Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. A contemplative and atmospheric journey blending experimental soundscapes with emotional ambient electronics. Side A offers textural, slightly quirky collage-like pieces with piano abstractions and playful electronica. Side B deepens into introspective, melancholic, and cosmic territory — featuring tender vocal ambient, dreamy downtempo, haunting stillness, and delicate piano-led beauty. Overall mood: Intimate, wistful, and subtly psychedelic with a strong sense of melancholy and quiet wonder. Perfect for focused late-night listening, reflection, or rainy-day immersion. The mix flows gracefully from curious experimentation into deep emotional resonance. If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on. So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. One side flip, just the music.
Side A 00:00:00 Electric Supply Station – Ear Traffic Busy, textured electronic collage with layered field recordings and urban signal flow. Dynamic and immersive. 00:10:31 tanner menard – timelines and regressions: inventions and fugues Delicate, intricate piano and electronic study with classical-inspired structures. Thoughtful and gently abstract. 00:18:25 Bone Music – Mallard Duck Quirky, playful electronic with organic rhythms and whimsical found-sound charm. Light and characterful. Side B 00:30:55 Lord Of The Isles, Ellen Renton – Don’t You Ache Emotional, heartfelt ambient house with poetic spoken vocals and warm, yearning grooves. Tender and moving. 00:34:22 Felix Laband – Dreaming In Johannesburg Downtempo South African electronic with dusty, jazzy textures and dreamy melancholy. Atmospheric and unique. 00:38:22 Austin Potter – Cemetery Haunting, sparse ambient with ghostly tones and quiet graveyard stillness. Eerie and reflective. 00:40:00 Chocolate Hills, The Orb – Leaving Plymouth Dubby, oceanic ambient drift with The Orb’s signature cosmic weirdness. Deep, hazy, and immersive. 00:43:47 Stereo Minus One – Eat Drugs Trippy, acid-tinged electronic soundtrack with raw, psychedelic edge. Surreal and energetic. 00:45:40 Fabien Guiraud – Errant aux alentours Gentle, wandering French ambient with soft textures and peaceful meandering flow. Intimate and serene. 00:48:08 Ryuichi Sakamoto – LIFE, LIFE Poignant, minimalist piano and strings with Sakamoto’s signature emotional depth and fragile beauty. 00:52:11 autumna – mesh Intricate, woven ambient electronics with delicate layers and subtle rhythmic mesh. Refined and hypnotic.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. A warm, gentle, and introspective journey through pastoral folk, ambient guitar, and soft electronic textures with a strong sense of nature and nostalgia. Side A blends intimate folk storytelling, dreamy coastal drifts, and lush emotional songwriting into earthy, organic soundscapes. Side B flows into shimmering downtempo, soulful introspection, neoclassical elegance, and playful folktronica before ending on a smooth, continuous ambient note. Overall mood: Sunny yet melancholic, tender, and deeply comforting. It feels like a peaceful spring or early summer day — wandering through fields, sitting by the coast, or watching golden light fade in the evening. Warm, hopeful, and emotionally rich with a beautiful balance of folk heart and ambient serenity. Perfect for relaxed listening, quiet reflection, or gentle background accompaniment. If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on. So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. One side flip, just the music.
Side A 00:00:00 The Modern Folk – Two Sisters Gentle, haunting folk with intimate storytelling and delicate melancholy. Warm and wistful 00:03:37 The Order Of The 12 – Eye Of A Lens Hypnotic, swirling psychedelic electronica with rich analogue layers and cosmic focus. Mesmerizing. 00:07:50 Old Amica – To the Coastline Dreamy, windswept ambient folk with soft textures and coastal longing. Peaceful and evocative. 00:11:37 Bon Iver – Second Nature Warm, introspective indie-folk with lush production and emotional vulnerability. Beautifully tender. 00:15:28 Austin Potter – Springtime Bright, hopeful ambient-folk with fresh spring-like clarity and gentle optimism. 00:17:52 Danny Paul Grody – Hidden Valley Pastoral, fingerstyle guitar ambient with serene beauty and hidden valley tranquility. Gorgeous. 00:22:13 Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Artemesia & Moringa Organic, earthy improvisation with herbal textures and natural, wandering calm. Side B 00:30:08 Tycho – Spectre (Bibio Remix) Warm, shimmering downtempo with Bibio’s signature soft-focus charm and dreamy grooves. 00:34:26 Moses Sumney – Plastic Soulful, artful indie-R&B with expressive vocals and clever, fluid arrangements. 00:36:46 North Americans – Classic Water Sparse, glowing ambient guitar with wide-open spaces and quiet emotional depth. 00:40:39 North Sea Radio Orchestra – Arcade Elegant, chamber-like neoclassical with warm orchestration and nostalgic charm. 00:43:37 Bibio – Curls Playful, sun-dappled folktronica with intricate guitar work and joyful bounce. 00:46:42 Golden Brown – Little Rider Whimsical, intimate electronic folk with gentle melodies and childlike wonder. 00:48:58 Julien Hauspie – Coda Delicate, minimalist ambient closer with soft emotional resonance and graceful fade. 00:52:08 10.32 – Cornelius Drive Atmospheric, driving electronic with subtle propulsion and nocturnal coolness. 00:56:12 tadoma – Continuum Smooth, flowing ambient with seamless transitions and comforting continuity. Perfect ending.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 143 of The Virtual Cassette Library. Plank Glides Enigma is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and its geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube. I’m Trevor and I curate these 90-minute genre bending drifts through frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Two, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per set with a side change half way. Imagine the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view. Styles for this episode range from beats to nature, from funk to new classical. The musical keys in focus are G sharp / A flat and F minor. In this episode we’re joined by some new friends of the channel like Sævar Jóhannsson and Red Stars Over Tokyo. As well as some familiar names like THE GAYE DEVICE, Mike Dickinson and Listening Center as well as supporting labels like Cyclical Dreams, Buried Treasure, Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Ingrown Records, Mahorka, Castles in Space and many more. All the artists and labels are the soul of this show.
If you’d like to be included on future episodes send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Links to all the tracks are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline. Pre-order the 8th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Also you can now grab the first compilation album Murmurs in the Mist with 45 artists. Subscribe to the Mixcloud channel and unlock 877 archived shows. Remember, every comment, every like, every follow, subscription and, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing. So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 101 A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is partially sponsored by these generous labels: Mahorka, Dustopian Frequencies, Subexotic Records, Triplicate Records, Le Mont Analogue, Binaural Space, whitelabrecs, Owl Totem Recordings, Mystery Circles, and, Imaginary North.
Much love to my Co-Host the poet, the Psychonaut, Nanogod, for his visualisations of what’s going on during the episodes.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, rendez2k, aeon_music, OtterVision, and, Fonodroom, for the follows, likes and comments.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can join nanogod on the time line. Don’t be shy.
Do you want to be part of future transmissions? Send your art to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked at the top of each episode.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨