Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178
15 February 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever fragment of time you’ve found yourself in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178. I’m Trevor—your host, your guide, your occasional sonic conspirator.
A sonic 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.
So, settle in. Let the kettle boil. Let the cat sleep. Let the world spin without you for a while.
We float tonight through drifts of ambient electronic, modular wanderings, dubwise echoes, some art rock angles, leftfield pop inflections, drone undertows, and the odd burst of experimental pop. Places flicker by: Wormhole World gatherings, Republic of Music corners, Castles in Space haunts, Invisible Inc. pathways, Four Flies shadows, and points scattered from Lancashire to Vilnius, Munich to Mexico City.
The longest stretch in the selection comes from Caught in Joy – Elsewhere, a patient unravelling that lingers in the mind. The shortest snaps past in a flash with Allmanna Town – Sample 24, not even reaching the minute mark.
We begin with Dubberrookie and Winter Weather, a seasonal drift from A Wormhole Xmas 2025 on Wormhole World. Chilled dub pulses meet wintry synth haze, gentle echoes folding into themselves like snow settling on rooftops.
Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Dubberrookie – Winter Weather. Dubberrookie will appear on my upcoming compilation “Puzzles of the Psyche”. There’s still time. Send in your entries by March 25.
Now Floating Points with Precursor, the bonus unreleased cut from the Elaenia 10 Year Anniversary on the Republic of Music label. Sparse piano gestures meet subtle electronic undercurrents, a quiet prelude that breathes slow and deliberate.
Floating Points – Precursor.
Next up Bahia Brazil based artist – Navin Kala offers Vijf from Spinoza on a favourite label of the show Mystery Circles. Minimalist piano lines trace thoughtful paths, space around each note allowing contemplation to gather.
Navin Kala – Vijf. A reminder now if you have a piece of music that has meant a lot to you for some reason tell me about it. I’m putting together a new show called “Chord Confessions” and I need some tales behind the most important music ever released. PM me on the socials or email me trevlad@gmail.com Now back to the show.
Now amping up the drone. Stewart Keller brings Disheveled Zen from the whopping 100 track 2020-2025 Archives. Loosened field recordings and soft electronics tangle in a relaxed, almost accidental calm.
Stewart Keller – Disheveled Zen.
Here’s me Trevlad with Curving Archive Scales from the Trick or Treat 4 compilation on Sounds for the Soul. Archive dust and curving scales weave a long, meditative thread, time marked in subtle modular shifts.
Trevlad – Curving Archive Scales. Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Bernt Haas, who I believe is part of the Cries from the LTN outfit. Also Liquid Shape and The Tall Librarian. Thanks for the follow.
Now Mexico City based artists Eafhm and Mwamwa collaborate on Luzne (Mwamwa Part) from the split release on Secuencias Temporales. Dubby bass hums beneath fragmented vocal traces, a hazy half-step wander.
Eafhm, Mwamwa – Luzne (Mwamwa Part).
And now for something completely different. Deerhoof deliver L’Amour Stories from Apple O’ on Joyful Noise Recordings. Quick, angular art rock bursts with playful yelps and tight rhythmic jabs.
Deerhoof – L’Amour Stories.
Garda slips in Substratum from S-Lyga on the Neotantra label. Deep drone layers build slow atmospheric weight, substratum textures rumbling low.
Garda – Substratum.
Now time to punk it up. Tinned Meats present Caught in the Wild from Kilter on I Heart Noise. Raw edges meet noisy propulsion, caught somewhere between garage grit and wilder impulses. Mad stuff…
Tinned Meats – Caught in the Wild.
And now Keith Seatman with Tonight’s Guests Are? from the forthcoming Counting to Ten Then Back Again on Castles in Space. Radiophonic quirks and psych-folk fragments evoke childhood games and firework packaging memories, playful yet oddly disorienting.
Keith Seatman – Tonight’s Guests Are?
The Polish legend of Coconut Creek, Caught in Joy closes Side A with Elsewhere.
Karol is the most prolific Berlin school artist on the planet. He produces so much quality music on a weekly basis. Which he records live and can be witnessed on his Youtube channel. Analogue drooling adventures. The track Elsewhere is from the release Colorfield. Self released back in mid December. Karol has released 4 albums since then just for some perspective. This is Analogue coloured space drifts to close out the first side of the show.
Side B
We turn the cassette. If you have something you want featured on the shows lease don’t be shy. I’m not on a schedule which means I get to do shows several times a week, which means you won’t have to wait long to hear your music here. Here’s a label that does just that from the fantastic Italian label Four Flies Records. Chiaré opens with Ago e Filo from the album Sei. Italian library echoes meet modern restraint, strings and subtle grooves threading through.
Chiaré – Ago e Filo.
Now LOULA YORKE shares The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without) from Live Compendium 2 on Truxalis. Live-captured modular meditations unfold with quiet intensity, water-like ripples expanding.
LOULA YORKE – The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without).
Next another artist who has contributed in the past to my compilations the fantastic The Music Liberation Front Sweden who arrive with A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing from their collection on Third Kind Records. Warped pop edges bend familiar shapes into something skewed and resilient.
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing.
And Now Higamos Hogamos rework Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager) from Voyager Dubs on Glasgows Invisible, Inc. Deep dub transformations stretch the original into cavernous space.
Higamos Hogamos – Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager).
Francesca Guccione offers Mechanical Promenade from Connected 3 on IUWE Records. Mechanical rhythms promenade alongside delicate electric piano, a poised mechanical dance. A wonderful must have compilation celebrating 9 of the best female experimental electronic out there. In fact the entire label focuses on the beauty of female diversity in electronic music. Enjoy.
Francesca Guccione – Mechanical Promenade.
Komodo Kolektif follow with Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub) also from that Voyager Dubs compilation on Invisible, Inc. Drone devotion meets dub disciple rites, heavy and hypnotic. Invisible, Inc. is a label I wish I could play more of on the channel, and just can’t for financial reasons. They are great so if you can grab some of their beautiful physical releases.
Komodo Kolektif – Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub).
Now friend of the show Russian artist Ndorfik contributes Tahvi from Solos on People Can Listen. 5/8 Idm explorations carve sparse, introspective paths. Ndorfik has enlightened me on the fact that Mixcloud is not available without streaming through VPNs in his neck of the woods. So I send him the files of past shows so he can spread the good word.
Ndorfik – Tahvi.
Now the penultimate track and two masters of the ambient scene. Rhucle & Arbee bring Mournful Sky from Plain on David Cordero curated label Noray Records. Mournful ambient skies drift with gentle melancholy, field-like textures breathing slow.
Rhucle & Arbee – Mournful Sky.
Material for future shows is always welcome. Send your vibrations to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths glow at trevor.se and in each show’s timeline.
Until the next cassette turns.
Trevor, signing off from Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178.
I leave you with the very short track Sample 24 by Allmanna Town Allmanna Town is Phil Dodds who runs the amazing Waxing Crescent Records and my fellow Stockholm dweller Jonas Geiger Ohlin of The New Emphatic fame. this track is from Rodents out on their own Bandcamp imprint. Sampled fragments glitch and reform in rodent-quick bursts.
And that fades us out. Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Dubberrookie – Winter Weather – 01:35
Floating Points – Precursor – 08:18
Navin Kala – Vijf – 14:06
Stewart Keller – Disheveled Zen – 19:21
Trevlad – Curving Archive Scales – 20:45
Eafhm, Mwamwa – Luzne (Mwamwa Part) – 23:52
Deerhoof – L’Amour Stories – 29:14
Garda – Substratum – 31:21
Tinned Meats – Caught in the Wild – 34:30
*Keith Seatman – Tonight’s Guests Are? – 36:56
Caught In Joy – Elsewhere – 39:36
B Side – 47:04
Chiaré – Ago e Filo – 47:43
LOULA YORKE – The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without) – 51:08
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing – 56:50
Higamos Hogamos – Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager) – 1:02:56
Francesca Guccione – Mechanical Promenade – 1:08:49
Komodo Kolektif – Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub) – 1:13:31
Ndorfik – Tahvi – 1:18:51
Rhucle & Arbee – Mournful Sky – 1:23:32
Allmanna Town – Sample 24 – 1:25:32
Outro – 1:27:09
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 164
7 January 2026
Virtual 90 minute mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 30 artists, two 45 minute sets. A spoken intro followed by music only show. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
“Hello, Trevor here, and this is episode one‑six‑four of the Virtual Cassette Library. Today’s theme is Retain Happier Obeyed—which, as usual, is both the track you’re hearing underneath and a location you can find on a map, if you’re the sort who enjoys chasing coordinates on What3Words.
We’ve got ninety minutes ahead—two sides, fifteen tracks each. Some names you’ll know, some you won’t, and that’s half the fun.
On the A side there’s an exclusive by Foster Neville titled, Mow Cop, from the album, Through Lands Of Ghosts. Dropping on the 16th of January via Subexotic Records.
On the B side there’s a sort of exclusive by Hendekagon. Who’ve done a magical soundtrack to accompany the book Die Verschiebung der Zeit (The shift in time) by Corina Retzlaff out on Adventurous Music.
Also the track, Magical Interval, by John Haughey & Tarotplane is from their up coming Woodford Halse release called, WF 98 – Errata.
Now then, starting back on episode 156, there’s a little cipher game running through the series. Each episode, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten episodes, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ll get it right.
The sort of thing you might stumble across late at night on a shortwave dial, wondering if you imagined it.
So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
Tatsuro Murakami – 1-11-5 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo – 02:10
Enofa – Obscure Diagram – 05:20
Stewart Keller – Toad Spits Poison – 09:07
Bono / Burattini – Ora sono un lago – 11:10
Foster Neville– Mow Cop – 13:16
Odin Kaban – Cuerpo físico – 17:06
Eric Wetherell – Sky (alternative HTV theme) – 20:44
Steve Roach & Erik Wollo – Night Strands – 21:42
Socool – Lumina – 24:58
Theadelaidean – Dawn Fades – 27:57
Dead Voices On Air, KK Null – 5 (Seven Works of Mercy) – 31:32
The Volume Settings Folder – Afired With Stars – 32:47
Erik Wøllo – Celsius – 35:46
Julio Tornero – point chad – 38:46
Mirai No Hagaki – Orbit of Dread (But Please, Pretend Its Fine) – 42:16
B Side – 47:04
The Metamorph – Second-Hand Regret – 47:34
Paddy Steer – Chester Frequency Infector – 52:31
Klaus Morlock – Ghost Ship – 53:11
Dalton Alexander – Sad October Music – 55:04
Clevelode – Grimston’s Oak – 57:05
David Douglas, Applescal – Trial of Truth – 59:34
A’Bear – Chakra Check Up – 1:02:59
Hendekagon – Die Zeitreise – 1:07:07
Trevlad – Lands Lonely Uniform – 1:10:06
Wodwo – Night Windows – 1:12:47
Salvatore Mercatante – Cylinder – 1:15:40
*John Haughey & Tarotplane – Magical Interval – 1:18:46
amble – where i vanished for a while – 1:22:27
WHI Recordings – Syntax-Lost – 1:26:27
Broadcast – Still Feels Like Tears [Demo] – 1:29:45
Outro – 1:32:42
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 150
4 December 2025
“Evening all. Episode one-five-zero of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Nothing Them Myth. That’s the track you can hear underneath, and it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—it’s up on YouTube if you’re curious.
I’m Trevor. Ninety minutes, two sides, fifteen tracks each. Tonight you’ll hear Enofa, Mint Deluxe, and my own piece Isolated Elastic Ripples. Andrew Spackman, Akira Film Script on whitelabrecs, and Talkdemonic are in the mix. Later on, Harald Grosskopf, Polypores, and Please Close Your Eyes bring their worlds of ambient, kosmische, and experimental electronics. Labels orbiting here include Third Kind Records, Kahvi Collective, Ingrown, Imaginary North, and Projekt.
On the B side: amble, Toxic Chicken, Rob Dobson, Sun Rain, and Moray Newlands. Genres drift from drone and ambient to leftfield folk textures and cosmic synth explorations.
The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre‑order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
Enofa – Reappearance Of The Disappearing Nail Part 2 – 01:50
Mint Deluxe – Pakora (shorter) – 04:52
Trevlad – Isolated Elastic Ripples – 07:52
*Andrew Spackman – ½ cup unsalted butter – 10:52
EKT – Thiel Bux – 14:45
Akira Film Script – V – 16:51
LuC. – The germ of destruction – 19:58
Talkdemonic – Sister – 23:19
Peter Phippen, Ivar Lunde, Jr., Paulina Fae – Other Worldly Presence – 25:54
Harald Grosskopf – Oceanheart – 29:00
wheel – A quiet exit – 31:55
Polypores – Void High – 34:54
Please Close Your Eyes – Autumnal Funghi – 37:56
Papi Thereso – Buoyancy – 41:49
Stewart Keller – Dense Cedar Brush – 43:50
B Side – 46:51
JICS – What’s Before You – 47:25
amble – the heart scatters – 50:10
Dan Bean – Chum – 54:06
enkaytee – Too Late – 59:57
UMBRAFONO – Film 299 Livengood – 1:01:51
Toxic Chicken – Some Peace – 1:04:16
Rob Dobson – Vestigial Sanitarium – 1:06:36
Hendekagon – Die Zeiteinteilung – 1:08:45
Sun Rain – Modus Operandi – 1:10:46
o[rlawren] – the penumbra and the gradients – 1:15:32
Eric Wetherell – Doctor Saul Is Operating – 1:18:13
rhubiqs – C/1995 O1 – 1:19:24
Absence – As Eyes First Open – 1:21:57
aeon – brumes – 1:24:06
Moray Newlands – An incident has occurred – 1:29:35
Outro – 1:32:30
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 137
31 October 2025
///feelers.slows.fleet.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 137 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Feelers Slows Fleet is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and it’s 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 side with a side change in the middle.
Picture the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted the time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view.
Styles for this episode range from post-rock to minimal electro, from Ambient to psychedelic. The musical keys in focus are A major and F sharp minor, G flat minor.
This episode contains some household names like To Rococo Rot, Jah Wobble, Louis Cole and Tycho. Some friends of the channel like Fallen, Pietro Zollo, Exit Chamber and WEALDHAM as well as some supporting labels like Castles in Space, rohs! records, Moniker Eggplant, Triplicate Records and Projekt records. You are all 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 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe and unlock 866 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.
Intro – 00:00
Paul Cousins – Thought Loops – 02:50
Trem 77 – Io (1967 Mix) – 05:31
Shadow Dancer – Before You Die – 08:06
Wodwo – in a minute there is time – 11:44
Stewart Keller – Pockets – 14:59
Fallen – My Will is Your Will – 17:14
Anadol – Gel Elimi Tut – 21:30
Tycho – Devices – 23:27
willowlaun – requiescat – 27:09
Larry Toadman – evora – 29:32
Hipwell – Sparkle Me Wet – 32:17
Lord Cernunnos – Castle Of The Blood Sucker – 35.05
b l u e s c r e e n – Two Doors – 37:46
Pietro Zollo – sixth – 40:38
Heiko Maile, Julian DeMarre – Between Trees – 43:42
B Side – 47:39
Futuregrapher – Anton & Skeljar – 48:09
Lisa Bella Donna – Conclusions – 50:02
Trevlad – Iron Binders Voice – 54:15
Dave Clarkson – Rendlesham (Live) – 56:55
David Edren – Kernel – 1:00:12
Louis Cole, Metropole Orkest, Jules Buckley – You Belonged – 1:04:22
Suncastle – Before, During and After the Fire (feat. Time Rival) – 1:05:33
Mesak – Lahota – 1:08:53
Nala Sinephro – Continuum 9 – 1:11:47
Last Ceremony – Verisimilitude – 1:14:24
Exit Chamber – All Houses Are Haunted – 1:17:56
Jah Wobble – Camden Dawn – 1:20:59
To Rococo Rot – Das Blau Und Der Morgen (Digital Exclusive) – 1:22:22
EKT – On The Silver Globe – 1:24:55
WEALDHAM – DISTANCE – 1:28:47
Outro – 1:33:14
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