Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 325
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A porch that has already sat down, then a future you already remind someone of.
Side A cools piano phrases on a veranda still holding salt in the grain, teaches a scrap giant to stay kind while made of girders, paints sand purple-black for as long as you are looking, lets a Finnish sentence glide away, shares rust and wave in a hallway with every door on the latch, and finds winter already standing behind the pane. Side B leaves offerings past the last familiar planet, walks false suns politely in their lanes, keeps the hands through a damp postcard, rings a suburban tram once at a stop that knows your name, continues the second investigation under five triangles, and remembers a future in three parts with sense set aside.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly seasonal, and quietly kind — full of unlatched corridors, damp postcards, and titles that have already arrived. Perfect for dusk listening, porches after the heat, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a porch that has already sat down, a giant made of scrap learning manners, sand painted purple-black, Finnish for something slipping softly off, corridors of rust and wave, a pane with the cold season standing behind it.
00:02:18 Jogging House – Veranda
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/veranda
Album: Really.
The porch where the piano phrases come to cool their hands. Salt’s notes still in the grain of the wood.
00:05:59 Mike Dickinson – Iron Man’s Challenge
https://mikedickinson.bandcamp.com/track/iron-mans-challenge
Album: The Iron Man by Ted Hughes – OST.
Ted Hughes’ giant, scored. Scrap learning to be a guest. The challenge is to stay kind while you are made of girders.
00:08:29 Trem 77 – Purple Black Texture (Strings Mix)
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/purple-black-texture-strings-mix
Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting.
Sandpainting that keeps its colour for as long as you are looking. Henrik’s bow still in the grain.
00:11:25 Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – …lipuu pois
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/lipuu-pois
Album: Viriää- Label: whitelabrecs
It glides away. Viriää, the stirring. Whitelabrecs letting the sentence finish in Finnish and in air.
00:17:35 Tewksbury – Corridors
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/corridors
Album: rust/wave. Label: Imaginary North
Rust and wave sharing a hallway. Imaginary North leaving every door on the latch.
00:18:42 Lab’s Cloud – Winter is Coming
https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/track/winter-is-coming
Album: Behind the Pane. Label: Le Mont Analogue, DRONARIVM, fonodroom
Behind the pane, already. Le Mont Analogue, DRONARIVM, fonodroom, three names for the same glass. Title of the hour.
Mood mist: deities past the last familiar planet, false suns in a kind sky, hands kept through a shower, a tram that knows every hedge, a second investigation, a future you already remind someone of.
00:25:13 Wayside Shrine – Gods of the Outer System
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/gods-of-the-outer-system
Album: Gods of the Outer System. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
A shrine by the road, and the road has left the solar system. The Dream Journal keeping the offerings.
00:35:39 Green-House – Sun Dogs
https://green-house.bandcamp.com/track/sun-dogs
Album: Hinterlands. Label: Ghostly International
Two bright companions walking either side of the real sun, polite enough to stay in their lanes.
00:38:12 BVSMV – Holding Hands in the Rain
https://tripfm.bandcamp.com/track/bvsmv-holding-hands-in-the-rain
Album: Label: TRIP FM, Triplicate Records
Space invaders, volume two, and still someone remembered the hands. Triplicate printing the postcard three times, all of them damp.
00:42:29 Calm Pieces – Suburban Tram
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/suburban-tram
Album: Suburbia, Still. Label: whitelabrecs
Whitelabrecs letting the bell ring once, softly, at a stop that already knows your name.
00:45:37 Department of Light – Investigation #2
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-2
Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Five triangles, the case still open. The Dream Journal filing Sofia’s notes under “continuing.”
00:51:40 primeiro – Me hacés acordar al futuro III
https://primeiro-segundo.bandcamp.com/track/me-hace-s-acordar-al-futuro-iii
Album: Senza Senzo.
You remind me of the future, part three. Senza senzo — sense set aside, memory doing the work.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 325.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Lost Karst Dreamers
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 Lost Karst Dreamers is based on the track “Karst” by “Tewksbury”, from the album “rust/wave”, which comes out on May 22 via channel supporting label Imaginary North. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe.
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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 Pageant – Too Far
A drifting, melancholic ambient piece with soft, distant swells and a sense of emotional distance. Gentle textures unfold like regretful memories viewed from afar—intimate yet unreachable.
00:04:41 Rhucle – B2. Rew
Warm, tape-saturated ambient from Rhucle’s signature hazy style. Lo-fi loops and gentle field recordings create a nostalgic, rewound atmosphere full of quiet introspection and faded light.
00:07:40 Tewksbury – Karst
Geological ambient inspired by limestone landscapes. Crystalline tones, subtle cracks, and slow-dissolving textures evoke underground caves, dripping water, and hidden hollow spaces.
00:10:10 dropTable – Wanna ditch class and go to the mall
Playful, nostalgic lo-fi ambient with a carefree 90s/early 2000s teenage daydream vibe. Soft synths and muffled mall echoes paint a picture of skipping responsibilities for fluorescent-lit freedom.
00:18:23 Antonio Visual Project – Lost in space
Vast, weightless ambient journey through cosmic emptiness. Deep pads and floating melodies create a sense of peaceful disorientation among distant stars and endless void.
00:24:34 Joerg Dankert – What Is That
Curious, questioning ambient with shifting, uncertain textures. Subtle unease and wonder blend as unidentified sounds emerge from the shadows—mysterious and slightly surreal.
00:29:21 Pietro Zollo – Upward
Ascending, hopeful ambient with rising drones and luminous layers. It feels like gentle elevation—moving from grounded stillness toward light and open sky.
00:36:20 SYMBOL – Street Machines
Retro-futuristic synth ambient with mechanical pulse and nocturnal city energy. Neon-lit grooves and sleek textures capture cruising through empty streets at night.
00:38:18 Sacred Seeds – Rustic Memory
Earthy, organic ambient rooted in pastoral nostalgia. Warm acoustic elements and crackling textures evoke old wooden barns, soil, and half-remembered rural summers.
00:45:45 Glinca – We Shall Be Like Dreamers
Lush, surreal ambient that drifts between reality and reverie. Soft, cloud-like layers and gentle swells create a beautiful, immersive dream-state full of wonder.
00:54:05 Sad Graffiti – L’idiota
Poignant, introspective ambient with a touch of melancholy. Sparse and emotionally raw, it feels like the quiet reflection of Dostoevsky’s fool—vulnerable and strangely wise.
01:04:33 Ulises Labaronnie – Part III
Deep, evolving drone/ambient from the Argentine composer. Rich harmonic layers slowly unfold with a meditative, almost architectural sense of space and time.
01:11:55 Sulk Rooms – Details Are Important
Meticulous, micro-focused ambient highlighting tiny sonic details. Intimate and slightly obsessive, it rewards close listening with hidden textures and quiet emotional depth.
01:16:29 Elise Plans – Cantoo (Everything Lasts Forever…)
Bittersweet, expansive ambient exploring permanence and impermanence. Swelling drones and fragile melodies carry a philosophical weight—beautiful, haunting, and ultimately hopeful.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 080
Fractured Grace.
🌌 Welcome, sonic travellers—Trevor here, transmitting from Torrevieja, Spain. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 080. A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Lunar Module, whitelabrecs, Noray Records, Preston Capes, Mortality Tables, Binaural Space, Imaginary North, Cyclical Dreams, Buried Treasure, Batov Records, and, Owl Totem Recordings.
And the sonic architects: Pietro Zollo, Bit Cloudy, and, Phil Dodds.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
This episode includes 3 exclusive tracks that you’ll probably only hear here before they are officially released. The A side opens with a descent beneath the surface—into fractured ground and emotional resonance. From Newcastle’s electronic frontier, Bartholomew brings us “Land Fracture”, a track from his forthcoming album Subterranea, releasing July 25th via Castles In Space very own Lunar Module.
Crafted by composer Chris Bartholomew, whose theatrical credits include the Barbican and National Theatre Studio, this piece fuses cinematic storytelling with generative electronics, orchestral textures, and raw sonic abrasion. It’s a meditation on instability—both geological and emotional.
🌀 “Land Fracture” feels like a fault line rendered in sound. Granular textures crackle beneath sweeping harmonic arcs. There’s tension, but also grace. Think Hans Zimmer’s emotional weight, Tim Hecker’s digital erosion, and Ben Frost’s stark minimalism—all refracted through Bartholomew’s unique lens.
The album Subterranea was born after a shared bill with Gordon Chapman-Fox of Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan. That performance led to this release on Lunar Module, and it’s already drawing praise from sonic visionaries like Leafcutter John, who described the album as:
“Cryogenically frozen Beach Boys slowly melting from the Earth’s final great glacier.”
🎧 “Land Fracture” is just one of eight tracks that explore resilience, collapse, and the beauty found in broken structures. The full album drops July 25th on CD and digital. If you’re near Newcastle, don’t miss the launch party at The Globe on July 24th.
🌌 Let the ground shift. Let the frequencies fracture. This is Bartholomew.
Also on the A side a moment of return, of memory, of warmth wrapped in stillness. This exclusive preview comes from the upcoming album Aunque llegue la mañana by Spanish duo Raúl Cantizano and David Cordero, featuring the haunting voice of Lela Soto.
The track is titled “Algo a lo que regresar”—something to return to—and it lives up to its name. It’s a quiet invocation of place and feeling, where Cantizano’s flamenco guitar gently converses with Cordero’s ambient textures. The result is a soundscape that feels both rooted and weightless, like a memory suspended in golden light.
🌀 Lela Soto’s voice drifts in like a breeze through an open window—fragile, soulful, and timeless. Her presence adds a spectral warmth to the minimalist arrangement, grounding the electronics in something deeply human.
This is not fusion—it’s communion. Flamenco and ambient don’t clash here; they breathe together. The track is part of a larger work that explores absence, light, and the quiet persistence of hope.
🎧 The full album releases July 18, 2025, via Noray Records, with a limited cassette edition and digital formats available. Until then, this exclusive track offers a glimpse into a world where tradition and experimentation meet in hushed reverence.
🌙 Let this be your anchor. Let it remind you of something worth returning to.
⚡️ The final exclusive of the episode follows directly after this.—a track that doesn’t whisper, it confronts. This is “Trans Kid Karmic Vengeance” by East London’s Bit Cloudy, from the upcoming full-length protest album U.S. Nadir, releasing August 8th, 2025.
Known for his work across labels like Castles In Space, Lost Map, and Front and Follow, Bit Cloudy delivers a sonic gut-punch here—an instrumental that seethes with urgency and layered defiance. It’s IDM with teeth. Ambient with a purpose.
🌀 “Trans Kid Karmic Vengeance” is a title that says everything before the first note hits. It’s a rallying cry, a reckoning, and a reclamation. The track itself is a dense weave of distorted textures, and melodic fragments that shimmer like broken glass in sunlight. It’s fierce, but never chaotic—every element is placed with intention.
It’s resistance in waveform. A response to cruelty, to erasure, to the systems that fail the most vulnerable. And it’s delivered with a clarity that cuts through the noise.
🎧 Pre-order the full album U.S. Nadir via Bit Cloudy’s Bandcamp Page.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
The tracks played are marked with links where you can purchase them at the start of each episode. or on the home page trevor.se🔹 Artists and labels—send your sonic offerings to: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
*Bartholomew – Land Fracture – 07:48
Mint Deluxe – Pakora (shorter) – 11:18
Eden Grey – No Problem – 16:27
René Najera – Balancing A Stone – 19:16
Pietro Zollo – sixth – 25:31
Henrik Meierkord, Marco Lucchi & Pawel Kobak – CD Bonus – Sova (Bloom) – 34:41
*Raúl Cantizano & David Cordero – Algo a lo que regresar (feat Lela Soto) – 39:18
*Bit Cloudy – Trans Kid Karmic Vengeance – 41:47
Farmacia – Julee – 43:34
Casey MQ – The Heirloom – 48:13
Rupert Lally – 304 – 49:08
Side B – 52:39
Uncle Fido – They Love Fairy-tale Worlds – 53:24
Kilometre Club – Under Heavy Blankets (with Tewksbury) – 55:17
Erik Wøllo – A Sublime Place – 59:52
Hari Maia – Universalis I Pt. I – 1:01:40
the black Albumen – frogment – 1:04:25
Sababa 5 – Atom – 1:08:59
Trevlad – Hypnotic Patterns – 1:12:22
Allmanna Town – Sample 30 [Beat Version] – 1:14:40
Belial Pelegrim – Ink Pool – 1:16:19
Gallery Six – Rissyuu – 1:18:05
zYklen – Pytheas and the Frozen Ocean – 1:23:35
Outro – 1:29:50
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
