Equal parts cosmic wonder, gentle unease, and deep relaxation. Ideal for late-night listening, focused immersion, or psychedelic headspace sessions.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to episode 208 of the Virtual Cassette Library – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that sets the tone for the set. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If and when I get a couple more subscribers then I’ll go back to doing 90 minute versions, complete with commentary. This episode is based on the track “Night owl dub” by Dubberrookie from the upcoming compilation album “The Mystery of the Night” curated by yours truly. Shout out to all the artists so far to contribute to what’s looking to be a fantastic collection. Also a massive thank you to Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project, Discus Music, Subexotic Records, Dubberrookie for sponsoring the channel with material. An adventurous, psychedelic, and atmospheric journey through experimental electronics, cosmic jazz, hauntology, and deep dub. Side A moves from playful lo-fi quirkiness and cerebral intensity into vast cosmic expanses, ancient drones, acid-tinged mysticism, and faded derelict nostalgia. Side B drifts into dreamy Japanese psych, precise minimalism, warm organic calm, and closes with smoky late-night dub. Overall mood: Mysterious, expansive, and slightly mind-altering. It has a nocturnal, otherworldly feel — equal parts cosmic wonder, gentle unease, and deep relaxation. Ideal for late-night listening, focused immersion, or psychedelic headspace sessions. 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 Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – What Happens On The Mesericord, Stays On The Mesericord Lo-fi, eccentric ambient with quirky field recordings and warm analogue charm. Playful and intimate. 00:04:53 EKT – CCRU Dark, cerebral electronic with intense cybernetic energy and accelerationist edge. Sharp and hypnotic. 00:08:07 Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere – Under The Azure Expansive cosmic jazz/ambient with soaring horns and vast open skies. Majestic and exploratory. 00:17:46 WEALDHAM – Time Haunting, ancient-tinged ambient with deep drones and timeless melancholy. Atmospheric and solemn. 00:20:50 Audio Obscura – Babyloniacid Psychedelic, acid-tinged ambient with swirling layers and mysterious ancient-future vibes. Trippy and immersive. 00:24:58 The British Stereo Collective – Dereliction Eerie, abandoned hauntological soundscapes with faded analogue warmth and quiet decay. Nostalgic and ghostly. Side B 00:29:20 maya ongaku – Maybe Psychic Dreamy, psychedelic Japanese ambient with loose grooves and hypnotic, mind-expanding haze. Blissful and otherworldly. 00:34:04 Barker – Positive Disintegration Minimal techno/ambient with crisp percussion and subtle emotional tension. Precise and cerebral. 00:38:42 Tegu – V Warm, organic ambient with gentle textures and flowing, meditative calm. Soft and nurturing. 00:42:21 Dubberrookie – Night owl dub Deep, smoky dub-ambient with late-night echoes and heavy, relaxed bass weight. Atmospheric and immersive closer.
Pastoral, folk-tinged hauntology with warm analogue tones and gentle countryside feel.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to episode 203 of the Virtual Cassette Library – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that sets the tone for the set. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If and when I get a couple more subscribers then I’ll go back to doing 90 minute versions, complete with commentary. This episode is a continuation of my library mood at the moment. Warm, intimate, slightly surreal, and gently psychedelic. Think golden-hour light, quiet wonder, and analogue comfort — perfect for relaxed listening, daydreaming, or late afternoon/evening wind-down. Soft, charming, and emotionally tender with a strong sense of nostalgic beauty.
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. No breaks, just the music.
Side A 00:00:00 Golden Brown – Milton Banana Playful, summery electronic funk with bright grooves and tropical whimsy. Light and joyful. 00:03:22 D. Lord – Osmo Warm, flowing ambient electronics with gentle organic textures and soft movement. Calm and immersive. 00:06:27 Musette – How to Behave in Elevators Quirky, jazzy library-inspired piece with charming melodies and subtle humour. Delightful and offbeat. 00:08:18 Vic Mars – Mountain Centre Pastoral, folk-tinged hauntology with warm analogue tones and gentle countryside feel. 00:11:07 Under Allt – Heimlich / Bananas Playful, slightly surreal electronic with quirky rhythms and warm Swedish charm. 00:12:14 Omni Gardens – Nectar Grass Lush, botanical ambient with soft synths and dreamy, growing organic layers. Serene and verdant. 00:13:51 Foam and Sand – Circle 21 (ft. Circadian Delays) Deep, hypnotic ambient with slow-circling textures and meditative warmth. 00:16:31 Dean Honer – Ambient Dogfight Whimsical, cinematic ambient with playful tension and retro electronic flair. 00:17:33 Swansither – Flying Spoons Light, surreal electronic with floating melodies and gentle psychedelic lift. 00:23:18 Heron & Crane – Darq Qrystals Mysterious, crystalline ambient with dark sparkling textures and nocturnal beauty. 00:26:03 Sven Wunder – Natura Morta (Reprise) Elegant, cinematic exotica with rich analogue warmth and still-life serenity. Side B 00:28:19 Correlations – SEARCH SIGNAL Retro-futurist electronic with scanning synths and subtle broadcast nostalgia. 00:32:55 SiP/Prezzano – Pygmalion Smooth, melodic electronic groove with warm Mediterranean undertones and subtle swing. 00:39:49 Synthetic Villains – Susurrus Whispering, shadowy ambient electronics with intimate, slightly sinister textures. 00:40:34 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Cloud at a Stone’s heart Gentle, contemplative ambient with soft clouds of sound and emotional depth. 00:46:20 Sinj Clarke – I Still See Your Face Melancholic, dreamy electronic with nostalgic haze and tender emotion. 00:49:17 Piero Umiliani – Penombra Classic Italian library beauty — soft, shadowy exotica with elegant twilight mood. 00:51:59 Polypores – Moonhole Deep, cavernous ambient with lunar textures and hypnotic, otherworldly drift. Beautiful closer.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to the new Virtual Cassette Library – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that sets the tone for the set. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If and when I get a couple more subscribers then I’ll go back to doing 90 minute versions, complete with commentary. This episode is based on the track “They Are Coming Back! (Possibly Maybe)” by friend of the channel Uncle Fido. Available through his alter ego Binaural Space. Dropped May 1. If you make music 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. And if you’re enjoying the channel, please consider subscribing — even if it’s just for a month, it makes a real difference. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. No breaks, just the music.
Side A 00:00:00 Graham Reznick – Mulwray Drive Atmospheric, filmic ambient with noir-ish tension and subtle cinematic movement. Moody and immersive. 00:04:29 Uncle Fido – They Are Coming Back! (Possibly Maybe) Playful, slightly paranoid electronic whimsy with quirky synths and light-hearted unease. Fun and offbeat. 00:06:27 Binaural Space – Contentment Warm, spacious ambient drift focused on calm and gentle resonance. Soothing and centred. 00:07:20 Furio Di Castri, Paolo Fresu – Brooklyn Intimate, smoky jazz ballad with lyrical trumpet and warm bass. Reflective and beautifully understated. 00:09:08 Marc Codsi – The Wait Sparse, emotionally charged ambient with patient tension and minimalist beauty. Haunting and poignant. 00:12:04 Omni Gardens – Grassland Gentle, sun-dappled ambient with soft synths and organic, pastoral calm. Lush and serene. 00:14:13 TALsounds – Slides Dreamy, fluid vocal-electronic layers with shifting, slippery textures. Hypnotic and otherworldly. 00:20:34 4T Thieves – The Empty Quarter Vast, desolate ambient desert soundscapes with warm drones and subtle wind-like motion. Expansive and isolating. 00:24:39 Sven Wunder – Deep Sea Lush, cinematic exotica/jazz with rich percussion and underwater mystique. Groovy and immersive. 00:27:17 Syrinx – Hollywood Dream Trip Psychedelic 70s library-inspired trip with swirling analogue warmth and dreamy haze. Nostalgic and hypnotic. 00:32:05 Elijah Fox – Never Let Me Go Tender, melancholic piano-led piece with intimate emotion and soft jazz warmth. Heartfelt and delicate. Side B 00:34:41 Paul Ellis – Internal External Expansive, flowing ambient with rich harmonic layers and profound spatial depth. Meditative and majestic. 00:39:30 Oscar Rocchi, Franco Godi – Pseudomistica Mysterious Italian library music with occult-tinged melodies and vintage charm. Enigmatic and atmospheric. 00:41:17 Moon Mullins – The Slip Loose, slippery ambient jazz with gentle grooves and hazy, nocturnal feel. Relaxed and smoky. 00:42:49 Alexis Delozanne – trig Precise, minimalist electronic study with clean lines and subtle rhythmic intrigue. Elegant and focused. 00:45:46 The New Honey Shade – Taaffeite Crystalline, gem-like ambient with shimmering textures and quiet luminosity. Delicate and precious. 00:46:12 Green-House – Lichen Maps Organic, botanical ambient with soft synths and earthy, growing warmth. Nurturing and detailed. 00:49:22 Mark Ellery Griffiths – The Meadow Peaceful, sunlit pastoral ambient with gentle field-like openness. Calm and verdant. 00:53:49 Gilroy Mere – The Downs Evocative English landscape ambient with nostalgic, rolling countryside warmth. Pastoral and wistful. 00:57:14 Michael J. York – And They Shall Have Stars Celestial, ritualistic ambient with cosmic drones and transcendent beauty. Majestic and starlit.
Based on the track “Ectoplasmically Yours” by a great friend of the channel, a super chap and one of my few subscribers Gareth Evans also known as “HDRF”. This is a live set from Stafford EMOM on May 8. If you make music 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. And if you’re enjoying the channel, please consider subscribing — even if it’s just for a month, it makes a real difference. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. No breaks, just the music.
00:00:00 HDRF – Ectoplasmically Yours Ghostly, swirling ambient techno with ethereal textures and subtle rhythmic undertow. Haunting and hypnotic. 00:16:30 Lo Five – Depths You Will Never Fathom Dark, submerged ambient with heavy low-end drones and oceanic mystery. Deep, claustrophobic, and immersive. 00:22:05 Dollkraut – La Banda Dello Scorpione SEQ. 2 Pulsing, retro-futurist synthwave with Italian horror soundtrack vibes. Sleazy, driving, and cinematic. 00:23:41 Urulu – 9045XY Minimal deep house with crisp percussion and warm, rolling basslines. Smooth, late-night groover. 00:28:54 Arovane – Woven Delicate, intricate IDM/ambient with fragile melodies and organic electronic weave. Beautifully detailed. 00:30:35 Darren Nye – A View From The 4Th Dimension (Version 2) Floating, multi-dimensional ambient with spacious synths and gentle movement. Expansive and weightless. 00:36:33 John Louis Kluck – Rising Orb Warm, glowing ambient electronics with slow-building cosmic light. Radiant and meditative. 00:41:06 Koresma – Clouds Downtempo chill with soft beats, dreamy pads, and airy atmosphere. Floating and serene. 00:44:17 Moray Newlands – A Love Of Books Intimate, literary ambient with warm analogue tones and quiet nostalgia. Cozy and reflective. 00:47:30 Pabellón Sintético – Metamorfosis Evolving synthetic soundscapes with organic transformation and rich textures. Hypnotic and alive. 00:50:47 Payta – Passing Time Gentle, time-dissolving ambient with soft pulses and melancholic warmth. Patient and comforting. 00:52:41 Salvatore Mercatante – Le Corne Mysterious, ritualistic electronics with dark, horn-like resonances. Atmospheric and slightly ominous. 00:53:07 SiP – Hard Times Laid-back global grooves with soulful, resilient melodies. Warm and quietly uplifting. 00:58:45 Kilometre Club – Lowered Slow, tape-saturated ambient drift with warm, lowered horizons. Hazy and deeply relaxing. 00:59:16 The Future Sound Of London – Cascade Classic FSOL liquid ambience with flowing textures and futuristic melancholy. Immersive and timeless. 01:05:02 Ernest Hood – At The Store Lo-fi environmental jazz with zither, field recordings, and gentle small-town nostalgia. Warmly intimate. 01:10:59 Christian Wittman – Stellar Winds Cosmic ambient with sweeping stellar drones and celestial movement. Vast and windswept. 01:14:13 Jeremiah Chiu – Nineteen Delicate, minimalist ambient with subtle piano-like tones and tender emotion. Quietly luminous. 01:15:33 IDTiL – Fractal Anomaly Glitchy, fractal IDM/ambient with twisting patterns and digital unease. Intricate and mind-bending. 01:21:13 Cub-cub – Salvia Time Distortion Psychedelic, time-warping ambient with salvia-inspired surrealism. Trippy and disorienting. 01:21:57 Duke Hugh – Your Number Laid-back, jazzy electronic soul with warm chords and mellow grooves. Smooth and heartfelt. 01:26:50 Sababa 5 – Dreams of Love – (Instrumental) Dreamy Middle Eastern psych-funk with hypnotic melodies and gentle propulsion. Blissful and transportive.
Good day to you listeners, wherever you are. This is Trevor. Welcome to one of these spontaneous episodes – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that appears somewhere inside the set. This episode titled Obsidian Mountain Quest is based on the track “dreamt i was born on a mountain” by “anthéne”, from the album “Air Signs” , which comes out on May 22 via channel supporting label DRONARIVM. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe. If you’d like to be featured send file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com If you can, subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. No breaks, just the music.
00:00:00 Ali Wade – Xenophyophore Deep, organic ambient exploring the mysterious world of xenophyophores—giant single-celled deep-sea organisms. Subtle, textural layers and slow geological movement create an alien yet immersive underwater atmosphere. 00:05:03 Tom Eaton – Before Obsidian(from Elements-Fire) Warm, glowing ambient with rich, fiery undertones. Slow-burning pads and subtle melodic embers evoke the transformative power of fire and the moments just before intense change. 00:14:05 Martin Allin – Learning Is Remembering Reflective, philosophical ambient built on gentle, evolving textures. A contemplative piece that feels like rediscovering forgotten knowledge through soft, unfolding soundscapes. 00:20:01 OGRE Sound – Insects That Haunted As Well As Fed Atmospheric, narrative-driven ambient with a slightly dark, cinematic edge. Evokes the dual nature of nature—beauty and unease—through intricate, haunting textures. 00:23:33 jarguna – Soul of Ganga (with Lorenzo Squillari) Spiritual, flowing ambient inspired by the sacred Ganges River. Deep drones, watery textures, and meditative atmospheres capture both serenity and ancient power. 00:32:40 arovane – youd Delicate, intricate IDM-tinged ambient from Uwe Zahn. Microscopic details, glitchy fragments, and warm melodic threads create a beautifully fragile, polymer-like sound world. 00:37:07 Christophe Bailleau – Katpur (with Paradise Now) Mysterious, moonlit ambient with subtle rhythmic undercurrents. Ethereal and slightly ritualistic, it drifts through nocturnal, vertical phases of sound. 00:39:05 Roderick Shoolbraid – Nonagon Geometric, hypnotic ambient built around nine-sided symmetry. Clean, precise layers and evolving patterns create a sense of sacred geometry in sound. 00:43:01 Desprecio Nauseabundo – Desperate Loss of Material Things & its Obsessive Consequences Dark, experimental ambient exploring obsession and loss. Dense, unsettling textures and collapsing structures form a psychological, noise-tinged descent. 00:52:07 Coco Francavilla – The Stars Dance in Circles Celestial, dreamy ambient with graceful, orbiting movements. Shimmering synths and cosmic elegance evoke stars in eternal, circular motion. 00:54:48 Everyday Dust – Oblivione X Vast, foghorn-laden landscape ambient. Immersive and cinematic, it paints forgotten valleys and distant, echoing oblivion. 01:03:32 Sebby Kowal – Shinjuku Urban, nocturnal ambient capturing the electric pulse of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Neon reflections and bustling stillness blend into a moody, atmospheric portrait. 01:07:52 anthéne – dreamt i was born on a mountain Light, airy guitar-based ambient from the Air Signs album. Gentle loops, swells, and natural textures evoke mountain-born freedom and wide-open skies. 01:13:48 Letters From Mouse – Quest Affric Analogue-driven Scottish ambient with bubbling synths and exploratory spirit. A quest-like journey through misty, engrammatic landscapes.
Music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that appears somewhere inside the set itself. This episode titled Right Balance Mirage is based on the track You Are On The Right Track by Danalogue, from the album Teleportations, which comes out on May 29 via the channel champion label Castles In Space. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. If you can subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help. Right then… here we go.
00:00:00 Synthetic Villains – Once is Nothing Off-kilter electronic track from the Smoker’s Children album. It features dinky beats, vintage bleeps, and quirky textures characteristic of the UK artist’s playful, slightly experimental synth style. 00:01:09 The South Coast Synth Ensemble – Blackbird Synth-driven piece from the Modern Electronics Volume 1 library on the Castles in Space Subscription Library. It delivers warm, melodic electronic tones with a nostalgic, retro-futurist feel. 00:03:40 Danalogue – You Are On The Right Track Uplifting track from the Teleportations solo album by Dan Leavers (The Comet Is Coming / Soccer96). It blends shimmering kosmische, liquid jazz-funk, and euphoric space-disco elements into a warm, transformative journey. 00:06:10 Lovelock – Washington Park Atmospheric electronic cut from Steve Moore’s Washington Park album. It evokes introspective, cinematic moods with the award-winning composer’s signature synth work. 00:10:06 Christopher Fantasy – Out of Balance Ambient electronic piece inspired by the film Koyaanisqatsi (“life out of balance”). It contrasts organic beauty with mechanistic structures through chillout, microhouse, and melodic techno textures. 00:16:43 Martin Stürtzer – Callisto Orbiter Deep ambient / space music from the Lander Modules album. It offers drifting, atmospheric layers evoking orbital journeys around Jupiter’s moon. 00:26:02 Dan Hastie, Terin Ector – Mirage Exotic, lush funk library track from Crows Height (Madlib Invazion series). It continues in the vein of groovy, cinematic 70s-inspired grooves by the Orgone members. 00:27:19 Dan Ubick – The Villa Dramatic soul / library piece from Magnetic Fields (Madlib Invazion). It delivers rich, cinematic funk with emotional depth from the Connie Price & The Keystones contributor. 00:28:37 Caught In Joy – Cassiopean Waves Immersive analog electronic journey from the Cassiopea album. It features real-time composed, hypnotic textures designed for deep listening and cosmic flow. 00:35:11 Frequency Control Centre – Two.Seven.Four Precise, analog-infused electronic track from Analogs of Traces. It explores controlled frequencies and subtle evolving patterns in a minimalist electronic style. 00:40:31 Alexander R. Cargill Esq. – A Word From The Chairman Of The Parish Council Hauntological electronic oddity from the WF 85 – Bromham release. It channels quirky, retro British public information film vibes with a surreal twist 00:41:25 dogs versus shadows – Nightwatch Liminal, hauntological drone/electronica from Oscilloghost. It creates uncanny, space-distorting atmospheres with a nocturnal, unsettling edge. 00:42:37 Stiletti-Ana – Auto Beats Mechanical, rhythmic electronic track from Automat Musik. It blends quirky beats and Helsinki-based experimental flair into hypnotic grooves. 00:46:34 gribbles – Interplay Short, eclectic electronic piece from the Tomorrow E.P.. It showcases playful, home-recorded textures in a concise, eclectic style. 00:47:54 HDRF – Spectralis Part One Hypnotic, spectral electronic exploration from the Spectralis album. It features immersive, otherworldly textures from the prolific UK artist and good friend of the channel. 00:50:53 The GulfFire – First Hour Atmospheric soundtrack-style track from Mission Tapes Vol. I. It builds tense, cinematic electronic moods perfect for late-night immersion. 00:53:00 Misha Panfilov – Pear Blossoms Warm, psychedelic analog groove from Frutaria Electrónica. It blends soul, jazz, and hypnotic repetition with the Estonian artist’s signature cinematic touch. 00:56:31 Belbury Poly – Cantalus Ghost Box hauntological classic from The Belbury Tales. It delivers whimsical, retro British electronic storytelling with a folk-tinged, mysterious charm. 00:59:16 Synthetic Villains – Thrice is Twice Too Many Quirky, from Smoker’s Children. It continues the artist’s signature mix of vintage synths, and offbeat electronic charm. 00:59:38 Thomas Clausen – Bio Rhythm No.3 Vintage 1970s library music funk / soul piece. It offers short, energetic, and groovy rhythms typical of classic production music catalogs.
Slowly building layers create a sense of quiet ascension and hopeful emergence.
Good day to you listeners, wherever you are. This is Trevor. Welcome once again to one of these spontaneous episodes – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that appears somewhere inside the set itself. This episode titled Evening Embers Rise is based on the track Rise by The Peace Race, from the album Shelter, which comes out on July 1 via the fantastic Mortality Tables label. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. If you can subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help. Right then… here we go.
00:00:00 haruka nakamura – 彼方 A tender, shimmering piano-led piece from the Twilight era. Delicate melodies drift like distant memories across a soft, glowing haze—intimate, melancholic, and quietly luminous Japanese ambient at its most poetic.
00:03:00 NOT WAVING – Emotion 1.7 Cleanse Cool, immersive electronic ambient from the Futuro project. Clean, spacious synth layers and subtle rhythmic undercurrents create a detached, cleansing atmosphere—minimal yet emotionally resonant.
00:08:52 Hollie Kenniff – Embers Warm, glowing ambient with soft, flickering textures and gentle melodic fragments. Like the last light of a dying fire, it feels comforting, introspective, and healing—perfectly suited to its compilation’s mental health theme.
00:11:18 Rhucle & morimoto naoki – Kubomi Subtle, layered ambient with intimate field recordings and warm tonal washes. “Kubomi” (hollow/depression) evokes quiet introspection and nostalgic reminiscence through delicate, overlapping soundscapes.
00:13:35 Tom Leclerc – Ker Diary #3 Gentle, diary-like ambient improvisation. Soft synths and organic textures unfold with a personal, reflective quality—peaceful and slightly wistful.
00:15:41 Slow Dancing Society – Do You Remember Me Like I Remember You Nostalgic, emotionally charged ambient/post-rock drift. Swelling drones and distant melodic echoes explore memory, longing, and the bittersweet ache of recollection.
00:20:53 theAdelaidean – Deep Dreams at the End of the Earth Vast, cinematic ambient that feels isolated and dreamlike. Deep, resonant tones and airy textures paint a picture of remote, otherworldly solitude.
00:45:14 JICS – monsoon evening Humid, atmospheric ambient capturing the quiet tension and relief of a monsoon night. Warm drones, subtle rain-like textures, and gentle nostalgia blend into a reflective mood.
00:46:28 Oora – Un Giorno Flowing, windswept ambient from Vento (“Wind”). Light, breathy textures and organic movement evoke a single day carried on gentle breezes—ethereal and meditative.
00:51:15 Omni Gardens & Zen Monk Jogen – Lifestyle Slow Motion Laid-back, meditative ambient with slow-evolving tones and a peaceful, almost playful serenity. Perfect “meditation tonality” that invites deep relaxation.
01:10:26 The Peace Race – Rise Uplifting yet restrained ambient/drone work. Slowly building layers create a sense of quiet ascension and hopeful emergence.
01:13:17 Stray Wool – Skins Textural, intimate ambient focused on organic layers and subtle shifts. Feels raw and vulnerable, like shedding old layers in sound form.
01:15:46 Volker Rapp – Out of my Mind Synth-driven, cinematic ambient with a futuristic, slightly dystopian edge (from a Blade Runner 2099 tribute). Immersive and atmospheric.
01:16:25 Richard Norris – Grains Of Light Delicate, shimmering ambient from the Deep Listening series. Tiny grains of glowing sound accumulate into a beautiful, meditative whole—precise and luminous.
01:18:36 Émérance – Dans une telle immobilité Still, contemplative ambient exploring deep immobility. Sparse, resonant tones create a profound sense of presence and quiet suspension.
01:26:59 Loopatronica – Helen Of Four Gates part 1 Long-form, evolving drone/ambient with hypnotic, looping structures. Mythic and immersive, it slowly unfolds like an ancient, unfolding ritual. 01:56:25 Luke Sanger – Snow In Spring https://lukesanger.bandcamp.com/track/snow-in-spring Delicate, wintry ambient with soft melodic touches. Evokes the surprise and beauty of unexpected snow during warmer days—gentle and bittersweet.
01:59:38 Minimal_drone grl – At the Edge Sparse, edge-of-perception drone work. Minimal textures hover at the boundary of sound and silence, creating tension and deep focus.
Good day to you listeners, wherever you are. This is Trevor. Welcome once again to one of these spontaneous episodes – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that appears somewhere inside the set itself. This episode titled Lost Dance Mantra is based on the track Sum Dance by Steve Zydek aka Wavefiler, from the split EP Area Flood, which comes out on May 15 via a label very dear to me Mystery Circles. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. If you can subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help. Right then… here we go.
00:00:00 The Eyes and the Mistoids – The Neolithic Period Atmospheric electronic piece evoking ancient, misty landscapes. It blends subtle experimental textures with a haunting, prehistoric feel, fitting the artist’s weirdly beautiful electronic style on Waxing Crescent Records. 00:06:26 Spooqs – Prosopon (Demo) Dreamy electronic impressionism from Asheville-based artist Spooqs. Moody, instrumental soundscapes designed for imaginary spaces, with fluid, introspective vibes from a 2026 mixtape. 00:07:51 Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop / Wavefiler – Wavefiler – Sum Dance Synth-driven track from the Area Flood split, inspired by Milwaukee’s historic flooding. It captures nature’s power through rhythmic, communal electronic grooves and atmospheric synth work. 00:10:14 The New Human – Proximity Mantra Hypnotic, mantra-like electronic composition with intimate, repetitive motifs. It explores closeness and sonic meditation on Glasgow’s Bricolage label. 00:12:47 Payta – Soul Connection Also on Bricolage, warm, flowing electronic track from the Samsara album. It emphasizes spiritual or emotional linkage through textured, underground beats and melodic layers. 00:15:04 Urban Meditation – Pale Blue Dot Ambient/trance-infused piece reflecting on Carl Sagan’s famous view of Earth. It blends IDM, neo-classical, and spacey atmospheres for a contemplative, cosmic journey. 00:23:03 Andrea Castiglioni – Somewhere on Earth Stories from Far Away Places Cinematic, documentary-style ambient/electronic track. It paints evocative, worldly sound narratives with gentle melodies and distant, storytelling textures. 00:25:51 Biogen – Lost Melancholic IDM/electronic cut from an Icelandic ambient techno compilation. It features drifting, emotional layers that capture a sense of disorientation and introspection. 00:29:51 Fallen – A Scented Signal of Decadence Darkly atmospheric ambient/electronica with IDM and chillout elements. It conjures luxurious decay through textured, immersive sound design from Italian artist The Child of A Creek/Fallen. 00:31:53 Orghanon – Tame Restrained yet dynamic electronic work from the Future in Motion album. It balances controlled rhythms with evolving, organic textures in a thoughtful ambient/IDM style. 00:36:01 Wilks – Break The Cycle Driving track with focused beats and atmospheric depth. It delivers a sense of urgency and renewal from the Left Hand Drive EP. 00:40:11 Ellis Clasper – Auriel Gentle, atmospheric electronic opener from the Periapsis album. It features delicate textures and introspective melodies, showcasing the UK artist’s subtle, emotionally resonant style on Waxing Crescent Records 00:42:16 CIALYN – Tolbiac Garden Floor Dreamy, short-wave-inspired electronica from the 2016 album A Night Of A Short Wave Listener. It evokes mysterious, nocturnal garden atmospheres with soft, nostalgic synth layers and a hazy, lo-fi feel from the French artist. 00:45:56 Sick Robot – Journey to Mars Retro-futuristic synth track from the A Field In Yorkshire album. It blends warm analog tones with a sense of cosmic exploration and electronic propulsion, characteristic of the Sunderland-based producer’s playful, IDM-tinged style. 00:49:55 Time Rival – Wax Delights Short, shimmering electronic piece from Reaction Vol. 3. It delivers crisp, cross-genre textures with ambient and electroacoustic elements, reflecting the Chicago-area artist’s experimental yet accessible approach.
Good evening… or good morning, wherever you are. This is Trevor. Welcome once again to one of these spontaneous episodes – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that appears somewhere inside the set itself. This episode titled Raining Fêtes Urge is based on the track Villages, Hamlets And Fêtes (version) by one of my all time favorite artists Matthew Davies better known as Vic Mars. It’s from the album From Different Landscapes, which came out yesterday Friday the 1st of May 2026. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. If you can subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help. Right then… here we go.
00:00:00 Jacob Mann – Pier Walk A breezy, melodic jazz-funk piece with warm keys and gentle grooves — perfect laid-back opener with sunny West Coast vibes. 00:04:17 Natureboy Flako – Roundelay Atmospheric electronic beat with intricate sambaesque percussion and dreamy, wandering melodies — intimate and hypnotic. 00:05:27 Vic Mars – Villages, Hamlets And Fêtes (version) Pastoral, nostalgic folktronica evoking English countryside scenes with soft synths and gentle rhythms. 00:07:56 Steve Cobby – Raining Pine Straw Downtempo electronic with lush textures and a mellow, rainy-day introspection — beautifully atmospheric. 00:10:07 Animat – Liquid Fuel (Riccicomoto Lost in Jazz session) Jazzy, liquid electronic grooves with deep bass and smooth, improvisational flair. 00:17:08 Cavern Cult – Of Hope (from Approach) Post-rock/ambient build with emotional depth, shimmering guitars, and a sense of quiet optimism. 00:18:10 Wakan Tanka – Pinnacle Ethereal ambient/drone with vast, spiritual landscapes — serene and elevating. 00:20:48 x.y.r. – bon voyage Warm, tropical-tinged ambient with soft synths and a dreamy, exploratory feel. 00:24:18 Uncle Fido – They Love the Snickerdoodles Playful, whimsical electronic/ambient with quirky charm and light-hearted textures. 00:25:10 Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Soft Landing Smooth, jazzy downtempo with tender melodies and a comforting, weightless groove. 00:26:48 ENTHEO – °⸰•. c r u s h .•⸰° Glitchy, emotional electronic with heartfelt melodies and a crushing, intimate energy. 00:27:36 meeting by chance – She Is My Evening Melancholic, cinematic electronic — intimate and reflective, like a quiet evening reverie. 00:30:32 Belial Pelegrim & GrevusAnjl – Inexplicible Urge Dark, moody electronic with hypnotic rhythms and shadowy, driving tension. 00:37:18 Christopher Willits, Eduardo Castillo – Spiraling – Eduardo Castillo Remix Ambient/experimental with swirling, immersive layers and graceful, spiraling motion. 00:41:36 Gilroy Mere – Christ’s Hospital Nostalgic, evocative folktronica painting scenes of British history and landscape. 00:43:44 gribbles – Existence Laid-back, quirky electronica with groovy, existential chill. 00:47:53 L’Eclair – Coke Mountain Funky, psychedelic groove with live-band energy and hypnotic repetition. 00:55:26 Edward Givens – Ambrosia Generator Mystical, neo-classical/ambient with lush, life-affirming textures. 00:58:50 Giants of Discovery – Nightfall Across the Assembly Fields Cosmic, atmospheric electronic with modular depth and ancient, mythical vibes. 01:02:30 MYPD – Cathexis(Aftermath) Deep, textural ambient/drone with emotional resonance and spacious aftermath calm. 01:07:25 D. Rothon – Lonesome Depot Pedal steel-infused ambient/folk with warm, lonesome introspection. 01:09:18 Man as island – Automaton Rhythmic, dramatic electronic with mechanical yet human pulse. 01:11:17 Sunhaus – Pleng Textural, minimal ambient with colourful, spiralling fragments. 01:12:57 Aphex Twin – Untitled [Saw2 CD1 Track1] (Fourtet Remix) Classic Aphex melancholy beautifully reworked by Four Tet into a lush, emotional journey. 01:19:11 Daniel Aged – 12.21 Smooth, contemporary jazz/electronic fusion with warm, introspective tones. 01:23:06 Tülpa – Want U Intimate, yearning electronic with emotional pull and dreamy atmosphere.
Good evening… or morning… or whatever smeared fragment of clock time you’ve drifted into tonight. This is EXPANSIVE WAVES 26. I’m Trevor — your host, your unreliable cartographer of the long haul, your occasional sonic conspirator.
This one’s not built for the impatient. Eight pieces. Each one stretching beyond twelve minutes. Together they uncoil for over three hours. If you came looking for hooks, drops, or anything that resembles forward motion, best to paddle elsewhere. Or just dim the lights, let the room breathe, and allow the ceiling to become a slow-moving planetarium. That works too.
Big thanks to Ivo Petrov at the Mahorka label for nudging me into a Plank Tone. I got gloriously lost and ended up delivering four. The first surfaced on April 8th. Tonight you’ll hear more of those strange, unhurried faces — independent corners, leftfield wanderers, music that refuses to be hurried.
We open with a twenty-four-minute soup. For anyone who’s ever been in a band, this is that glorious end-of-session moment when everyone’s a little fried and the music starts melting at the edges.
Merlin’s Spell — Merlin’s Spell [Full Demo] A warm, hazy collective trance where sounds blur into one another like ink dropped in still water. Recorded back in 1978, gently refurbished for 2026. Out on The Dream Journal Institute — every penny heading to local libraries and quiet good causes.
That was Merlin’s Spell with Merlin’s Spell. Settle in now. Let the kettle do its slow work. Let the cat claim your chest like a small, purring dictator. Let the outside world keep spinning without you for a while.
Next, a dear friend of the show: Drew Huddart, recording as Scholars of the Peak. Fresh from a live set at Dubrek in Derby — the whole concert, audience whoops and all, because Drew decided not to chop it into polite pieces. Glorious nostalgic synths that feel like warm Sunday light through old lace curtains in the Peak District.
Scholars of the Peak — Live @ Dubrek Studios, Friday 10th April 2026 Bleeps and warm analogue sighs drifting through a room full of gentle human noise — the kind of set that makes you nostalgic for the future.
Now we arrive at the longest single piece I’ve ever slipped into this programme — a full hour, trimmed by a few cheeky seconds just so the software would swallow it. This is serious business.
OdNu + Ümlaut — Metamorphoses An ever-shifting ambient landscape that never settles, never repeats, never lets you look away. Not lazy drift — this is meticulous, constantly breathing evolution. Out on Audiobulb, arriving June 6th. Prepare to be quietly astonished.
An old favourite now — the Russian master x.y.r. who can drop you straight into deep jungle with nothing more than a few well-placed field recordings and patient tones.
x.y.r. — altered zone (longform edition) Birdsong threading through endless green layers, turning any room into a porch overlooking humid canopy at dusk. Tip for fellow travellers: when in doubt, add birds. They open windows that weren’t there before.
Back into the Mahorka family, 2019 vintage.
Thomas Park — Failsafe Blade Runner rain on a corrugated tin roof, random synth trumpet stabs cutting through toxic haze. Neon signs flickering in puddles that never quite dry.
Still in the Mahorka stable, this time 2014.
Ab uno — Remorae (b side) Deep drone waters where subtle synth lines move like slow silver fish just beneath the surface — barely visible, yet impossible to ignore once you notice them.
Penultimate unfolding, from The Jewel Garden label’s compilation.
Floating House Ensemble — Seven Sax and strings delicately sprinkled over choral swells, like light catching on the edge of a slow-moving tide. As the Bandcamp page quietly reminds us: “I stood there, the whole day wrapped around me. I stood there, crying, smelling vine.”
And so the waves begin their gentle retreat for another evening. Eight long forms. Eight patient unfoldings. If any of them settled into the quieter corners of your night, you’ll find the links and love on the episode page at trevor.se and in the Mixcloud comments.
Feel free to leave something on the timeline — a half-thought, a soft sigh, or even a single emoji that somehow contains the entire universe.
We close episode twenty-six with Michael Plaster, recording as yttriphie.
yttriphie — Paddock of Skies Twinkling space music from the album Solipsis on Projekt Records — delicate starlight that slowly swells until the whole sky feels like it’s breathing with you.
Until the next fragment of drifting time pulls us back into the same warm current… this is Trevor, signing off from EXPANSIVE WAVES 26.
Cheerio…
(Tracklist with links remains exactly as provided — because even in the longform fog, some things should stay perfectly clear.)
Hey everyone… Trevor here, welcome. I’ve always wanted to be a café DJ — you know, the kind who reads the room, feels the energy, and lets the music flow with whatever vibe the people bring in that day. Life took me down so many beautiful roads, but this particular dream… well, it’s still waiting to come true. So today, I’m bringing a little piece of that dream right here for you. This is my series of café and lounge-flavoured sounds — smooth, soulful grooves made for chilling, for unwinding, for good conversations and even better silences. Whether you’re sipping coffee, working on your laptop, curled up on the couch, or just needing a moment to breathe… Let these tracks wrap around you like warm sunlight through the café window. You’re listening to Trev’s Virtual Café. Pull up a seat… and let’s chill.
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Hey. Welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the wall. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Episode one-nine-one. We’re still pretending it’s a radio show for the sonically adventurous. But really it’s just me and the frequencies arguing in an empty apartment while the world outside forgets I exist. Stream free for seven days on Mixcloud. Background track tonight is available on Trevlad’s TVCL 11. The episode is 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 that definitely isn’t watching you back. Massive shout out to Ivo Petrov of Mahorka for pulling me into the Planck Tone series. Big love to my latest followers Andy InPhase. Check his mix Beautiful Nonsense. Cedric Wattergniaux (Kilmarth) who I played back on episode 173, Julian Kalchev ( Virtually J ) who I played on the latest Alone on the Dance Floor episode and Claudio Gasparini who has a massive following with less than ten mixes. You’re doing something right.
Anyway. Headphones on. Let time dissolve. And let the frequencies claim you. We’re bunching it tonight—three transmissions at a time. Like weird little dreams stitched into the set. No schedule. Just the mood and the margins. Tonight’s episode is broadcasting from… molars.blunt.notices. Which is the location of Miyakodori—a Japanese-style gastro bar here in Stockholm where the food probably whispers secrets when the lights go out. Let’s go.
First cluster incoming. The episodes longest piece at 11:24. Just making the 12 minute limit. Vel Raine drifts in like bioluminescent waves from some distant galactic tide—Galactic Ocean Waves Flickering. Anything over 12 minutes ends up on another series of mine EXPANSIVE WAVES. Then Fm Outt with that beautiful, futuristic sadness—Incomplete Kisses. Out on the Secuencias Temporales label. And closing the trio, yours truly with something off the old virtual shelf—Caravan Grew Vaccines. These three are about to melt into each other. Don’t fight it.
Still with me? Good. The walls are thinning.
Next transmission packet. Heading back to 2007 and Sevensy opens a glowing doorway with Moon Arch. Out on the Mahorka label. Who I’ve done a series of Planck Tone specials for. The first is available now. Stewart Keller follows with the, graceful exhale—Swan Song. Then another long one at 10:27. Lee Evans slides in sideways with Bow Tel Banti—because why not. Out on The Jewel Garden which is described as being part label, pure vanity Three more stitches in the dream.
Third and final cluster of the night. French artist, Near Stoic paints movement in light—Kinematic Lights. Out on Third Kind Records. Foxwarren gets not serious in Serious. And Time Rival affirms existence with Also Yes. Lean in. This one’s slippery.
One last track before the flip from Paul Beaudoin who goes plucky on Mercury’s Whisper. Out on Chitra Records sub label Ambient Cat. You know the drill. The frequencies don’t stop just because the clock does.
Side B
The lights are lower. The sounds are looser. Same rules: three transmissions stitched together like half-remembered dreams. First B Side packet. Going live now. GODTET brings in Cantus—big, orchestral, locked-in groove with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra riding shotgun. Out on La Sape Records TOMC follows with the 8 minute journey—18, Chasing the Sun (Part 1, 2 & 3). And Portland Vows closes it with Stone Children—haunting little shadows from the north. Out on Third Kind Records. Let these three pull you under.
Next cluster. Snow is falling sideways tonight. Erik Wøllo opens with Snow Tides—vast, Norwegian winter textures stretching out like frozen fjords. Out on Projekt records El Michels Affair slides in cool and cinematic with the Indifference (Instrumental). Out on Big Crown Records. I’m loving this release. Library music just fills a hole in me. Then mytrip whispers annie—a Mahorka ghost from the archive, quiet and close. Headphones tighter. This one’s cold and intimate.
Last trio of the night. Scott Orr with the simple, devastating Scott. Which I discovered from the recent Late-Night Tales release curated by Barry Can’t Swim Jackson Mico Milas takes us Sea, Interior. Also on That Late-Night Tales release. And Grammy-nominated Tim Story ends the main transmissions with Decelarate or Fasten—because sometimes you need both at once. One more cluster before we fade.
You just heard Tim Story’s Decelarate or Fasten, Jackson Mico Milas’ Sea, Interior, and Scott Orr’s Scott. One final transmission still to come… The great Anubis Rude closes the show with Transmutation. Out on artist curated label Ingrown Records.
That’s the whole set. You’ve been listening to… well, everything. But the last transmission you heard was Anubis Rude’s Transmutation pulling us through the veil. Thanks for floating here with me. I hope the journey sends you in the direction of these artists. All the links and purchase paths are illuminated at trevor.se, on Trevor Lewis on Substack, and marked in the timeline like little glowing breadcrumbs. If you’re still listening… you’re in the club. No meetings. No rules. Just dust and frequencies. Send files, confessions, whatever, to trevlad@gmail.com. Send stories for Chord Confessions. I’ll read them in my sleep-voice. See you in the next crack in the wall. Cheerio…
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Hey. Welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the wall. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Episode one-nine-zero.
We’re still pretending it’s a radio show for the sonically adventurous. But really it’s just me and the frequencies arguing in an empty apartment while the world outside forgets I exist.
Stream free for seven days on Mixcloud. Background track tonight available on Trevlad’s TVCL 11. 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.
Massive shout out to Iso Brown for spotlighting the channel — gave me about three hundred new followers and maybe one new listener. Also big love to my latest follower Alan Ranta, who’s recently done an astonishing 11 and half hour retro library mix. Anyway Headphones on. Let time dissolve. And let the frequencies claim you.
We’re bunching it tonight — four transmissions at a time. Like weird little dreams stitched into the set. No schedule. Just the mood and the margins.
Tonight’s episode is broadcasting from… healers.dominate.slices. Eric Ericsonhallen — Event centre in Stockholm. Now it’s just a coordinate for whatever this episode is.
Let’s go.
FIRST CLUSTER
First — Apta with “Falter”. Manchester, UK,Dream-pop haze wrapped in post-punk bones.
Then Passepartout Duo — “From Belgrade”. Verona, Italy, Live-wire travelogue piece from their Pieces from Places series. Synth lines that feel like walking through the city.
Third — Pulselovers and “Timbral Awake”. Deep electronic drift from Doncaster, UK, textures that shift like light through old film stock. Via Woodford Halse.
And closing this one out: Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell & Alya Al Sultani — “Inner Sanctum”. Intimate, improvised vocal and piano ritual. Three voices weaving a small cathedral out of breath and keys. via Discus Music.
Here we go.
SECOND CLUSTER
Next bundle of four, fresh from the margins:
Italian artist Lorenzo Bracaloni aka Fallen — “This World is quickly Fading”. Fragile, dissolving sound that feels like the last light of an ending day. Via Bulgarias Mahorka label who I am guesting soon on their Planck Tones channel.
Then my own little transmission: Trevlad with “Retrial Twinge Memo”. Taken from the TVCL 10 vaults. A twinge of memory on retrial and a spot on the platform of my local train station.
Followed by Lorna Dune — “Void Coefficient”. Milwaukee, Wisconsin based, Sharp, precise electronic study from her Mosfet EP. Power flows and empty spaces.
And rounding it off: Hong Kong based Anita Tatlow & Runaway Horses with “lunar phase”. Gentle ambient vocal drift, like moonlight leaking through blinds. Via Echoes Blue Music.
Drift with me.
THIRD CLUSTER (pre-B Side)
Third cluster already. The night is getting loose.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — “Doom City”. Melbourne, Australia, Microtonal chaos from Flying Microtonal Banana. The pollution gods are laughing. Via the p(doom) label.
Then Mark Ellery Griffiths with “Synthi Sequence A”. Pure UK synth archaeology. Sequences breathing through old EMS circuitry like ghosts in the machine.
FOURTH CLUSTER (B Side)
Alright. Four more transmissions bleeding through.
Adrian Lane — “Reach For The Horizon”. Warm, horizon-staring ambient. Via whitelabrecs.
Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed — “Shangri La”. Mystical, searching jazz-tinged wander. Via Batov Records.
And Psyché — “Sabir”. Hypnotic, ancient-future pulse. Via Four Flies Records.
Still with me?
FINAL CLUSTER
Last cluster. Final transmission before the static wins. A long and a short piece.
Frankfurt Am Main, Germany based Jogging House — “Parker”. Slow-burn ambient reflection. Via artist curated Seil Records.
And finally Los Angeles, California based Elijah Fox — “Glass House / Clear Pool”. Crystalline, watery piano and electronics.
That’s the whole set.
Thanks for floating here with me. I hope the journey sends you in the direction of these artists. All the links and purchase paths are illuminated at trevor.se, on Trevor Lewis on Substack, and marked in the timeline.
If you’re still listening… you’re in the club. No meetings. No rules. Just dust and frequencies.
Send files, confessions, whatever, to trevlad@gmail.com. Send stories for Chord Confessions. I’ll read them in my sleep-voice.
votes.riddle.tuck. Brams burgers – great burger joint. Now it’s just a coordinate for whatever this episode is.
Hey. Welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the drywall. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Episode one-eight-nine. We’re still pretending it’s a radio show for the sonically adventurous, but really it’s just me and the frequencies arguing in an empty apartment while the world outside forgets I exist. Headphones on. Let time dissolve. And let the frequencies claim you. We’re bunching it tonight – four transmissions at a time, like weird little dreams stitched into the set. No schedule. Just the mood and the margins.
FIRST CLUSTER Four signals crawling out of the high passes and the liberation fronts. Sonic-Soma – Kinnaur Calling – Cities and Memory, Nepal field recordings turned into sonic soma. The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Astra Shambotica – Submarine Broadcasting, astral jazz revolution. Grosso Gadgetto – Quadrata Dodus Act 2 – Bulgarian label Mahorka, who might be the reason for me not doing these episodes for a few days. Keep an eye and ear out for future Planck Tone episodes I may be guesting. Willebrant – Dell – atmospheric drone from down under. Birds in the rain. A must. You just survived the first transmission: Sonic-Soma, The Music Liberation Front Sweden, Grosso Gadgetto, and Willebrant. The space between us is definitely thinner now.
SECOND CLUSTER Brain shells cracking open, hits amended, voids flattered, dust explained. Zerfranzt – Hirnschale – which means skull or, the nicer translation of, Brain case from Kaiseki Digital, who I’ve been playing lately as Free Album Codes has provided me with codes for some early releases from 2018. German synaptic spill. Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – self-released soundscape from the episode of the same name. A repeat name from the spot where I try and sleep most nights. This one’s from the album TVCL 10 and has nothing to do with the track of the same name from TVCL 09. Puscha – Sycophanatic – NEN, Melbourne cinematic hypnosis. Provided by Fonodroom. Everyday Dust – Without Explanation – Dustopian Frequencies, Scottish drone stories that evaporate.
You just floated through Zerfranzt, Trevlad, Puscha, and Everyday Dust. Halfway mark is creeping up. I’m starting to feel that metaphysical flip? The universe just winked at you and kept walking.
THIRD CLUSTER (pre-B Side) Edges blurring, bodies floating. phorme – blur – Kaiseki Digital, Australian meditative haze from NSW. Also from 2018. Takashi Kusano – Floating – Sounds for the Soul, Japanese levitation. And then comes the B Side… phorme and Takashi Kusano just lifted you clean out of gravity. Now the bench is empty and the cats are from hell.
FOURTH CLUSTER (B Side) Empty benches, hellcat beats, half-human wires, clinical worms. Substak – Empty Bench – Daydreamers, Greek meditative park-bench snippet. Le Morte d’Abby – Nyanko No Jigoku Beat – dark electro from the neon underworld. Jilk – Half-Human – Bricolage, Glasgow idm hybrid soul. The Foot & Leg Clinic – Worms 2 – alternative rock diagnosis under fluorescent lights. You just sat on Substak’s Empty Bench, got bitten by Le Morte d’Abby’s hellcats, glitched with Jilk, and received a full worm examination from The Foot & Leg Clinic. Your body is now 40% frequency.
FIFTH CLUSTER Appetizers of life, grace with nothing, tidal animation tags, Nordic sea breath. The Appetizers – The Life – Italian roots reggae funk from Rome. Rejoicer – Grace Was Happy (I Found Nothing) – LA epiphany of joyful emptiness. Sounds as if Weather Report did music for film. Record Of Tides – Yoshimoto Animation Tag – Mahorka hauntological Japanese cels on the tide. Glitchy 8-bit crackles. Albin – Havet – Paltunes, Swedish sea inhaling your thoughts. Everything Albin Johansson touches glows with a nostalgic warmth I can never get enough of. You just tasted The Appetizers, let Rejoicer’s Grace smile at nothing, rode Record Of Tides’ animation waves, and sank into Albin’s Havet. The apartment is underwater now.
FINAL CLUSTER Rain shelter geometry and half-a-day London melt. Kikagaku Moyo – Amayadori – Guruguru Brain, psychedelic Tokyo forest clearing. ff8282 – london / half the day – 4000 Records, fractured electronic daydreams. You just sheltered with Kikagaku Moyo and melted through half a London day with ff8282. That’s the whole set. Thanks for floating here with me. I hope the journey sends you in the direction of these artists. All the links, and purchase paths are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in the timeline. If you’re still listening… you’re in the club. No meetings. No rules. Just dust and frequencies. Send files, confessions, whatever, to trevlad@gmail.com. Send stories for Chord Confessions. I’ll read them in my sleep-voice. See you in the next crack in the drywall. Cheerio…
END OF BROADCAST Stream free for 7 days on Mixcloud. Background track: Trevlad’s TVCL 11. 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
hey. welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the drywall. this is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. episode one-eight-eight. we’re still pretending it’s a radio show for the sonically adventurous, but really it’s just me and the frequencies arguing in an empty apartment while the city outside forgets we exist.
bags.colder.inched. a great Thai restaurant, apparently. now it’s a coordinate for whatever this episode is.
twenty artists. no schedule. drops when the mood hits. labels haunting the margins: Passed Recordings, whitelabrecs, Ingrown, Audiobulb… you know the ones. braindance, idm, alternative, whatever slips between the cracks like water through broken concrete. Honolulu to Amsterdam to Prague to Saint Petersburg. the world’s shrinking but the weird pockets are still warm.
send files, confessions, whatever, to trevlad@gmail.com. send stories for Chord Confessions. that track that ruined you or saved you. i’ll read it in my sleep-voice or you record it yourself. win-win-win. I’m also doing Trev Tales now—little dreams stitched into the sets. long lucid naps you’re not sure you want to wake up from.
headphones on. let time dissolve. and let the frequencies claim you.
First out from the amazing Passed Recordings label stable Cavern Cult – Of Hope (from the album Approach) This is followed by Russian idm champ NDORFIK – Joensuu from the album NORTHERN CACHE out on Clean Error Records after that some Loneward. but first Of Hope by Offenbach based Cavern Cult.
That was Mike Carss aka Loneward – The Unknowable Realm of Wisdom from the album Paradox of Silken Stars out on Altus Music. Next up we head back to 2018 The Microgram – No Service from the album Savage Architecture which I received courtesy of Free Album Codes, cheers mate. Out on the Lansing, Michigan based Kaiseki Digital label. This is followed by another great Passed Recordings release by David Aimone – Curiosità Ajmone and the track TimeDown After that The Bird’s Companion and Neil McRoberts but first No Service by The Microgram.
You’ve just been listening to The Bird’s Companion and Neil McRoberts – Another Day from a few places, one of them being the compilation This Burnished Land a wonderful NYP release on whitelabrecs. Coming up some quality indie pop in the form of Saya Gray – LIE DOWN.. from the album SAYA out on Dirty Hit records. Followed by California beach vibes with Poolside – Looking Backwards out on Counter Records. and then some Black Country, New Road but first LIE DOWN.. by Saya Gray
That was the post-rock stylings of Black Country, New Road – Intro from the album Ants From Up There out on Ninja Tune. Next up the episodes newest release by Jics. Out on whitelabrecs today March 28th. Followed by Man as Island – Automaton from the album AN that’s out on Russian label Local Gods and was sent in by NDORFIK who I played earlier. After that the virtual B side flip but first Jics – What Brings You Here from the album New South Wales.
B SIDE
That was Prague based artist Kh3rtis – Still, for a Time from the album In the Wake of Light out on Audionautic Records. Next up Leslie Lowder aka idiiom – Solitude from the album Neural Network out on the Audiobulb label. after that Blank Embrace – The Caves from the 2018 release Ascension out on the Kaiseki Digital label. Then some odd person
You’ve just witnessed odd person – earthquake anxiety – my dismal arcadia available on the outstanding Ingrown Records label. Who is homeless at the moment so any purchases from them could be life saving. Coming up me, Trevlad – Pipe Fluid Fame which is a location from a Hotel in Dublin where I recorded the visual for the video that goes with this piece. All my track names are geolocations of places that mean something to me personally. I use them for the backgrounds in the intros and outros of the episodes Pipe Fluid Fame is from episode 165 back in January. After that Simon Holmes – Broken (South Sudan) from the compilation A Century of Sounds out on the legendary Cities and Memory label. This is followed by Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov but first myself as Trevlad with Pipe Fluid Fame.
That was Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov – Mostra – Eternal Almost out on the label Future Days Radio run by Tomo himself. Now the penultimate piece of episode 188 of Trev’s Virtual cassette library is by Wunderfish – Through Painted Figures (Prologue) – the third piece in the show from the Kaiseki Digital label courtesy of the amazing Free album Codes. This one’s from the compilation Bento Box, Vol. 1 We end this adventure with a stunning 8 minute outing by Ben McElroy – Surely There Are Worse Things – from the album Bird-Stone which you could purchase via whitelabrecs. that’s it for episode 188. thanks for floating here with me. if you’re still listening… you’re in the club. no meetings. no rules. just dust and frequencies. See you in the next crack in the drywall. Cheerio…
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
(Loch Ness pub in Stockholm where the beer tastes like regret and possibility in equal measure)
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
…hey. welcome back, or maybe welcome for the first time, to the slowest-growing show on the internet. or off it. whatever. this is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Episode one-eight-seven. we’re still calling it a virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous, but let’s be honest—it’s just me in a room full of blinking lights and dying batteries, trying to convince the void that independent music still matters. twenty artists. no schedule. drops when the mood hits, which is usually when normal people are asleep. the three-word subtitles? they’re What3Words locations that mean something to me. personal little coordinates. this one’s grinning.cheek.traffic. Stockholm pub. good beer, better stories you forget by morning. If you want in—send weird files, codes, confessions, whatever—to trevlad@gmail.com. labels getting the slow nod tonight: Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Castles In Space, Adventurous Music, Bricolage, Audiobulb, Ingrown Records, i u we records, Noray Records… the usual suspects haunting the margins. styles? liminal ambient, hauntronica, post-disco, whatever falls between the cracks. places on the map: Québec, Prague, Pereira. the world’s getting smaller, but the weird corners are still there. Send stories for Chord Confessions. that song that ruined or saved you. record it yourself or I’ll read it in my sleep-voice and play the track. win-win-win. also doing Trev Tales now—stories woven into the sets. like this is one long dream you’re not sure you want to wake up from. One new follower since last time. Paso stranger. cheers, mate. you’re in the club now. the one with no meetings and no rules.…
A soft hiss opens the curtain. dust motes spin in pale light. first pulse arrives like a hangover you didn’t earn.
First out f5point6 – The Second Day (Remastered). https://f5point6.bandcamp.com/track/the-second-day-remastered Grey dawn leaking through blinds that gave up years ago. yesterday’s coffee is a cold accusation in the mug. synths breathe slow, like fog rolling over abandoned motorways. headphones on. let time dissolve. frequencies claim you. no refunds.…
That was ‘The Second Day (Remastered)’ – by f5point6 from the album ‘In Retrospect’ out on the See Blue Audio label. The next artist is Ver – Combine. https://secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com/track/ver-combine-2 Metallic clanks fold into wet footsteps, voices smear across rusted combine blades turning in slow motion under an endless flat sky.
Yes ‘Combine’ by Ver from that ‘Commemorative Compilation’ I’ve been playing lately out on the Secuencias Temporales label. And now Dåggěr (Szórëgg) – Telekinetic Coercion. https://secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com/track/d-gg-r-sz-r-gg-telekinetic-coercion Invisible fingers press the temples, thoughts lift like iron filings toward a humming magnet, chair legs scrape backward without feet.
Crunchy, haunted vibes there with ‘Telekinetic Coercion’ by Dåggěr (Szórëgg) also from the ‘Commemorative Compilation’ release. Dub time now, Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Planning A Bootleg LP? https://ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/track/planning-a-bootleg-lp Cassette deck whirs in a damp shed, pencil scratches setlists on yellowing paper, distant lawnmower drone leaks through the window like memory bleed.
Gotta love that ‘Planning A Bootleg LP?’ by Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project from the self released album ‘Jolly Johnny and his Oompahing Oomlahs’. Time to pull some shapes on the dance floor with Baxter Dury – Schadenfreude Ft. JGrrey https://baxterdury.bandcamp.com/track/schadenfreude-ft-jgrrey Cigarette cherry glows in the dark cab, someone else’s misfortune tastes sharp and sweet on the tongue, laughter curls like smoke rings.
That was ‘Schadenfreude Ft. JGrrey’ by Baxter Dury from the album ‘Allbarone’ out on Heavenly Recordings We retire to the lounge with 36 – Echo Diffusion. https://pitp.bandcamp.com/track/echo-diffusion Synth notes dissolve into mist, each chord sends ripples across black water, distant towers repeat the lament softer, softer, gone.
You’ve been listening to ‘Echo Diffusion’ by 36 from the album ‘Reality Engine’ out on the Past Inside the Present label. Now the wonderful Ann Annie – home. This is a short 2 minute outing. https://annannie.bandcamp.com/track/home-3 Bare feet on sun-warmed floorboards, lace curtains breathe in and out, a kettle clicks off somewhere deeper in the house that still smells of yesterday’s bread.
Blissful acoustic guitar there in ‘home’ by Ann Annie from the album ‘El Prado’ available through the ’Nettwerk’ label. Which brings us nicely to Empty House – Sea Birds https://mcpm.bandcamp.com/track/sea-birds Gulls wheel above peeling paint, empty rooms fill with salt wind, curtains flap like trapped wings against salt-crusted glass.
Hope you’re still with us on the planet after ’Sea Birds’ by Empty House from the album ‘MCPM018 compilation album’ out on the amazing Moolakii Club Audio Interface label. Time to head back to the club now with Pablo Diarra – Humour noir. https://songe-anima-records.bandcamp.com/track/humour-noir Cigarette burns slow in ashtray, punchline lands like wet gravel, laughter echoes in an empty corridor lit only by neon bleeding through blinds.
Yes ‘Humour noir’ there by Pablo Diarra aka Saïph from the album ‘Griffe Sonam’ out on Songe Anima Records Next up an artist I feature quite regularly James Adrian Brown – ‘Poster Child’ from the album ‘Forever Neon Lights’ out on channel champion label Castles In Space https://jamesadrianbrown.bandcamp.com/track/poster-child Faded gig poster curls at the edges, spotlight glare trapped in yellowing tape, young face staring back with too much certainty. Catch you on the flip side.
B Side Needle drops into silence, groove dust crackles, the hidden track breathes like someone left the tape running after everyone went home. This is the legendary Deerhoof – Apple Bomb. https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/track/apple-bomb Teeth sink into skin, juice sprays, frantic drums explode outward, tart sweetness turns chaotic sugar-rush panic.
Classic Deerhoof there with ‘Apple Bomb’ from the album ‘Apple O’’ available through Joyful Noise Recordings Next we get some haunted chills via Catharæ, Trem 77 – Dreams of the Mediterranéant (Fade at Brighton Beach Mix) https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dreams-of-the-mediterran-ant-fade-at-brighton-beach-mix Waves lap shingle under sodium lamps, bougainvillea scent mixes with diesel and chips, sun-bleached dream fades into Brighton March grey.
Cheers to Trem 77 for sending me ‘Dreams of the Mediterranéant (Fade at Brighton Beach Mix)’ from the album ‘Dreams of the Méditerranéant’ out on the Adventurous Music label. We stay in the same world now Minimal Drone GRL and Belial Pelegrim – A Remembered Land Long Forgotten https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/track/a-remembered-land-long-forgotten Low hum rises from cracked earth, ancient stone walls breathe dust, wind carries fragments of half-remembered songs across barren fields.
‘A Remembered Land Long Forgotten’ there by Minimal Drone GRL and Belial Pelegrim from the album ‘Movements of a Cloud’ out on the Bricolage label. Time to get weird Keith Seatman – Another Strange Thing https://keithseatman-cis.bandcamp.com/track/another-strange-thing Ornate music box unwinds in attic gloom, figurine spins jerkily, something moves just beyond the torch beam.
Great work there in ‘Another Strange Thing’ by Keith Seatman from the album ‘Counting To Ten Then Back Again’ out on Castles In Space. Next up a piece of my own as Trevlad – Furnish Rests Goggle https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/furnish-rests-goggle Old sofa sags under fairy lights, goggles fog with breath, synth arpeggios drift like cigarette smoke through thrift-shop clutter.
That was ‘Furnish Rests Goggle’ which is the What3Words geo location of a hotel I spent a few days in back in January. It’s from the album TVCL 10. Next we go minimal and dark with Autistici – 2.25 Degrees of Internalisation https://autistici.bandcamp.com/track/225-degrees-of-internalisation Faint heartbeat clicks inside the skull, temperature drops 2.25°, thoughts fold inward like origami swans sinking in black ink.
You’ve been witness to ‘2.25 Degrees of Internalisation’ by Autistici from the album ‘Familiarity Unfolded’ out on the Audiobulb label. Now to brighten things up a notch Heaven Topology – Adventure Compass https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/track/adventure-compass Needle quivers between impossible directions, star charts peel from damp walls, footsteps echo toward a horizon that bends upward.
Excellent ‘Adventure Compass’ by Heaven Topology from the album ‘Describer’ out on the king of listening parties Ingrown Records I always like to add a pinch of Jazz to the episodes so here’s Robohands – Achilles https://robohands.bandcamp.com/track/achilles Tendon strings pluck taut, bronze dust settles on mechanical joints, slow-motion stride across cracked marble, heel exposed.
Great drumming there in ‘Achilles’ by Robohands from the album ‘Oranj’ out on Bastard Jazz Recordings Now the longest track of this episode at just under 10 minutes. This is Never Sol – Dark Mountains, Red Dust https://iuwerecords.bandcamp.com/track/never-sol-dark-mountains-red-dust Boots crunch red powder, peaks swallow the sky, wind carries iron taste and distant thunder that never arrives.
What a trip in ‘Dark Mountains, Red Dust’ by Never Sol from one of the best compilations released so far this year ‘connected #3’ out on i u we records Before we go our separate ways and the virtual tape clicks out. I just want to thank you all for taking the time to listen and I hope the journey sends you in the direction of these artists. All the links to the material are in the comments on Mixcloud, on trevor.se and on the channel substack. To send us off Rhucle & Arbee – Plain from the album of the same name. Available on Noray Records https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/plain Endless beige grass bends under pale sun, single power line hums, footsteps leave no trace on the flat, quiet expanse.
00:00:00 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Thoughts On The Future https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/track/thoughts-on-the-future (from the album *Thoughts On The Future*) Nettwerk label. A vast, twilight desert stretches under a sky streaked with electric violet auroras. Floating modular synth orbs pulse softly like distant lanterns, while faint geometric patterns ripple across sand dunes that shift in slow, liquid waves.
00:07:01 Gollden – destiny #10 https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/destiny-10 (from the album *Destiny*) Imaginary North label. A neon-lit corridor in an abandoned cyber-city at midnight. Holographic cherry blossoms drift through cracked concrete, their petals glitching into fractal code as distant data streams cascade down mirrored walls in electric blue.
00:09:00 frostlake – Sundowner https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sundowner (from the album *Shattered Stone*) Discus Music label. Golden-orange sunlight spills across a calm coastal harbor at dusk. Wooden boats rock gently on mirrored water streaked with neon reflections, while seabirds circle above crumbling stone quays where long shadows stretch like forgotten promises.
00:12:34 Christina Chatfield – Sutro (from the album *Sutro*) Mysteries of the Deep label. Fog rolls thick over ruined Victorian bathhouse ruins perched on jagged cliffs above the Pacific. Pale moonlight filters through rusted iron frameworks, illuminating scattered pearl-like droplets suspended in the mist and tangled reeds swaying in an unseen current.
00:19:12 Rosie Tee – Wishbone (from the album *Night Creature*) Kikimora Records label. A dimly lit attic room filled with antique mirrors and velvet drapes at midnight. A delicate bone-white wishbone hovers mid-air, cracking open to release swirling threads of crimson light that weave into spectral figures dancing on the walls.
00:22:47 Hannah Peel – Emergence In Nature (from the album *Fir Wave*) KMP Music Ltd. Emerald forest canopy at dawn, where sunlight pierces through leaves in sharp, crystalline beams. Tiny bioluminescent particles rise like fireflies in reverse, forming organic patterns that pulse and expand across moss-covered branches in rhythmic waves.
00:26:42 Garden Gate – A Dream Within a Dream (appears on the album *Edgar Allan Poe*) Library Of The Occult label. Endless nested corridors of antique bookshelves under flickering candlelight. Pages flutter open on their own, revealing layered dreamscapes: oceans within oceans, skies folding into more skies, each frame dissolving into the next like ink in water.
00:29:13 ena b. – Birds Dance (from the album *Night Walk*) Secuencias Temporales label A twilight meadow encircled by ancient willows. Hundreds of shadowy birds lift in unison, their wings tracing glowing arabesques against a bruised purple sky, spiraling upward in harmonious loops that mirror invisible currents of wind.
00:34:05 ANNABEL [lee] – Cat’s Eye (from the album*DECAPODA*) Buried Treasure label A velvet-black room illuminated only by a single luminous green cat’s eye gemstone floating at eye level. Refractions scatter emerald light across floating dust motes and half-seen feline silhouettes prowling along the edges of perception.
00:37:06 Daniella Tourgeman, Tomer Baruch – Mistor (from the album *שפת עולם*) Kame’a Music label Ancient stone alleyways in a fog-shrouded Mediterranean city at predawn. Soft amber lanterns cast trembling pools of light on dew-wet cobblestones, where whispers of mist curl around arched doorways hiding secrets in shadow.
00:41:34 Castle If – Missing 404 (from the album *darknet*) A glitchy, pixelated library floating in digital void. Empty bookshelves flicker erratically, pages dissolving into error-code rain that falls upward, while a lone cursor blinks insistently in the center of an unreachable, cracked screen.
00:44:15 Sachi Kobayashi – Nostalgia (from the album *More Than Just A Dream*) Stereoscenic Records. A faded childhood bedroom bathed in warm afternoon sun through lace curtains. Old photographs on the wall slowly develop reverse—colors draining away—while a music box melody unwinds in slow motion, dust motes suspended like frozen memories.
00:49:26 Me Lost Me – Real World (from the album RPG) Upset The Rhythm label. A bustling urban street viewed through rain-streaked window glass at night. Neon signs blur into watercolor streaks of pink and cyan, pedestrians dissolve into abstract shapes, while reflections in puddles show an alternate, quieter reality beneath.
00:52:23 Little Dragon, April + VISTA – Layers (from the album *Slipping Into Color*) Ninja Tune label. Translucent geological strata glowing in deep earth tones underground. Each layer pulses with different hues—indigo, amber, rose—shifting and overlapping like sedimentary memories, with faint bioluminescent veins threading through the rock.
00:55:46 The Mistys – Nervous Mirror (from the album *Situations | Useless Mouths*) Castles In Space label. A cracked vanity mirror in a deserted ballroom under chandelier light. Reflections multiply infinitely, each version showing subtle distortions: trembling hands, shifting expressions, fractured eyes staring back with quiet unease.
00:59:42 marine eyes, IKSRE – Forgiveness (from the album *Nurture*) Past Inside the Present (PITP) Soft ocean waves lapping at a moonlit shore lined with sea glass. Gentle tides carry away shards of colored light, smoothing rough edges over time, while a pale horizon glows with quiet, healing luminescence.
01:04:36 Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan – Gaip (from the singel *Gaip / Seher*) Batov Records A bustling Istanbul bazaar at golden hour, viewed through haze of incense smoke. Spices spill in vibrant pyramids, lanterns sway overhead casting warm patterns on tiled floors, while distant calls blend into a hypnotic, wandering rhythm.
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Welcome, sonic explorers, to Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 183, beaming out on this fine Bandcamp Friday of 06 March 2026. Our geo-tag subtitle today: visit.impressing.backup – punch that into what3words for a little location tied A stunning sculpture by my friend and colleague, Ylva Magnusson. It’s the background image for this episodes social media posts.
This is your virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. Twenty artists lined up, dropping about three times a week with no fixed schedule – just pure passion for independent music. Expect a sonic journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark, ideal for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
If you want to be part of the transmission, send your vibrations my way at trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always lit up at trevor.se, and marked in the timeline of each show.
Big shoutouts to our latest followers: Jack D’Arcy, the artist behind Adventsong, and Zuki from Portugal. Cheers, guys – your support keeps the library spinning.
And hey, don’t forget: it’s Bandcamp Friday today. Head to the links in the comments for this episode or any other, and snag some tunes direct from the creators.
Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
A dimly lit workshop cluttered with circuit boards and flickering screens, shadows dancing as digital pulses awaken forgotten machines. Kicking off Side A with my own self released alias. This is Trevlad’s “Tablet Stocks Mice” from the album TVCL 09.
A crumbling tower under stormy skies, echoes of shattered illusions raining down like fragmented glass. Next up, Юродивый (yurodivy) with “Fallen Expectations ll” from the 50 track NYP album Commemorative Compilation released by Secuencias Temporales.
Imagine a bustling market at dusk, spices mingling in the air as rhythmic grooves weave through the crowd like invisible threads. Here’s Kaidi Tatham’s “Any Flavour” from the album Two Syllables Volume Twenty Two, on First Word Records.
An endless void, stars collapsing inward, pulling you into a cosmic silence dotted with faint, haunting signals. Farazdeck brings “Void” from the album Animae Perdita (ST017), courtesy of Secuencias Temporales.
See gentle waves lapping at a forgotten shore, mist rising as melodies drift by like autumn leaves on the wind. Clariloops’ “Pass Me By” from the album The Quiet Below, released by whitelabrecs.
Frost-covered cliffs along a rugged coast, deer silhouettes against a winter sunset, horns echoing through the chill. Phexioenesystems’ “Coastal Winter Deerhorn” from Patterns in Condensate, on Lunar Module.
A quiet farewell at twilight, streetlights blurring in the rain as final words hang in the ether. Gareth Jones’ “parting / nosDa” from ElectroGenetic 2 – Nos Da, a Mortality Tables product.
A woven lattice of vines climbing ancient ruins, sunlight filtering through in golden patterns. storyinsoil’s “Lattice” from the album distillation, released by Ingrown Records.
A city skyline at night, lights twinkling like distant galaxies, synth waves shimmering across the horizon. Ryu Oshi’s “Sparkling Night” from Cityfield: Ten Duets for Electric Piano and Synthesizer, on The Dream Journal Institute.
A shadowy alley where friends rally in chaos, urgency pulsing like a heartbeat in the dark. T-toe’s “Shes our friend and she’s crazy, We have to help her!” from The Vale of Shadows, on Sounds for the Soul Records.
Afternoon light piercing through clouds, flashes illuminating hidden landscapes in surreal bursts. Stereolab’s “Flashes In The Afternoon” from the album Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon, released by Warp Records.
A zero-point field, equations dissolving into nothingness, potentials collapsing in elegant decay. Simon Heartfield’s “Nilpotent” from the Noon State EP, on Limbic Production.
B Side
Imagine awakening from a vivid reverie, the veil lifting as reality reshapes itself in unexpected forms. worriedaboutsatan’s “The Dream Is Over” from No Knock No Doorbell, self-released.
Barren fields under gray skies, the first flakes descending in silent promise. “Waiting for Snow” by Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance, from the album Land, on Driftworks.
Cavernous depths where echoes reverberate, low frequencies rumbling like earthbound thunder. gribbles’ “Lows” from BOSH!, self-released.
Ancient temples shrouded in mist, realizations dawning like forbidden revelations – this one’s an exclusive preview, not yet out in the wild. Glacis with Henrik Meierkord’s “I Have Worshipped The Wrong Gods” from the upcoming album We Gape and We Are Healed, on whitelabrecs.
A lush garden bathed in golden light, mythical fruits ripening under eternal watch. Yakuza Jacuzzi’s “Jade Emperor´s Peach Garden part 1” from Wabi-Sabi, released by Cyclical Dreams.
Sun-drenched streets alive with infectious beats, shadows swaying in harmonious flow. Sababa 5’s “Asunsan” from Ça va Ça va, on Batov Records.
Ethereal threads connecting distant realms, pulses syncing in harmonious trance. Avsluta & Primal Code’s “Sahatā” from Commemorative Compilation , released by Secuencias Temporales.
That’s the end of the tape for Episode 183. Thanks for tuning in – keep exploring those independent sounds. Until next time, let the universe echo back. Overgrown concrete structures reclaimed by nature, botanical forms emerging from urban decay. Wrapping up with Wil Bolton’s “Concrete Botany” from the album Concrete Botany, on Home Normal.
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Welcome to Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 180—your flickering beacon in the haze, where forgotten reels spin secrets and new ghosts whisper through the virtual cassette heads. We pause the fast-forward and let time stretch thin: imagine a single worn cassette shell cracked open on a sun-bleached dashboard at dusk, magnetic tape spilling like ribbon across cracked leather seats. Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, for the sonically adventurous, wherever it finds you. You’ve hit play so, let the tape hiss, and drift with us through these captured breaths. Subscribe to the channel to hear these shows whenever you please. Subscribers also get mix versions of the episodes without all my babbling. Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Edge Effect who you should check out on Bandcamp and fellow Irish person A New Forest who is a resident DJ on Dublin Digital Radio. Also a new subscriber that has me dangling in the edge of the channel getting a payout from Mixcloud imilleryes
We open with the song Sunshine Grove by SubDan. Golden afternoon light spilling through leaves onto a quiet wooden porch swing, where acid-tinged synths ripple like warm breezes and gentle breakbeat grooves sway in lazy contentment, capturing pure, unhurried joy suspended forever in a glowing breath. This is Sunshine Grove by SubDan from the album Moments of Joy out on Nottingham, UK’s Remnants label.
Now, The track time, running away from you by HUNGER A lone figure standing motionless on an empty midnight highway as the taillights of a departing car stretch into vanishing red threads, while slow, decaying synth drones and fractured rhythmic pulses chase each other in futile pursuit, freezing the ache of irreversible loss in a single, elongating breath of experimental electronic melancholy. This is HUNGER with the track time, running away from you from the album declined out on Leipzig, Germany’s Adventurous Music
Next, The track Tripping Soldiers 2 by Dark Fidelity Hi Fi (from Bricolage’s underground Glasgow electronic label) A squad of spectral soldiers marching in slow, hallucinatory lockstep through a fog-choked, neon-lit alley at 3 a.m., their boots echoing into warped, stuttering breaks and gritty, acid-flecked synth stabs that bend reality like melting film reels, freezing the surreal vertigo of a chemically unraveling night patrol in a single, looping breath of shadowy, tripped-out dubbed melancholy. This is Tripping Soldiers 2 by Dark Fidelity Hi Fi from a couple of places one of them being Bricolage’s Paradigm (10 Year Label Sampler)
Now Akira Film Script, Graham Seaman, Mosaicist, Percolator and Justin Amphlett – This Burnished Land The collaborative expanse of This Burnished Land A vast, sun-scorched prairie at golden hour where ancient mosaic fragments embedded in cracked earth glow like buried memories, while layered drones and subtle field-recorded winds weave a slow, collective breath of timeless, burnished serenity suspended in amber light. This Burnished Land by Akira Film Script, Graham Seaman, Mosaicist, Percolator and Justin Amphlett from the, must have, compilation album This Burnished Land out on whitelabrecs
Next aug16 by ff8282 A deserted summer rooftop at dusk in late August, empty cassette tapes scattered like fallen leaves as faint, lo-fi synth pulses and fragmented tape warbles drift upward into a fading orange sky, capturing the quiet, nostalgic drift of a single fleeting day dissolving into static eternity. From the stable of 4000 Records label ff8282 and the track aug16 from the album No Statue.
“A Wound Kisser by Dunya A dimly lit apartment at midnight, where soft ambient tendrils curl like gentle fingers tracing an old scar on pale skin, the slow-healing ache blooming into hushed, shimmering layers of forgiveness frozen in an intimate exhale of wounded light. From Vilnius, Lithuania’s Amulet of Tears label I give you Dunya with A Wound Kisser from the album **Pay It Forward **.
**Take Me There – Totte (a reflection on childhood) originally from the album *Nine Reflections: Music For Cats* “Totte (a reflection on childhood)” A sun-dappled backyard sandbox long abandoned, where a child’s forgotten toy cat sits amid drifting dandelion seeds and gentle, nostalgic drones that lap like warm summer memories against the porch steps, freezing the soft pang of innocence receding into quiet feline contemplation. This is Totte (a reflection on childhood) by Take Me There from a fantastic, and recommended, compilation The Passed Year 2025 out on Passed Recordings.
Land of the Endless by joe nora An unbroken horizon of rolling golden dunes under a perpetual twilight, where sparse, piano motifs and subtle string horizons stretch outward forever, locking the serene vertigo of boundless solitude in an unresolving breath of eternal drift. This is Land of the Endless by Joe Nora from the album Puzzle Face available through Los Angeles, California’s Friends Of Friends label.
uami step by raays A bioluminescent jungle clearing at cosmic dawn, where shimmering synth pads and off-kilter jazz-inflected beats pulse like fireflies in slow-motion syncopation, freezing the euphoric fusion of earthly roots and weightless space jungle levitation in glowing stride. This is raays with uami step from the EP Plaays out on LEAVING RECORDS.
desert ambient by applecore A lone saguaro silhouette against a blood-orange sunset over endless sand, where minimal, heat-warped drones and distant wind howls ripple like mirages across cracked earth, capturing the austere, meditative vastness of isolation distilled into scorching breath. applecore with desert ambient from the album contact at the deep bottom out on Bulgaria’s Mahorka label.
We end the first half and first side of this virtual cassette with Monolit K by Gelbart A colossal black obelisk rising from cracked concrete in an abandoned Eastern European industrial yard at dawn, its surface humming with deep, resonant modular synth throbs and metallic echoes that reverberate into infinity, freezing the enigmatic weight of forgotten futures in an unyielding pulse. Gelbart with Monolit K from the album Gelbart-TK-745 out on Berlin, Germany’s Kitchen Leg records. Catch you on the flip side.
Starting us off this half “Transmission 18 by Wojciech Golczewski A derelict satellite dish pointed skyward in a snowy midnight field, receiving faint, crackling cosmic signals through swelling retro-synth waves and distant static bursts, suspending the lonely vigil of interstellar longing in a glacial sweep. Wojciech Golczewski with Transmission 18 from the album End Of Transmission 3 available through Marseille, France’s Data Airlines label.
Väntan by Gustav Davidsson Frost-covered birch trees standing silent along a frozen Swedish lake at first light, where sparse, glacial ambient tones and soft harmonic swells drift like breath on glass, freezing the quiet anticipation of spring’s distant promise in a crystalline pause. This is Gustav Davidsson with Väntan from another great whitelbrecs compilation celebrating their 10-year anniversary Shades.
Pollinator Project Pt. 4 – Entomophily by Loopatronica. A sunlit wildflower meadow alive with bees in ecstatic slow-motion orbit, their wings blurring into intricate looping rhythms and organic electronic pulses that hum in symbiotic harmony, locking the vibrant dance of pollination into a nectar-drenched view. This is Loopatronica with Pollinator Project Pt. 4 – Entomophily from the album Pollinator Project out on Moolakii Club Audio Interface.
Let Me by Djrum Rain streaked city windows at 4 a.m., reflecting blurred neon as intricate breakbeats and soulful piano fragments plead through dense, atmospheric layers, capturing the intimate ache of unspoken desire suspended in rain-lashed heartbeats. This is Djrum with Let Me from the albumUnder Tangled Silence out on London, UK’s Houndstooth label.
Movement Implies Convergence by Substak + LR Friberg Converging railway tracks vanishing into a misty horizon at twilight, where pulsing modular sequences and converging field drones pull forward in relentless gravity, freezing the philosophical inevitability of paths uniting in a forward-leaning flow. Substak + LR Friberg with Movement Implies Convergence from the album The White Between Words another great release from the Mahorka label.
Blanket Song by Kikagaku Moyo A threadbare wool blanket spread under stars on a summer hillside, where psych-folk guitars wrap around soft, wandering melodies like shared warmth, capturing the simple comfort of stargazing companionship in an enveloping sigh. Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 with Blanket Song from the album Masana Temples out on Fukuoka, Japan’s Guruguru Brain label.
Office Olympics by Dolphins of Venice Fluorescent-lit cubicles transformed into a surreal arena at after-hours, where quirky synth bounces and playful beats turn staplers into javelins and printers into hurdles, freezing the gleeful rebellion of corporate daydreams in a single, mischievous leap. This is Dolphins of Venice with Office Olympics from the album Captains of Industry another great Mahorka label release.
The penultimate track of the show now. Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster) by Ian Boddy & Chris Carter Underwater aurora lights shimmering through deep ocean currents at midnight, where vintage analog modular synth waves undulate in slow, hypnotic layers, locking the submerged glow of hidden electromagnetic realms in a breath of cosmic tranquility. Ian Boddy & Chris Carter with Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster) from the album Caged (25th Anniversary Edition) out on Ian Boddy curated label DiN.
So just one track to go and, before you do go, I need you to send me your stories for the Chord Confessions series. I need a song or piece of music that has meant something special to you for some reason. I’ll play the music and say nice things about you and tell your tale on the airwaves.
Spontaneous Reduction by Hverheij A falling snowflake caught mid-descent in a vast white void, where sparse, reductive tones and micro-shifts in texture gradually simplify into near-silence, capturing the elegant inevitability of everything distilling to essence in a vanishing exhale. Hverheij with Spontaneous Reduction
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 sliver of the clock you’ve managed to carve out for yourself. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-seven. I’m Trevor, sitting here with a stack of tapes that feel heavier than they ought to, and a vague sense that the world outside might have moved on without telling us.
We’re dealing with a virtual cassette, two sides as tradition demands, twenty artists in total, the kind of selection that drifts between ambient drifts, darkwave edges, neoclassical touches, drone meditations, some post-rock undercurrents, a bit of hauntology perhaps, and the occasional flicker of something more abstract or collage-like. Places crop up too: London, Barcelona, Cheltenham, Stroud, Berlin, Hamburg, Manchester, Glasgow, a scattering across North Carolina, Portland, Vancouver, Toronto, even the Bahamas and Tallinn. The map doesn’t stay still.
The longest track we’ll hear is “Lost in the Morning” by On Idyl, stretching out across the open air like it has nowhere else to be. The shortest is “Heartspace” by Heaven Topology, brief enough to feel like a held breath.
Just before we dive in I need your help with a new show I’m putting together. I need stories about music that changed something in your life. A direction, a decision, a realisation. It’ll be the most important music of all time while I promote you as a fan, artist, label curator, mum, dad, whatever you like. If you don’t have a story which is highly unlikely maybe you know of someone who does. Let’s make something special together.
Now back to the show. Side A begins with a couple of exclusive tracks to catch your interest.
First, from Lo Recordings, Haiku Salut & Meg Morley with “Laugh and cricket” – a delicate weave of piano and field recordings that evokes summer evenings where insects compete with human laughter, gentle and unhurried. from the upcoming album – The Lost Score – dropping on Lo Recordings on 27 march.
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley – Laugh and cricket.
Next that other exclusive. f5point6, on See Blue Audio, “432 Hz (Remastered)” – tuned to that frequency people chase for calm, layered synths unfolding slowly, remastered to let the harmonics breathe properly. 432 Hz from the album retrospect with drops on the 13 Feb.
f5point6 – 432 Hz (Remastered).
Time Rival now, “Deleter” from the 45 track Murmurs in the Mist compilation which I released back in November. Don’t forget to get your entries in for the next outing before the end of March. Anyway This is Time Rivals Deleter – a quiet deletion of boundaries, soft electronics that erase the line between memory and the present.
Time Rival – Deleter.
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES with “La chute des dominos” from Jaculus Jaculus ou neuf instantanés pittoresques de la vie trépidante de la gerboise des steppes Jaculus jaculus or nine picturesque snapshots of the hectic life of the desert jerboa– tumbling motifs, playful yet precise, like dominoes falling in a French steppe wind.
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – La chute des dominos.
Now here’s that piece you could easily hold a breath to. Heaven Topology, “Heartspace” from Describer on Ingrown Records.– interior spaces opening outward, warm tones suggesting a place where the heart expands without apology. A very underrated release from last August.
Heaven Topology – Heartspace.
Now we’re off to the Bahamas which is not often on the show. pjpriiincess, “my teeth crush bones” – from the NYP album my teeth crack diamonds my teeth crush bones. raw, visceral, crunching through the surface into something primal and glittering.
pjpriiincess – my teeth crush bones.
Now a friend of the show. and one of the longer pieces this episode. Masefield Labs, “Station Keeping” from his latest album Shaded Escapes released just a few days ago. Big thank you John for the mention in the album notes. holding position in shifting currents, steady pulses beneath drifting layers.
Masefield Labs – Station Keeping.
zerosummer is the alter ego of Paolo Taviano, Italian musician. Here he is with “Nebula” from The Blue Hours on the wonderful Driftworks label. – cosmic drift, haze of stars forming and dissolving in slow motion.
zerosummer – Nebula.
Next a fantastic label that I do hope you’re all supporting. Uppsala, Sweden based, Passed Records. This next track and two more on the B side are from NYP compilations of artists they’ve released in 2025 so go get them now. G!GA LURGH, “Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive)” from The Passed Year 2025 on Passed Recordings – loose, exploratory, the kind of jam that happened once and lingers.
G!GA LURGH – Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive).
The penultimate track on side a from three artists who are fantastic in they’re own realms and just as great combined. Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club with “Under Open Skies” from Cloud Paths – vast skies, gentle progression, open and unconfined in a small package.
Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Under Open Skies.
And closing Side A, and a track that closes the compilation release it came from. Emanuele Errante, “Permanent Sunset” from Islas Calm Cloud, on whitelabrecs – eternal dusk, warm glow that refuses to fade completely.
Emanuele Errante – Permanent Sunset.
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Side B, then.
Now a piece of my own. Trevlad now, “Glare Belonged Reaction” from TVCL-07 – reaction to too much light, refracted and softened.
Trevlad – Glare Belonged Reaction.
Next from the outstanding Hamburg based label Bureau B. Kreidler, “Im Betrieb (IV)” from Early Recordings 1994-95 – mechanical yet human, rhythms from the factory floor turned inward.
Kreidler – Im Betrieb (IV).
This next track has its own music video which if you like jelly you should check out. Crank up the volume and massage those neck muscles with Clark, “Civilians” from Steep Stims – everyday lives caught in electronic undertow, subtle distortions.
Clark – Civilians.
Pandacetamol, “Simply Pour” from Below the Surface on Mahorka – liquid motion, pouring without end, calm acceptance. A recommended Mahorka release from last November.
Pandacetamol – Simply Pour.
Next, as mentioned, another track from the Passed Recordings label and Ed Herbers, “The Moon (How Bright It Is)” from The Ghost of Christmas Passed. – lunar observation, bright and distant.
Ed Herbers – The Moon (How Bright It Is).
We follow this with another track from that other compilation on the same label. This is On Idyl, “Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood)” here from The Passed Year 2025 on Passed Recordings – morning disorientation in fertile woods, gentle confusion.
On Idyl – Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood).
and now an old friend of the channel Apta, “Shivers” from Apta Live Aviva Studios Manchester 04-12-25 – live capture, shivers running through the room in Manchester.
Apta – Shivers.
Next, for the penultimate number we head to Austin, Texas and artist Devras Plexi, “Relational” from Paradigm 10 Year Label Sampler on Glasgow label Bricolage – connections drawn in sound, relational fields.
Devras Plexi – Relational.
And now, as the tape hisses to its end, a few words before the silence returns. Thanks for staying with it. These transmissions aren’t built for crowds, and neither, perhaps, are we. I’ll be back when the next cassette arrives or the mood shifts—whichever feels less predictable. No fixed schedule, no grand announcements. Support the artists if any of this stayed with you—buy the music, share their names quietly. You can stream this one on Mixcloud for a week or so, links and credits at trevor.se, or in the usual places. Comments are welcome, though silence has its own merits. And finally, Tallinn, Estonia based artist Paul Beaudoin with “to hold you safe” from 1514 Lee Street – a quiet promise held close. Minimal ambient at it’s finest. Until the next fragment of time overlaps with ours—stay resonant, stay expansive, let the sounds find their way. Paul Beaudoin – to hold you safe. Cheerio…