadanaut – Interferenzen. Workers and superiors move inside the same vast machine. Sparks of freedom leap between the teeth of the wheels. The entire structure hums with the low frequency of relief seeking its shape.
00:32:09 Pointe du Lac – Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf (BWV617)
An empty living room fills with the calls of exotic birds that exist only as samples. Pointe du Lac – Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf (BWV617). Simple arpeggios cross and shift like interlocking stained-glass windows. Bach harmonies rise through Sun Ra colours. The ceiling opens into a progressive lake of pure harmonic light.
00:35:04 Timo Kuusi – Crepuscular Rays
Crepuscular rays pour sideways across the room in thick golden beams. Timo Kuusi – Crepuscular Rays. Each ray carries its own instructional geometry. The beams expand until the whole space becomes a single radiant exercise in pure illumination.
00:42:39 The Green Kingdom – Vale of the Unknowable
Evening settles in airy layers of soft violet and pearl. The Green Kingdom – Vale of the Unknowable. Piano motifs drift through reverb-soaked guitar lines. The landscape opens into a wide still valley where every sound has room to unfold at its own unhurried pace.
00:44:52 Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Golden Earring
A golden earring turns slowly in zero gravity, catching and releasing light in perfect circles. Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Golden Earring. The sound arrives as the first sensation of hearing itself: tender, experimental, shaped for the earliest possible listener. Everything remains open, unguarded, and newly born.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 277
Script – Trevor
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 277. 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.
I’m trying something new by not introducing the artists, but instead incorporating their work into a vision of sorts.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,105 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 329
Fascinate
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, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. 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. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A cruise along a signposted road, then a heart lit in a place still waiting for its name.
Side A follows the signs with the construct still standing and happy to drive, keeps the face continuous from one frame to the next, files a polite plea under the smear-test disasters, numbers the first fluid from dust to dawn, lets the shade learn a lyric behind a half-drawn curtain, and fascinates with the fungus that holds the wood together. Side B glows umber between brown and light, posts a New Penzance Island from the film, keeps the last note of a reef in its feathers, chirps a zither small enough for a beak, leans into petrol and jasmine on the same camber, and leaves the light on in a town the map has yet to label.
Overall mood: Slightly luminous, and quietly named — full of half-drawn curtains, open lanes, and places still waiting for their labels. Perfect for dusk drives, roads that know the way, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a cruise along a signposted road, a mask that keeps the face continuous, a helpdesk in the comments, a fluid numbered one, shade singing its own name, wildlife that has decided to fascinate.
00:00:00 BUNKR – Cruisen
https://bunkr-music.bandcamp.com/track/cruisen
Album: Signs. Label: VLSI Records
Signs pointing the way, VLSI keeping the lane. The construct still standing, for now, and happy to drive.
00:07:29 survey channel – Mask of Continuity
https://surveychannel.bandcamp.com/track/mask-of-continuity
Album: Macrozones.
The large rooms where the face stays the same from one frame to the next. The survey already under way.
00:12:25 Daily Mail Comments Section – Hello? Can You Help Me, Please?
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/hello-can-you-help-me-please
Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test.
Enofa filing the plea under volume one of the polite disasters.
00:14:27 TRAINDEER – Płyn I
https://traindeer.bandcamp.com/track/p-yn-i
Album: From Dust To Dawn.
Fluid, the first of them. From dust to dawn, the deer already on the track.
00:16:50 Hiram – Tsel
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/tsel
Album: Shade Songs.
The shadow learning a lyric. Matthew Hiram leaving the curtain half-drawn on purpose.
00:19:28 Polypores – Fascinate
https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/fascinate
Album: Wildlife. Label: Aural Canyon
The fungus that holds the wood together, and the title of the hour. Look closely. The thread is there.
Side B
Mood mist: an umber that has learned to glow, an island named after a film, a last song from a reef, a zither chirping under the canopy, petrol and jasmine sharing a camber, a heart lit in a place still waiting for its name.
00:25:08 Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Glowing Umber
(Exclusive track)
Album: Prismatic Fields. Label: Open Universe
https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic-fields
The colour between brown and light, happy to be both.
00:27:43 Mensa Group International – New Penzance Island
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/new-penzance-island
Album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings
The tree of heaven. The island from the film, now with its own postcode.
00:29:02 Coda Nautica – Swan Song
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/swan-song
Album: Intricate Harmonics 2. Label: Neotantra
Neotantra letting the last note keep its feathers.
00:36:01 Beymer – Tsitern (Chirp)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/tsitern-chirp
Album: Beneath The Trees. Label: Imaginary North
A zither small enough to fit in a beak, and still in tune.
00:37:54 Aidan Baker – Petrol / Jasmine
https://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com/track/petrol-jasmin
Album: Adverse Camber. Label: Broken Spine Productions
The bend that asks you to lean. Broken Spine keeping both scents in the same bottle.
00:43:23 Absence – Glowing Heart
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/glowing-heart
Album: Names of Unknown Places. Label: Imaginary North
The light still on in a town the map has yet to label.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 329.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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