Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 222
Beginning Future Empathy
Based on the track “Somewhere Right Now In The Future” from the album “Inferno” by “Boards of Canada”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A gentle, introspective, and emotionally nuanced ambient journey with touches of melancholy and warmth.
Side A moves from delicate, fragile beauty and shimmering guitar textures into dreamy Balearic atmospheres, dark cyclical tension, and quiet personal reflection. Side B shifts between urban solitude, sparse haunting moments, and organic warmth before landing on pastoral serenity and nostalgic analogue haze.
Overall mood: Melancholic yet comforting, dreamy, and subtly nostalgic. It feels intimate and emotionally honest — like late-afternoon light turning into twilight. Perfect for reflective listening, quiet evenings, or focused deep immersion.
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 Wavefiler – Brief Saga
Short, sweeping ambient with gentle melodic arcs and emotional warmth. Poignant and beautifully concise.
00:03:26 The Durutti Column – Beginning
Delicate, shimmering guitar-led ambient with Vini Reilly’s signature fragile beauty. Intimate and graceful.
00:04:40 Philippe Brown – Podenca Dreamscape
Dreamy, sun-soaked Balearic ambient with light percussion and hazy Mediterranean glow. Blissful and relaxed.
00:07:47 Luke Requena – Metallic Plastic
Glossy, synthetic electronic textures with a cool, modern edge. Sleek and slightly surreal.
00:13:38 worriedaboutsatan – Zyklus
Dark, cyclical post-rock/ambient with brooding intensity and slow-building tension. Atmospheric and powerful.
00:16:09 Glenn Fallows, Mark Treffel – Remember Empathy
Warm, melodic ambient with gentle grooves and heartfelt emotion. Nostalgic and comforting.
00:17:59 Lord Of The Isles – Solo
Minimal, introspective house-ambient with soft pads and quiet emotional resonance. Tender and spacious.
Side B
00:23:58 Heaton Norris Light Vessel Automatic – Berlin
Cold, atmospheric electronic evoking urban isolation and European melancholy. Moody and cinematic.
00:33:53 Surkid – When There Is No One Left to Follow
Sparse, haunting ambient with a sense of solitude and quiet desolation. Deeply introspective.
00:38:04 Binaural Space – Where’s My Guitar
Playful, slightly eccentric electronic with warm analogue charm and light-hearted quirkiness.
00:38:43 Fabiano do Nascimento – Das Nuvens
Gentle Brazilian acoustic ambience with soft guitar and floating, cloud-like serenity. Warm and organic.
00:41:42 The Zenmenn – The Invisible Landscape
Lush, pastoral ambient with beautiful melodic layers and dreamlike tranquility. Timeless and soothing.
00:50:33 Adrian Lane – Repent At Leisure
Reflective, melancholic ambient with subtle emotional weight and elegant minimalism.
00:53:16 Felbm – Phi
Smooth, jazzy downtempo with warm percussion and breezy, golden-hour vibes. Relaxed and groovy.
00:54:47 Boards of Canada – Somewhere Right Now In The Future
Classic BoC warped nostalgia with eerie melodies and analogue haze. Mysterious and hypnotic.
Ectoplasmically Woven Times
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.
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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 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.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 106
///jotting.hero.mystery.
Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 106 Jotting Hero Mystery. Which is not only the soundtrack in the background but a geographical location according to What3words with its own video. Pre order the album on Bandcamp to support the channel, it gets released when it reaches the Mixcloud subscriber count which is currently 16. Of course if you do subscribe there’ll not only be an extra track but you’ll also get all my albums for the monthly subscription price of 3 dollars. These episodes are 90-minute musical journeys. This episode is a spectral drift through modular hauntology, Sardinian piano reveries, and aquatic synth rituals. woven together into two, uninterrupted, 45 minute virtual cassette sides, with a metaphysical flip halfway through. A lovingly warped mixtape for dusk listeners, headphone wanderers, and those who find comfort in the crackle of forgotten formats. The shows are designed for a walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can join Nanogods’ poetic visualizations on the time line. Don’t be shy.
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Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
Jiri Jiri – Gino – 02:10
Daniel Tashian – Underwater – 05:34
Clemens Acidus – Along the Line – 07:26
Ruaridh Law, Debbie Armour, James Papademetrie & Orphax – The Fool – 12:56
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 11 – 14:09
Federica Deiana – Petrichor – 18:26
Lee Hannah – Opacity – 20:41
Meemo Comma – Meditation – 22:58
Jason Singh – Norfolk Pine – 25:35
Ed Herbers – Triumphant Rays – 31:35
Prairiewolf – Wheel of Persuasion – 33:05
Richard Griffiths – Aquila Cadens – 37:14
Buried Marie – The Ghost You Will Be VIII – 40:31
Side B – 43:19
Mikael Lind, Johanna Sjunnesson – Wave Cycle – 44:05
Receptor Modulator – Aura – 48:56
Trevlad – Forbidden Signal – 53:12
autumna – 3 of dawn – 56:04
Interconnected – Sockelgeschoss – 1:01:45
Sideral – Mare Nostrum – 1:09:03
Vandus – Cavernous Depths – 1:14:40
human mesh dance – Infinity – 1:17:13
Ümlaut – Until We Became Nothing – 1:21:06
*Eric Angelo Bessel – Coming Around – 1:25:29
Outro – 1:29:48
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Episode track:
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 092
Spells & Violations.
Trevor here, transmitting from home base Sollentuna, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 092 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: Mahorka, Dustopian Frequencies, and, Cyclical Dreams.
Artists on the show who have sent me material: THE GAYE DEVICE, and the sadly lost to us, Futuregrapher.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, Otis, Graeme Walker, Aeon, bitplanes, socool, and, Steve El, for the follows, likes and comments.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated below and marked at the top of each show.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
Blameful Isles – Snowflake Nebula – 01:38
Obfusc – What U Leave Behind – 04:11
THE GAYE DEVICE – Swept Away – 08:03
Polygon Ring + Esem – Scheme Parkwalk – 12:12
KMRU – somehow – 16:16
Trevlad – Celtic Nero (E048) – 20:18
Futuregrapher – Steinbítur – 22:24
Robotic Conversations – Sandy Sans Sand = Y – 25:23
Nils Frahm – Spells (Paris) – 31:11
Bastian Void – Amaranth – 38:48
Fingerwolf – Fiendish Violations – 42:28
Side B – 46:39
Paul Ellis & Pabellón Sintético – Rapture of the deep – 47:26
Thomas Park – The Dry Desert Weeds And A Growing Desolation – 52:05
Paddy Steer – Solka – 58:20
LA Synthesis – Frozen Tundra Dub – 1:00:35
Richard H. Kirk – Oneski – 1:09:43
Finn Rees – End Of The Line – 1:16:13
Virgo – Empty Sea – 1:19:27
Matthew Halsall – Field of Vision – 1:23:34
Jogging House & The Lifted Index – Teleological Causation – 1:24:28
Outro – 1:29:31
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Waking Spring Mother
08.02.2025
Toad Blood – Spring Snowflake II – 00:00
SHIVARASA – I Am Love – 03:23
another fine day – indian summer – 11:26
Pulse Emitter – Birdshit – 14:53
Death and Vanilla – Perpetuum Reprise – 16:48
Sofie Birch – New Life Index – 18:01
The British Stereo Collective – Waking – 21:22
A.R.T Wilson – Sun Sign Cancer – 22:12
Daou – By the window – 25:42
Glåsbird – Microchasm – 29:31
The NRG – Earth Mother – 35:45
Dream Dolphin – Island Humming – 41:36
Go Outside – Morning Stretch – 48:14
For the Birds 035
10.01.2025
CIALYN – Green sun phosphenes – 00:00
odd person – kingdom of the resplendent crow – 04:36
Voyage Futur – Entering the Grotto – 08:42
Kenny Ueda – Mexican Restaurant – 14:02
Wil Bolton – Quiet Sunlight – 16:56
Willebrant – Inlet II – 23:53
Common Saints feat. Taloula – Dream On – 35:20
Audio Obscura – Coasting – 38:36
Lunar Cambridge – The Head Wizard Puts On His Waterproof Oculus – 42:51
Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate – Tumulus – 46:11
Lyonel Bauchet – Paranoïd Birds – 48:35
Daou – Red flock – 52:35
Contours, Yadava – Bike Shed – 55:46
Be the 8th soul to save the Spotify playlist based on For the Birds. Updated weekly. Present count 264 songs. 22hr 52min.
Invisible Club 039
Doors open 13.11.2024 4pm CET
Intro 00:00
Katrina Ford–World On A Wire (Radio Edit) 01:04
Carlisle City Council–Shopping Centre 04:12
Binaural Space–In the Year Zero 08:31
Panamint Manse–Pacifires 10:45
Andre Ethier–S.C.U.D.S Over Broadway 13:20
Maes Y Circles–Conf-I 17:58
Principleasure–Persepolis 22:12
Ginger Root–Show 10 24:27
ATW–Gradientville 29:30
The Gaye Device–Domestic Oscillations 32:16
Hiro Ama–Everything Is Going To Make Sense In The End 37:51
Dubtribe Sound System–Sunshine’s Theme – Sunshine’s Remix 41:30
Time Rival–Miles Apart 49:24
JG Stockton–Talken 51:44
Lo Five-The Observer Trap 56:54
Gaudi Kosmisches Trio–In A Modern World (Dub Spencer & Trance Hill (Dub Remix) 1:01:39
Outro 1:06:22
Be the 11th soul to save the Spotify playlist version.
For the Birds 010
A brand new look and new intro for the show. Same concept. One hour of music containing, or relating to, our feathered companions. The idea being that if the channel gets enough subscribers to cover the costs of production then I’ll start buying birdseed to reimburse our avian friends for the royalties they probably never received.
Intro 00:00
Bone Music-Mallard Duck 01:36
Harry Towell-One Afternoon 13:19
Masahiro Narita-In Japan 16:51
Floating World Pictures with Ocean Moon-Floating towards The Ocean 19:09
Weldroid-Sandal Warrior Disarmed 25:21
Cartas de Japón-Nueva Atlantis 29:15
The Zenmenn-The Legend Of Haziz 41:21
D York-Sasq’ets 46:51
Receptor Modulator-Saturday morning 53:14
Outro 1:01:17
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