Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 347
Hi folks and welcome to episode 347 of my Virtual cassette library. Sorry for the background disturbance, the neighbourhs are having roofwork done. Now I’ve been too busy for the past couple of days, not that anyone has noticed. What’s been happening? Well I went to see Bitchin Bajas on Wednesday which was a mind bender in the best sense. Krautrock lives! I’ve been also asked a bunch of life reflective questions by the wonderful Brian Roach who does a great Q&A series on Substack. Our musical compatability level is off the charts. So if you like this series I recommend you check his interviews out. Also this week Robin Rimbaud, Mr. Scanner is in my neck of the woods playing with Klang Systematiek. really looking forward to that.
It’s Bandcamp Friday as if your inbox hasen’t reminded you. Go grab everything on that wishlist. Especially the pre-release for the new compilation I’m hosting called Hidden Kingdoms, which is available for two quid and already has 13 artists with still plenty of time before the release at the end of the year.
I’m also sending actual mix tapes to new subscribers or tip givers which myself and Gareth Evans aka HDRF thought was a cool idea I’ve done two cassettes and so far have only managed to lose a subscriber.
Anyway on to the show and the first side which will include Portland Vows, an exclusive track by Richard Francés who is the curator of the amazing Hylé Tapes with a track from that Hidden Kingdoms compilation that everyone’s talking about. Also Department of Light, Aiko Takahashi together with Scattered Light, luxury elite and finally Shakali.
Side B will flip itself like a polite pancake so no effort needed.
Shout outs to the followers that have favourited the shows and to Graham Thorpe and MoiCflo for commenting.
First off is Brian Omen with “Litany for ARP 2600” Enjoy…
Welcome to the intermission or the flip side. You just heard the track “thank you for calling” by luxury elite. Remember 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 considered. The next set will feature Green-House, Spectrical. An exclusive track Consumer Electronics from an upcoming compilation titled “Motifs 2” on the rather excellent WHI Recordings label due out on November 20. Also Hiroaki Yamamoto and finally Cells Interlinked. But first Shakali with the track “Minium”. Enjoy…
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.
Side A
Mood mist: a litany for an ARP 2600, a December that arrives with a cuckoo, a self that decolonises itself, a main theme from the dream journal, an autumn veil in corduroy, a thank you for calling that means it.
00:02:53 Brian Omen – Litany for ARP 2600
https://ambientcuration.bandcamp.com/track/brian-omen-litany-for-arp-2600
Album: Compilation vol. 3. Label: Ambient Curation
The litany already spoken. The 2600 already answering in its own tongue.
00:06:59 Portland Vows – December
https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/track/december
Album: Cuckoo. Label: Third Kind Records
The month already arrived. The clock already insisting.
00:10:00 Richard Francés – Decolonize Yourself
(Exclusive track)
Album: Hidden Kingdoms. Label: Trevlad
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-kingdoms
The compilation still open. The self already lighter.
00:18:37 Department of Light – Diaphorá Main Theme
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/diaphor-main-theme
Album: Label: The Dream Journal Institute
The theme already in the air. The diaphora already resolved, or not, as it prefers.
00:22:04 Aiko Takahashi & Scattered Light – Le Voile D’automne (Corduroy)
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/le-voile-d-automne-corduroy-2
Album: Pour un Instant. Label: Noray Records
The autumn veil already corduroy. The instant already held.
00:25:41 luxury elite – thank you for calling
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/thank-you-for-calling
Album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings
The call already answered. The thank you already sincere.
Side B
Mood mist: a minium red enough to count as a second nature, a farewell to a little island, a slow stream through Litchfield, a ray that traces itself, an empty that hangs in the wind, a water wheel that keeps its own time.
00:27:38 Shakali – Minium
https://shakali.bandcamp.com/track/minium
Album: Toinen Luonto. Label: Not Not Fun Records
The minium already red. The second nature already in place.
00:31:36 Green-House – Farewell, Little Island
https://green-house.bandcamp.com/track/farewell-little-island
Album: Hinterlands. Label: Ghostly International
The island already waved. The farewell already soft.
00:33:47 Spectrical – Slow Stream
https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com/track/slow-stream
Album: Litchfield. Label: Perceptual Tapes
The stream already slow. The perceptual already patient.
00:40:00 Consumer Electronics – Raytracing
(Exclusive track)
Album: Motifs 2. Label: WHI Recordings
https://whirecordings.bandcamp.com/
The ray already traced. The motif already repeating.
00:42:05 Hiroaki Yamamoto – Empty
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/track/empty
Album: Suspended in the Wind. Label: Driftworks
The empty already full. The suspension already kind.
00:43:56 Cells Interlinked – Water Wheel
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/water-wheel
Album: Cold Spring Notes [CYD 0158]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
The wheel already turning. The water already cooperating.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 212
Hypnotic and dreamlike, often sitting in liminal spaces.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to episode 212 of the Virtual Cassette Library. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
This episode is based on the track “Tower of Butterflies” by Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid from the album “Looking For Mount Sylvan” which dropped on the 10th of March via The 12th Isle label. Also a massive thank you to Driftworks, Lunar Module which is the CD imprint of Castles in Space, Audiobulb, Amulet of Tears, Trem 77, and Third Kind Records for sponsoring the episode with material.
This mix carries a moody, introspective, and slightly surreal nocturnal atmosphere. It moves through themes of isolation, transformation, thresholds, and fragile beauty. There’s a strong contrast between cold urban desolation and organic, fluttering delicacy — from concrete fields and body worms to towers of butterflies and sunlit solitude. The overall feeling is hypnotic and dreamlike, often sitting in liminal spaces (half-awake, melting forms, interrupted signals), with a subtle undercurrent of unease balanced by moments of quiet wonder and graceful movement.
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 Ghostloop – Concrete fields
Bleak yet atmospheric ambient depicting empty urban sprawl. Grey, expansive drones and subtle industrial textures create a haunting sense of isolation in man-made wilderness.
00:04:30 The Green Kingdom – The Owls
Mysterious, nocturnal ambient with soft, watchful tones. Gentle rustling textures and warm synths evoke hidden eyes in the dark and the quiet wisdom of the night.
00:06:37 Camp of Wolves – Little Black Eyes
Intimate, shadowy ambient with a feral edge. Delicate yet unsettling layers suggest small, gleaming eyes watching from the undergrowth—curious and slightly menacing.
00:10:33 Saïph – Psyché du figurant (128)
Abstract, hypnotic ambient/electronic exploration. Minimal rhythms and fragmented textures probe the psyche of an anonymous background figure—detached and surreal.
00:13:10 Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland– Melting Cubes
Fluid, dissolving ambient with geometric forms gradually breaking down. Soft, melting tones and crystalline details create a beautiful, impermanent sonic sculpture.
00:15:24 Future Children – New mythology part 3
Speculative, glowing ambient weaving contemporary myths. Warm, hopeful layers and subtle narrative movement suggest emerging stories for a new generation.
00:22:18 The Black Dog – Sleep Deprivation 39: Threshold Ov Wakefulness
Disorienting, liminal ambient from the legendary duo. Pulsing, sleep-deprived textures sit on the fragile edge between dreams and reality—tense and immersive.
00:25:53 Phexioenesystems – Body Worm
Organic, microscopic body-horror-tinged ambient. Creeping textures and intimate biological sounds evoke parasites, transformation, and internal hidden worlds.
Side B
00:30:33 Neuro… No Neuro – Words On Branches
Delicate, branching ambient with organic-electronic hybridity. Gentle, tree-like structures and whispered fragments feel like thoughts growing naturally in a quiet forest.
00:34:46 Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid– Tower of Butterflies
Light, fluttering ambient full of movement and grace. Swirling, kaleidoscopic layers build an elegant, fragile tower of color and motion.
00:39:28 Loris S. Sarid – One Million Streams (feat. Tony Morris)
Flowing, multi-layered ambient celebrating convergence. Rich, interwoven textures suggest countless individual streams merging into something vast and beautiful.
00:40:22 Teatre – Frostbite
Cold, crystalline ambient with a biting edge. Sharp yet beautiful frozen tones capture the painful beauty and isolation of extreme chill.
00:44:01 Trem 77 – Glister (Overland mix)
Shimmering, overland ambient with subtle rhythmic drive. Glistening textures and wide-open movement evoke traveling across sunlit or moonlit terrain.
00:46:49 Spectrical – Sunlit Solitude
Warm, radiant ambient focused on peaceful isolation. Golden, glowing drones and soft reflections create a comforting sense of being alone in bright, open space.
00:53:11 Sleep Chrysalis – Smoke Signal, Interupted
Hazy, fragile ambient with broken communication. Drifting smoke-like textures and gentle interruptions evoke messages fading into the distance.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 041
Welcome, wanderers of unseen frequencies. This is not mere sound—it is a symphony of lost echoes from forgotten futures. You do not just listen; you surrender to the unfolding spiral of auditory prophecy.
🔮 The architects of the spectral weave on todays episode are—Four Flies Records, Ingrown Records, Cyclical Dreams, Downstream Records, Third Kind Records, Perceptual Tapes, and Imaginary North 🚀 The conjurers—Saloop, Philippe Deschamps, Sons Of Faust, and, Loris S Sarid—shaping resonance into portals, constructing corridors within the void. 🎭 The benevolent force—Free Album Codes—a beacon in the static, ensuring the lost frequencies find their way home.
A soundscape beyond language. Reality wavers, sound bends, and we—the cosmic conductors—are merely passengers in the infinite wave.
🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—cast your offerings into the ether. The portal stands open: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹 Leave your spectral imprint, your timestamp upon the celestial mixtape—mark your passage, trace your essence.
🔮 Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let’s dissolve time together. 🚀✨
Trevs Intro – 00:00
Azzurro 80 – Buongiorno il Caffè – 01:47
Time Rival – A New Type of Silence – 02:35
Feed the Multiverse – It Was Well – 06:53
odd person – earthquake anxiety – 11:23
Saloop – Lauds – 13:07
JIHEL – Mineral Spirit – 17:01
Tony Gerber – When Evening Falls – 22:57
Oariana – Pear Trees Falls – 27:34
Overtin – Look Who – 28:24
Philippe Deschamps – Clouds Stream – 32:36
Agnes Haus – Verveine – 35:40
H-M O – Twinklings – 38:45
WDX – Continuous – 40:33
B Side – 45:59
Pietro Zollo – Structural II – 46:40
Mudlarking – Raindrops – 48:48
Local Sound Developer – Triangle – 51:56
Patrick R. Pärk – Decompressed Finite Vibrations – 56:16
Sons of Faust – Miracles by Appointment – 1:03:40
Loris S Sarid – two – 1:10:44
Aarktica – The Ice (Feels Three Feet Thick Between Us) – 1:13:05
Spectrical – Frozen expanse – 1:17:42
*Kilometre Club – Overbooking – 1:24:10
Sai³ – Dreamy Shores – 1:26:50
Trevs Outro – 1:29:19
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 040
08.05.2025
🚀 Greetings, sonic voyagers! Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 040 is here!
90 mins. Two sides. Not a playlist. Pure immersion. Free for a week—then lost to the cosmos! 🎶✨
Artists, labels, sound experimenters—let’s dissolve time together! 🌀
Trevs Intro – 00:00
Bryan Rohmer – Five Year Old Me – 02:05
*OdNu – Burned – 05:49
Exit Chamber – She Held Me Together, Now It’s My Turn – 10:32
Davide Perico, Mellow dive – on old and new tables – 17:37
Philippe Deschamps – Blue Question – 19:34
Kilometre Club – Inclement Weather – 21:52
*Tides – But Not Weak – 23:46
*David Cordero – Otros ritmos – 26:14
Anairam – Obertura – 28:02
Loris S Sarid – one – 29:15
Tracy Chow – Lullaby for the Lost – 31:18
JICS – Rainfall In Limerick City: Regret – 33:51
Oberu – city – 34:39
*Spectrical – Crystals gleaming amidst cavern mists – 39:53
B Side – 44:45
Jogging House – Queue – 46:06
Harald Gramberg – Sequence C, In The Afternoon (In de namiddag) – 52:19
Aarktica – Glacia – 1:02:31
Rupert Lally – Maple Sunrise – 1:15:31
Lullatone – Catnaps – 1:17:10
Fflwcs – Brandt – 1:18:19
Trevs Outro – 1:20:44
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 034
01.05.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
David Slowing – Forest – 03:51
millicow – spring sunrise – 08:46
Willebrant – tea tree – 11:57
Squarb – Ebb & Flow – 13:41
Black Sun High Desert – The Golden Arrow Pierces – 16:31
Everyday Dust – Colourless Hills – 18:23
*Spectrical – Threading glacial depths – 23:00
Bowing – Sway Of The Rushes – 25:23
Marc Aubele – 31 – 28:08
Fallen – Amber Drops – 29:18
Local Sound Developer – Further Than Expected – 33:56
Binaural Space – V – 40:03
Dag Rosenqvist – Allt vi redan glömt – 41:47
*Thought Bubble – It’s Best Not To Look At The Sun – 43:59
B Side – 48:27
Lillies For Ever – Oracle II – 51:06
*kent watari – SHAKKEI – 59:58
Overtin – Lifetimes – 1:01:33
*OdNu – Remember The Sun – 1:05:44
Bistro Boy – Chapter 05 – 1:11:41
*The All Golden – Step into the Light – 1:14:05
The Heartwood Institute – Malkin Tower – 1:20:03
Emanuele Liguori – Not Our Secret Anymore – 1:23:48
Trevs Outro – 1:28:21
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 031
27.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Black Sun High Desert – a sweetness of pain – 04:31
Ai Yamamoto – Gigi’s Lazy Day – 08:58
*Spectrical – Surfacing to the iridescent firmament – 12:46
David Cordero & Rhucle – So Close – 18:10
HERE – Beneath The Shade Of Trees – 20:16
*The Bird’s Companion – The Pianola Dreams of Its Former Glory – 22:59
Binaural Space – L1 – 26:12
Mad Squabbles – Aziza – 29:45
Local Sound Developer – Sub Strata – 32:35
*kent watari – YŪSUI – 37:33
NUUK – RAIN – 39:44
Overtin – Heading North – 41:56
Ogle – A Closure – 44:55
B Side – 48:06
HDRF – Judy’s Dream – 50:45
Squarb – Soft Material – 57:03
Caught In Joy – where luminous dreams – 1:01:12
Emanuele Liguori – Groundless Cathedral – 1:06:54
Fflwcs – Pipistrelle (part one) – 1:11:21
*ILUITEQ + Eraldo Bernocchi – Remain, In This Silent Place – 1:13:48
Alessandro Alessandroni – I sopravvissuti – 1:17:57
Jogging House – Rug – 1:19:32
NOSNAR – Warm Breathe – 1:32:18
Trevs Outro – 1:34:57
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
