EXPANSIVE WAVES 26
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.)
Merlin’s Spell – Merlin’s Spell [Full Demo] – 00:00
Scholars of the Peak – Live @ Dubrek Studios Friday 10th April 2026 – 25:30
OdNu + Ümlaut – Metamorphoses – 59:45
x.y.r. – altered zone (longform edition) – 2:00:10
Thomas Park – Failsafe – 2:30:20
Ab uno – Remorae (b side) – 2:48:00
Floating House Ensemble – Seven – 3:01:30
yttriphie – Paddock of Skies – 3:15:30
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 191
09 April 2026
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…
Intro – 00:00
Vel Raine – Galactic Ocean Waves Flickering – 03:10
Fm Outt – Incomplete Kisses – 13:40
Trevlad – Caravan Grew Vaccines – 15:54
Sevensy – Moon Arch – 20:00
Stewart Keller – Swan Song – 25:30
Lee Evans – Bow Tel Banti – 27:30
Near Stoic – Kinematic Lights – 37:30
Foxwarren – Serious – 39:50
Time Rival – Also Yes – 41:55
Paul Beaudoin – Mercury’s Whisper – 44:45
B Side – 50:10
GODTET – Cantus – 51:00
TOMC – 18, Chasing the Sun (Part 1, 2 & 3) – 58:20
Portland Vows – Stone Children – 1:04:45
Erik Wøllo – Snow Tides – 1:11:00
El Michels Affair – Indifference (Instrumental) – 1:17:05
mytrip – annie – 1:19:40
Scott Orr – Scott – 1:22:40
Jackson Mico Milas – Sea, Interior – 1:24:45
Tim Story – Decelarate or Fasten – 1:26:20
Anubis Rude – Transmutation – 1:31:35
Outro – 1:36:16
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 083
Forbidden Signal
🔮 Welcome, wanderers of the wavelength. This is Trevor, transmitting under twilight skies from the quiet edge of Malmö. You’ve tuned into Virtual Cassette Library 083—your portal into a liminal soundworld where frequencies blur the veil between seen and unseen. No maps, no commentary, just a raw stream of curated audio artifacts for your inner navigation.
Tonight’s broadcast is sponsored by arcane signal bearers: Cyclical Dreams, Clay Pipe Music, whitelabrecs, Adventurous Music, Driftworks, and Mahorka.
✒️ Special gratitude to the sonic conjurers whose compositions pull threads from forgotten dimensions—Fimnur, Anubis Rude, survey channel, Altus—and to Free Album Codes for unearthing whispers from the archives of Bandcamp.
Otis, Aeon, fonodroom—you remain constants in this drifting field.
🎧 Settle in. Let go of the linear. The halfway point bends space; Side B drips with surreal intention. The playlist is your guide. Track links can be found on trevor.se Comments go on the timeline—I speak only through curation.
📨 Artists, labels—send your sonic relics to trevlad@gmail.com.
Intro – 00:00
Fimnur – Forbidden Knowledge – 02:06
Caer Sgàil – Someone I Once Knew – 04:25
Propaganda – The Calling – 05:59
Nico Georis – Mind Gardens – 10:34
Karl Schoenberg – Sound Sculpture 9 – 15:02
Anubis Rude – Mariner’s Compass – 16:43
Carlos Ferreira – Percurso – 19:00
Masayoshi Fujita – Desonata – 24:52
Optionica – Strange Box [Optionica Remix] – 29:15
Carlos Ferreira, Rita Zart – Dissolving the Self – 32:17
Cate Francesca Brooks – In Wonder – 40:10
Julia Gjertsen & Gustav Davidsson – Mellomtiden – 41:58
Side B – 45:29
Augen – Love Balm – 46:17
Universos Terrenales – Viejos Solitarios – 53:18
Trevlad – Drone – 55:14
Tycho – DX Odyssey – 57:16
To Rococo Rot – I Am In The World With You – 59:42
survey channel – Denebula – 1:02:07
CIALYN – Radio Rhipidon – 1:04:35
Altus – Subterranean – 1:07:07
Hendekagon – Die Zeitdefinition – 1:13:04
Polaroid Notes – Spaces Inbetween – 1:14:42
str.ohm – Silhouettes Of A Hidden City – 1:20:14
Mantris – The Shattering – 1:24:48
Outro – 1:29:20
Trevlad Sounds 