Alone on the Dance Floor 06
For those that dance to a different tune.
A place to let loose. A short break from the ambience that usually dominated the channel.
Great to be back with another outing of Alone on the Dance Floor.
It’s been a while. This episode contains four artists on the Mahorka radar.
Virtually J, Hypnos, Recidivist and MBA. I’ve done a bunch of guest mixes for the amazing Planck Tone series which Ivo Petrovs’ Mahorka does.
It’s also got a track by Anhnch from my latest compilation Puzzles of the Psyche available on Bandcamp.
This series comes out whenever I can make the time to create them. Like all my shows.
I am not affiliated with any station and do not get paid for this work.
I rely entirely on labels and artists sending me material, an unquenchable thirst for sharing great sounds, a handful of Mixcloud subscribers and a few sales from Bandcamp.
Also in this episode a few favourite labels that keep me updated. Castles In Space, Waxing Crescent Records and, of course, Mahorka.
ADF 06
00:00:00 Baxter Dury – Schadenfreude Ft. JGrrey.
00:03:31 Virtually J – Discharged
00:09:36 Hypnos – VariIV
00:16:31 Revok – The Chauffeur
00:20:09 Recidivist – Characteristic Techniques
00:25:30 Black Bones – F.A.D
00:29:01 MBA – Analog Test is #1
00:32:42 Anhnch – Aggression Tautly Disguised Behind an Android Smile
00:38:20 Solar 76 – Arctan
00:45:20 Autechre – The Plc lCp C
00:53:41 Stefan Gubatz – Silberfisch
00:59:48 Brapscallion – Liquid Diamonds
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 190
04 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-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.
Benge — “Four Forty Two”. Precise, machine-soul electronics.
Asheville, North Carolina based Spooqs — “Hygge (Demo)”. Cozy but slightly unhinged.
And Djrum — “Three Foxes Chasing Each Other”. Breakbeat mysticism in full flight. Via Houndstooth.
Side B is now live.
FIFTH CLUSTER
Fifth cluster. We’re deep in it now.
CIALYN — “Sun Childs”. Bright, glowing electronic lullaby from Lille, France
Aucuba Replica — “Noni”. Strange fruit, stranger frequencies. Via Secuencias Temporales.
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.
See you in the next crack in the wall.
Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Apta – Falter – 01:35
Passepartout Duo – From Belgrade – 09:05
Pulselovers – Timbral Awake – 11:35
Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell, Alya Al Sultani – Inner Sanctum – 16:40
Fallen – This World is quickly Fading – 20:05
Trevlad – Retrial Twinge Memo – 25:45
Lorna Dune – Void Coefficient – 27:00
Anita Tatlow & Runaway Horses – lunar phase – 29:50
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Doom City – 33:30
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Sequence A – 37:17
B Side – 40:10
Adrian Lane – Reach For The Horizon – 40:45
Benge – Four Forty Two – 45:25
Spooqs – Hygge (Demo) – 49:15
Djrum – Three Foxes Chasing Each Other – 51:55
CIALYN – Sun Childs – 59:35
Aucuba Replica – Noni – 1:03:15
Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Shangri La – 1:09:05
Psyché – Sabir – 1:11:47
Jogging House – Parker – 1:15:30
Elijah Fox – Glass House/ Clear Pool – 1:21:12
Outro – 1:21:39
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 189
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
03 April 2026
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
Intro – 00:00
Sonic-Soma – Kinnaur calling (Nepal) – 02:09
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Astra Shambotica – 10:15
Grosso Gadgetto – Quadrata Dodus Act 2 – 14:00
Willebrant – Dell – 22:00
Zerfranzt – Hirnschale – 25:30
Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – 28:20
Puscha – Sycophanatic – 30:29
Everyday Dust – Without Explanation – 36:15
phorme – blur – 41:00
Takashi Kusano – Floating – 44:54
B Side – 50:45
Substak – Empty Bench – 51:30
Le Morte d’Abby – Nyanko No Jigoku Beat – 53:19
Jilk – Half-Human – 58:10
The Foot & Leg Clinic – Worms 2 – 1:03:29
The Appetizers – The Life – 1:05:55
Rejoicer – Grace Was Happy (I Found Nothing) – 1:09:50
Record Of Tides – Yoshimoto Animation Tag – 1:12:43
Albin – Havet – 1:15:03
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 – Amayadori – 1:19:45
ff8282 – london / half the day – 1:21:40
Outro – 1:27:39
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 188
28 March 2026
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.
Intro – 00:00
Cavern Cult – Of Hope – 02:15
NDORFIK – Joensuu – 03:40
Loneward – The Unknowable Realm of Wisdom – 07:35
The Microgram – No Service – 14:10
David Aimone – TimeDown – 17:30
The Bird’s Companion and Neil McRoberts – Another Day – 22:45
Saya Gray – LIE DOWN.. – 26:40
Poolside – Looking Backwards – 32:10
Black Country, New Road – Intro – 36:02
Jics – What Brings You Here – 37:00
Man as island – Automaton – 39:15
B Side – 42:10
Kh3rtis – Still, for a Time – 42:40
idiiom – Solitude – 45:50
Blank Embrace – The Caves – 49:40
odd person – earthquake anxiety – 53:47
Trevlad – Pipe Fluid Fame – 56:10
Simon Holmes – Broken (South Sudan) – 59:30
Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov – Mostra – 1:03:47
Wunderfish – Through Painted Figures (Prologue) – 1:07:30
Ben McElroy – Surely There Are Worse Things – 1:12:45
Outro – 1:20:30
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 187
23 March 2026
(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.
Intro – 00:00
f5point6 – The Second Day (Remastered) – 02:37
Ver – Combine – 08:33
Dåggěr (Szórëgg) – Telekinetic Coercion – 15:30
Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Planning A Bootleg LP? – 20:37
Baxter Dury – Schadenfreude Ft. JGrrey. – 23:47
36 – Echo Diffusion – 26:49
Ann Annie – home – 29:45
Empty House – Sea Birds – 31:24
Pablo Diarra – Humour noir – 36:05
James Adrian Brown – Poster Child – 41:04
B Side – 44:15
Deerhoof – Apple Bomb – 44:33
Catharæ, Trem 77 – Dreams of the Mediterranéant (Fade at Brighton Beach Mix) – 48:44
Minimal Drone GRL and Belial Pelegrim – A Remembered Land Long Forgotten – 53:12
Keith Seatman – Another Strange Thing – 57:11
Trevlad – Furnish Rests Goggle – 1:00:48
Autistici – 2.25 Degrees of Internalisation – 1:03:33
Heaven Topology – Adventure Compass – 1:06:53
Robohands – Achilles – 1:10:10
Never Sol – Dark Mountains, Red Dust – 1:12:13
Rhucle & Arbee – Plain – 1:21:28
Outro – 1:24:39
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 186
21 March 2026
(Fasching Stockholm)
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 186, your virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. As per usual we’ll dive into 20 artists. All the shows have three word subtitles for places that have some meaning for me personally. These are also used as names for the background music in show intros and outros. This episodes’ subtitle is Worker Buffoon Exact which is the entrance to Stockholms legendary jazz club Fasching.
If you’d like to be featured on the slowest growing show on the internet then send files or codes to trevlad@gmail.com
This episode has a couple of exclusive tracks at the time of recording from Salamanda and Haiku Salut together with Meg Morley.
Some of the labels that need an honourable mention are whitelabrecs, Mystery Circles, Mahorka, Cyclical Dreams and Lo Recordings to name a few.
Styles featured include electronica, ambient, minimal, space music and more.
Places worth mentioning are Bütgenbach, Belgium, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Seoul, South Korea, and Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Please do send in your stories for the Chord Confessions series about a piece of music that has been pivotal in your life. You can record it yourself or I can tell it for you while promoting you and playing the most important music on the planet. A win, win, win concept. I’ve also started Trev Tales a new idea of mixing story telling with DJ sets where I do a story based on the tracks in the set.
A shout out to my one new follower this week ‘TXH’. Great stuff…
We start with a preview track from an upcoming album by Tacoma Park – Untied Motorik kraut vibes with steel guitar. A pretty great opener I think…
So headphones on, let time dissolve and let the frequencies claim you.
Tacoma Park – ‘Untied’ from the album Baltimore which will be released on April 24th via the Centripetal Force label.
Next up a NYP release (for now) via Triplicate Records by Bütgenbach, Belgium based duo RIKAAR – Chill Serum X
Wonky synths in space.
RIKAAR – ‘Chill Serum X’ from the album Malin 1.
Now the shortest piece of the episode ‘London Nights’ by Luder. Retro synth beat manifesto.
Luder – London Nights from the compilation album This is not the end: Music For Iklectik. where all proceeds went to helping Isa and Eduard who ran the sadly lost venue in London.
Next going long for almost 7 minutes but keeping it retro is Wizardmaster – Those With Legs.
Wizardmaster – Those With Legs from the album ‘A Dwelling of the Mind Protruding Through the Head’
The tracks of which are described as being solid without a void.
Now with some deep kalimba and chimes the legendary Richard Norris – The Corn Is Coming.
Richard Norris – The Corn Is Coming. A NYP single on the Republic of Music label and one of the few tracks by Richard that isn’t 20 minutes long.
Next drones and looping arppegio time with me as Trevlad – Applied Crawled Wires.
Trevlad – ‘Applied Crawled Wires’, which, if you pop the name into What3words will give you the geolocation of a spot in a forest where I made the visuals for the piece. It’s from the album TVCL 9.
Now Dmitry Kiselev with some chilled Idm as DEE-KEY – Intermission.
DEE-KEY – ‘Intermission’ from the album Wild Flowers out on Saint Petersburg label Local Gods who are pumping out some fantastic electronic releases.
Next it’s jazz time with Raquel Bell aka Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Neon Mermaid.
Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Neon Mermaid from the album Wattzotica. Available from one of my all time favourite labels the fearless, Mystery Circles.
Now a recent piece by MiDi BiTCH – Premabhai Hall [Ahmedabad].
MiDi BiTCH – Premabhai Hall [Ahmedabad] from the conceptual album Habitat inspired by iconic Brutalist architecture around the world. Available on the incredible Cyclical Dreams label.
Next some deep space ambient S.V.R.A – Melt Things Into a Blur.
S.V.R.A – Melt Things Into a Blur from the massive 50 track NYP compilation ‘Commemorative Compilation’ which is the 100th release of Mexico City based label, Secuencias Temporales
Now the first, or second exclusive of the episode, depending on how you look at it. And the final track of this virtual A side. sliding guitar notes and drones with Seoul-based left of centre ambient duo Salamanda – Basil’s dream.
Salamanda – Basil’s dream from the album ‘Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 008: Salamanda (Basil)’ Check out the whole series of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By on Bandcamp. A great cassette label concept.
Kicking off Side B. The longest track of this episode @ 7:42. Ambient flute with Andrew Heath – Building Mountains.
Andrew Heath – Building Mountains from the self released album ‘Quiet Noise’ and also available on the whitelabrecs stunning compilation ‘An Ambient Decade’.
Next up Staying in whitelsbrecs country. Guitar noodling with Blochemy – Calythe.
Blochemy – Calythe from the must have compilation album Shades out on whitelabrecs.
Now some heart wrenching americana vocals with Humbird – Blood Moon
Humbird with the single ‘Blood Moon’ available through the Nettwerk label.
Next we head back to ambient land with the French duo Sobria Ebrietas and Iliaque collectivly known as Dormance – Dormance 10
Dormance – Dormance 10 from the album ’II’ out on Bulgarian label Mahorka.
Now some spiritual jazz tones featuring Joseph Shabason. Toronto-based, Japanese-born Masahiro Takahashi – Dreamies.
Masahiro Takahashi – Dreamies from the album ‘In Another’ out on telephone explosion records.
Next instrumental trio Haiku Salut together with pianist Meg Morley give us the exclusive track Meine Beste Freundin.
*Haiku Salut & Meg Morley – Meine Beste Freundin from the album ‘The Lost Score’ dropping on Lo Recordings on March 27th.
Now a musical journey inspired by Jacobo Grinberg’s Sintergic Theory, where sound becomes a tool for the exploration of consciousness. Herne von Bòrmanvs – Etruscan Wave Odyssey.
Herne von Bòrmanvs – Etruscan Wave Odyssey from the album ‘Synthergic’ out on LA based label Pénte.
Next the penultimate piece and another longer track at 7:15 from ambient greats Chilian artistbahía mansa & Spanish artist David Cordero – Espacios Imperfectos.
bahía mansa & David Cordero and the single Espacios Imperfectos (Imperfect Spaces) available on David Cordero curated label Noray Records.
We’ve reached yet another virtual tape ending. Thank you all for listening, don’t forget to support all these wonderful artists and labels, as well as each other. Subscribe to the channel to listen to the 956 releases whenever you like. Do send in your favourite music stories for Chord Confessions and your own music for future Virtual Cassette Library shows.
We finish off with the unmistakable sound of KILN – Crayola Skybox & Sandwasp.
KILN with the NYP single Crayola Skybox & Sandwasp which is a two tracks in one file. which is cheating but I like it.
cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Tacoma Park – Untied – 02:10
RIKAAR – Chill Serum X – 07:00
Luder – London Nights – 11:20
Wizardmaster – Those With Legs – 12:30
Richard Norris – The Corn Is Coming – 18:55
Trevlad – Applied Crawled Wires – 22:45
DEE-KEY – Intermission – 26:05
Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Neon Mermaid – 29:10
MiDi BiTCH – Premabhai Hall [Ahmedabad] – 35:20
S.V.R.A – Melt Things Into a Blur – 41:03
Salamanda – Basil’s dream – 46:30
B Side – 49:17
Andrew Heath – Building Mountains – 49:35
Blochemy – Calythe – 56:55
Humbird – Blood Moon – 1:02:25
Dormance – Dormance 10 – 1:05:54
Masahiro Takahashi – Dreamies – 1:11:15
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley – Meine Beste Freundin – 1:15:39
Herne von Bòrmanvs – Etruscan Wave Odyssey – 1:19:25
bahía mansa & David Cordero – Espacios Imperfectos – 1:23:20
KILN – Crayola Skybox & Sandwasp – 1:30:03
Outro – 1:35:46
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 185
16 March 2026
(Omnipollos Hatt)
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 185, your virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. As per usual we’ll dive into 20 artists. All the shows have three word subtitles for places that have some meaning for me personally. These are also used as names for the background music in show intros and outros. This episodes’ subtitle is
If you’d like to be featured on the slowest growing show on the internet then send files or codes to trevlad@gmail.com
This episode has a bunch of artists from releases on the driftworks and whitelabrecs compilations ‘This Burnished Land’ and ‘An Ambient Decade’. Also a couple of tracks from the wonderful Passed Recordings label who were nice enough to write a Substack post about me.
There has been a break in the Virtual Cassette Library series. The last one was a whole week ago since then I’ve been busy working on the Chord Confessions series. And please do send in your stories about a piece of music that has been pivotal in your life. You can record it yourself or I can tell it for you while promoting you and playing the most important music on the planet. A win, win, win concept. I’ve also done a couple of Krautrock inspired sets and a couple of Female artist sets celebrating International women’s day. AND, I’ve started a new idea of mixing story telling with DJ sets where I do a story based on the tracks in the set. All these while doing 5 part time jobs.
A shout out to my one new follower this week ‘Citizens of Sound’ who are a dynamic podcast production agency that brings shows to life with gravity, handling everything from conception and branding to editing, mastering, management, and distribution for creators seeking impactful audio storytelling. They also seem to be involved with live events too. Great stuff…
We start with a couple of friends of the show who I believe made contact after appearing on the same compilation I released last December ‘Resonances from the Depths’ This is the New South Wales / Vancouver collaboration CommsBreakdown + Socool – My Brain Feels So Good (CommsBreakdown Mix)
filtered guitar flickers like neon through rain-smeared windows, bass hugs the ribs, oh the snare snaps dopamine straight into the bloodstream, feet move before the mind catches up, so good so good so good…
That was My Brain Feels So Good by CommsBreakdown together with Socool
And now whitelabrecs label curator Harry Towell – The Arrival from the album Infinite Light.
horizon line shimmer gold, birdcalls echo on porch wall, lungs fill with warm arrival, everything settling into place like dust finally deciding to land
That was Harry Towell with The Arrival. Now from a label who’s been growing to new heights daily Passed Recordings. Here is one of their more beat oriented artists.
Unruly Disturbance – Winter Chorus (from The Ghost of Christmas Passed)
icicle voices overlap in the chimney throat, old tinsel ghosts harmonize with wind through cracked panes, memory frost blooming on the inside of eyelids, shivering carols no one saw.
That was Manchester based artist Unruly Disturbance with Winter Chorus.
Now from winter vibes direct to California beaches and funky indie pop joviality with Ginger Root – Neighbor from the album City Slicker
elevator soul hums through thin walls, city lights smear like lipstick on glass, who’s next door living my alternate Tuesdays, smooth keys slide under skin, pretending not to notice the shared vibes.
That was Ginger Root with Neighbor. Next a good mate of the channel
Asha Patera – The Light From Within from the album Ocean Compilation 2 out on the extremely prolific label Sounds for the Soul Records. A great label to get a track on if you want to get noticed.
golden thread unspools behind the sternum, breath catches on warm filament, everything inside glowing quiet, no edges, just soft radiance pooling where shadows used to sit
That was Asha Patera with The Light From Within. Asha will also appear on my upcoming compilation Puzzles of the Psyche. There are still a few day left to send in a piece.
Now Lingua Lustra – Cloudsong from the album Essence from 2017 and recently released on a compilation featuring Lingua Lustras most notable tracks.
drifting white shapes swallow the sky, tones float weightless like exhaled thoughts, higher, softer, dissolving into pale blue nothing, I am only vapor now
That was Lingua Lustra with Cloudsong
Next up a couple of artists I’ve played a few times on the channel get together here. Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley – ‘Slapdash And Bouldered’ from the album 16mm out on Spanish label Strategic Tape Reserve. The shortest track of the show.
wonky tape warble stumbles over mossy rocks, slap echo bounces erratic, head full of loose marbles rolling downhill, laughter distorted through pine needles, gloriously off-kilter
That was Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley with ‘Slapdash And Bouldered’.
Now a balearic vibe and some more birds Sweatson Klank – Ultra Marine from the album Aureolin Winter compilation out on Los Angeles, California’s Friends Of Friends label.
deep cyan pulse underwater cathedral, synth tendrils curl like bioluminescent kelp, body suspended, heart knocking slow against infinite blue pressure, beautiful drowning.
That was Sweatson Klank with Ultra Marine.
Next staying with the birds. I do miss my old mix show For The Birds where all the tracks featured birds. One beautiful day when some more of you subscribe I’ll bring it back. Anyway here’s another collaboration. This time Graham Seaman, Mosaicist and Noctilusense – Pastures Green from the album This Burnished Land available through the Driftworks label.
emerald blades bend under invisible feet, distant bell tone ripples through dew, mind wanders fence lines that aren’t there anymore, green green greener until the color swallows itself.
That was Graham Seaman, Mosaicist and Noctilusense with Pastures Green
Now Michael Grigoni – Nod from that fantastic whitelabrecs compilation ‘An Ambient Decade’
slow eyelid curtain falls, world softens to charcoal smudge, breath syncs with low tide hum, nodding deeper into velvet dark, yes, yes, keep going.
Next, to end the A side, we stay with whitelabrecs and An Ambient Decade. This is Mosaicist, Simon Hall, Neil McRoberts, Percolator and Marjorie Dawson with Jack from (au·tay·uh·row·uh) Aotearoa – Waiting For Rain.
dry earth cracks whisper upward, sky heavy with unshed silver, fingers trace dust on windowsill, clouds gather like forgotten promises, any second now the first drop.
B Side –
We open Side B with yet another collaboration. This time Israeli artists Nitai Hershkovits & Daniel Dor – Elsewhere – Found & Found. This is one of only two tracks available to listen to on the pre-order of the album which will be released on April 24. ‘Found & Found’ is their second outing together. Back in 2024 they released one of my favourite albums of that year ‘The Garden Suite’. What we hear here is promising.
piano keys wander off the map, somewhere between memory and tomorrow, notes drift like lantern paper across black water, we aren’t here anymore, are we.
That was Nitai Hershkovits & Daniel Dor with Elsewhere.
Next a piece of my own as Trevlad – Hill Roving Slicer from the album TVCL 10 which is the 10th album of collected backgrounds from the Virtual Cassette Library series. If leaving tips or subscribing to the Mixcloud is not your thing then maybe you could consider grabbing a copy of one the back catalogue albums. Anyway…
wind slices grass blades sideways, modular blades carve hill contours, body tumbling through frequency grass, roving, slicing, alive in the shear
That was me, Trevlad with Hill Roving Slicer.
Now from the East coast of Sweden to the West this is Datasal – Besök from the double A side single Observatoriet / Besök out on Gothenburgs finest Höga Nord Rekords. A wonderful mix of synth and guitar here.
Swedish twilight creaks open, footsteps on wooden dock over dark lake, visitor arrives without knocking, air thick with pine and unsaid words, welcome, stay
That was Datasal with Besök.
Next Mr Harry Towell is back with his alias Glåsbird – Days of Iron and Steam, another featured track from the compilation An Ambient Decade. Wonderful ambient tones and sparce piano.
rusted pistons sigh in fogged morning, iron veins pulse slow heat, steam ghosts rise from cracked boiler hearts, industrial lullaby grinding toward dusk.
That was Glåsbird with Days of Iron and Steam. Now another couple of friends of the channel here in the form of Exit Chamber & Ed Herbers – Loathing (from SELF-) out on that fantastic label Passed Recordings that keep insisting on being included in the shows by being the best.
nails on chalkboard nerves, mirror cracks inward, loathing coils like smoke in the throat, self staring back with borrowed eyes, heavier every loop
That was Exit Chamber & Ed Herbers with Loathing
Next the longest piece og the episode, clocking in at 10:17 by the artist JSF – The Opening Gate (Splendid Seas of Canopus) from the album ‘Astral Airways’ out on a label that’s been catching my attention lately ‘The Dream Journal Institute’.
cosmic gate creaks on star hinges, Canopus light floods the corridor, splendid seas roll in vacuum waves, sailing weightless toward unknown shore
That was JSF with The Opening Gate (Splendid Seas of Canopus)
Now yet another collaboration. Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson – ‘Afterglow’ from the album ‘Wandering Mind, Drifting Weather’. Norwegian piano meet Swedish trombone.
last ember glows behind closed lids, piano traces fading sunset lines, bodies still humming from earlier touch, quiet warmth lingers, refuses to leave
That was Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson with Afterglow.
simon mccorry – in the feint of moonlight – ‘all the important things are now connected’. On whitelabrecs. A listening party on the 16 of March with the official release set for 21 March.
moonlight feints through bare branches, cello bow breathes almost inaudible, silver outline of everything almost disappearing, almost here, almost gone
That was simon mccorry with the penultimate track of episode 185, ‘in the feint of moonlight’.
To end the show I give you Visible Cloaks – Disque (ft. Motion Graphics) from the album Paradessence. Available through RVNG Intl.
prism refractions dance on wet pavement, synths bloom fractal petals, motion graphics flicker inside the mind’s eye, disque spinning endless iridescent now.
Thanks for listening…
echoes fold into themselves, last tone hangs like breath in winter air, silence returns, softer than before, carrying everything we heard… cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
CommsBreakdown + Socool – My Brain Feels So Good (CommsBreakdown Mix) – 02:52
Harry Towell – The Arrival – 06:25
Unruly Disturbance – Winter Chorus (from The Ghost of Christmas Passed) – 09:51
Ginger Root – Neighbor – 14:03
Asha Patera – The Light From Within – 17:06
Lingua Lustra – Cloudsong – 25:41
Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley – Slapdash And Bouldered – 31:41
Sweatson Klank – Ultra Marine – 33:27
Graham Seaman, Mosaicist and Noctilusense – Pastures Green – 36:45
Michael Grigoni – Nod – 39:54
Mosaicist, Simon Hall, Neil McRoberts, Percolator and Marjorie Dawson with Jack from Aotearoa – Waiting For Rain – 43:03
B Side – 47:17
Nitai Hershkovits & Daniel Dor – Elsewhere – 47:33
Trevlad – Hill Roving Slicer – 52:35
Datasal – Besök – 56:19
Glåsbird – Days of Iron and Steam – 1:02:29
Exit Chamber & Ed Herbers – Loathing (from SELF-) – 1:07:33
JSF – The Opening Gate (Splendid Seas of Canopus) – 1:12:53
Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson – Afterglow – 1:18:56
simon mccorry – in the feint of moonlight – 1:21:27
Visible Cloaks – Disque (ft. Motion Graphics) – 1:24:31
Outro – 1:27:49
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 183
06 March 2026
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.
Intro – 00:00
Trevlad – Tablet Stocks Mice – 01:47
Юродивый – Fallen Expectations ll – 04:54
Kaidi Tatham – Any Flavour – 09:27
Farazdeck – Void – 11:34
Clariloops – Pass Me By – 15:55
Phexioenesystems – Coastal Winter Deerhorn – 20:12
Gareth Jones – parting / nosDa – 23:54
storyinsoil – Lattice – 27:44
Ryu Oshi – Sparkling Night – 32:05
T-toe – Shes our friend and she’s crazy, We have to help her! – 33:41
Stereolab – Flashes In The Afternoon – 37:55
Simon Heartfield – Nilpotent – 43:35
B Side – 49:22
worriedaboutsatan – The Dream Is Over – 49:39
Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance – Waiting for Snow – 55:01
gribbles – Lows – 1:00:27
*Glacis with Henrik Meierkord – I Have Worshipped The Wrong Gods – 1:05:05
Yakuza Jacuzzi – Jade Emperor´s Peach Garden part 1 – 1:07:37
Sababa 5 – Asunsan – 1:16:10
Avsluta & Primal Code – Sahatā – 1:22:21
Wil Bolton – Concrete Botany – 1:28:50
Outro – 1:36:30
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 182
04 March 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Greetings ye combers of the sound waves and welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library, episode 182. I’m Trevor and I’ll be gently guiding you through twenty artists and their musical endeavours tonight. If you’re new here, welcome; otherwise, welcome back.
A quick shout out to the latest followers: Tiago Catarino who may or may not be into Lego, Rohima Afruza who is a Brighton-based DJ, and foremanmonique from New Mexico, United States. Thanks guys—you keep the signal strong.
This episode has set a new record for the channel: Six exclusive tracks at the time of recording. My handful of subscribers are some of the few souls on the planet who have heard these yet. How? I’ve started dropping music-only preview mixes of the shows before the chat version hits the air—that’s the secret handshake.
The exclusives come from Swimming Lesson, TOMC, The Metamorph, Martin Archer & Claire McAllister, Isograph (who is actually the same artist behind Swimming Lesson), and Oberlin. Who else joins the lineup? You’ll just have to settle in and listen.
Let’s ease into the flow.
We start the episode with the first exclusive which was actually released back in October on the Castles In Space Subscription Library so a few of you will know this one by Darryl Wakelin here as one of his alter egos *Swimming Lesson. This is A Penchant for Experiments from the album Home Electronics
Picture a dimly lit garage in a 1970s suburb, fairy lights strung across shelves of salvaged radios and half-built circuit boards, the faint glow of a soldering iron as tiny sparks dance like fireflies in the dusk.
And now the best thing that’s ever happened to this channel Mr. Gareth Evans aka HDRF. His support and above all his direct action on my request for sending in his story for the new show Chord Confessions. In fact the previous artist Swimming Lesson and other artists I’ve played are a direct result of Gareths passion and action in the community.
HDRF – Everybody Melts (for Miquette)
from the album Ephemerama 1 (self-released via HDRF’s Bandcamp)
A slow dissolve of coloured wax under heat, pooling into soft iridescent shapes on a windowsill as afternoon light filters through rain-streaked glass, everything quietly surrendering to warmth.
Solar 76 – Arctan
from the album Sun Angle on Castle In Spaces’ Lunar Module imprint.
Late golden hour on a coastal cliff path, the sun hanging low and casting long geometric shadows across concrete sea defences, waves below folding in perfect mathematical curves. A very different, yet familiar release from the label. Get your House moves on.
Now most of the music I play on the show is either NYP releases, or sent in by the artists or by the labels. This next track is the latter.
*TOMC – You Are Balearic
from the album Blue Era Odyssey. Releasing via channel champion Mystery Circles on the 3 of March.
Open-top car cruising a winding island road at twilight, salt air rushing past, palm fronds silhouetted against a sky bleeding from azure to deep indigo, distant lights beginning to wink on.
Now another track from the outstanding and highly original label Cities and Memory.
Neil Foster – Yeyi (Central African Republic)
from the album A Century of Sounds. This track is from the NYP version on Bandcamp and one of the 100 pieces chosen for this 13 track release.
Dense rainforest canopy parting just enough for shafts of sunlight to hit moss-covered earth, the air thick with calls of unseen birds and the low rhythmic pulse of life moving unseen.
Gustavo Denouard – Whispers
from the album Echoes of the Cosmos on Projekt Records
Vast empty observatory dome at night, telescope lens reflecting a scattering of stars, faint cosmic radio static crackling like whispers from galaxies long ago.
Now another great friend of the show, Gavin Brick aka The Metamorph. This is the third exclusive for the episode. Gavin has received the physical CDs for his upcoming release From Cobalt to Aquamarine. I’ve always loved Gavin music and this sees a bit of a change in direction. It’s more introspective and is quickly becoming a favourite on repeat around the house. I believe this will be the first release from his new studio in Liverpool. Keep your eye on his Bandcamp page for the official release date.
*The Metamorph – Cobalt
Deep underwater cave lit only by bioluminescent streaks of electric blue, slow currents carrying flecks of mineral that catch the light like floating sapphires.
Next the fourth exclusive of the show.
*Martin Archer & Claire McAllister – Underground
from the album Mast Year dropping on the Discus Music label on the 27th of March. There are loads of names to look forward to on this collage style release.
Dimly lit subway tunnel after hours, Claires floating improvised vocals and gentle jazz phrasings will take you underground.
Now let’s get industrial with some sub bass foundation. The penultimate track of this first half.
Wahn – A Place Slightly Wrong
from the album Echo Mist Light on the Mahorka label.
Fog rolling across an abandoned industrial yard at dawn, rusted machinery half-submerged in mist, everything familiar yet shifted just a degree out of alignment.
We end the A side with Corvid One Cassette – REST
from the album Two on a label to keep you radar tuned to, Black Pylon. A Cassette label curated by Lee Pylon and Nicholas Langley.
A single raven perched on a cracked cassette tape case in an empty room, feathers ruffled by a draught from an open window, the world outside hushed.
B Side –
We open this half with the living legend, Hainbach – BTM Blau
from the album Tagwerk on Spanish label, Industrial Complexx.
Analogue workbench at midnight, the Crumar DS-2, an early Italian synthesiser, pulsing gently as if the machine itself is dreaming.
Now Bruce Magill aka Low Altitude – Dan Y Wernen
from the whitelabrecs compilation masterpiece Shades
Welsh hillside at dusk, ancient stone wall curving into mist, wind carrying faint echoes of folk memory across heather and gorse.
Next I get to play one of my own pieces as no-one else will. In the intro, outro and scattered through each episode I create background soundscapes. When I’ve created 16 episodes I release them as an album. The three word titles of each piece are also geotags for spots on the planet that I have some sort of personal connection with. For example the title of this episode and the background you’re listening to now is situated.bike.guides which is the geographical location of the entrance to Omnipollos Church in Sundbyberg Stockholm. A Brewery and bar, creating some of the best craft beer on the planet. The title of this track is from the patch of grass outside my apartment. Enter any of the track titles from my albums and you can virtually stalk me. Anyway this is me, Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended
from the album TVCL-09
Old mixing desk in a cosy attic studio, faders worn smooth from years of use, fairy lights twinkling above stacks of cassettes like a private constellation.
Now a release right up my alley. I love this sound, it reminds me of the 70s Canterbury sound of Dave Stewart. Passepartout Duo – From Tbilisi
from the album Pieces from Places
Narrow cobblestone street in old Tbilisi at golden hour, balcony flowers spilling over iron railings, distant church bells mingling with street musicians.
Now the fifth exclusive track from *Isograph – The Telling of the Bees
[same artist as Swimming Lesson, keeping traditions alive in sound]
Traditional beehive in a quiet garden at sunrise, bees humming in low golden light, keeper in veil gently lifting a frame, the hive whispering ancient secrets. This is from the first Isograph release which will see light of day later in the year. Here’s what Darryl told me about the track. “The telling of the bees is an old tradition from when lots of rural families kept a beehive for honey, propolis, etc. They would tell the bees about family news (births, deaths, etc.), which I think is just a beautiful thing to do, making the bees part of the family. The track is about all sides of that – the family news, and then at the scale of the bees hearing the news, and the whole thing is an attempt to reflect the lovely connection/regard for nature in this idea.” Cheer for that.
Now another artist I could probably contact for a coffee if I ever was in Edinburgh. Exit Chamber – We Can Get There Simply By Surviving (Previously Unreleased)
from the album The Passed Year 2025 on a global collective of artists known as Passed Recordings. The Bandcamp page says they’re based in Uppsala Sweden but I haven’t figured out what the connection is. Anyway,
Cracked pavement after rain, small green shoot pushing through concrete, resilient and quiet, the city noise fading into a hopeful hush.
Next described as being constructed to elicit feelings of calm, to unearth hazy memories of early innocence, and to lure the chaotic mind into the woods of sleep.
Glass Hive – Mother Of Many
from the album Glass Hive EP
Hive mind of glass shards catching light in a sunlit room, reflections multiplying endlessly, fragile yet infinite.
Now the sixth exclusive which will see light of day on 6 March.
*Oberlin – Never Take It For Granted
from the album The Gold Pit Sessions Vol. 2 out on German label oscarson.
Open window on a spring morning, curtains billowing softly, sounds drifting in with the scent of fresh earth, everything ordinary and miraculous.
Next an all time favourite artist of mine. The penultimate track of the show. Sébastien Tellier – Un Dimanche en Famille
from the album Kiss the Beast
Lazy Sunday table in a sun-dappled kitchen, half-eaten croissants, laughter echoing off tiled walls, time stretching elastic and warm. Available through Because Music & Horizons.
And that’s episode 182 wrapped in a bow of tape and wonder. Thanks for riding along on this sonic journey with its metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in the timeline of each show.
To send us home hailing from, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lorna Dune – Alverno
from the EP Mosfet
Mountain trail winding upward through pine and mist, sudden clearing revealing a vast alpine valley below, the air crisp with possibility. A self released Minimal House gem.
Until the next drop appears without warning… keep searching the dial. Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Swimming Lesson – A Penchant for Experiments – 02:17
HDRF – Everybody Melts (for Miquette) – 03:35
Solar 76 – Arctan – 15:24
TOMC – You Are Balearic – 22:49
Neil Foster – Yeyi (Central African Republic) – 26:04
Gustavo Denouard – Whispers – 29:58
The Metamorph – Cobalt – 39:36
Martin Archer & Claire McAllister – Underground – 43:12
Wahn – A Place Slightly Wrong – 47:50
Corvid One Cassette – REST – 52:10
B Side – 56:44
Hainbach – BTM Blau – 57:00
Low Altitude – Dan Y Wernen – 59:11
Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – 1:04:30
Passepartout Duo – From Tbilisi – 1:10:46
Isograph – The Telling of the Bees – 1:14:40
Exit Chamber – We Can Get There Simply By Surviving (Previously Unreleased) – 1:17:59
Glass Hive – Mother Of Many – 1:23:55
*Oberlin – Never Take It For Granted – 1:32:55
Sébastien Tellier – Un Dimanche en Famille – 1:39:55
Lorna Dune – Alverno – 1:43.58
Outro – 1:47:05
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 181
28 February 2026
(Stigbergets Fot)
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 181, broadcasting from the enigmatic coordinates of Stockholm Sweden. ///prickly.solved.sweated, is the episodes subtitle. This is also a coordinate where shadows stretch long over Stigbergs Fot, a wonderful Stockholm craft beer joint I highly recommend. It’s a crisp February 27, 2026 here. Picture this: a dimly lit attic stacked with glowing tape decks, reels spinning like forgotten galaxies, pulling you into a sonic odyssey for the curious explorer.
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Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Toneshift who is An artist-curated podcast focused on global hybrids and other acquired tastes. Also souljazzfunksters aka Dj Alan Ritchie playing just what the name suggests. Thanks guys.
We kick off in a vast, 9 minute, echoing void with Small Chief’s The Silent Zone, evoking cracked earth under a moonless sky, whispers of wind carving canyons in the quiet.
From the album Zero Movement out on Cyclical Dreams. So headphones on, let time dissolve and let the frequencies claim you.…
Next Tornado Wallace summons Asahi Ga Yondeiru featuring Courtney Bailey, like dawn rays piercing misty rice fields, steam rising from dew-kissed leaves in a serene call to awaken. Fist pumping electronica here. From the EP Left At Sunset, out on the Running Back label.
Now, Consumed Triumphant & Pavel Blumkin ignite Invisible Fire, flames dancing unseen in a dense forest at midnight, embers glowing through fog-shrouded branches. From the conceptual EP The Chariot.
Next d’Voxx haunts with Phantom (Nosferatu the Vampyre), a crumbling castle turret where caped figures glide across cobblestone, echoes of eternal night in the stone. From the album HERZOG: A Retrospective out on the great DiN label.
Coming up Lorenzo Montanà invites us into Mirrors’ Den, reflections fracturing in a labyrinth of glass, endless hallways mirroring starlit illusions. From the NYP album Velan out on Projekt Records. Go add this to your collection.
And now I Trevlad stir Easy Begun Meals, a cluttered kitchen at sunrise, pots simmering with unexpected spices, steam curling like improvised melodies.
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Next, the longest outing on this episode clocking in at 9 minutes 36 seconds. Jake Soffer & Brent Carmer open The Room Where We Met, faded wallpaper peeling in a sunlit chamber, dust motes swirling in golden beams of memory. From the album Imaginary Rooms. Another Projekt Records NYP release.
Now, Shrimpnose lifts us to Hovering, clouds parting over a floating city, gentle drifts in an aerial ballet of soft geometries. From the album Aureolin Winter out on La’s Friends Of Friends label.
The penultimate track for this side of the virtual cassette. Kavalcade unleashes DECAY 01, rusted machinery grinding in an abandoned factory, sparks flying from corroded gears under flickering neon. From the EP SIGNAL which drops May 1 on Machine Records.
We end the first half with Philippe Petit who drapes Tropicalism in an Empire wardrobe, velvet curtains parting on a colonial ballroom overgrown with vines, exotic blooms tangling with faded grandeur. The shortest piece at only 49 seconds. From the album The Acoustic Cornet, an hommage to Leonora Carrington out on Mahorka.
Flipping to the B side, Nadia Struiwigh modulates MOD1, circuit boards humming in a sterile lab, pulses syncing like neural fireworks in chrome reflections. From a compilation I’ve played extensively on the channel, connected #3, from the great label i u we records.
Next, a show exclusive. The Eyes and the Mistoids trail Snails That Failed, slimy paths glistening on rain-slicked garden stones, slow spirals unraveling under overcast skies. From the album The Beware Gallery which will drop on March 20 on Waxing Crescent Records.
Now, Brass Clouds, Fog Net, & Volcanic Pinnacles plunge into Subduction, tectonic plates shifting beneath ocean depths, bubbles rising from volcanic vents in abyssal gloom. From the album Dive 2: Sonoluminescence out on Bathysphere Records.
Coming up, Erik Wøllo charts North Trek, snow-capped peaks piercing arctic twilight, auroras weaving ribbons across frozen expanses. From the album, Snow Tides. Yet another NYP release from Projekt Records.
Next, Helyg Weidenbach erects Dream Scaffold I, ethereal ladders climbing into cloud realms, mist-shrouded rungs leading to surreal vistas. From the album, Traumgerüst, also a NYP album courtesy of The Dream Journal Institute.
Now, Amanda Whiting wanders Mary Over There, a foggy meadow at dusk, wildflowers nodding in the haze of distant horizons. Most recently released on the NYP compilation album Two Syllables Volume Twenty Two. Released by First Word Records.
Next, Louis Sarno captures Bayaka women singing yeyi in the forest (Central African Republic), ancient trees canopying harmonious calls, leaves rustling in rhythmic unity with hidden streams. From the compilation A Century of Sounds out on Cities and Memory.
Now, Japanese artist Yasutaka Sato aka Virgo blooms Zoophyte, underwater gardens swaying in currents, coral tendrils unfurling like living sculptures in turquoise light. From the album, Roots of Memories (Remastered- Deluxe Edition), out on Neo Ouija.
Next we switch it up. Psyché brews another exclusive track, Yagé, jungle vines twisting around a ceremonial fire, visions flickering in the smoke of ritual embers. From the album Psyché II dropping on Four Flies Records on March 20.
And we’ve reached the final track. Thanks for sticking around for this virtual mix show, twenty artists lighting up the unknown. No rigid timetable, just raw devotion to the waves. Subscribe for anytime access, including babble-free mixes. Drop your sounds at trevlad@gmail.com, and trace the trails at trevor.se.
And finally The Gaye Device flows with Ebb And Flow, tidal pools reflecting shifting skies, waves lapping at barnacle-encrusted rocks in perpetual motion. From couple of places, the latest being, the Sounds for the Soul label compilation – Ocean Compilation 2.
Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Small Chief – The Silent Zone – 01:24
Tornado Wallace – Asahi Ga Yondeiru ft Courtney Bailey – 10:45
Consumed Triumphant & Pavel Blumkin – Invisible Fire – 17:29
d’Voxx – Phantom (Nosferatu the Vampyre) – 18:44
Lorenzo Montanà – Mirrors’ Den – 25:42
Trevlad – Easy Begun Meals – 30:11
Jake Soffer & Brent Carmer – The Room Where We Met – 34:13
Shrimpnose – Hovering – 43:25
Kavalcade – SIGNAL 03 -10 LUFS soft clip v3 – 45:21
Philippe Petit – Tropicalism in an Empire wardrobe – 48:21
B Side – 49:36
Nadia Struiwigh – MOD1 – 49:52
The Eyes and the Mistoids– Snails That Failed – 55:30
Brass Clouds, Fog Net, & Volcanic Pinnacles – Subduction – 58:21
Erik Wøllo – North Trek – 1:03:21
Helyg Weidenbach – Dream Scaffold I – 1:09:40
Amanda Whiting – Mary Over There – 1:16:08
Louis Sarno – Bayaka women singing yeyi in the forest (Central African Republic) – 1:19:04
Virgo – Zoophyte – 1:24:08
Psyché – Yagé – 1:28:32
The Gaye Device – Ebb And Flow – 1:32:30
Outro – 1:37:37
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 179
23 February 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever fragment of time you’ve found yourself in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 179. I’m Trevor — your host, your guide, your occasional sonic conspirator.
A sonic journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
So, settle in. Let the kettle boil. Let the cat sleep. Let the world spin without you for a while.
A quick shout out to the new followers Mitxoda a Belgian based independent music project, Solar Eclipse who does massively popular techno sets. Carlostanos a Derbyshire beats and HipHop DJ. and Nick May who has just started a Mixcloud project called The Cinematic Ambient Chillout Show, which is exactly what it is and it’s great. Cheers guys.
We float tonight through pools of ambient electronic, modular wanderings, synthwave echoes, some cosmic angles, Modern classical inflections, drone undertows, and the odd burst of contemporary jazz. Labels flicker such as: Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Guruguru Records, whitelabrecs, and Third kind Records just to name a few. Places scattered from Craigavon to Baltimore, Portland to Marseille.
The longest stretch in the selection comes from Willebrant. His track clocking in at 11 and a half minutes. The shortest by dogs versus shadows snaps past in a flash.
We start off with a piece from TVCL 09 by me, called Decay Cars Suffice which is a What3Words coordination to a spot in the backyard of a flat in Dublin where I spent my teens. The album compiles 16 tracks of surreal ambient electronics drawn from episodes 157–171 of my Virtual Cassette Library series, delivering hypnotic drift of genre-bending textures for introspective listening.
That was me under my alter ego / childhood nickname Trevlad and the track, Decay Cars Suffice.
Next from the album Harvard Sentences 5 by Moray Newlands which got my album of the day recently, transforms ten classic phonetically balanced test sentences from the 1940s Harvard Sentences list into concise, two-minute pentatonic piano sketches, each built from just five notes and five looping patterns with subtle effects for a minimalist, meditative charm. The result is a quietly intriguing and elegant series of pieces that blend the surreal neutrality of standardized speech phrases with gentle, repetitive piano elegance, creating a hypnotic and rewarding listen ideal for focused contemplation or background serenity.
I’ve chosen the track A king ruled the state in the early days.
That was Moray Newlands with A king ruled the state in the early days.
Now, All Roads Lead to Polesworth by Imogen Baker also known as Enofa is a vibrant 15-track journey through gently psychedelic futurism, blending half-remembered 90s ecstasy clubland euphoria with retrofuturist electronic pulses, hi-NRG rhythms, and effortless melodies that feel like a rediscovered mixtape drifting through a lucid dream. From fervent acid-tinged dancefloor anthems to chillaxed ambient comedowns, the album weaves an eclectic yet cohesive tapestry of IDM, ambient house, and experimental textures, highlighted by quirky titles and a nostalgic yet forward-looking energy that’s both invigorating and deeply immersive. Out on Third Kind Records
Here is the opening track Anti-Entropic Chamber
That was Enofa with Anti-Entropic Chamber
Next a new track yet a dive into my musical past. In my teens my Dad and I would go to Jazz clubs in Dublin and this next piece is the kind of jazz we bonded over. The kind of jazz that deserved a pint. Anyway The Description Is Not The Described by Nathaniel Cross is a soulful four-track debut EP that fuses sophisticated contemporary jazz arranging with vibrant threads of bruk, calypso, dancehall, neo-soul, hip hop, gospel, afro-cuban, and West African influences, drawing deeply from his British-Caribbean roots to create an instrumental sound that’s both groove-rich and emotionally resonant. Tracks like the grief-tinged “Goodbye For Now” and uplifting “Light In The Darkness” showcase terrific horn writing, lovely solos, and a warm collective energy, delivering a thoughtful exploration of loss, resilience, positivity, and inner validation beneath the Krishnamurti-inspired title’s reminder that labels can never capture true essence. Out on First Word Records
This is the opener Goodbye For Now
That was Nathaniel Cross – Goodbye For Now
Next from one of the labels that has been supporting this channel with releases for years, the always outstanding Woodford Halse. Errata by John Haughey & Tarotplane is the latest offering on the label. A captivating 9-track collaboration of kosmische-leaning ambient electronics, weaving lush synths, keys, guitars, and bass into expansive, drifting soundscapes that evoke weightless drift, spiraling echoes, and a gentle promise of transcendence amid cold introspection. Tracks like the title piece, “Pulling the Cosmos Closer,” and “Begetting Green” build hypnotic layers of delay-drenched textures and rhythmic subtlety, blending Baltimore’s Tarotplane guitar-infused cosmic pulses with John’s Northern Irish electronic warmth for an immersive, otherworldly listen that’s both meditative and quietly radiant—perfect for surrendering to loops of light and space.
This is the track Impossible Vistas
That was John Haughey & Tarotplane – Impossible Vistas
Now. Who’s To Say? by Thought Bubble (Chris Cordwell, Peter Gelf, and Nick Raybould) is a beguiling 7-track electro-psych adventure that fuses electronica, analogue percussion, and sharp songwriting into expansive, genre-stretching soundscapes, evoking the heady psychedelic sprawl of early ’70s cosmic rock while staying firmly anchored in contemporary themes of fractured reality, media distortion, and surreal resilience. With tracks like the luminous “Let The Light,” satirical “Your Call,” and mind-bending “Lightfoot” / “A Man Split In Two” delivering out-there yet alluring grooves, lyrical depth, and a seamless blend of electronics with live instrumentation, the album emerges as an irresistibly immersive and thought-provoking listen that’s both nostalgic in its expansiveness and strikingly present in its edge.
I give you Let The Light by Thought Bubble out on Moolakii Club Audio Interface
That was Thought Bubble with Let The Light
Next Soft Shakes by Go Kurosawa marks his captivating first solo album, a self-produced, instinct-driven collection of 8 tracks where the ex-Kikagaku Moyo drummer/vocalist plays every instrument—from motorik pulses and Kraftwerkian synths to acoustic loops, gentle vocals (in English and Japanese), marimba, trumpet, and more—in a playful, subconscious jam-session spirit that bridges East-West, electronic, and organic textures. From the luminous, Suicide-like opener “moon, please” through the lush, building “green thing,” rhythmic “autowalk,” and breezy closer “cloud rock,” the album unfolds as a loose, alive sketchbook of surprising, layered grooves and emotional warmth, evoking psychedelic minimalism, ambient drifts, and ritualistic joy that’s both introspective and irresistibly danceable in solitude— a fresh, “WOW”-inducing gem of personal freedom post-band life. Out on Guruguru Brain
I give you the track sada no umi.
That was Go Kurosawa* with sada no umi
Next, a regular of the show. Willebrant. The Knight Seas (the ambient field drone project of Naarm/Melbourne bassist and producer Karl Willebrant) is a deeply somnolent 5-track collection of slowed + reverb reworkings from his 2020 release A Knight on a Boat plus a reimagined “A Night Crossing,” transforming original bass, synth, ebow guitar, and electronic elements into vast, hazy drone-ambient expanses tagged with dark ambient, minimalist, meditation, and soundscape vibes. Tracks like the epic 16-minute “The Valiant at Arms (slowed and reverb)” and the oceanic “A Knight on a Boat (slowed and reverb)” evoke knightly voyages across misty seas through layered, echoing textures and gentle drift, creating an atmospheric, introspective immersion that’s profoundly calming, subtly melancholic, and ideal for late-night contemplation or dreamlike surrender.
This is Willebrant – The Gathered Few (Lakeside Fire Mix – slowed and reverb)
That was The Gathered Few (Lakeside Fire Mix – slowed and reverb) by Willebrant
Now Dramatis Personae by Saïph (aka Pablo Diarra) is a poetic six-track digital LP released December 1, 2025, on Songe Anima Records, clocking in at around 29 minutes of introspective, surreal soundscapes that blend aquatic dream logic, nostalgic drifts, and minimalist electronic textures across pieces like the title track, multi-part “Psyché du figurant” variations, and the wistful “Nostalgia.” With French-titled evocations of submerged landscapes, trout-spirited guidance, and offerings to tomorrow’s scouts—paired with high-fidelity 24-bit mastering by Neel/Enisslab and artwork by William Jones—the album unfolds as a hushed, enigmatic meditation on inner roles, silence, and submerged revelation, perfect for deep-listening immersion in twilight reverie or quiet self-exploration.
This is Dramatis personae – Saïph
That was Saïph with Dramatis personae
Next Andromeda [CYD 0148] by Christian Wittman is a majestic 10-track space ambient voyage released January 2, on Cyclical Dreams, featuring Berlin School-inspired electronics, deep drones, and cosmic sound design that conjure vast interstellar voids, static-tinged shadows, and eternal whispers of forgotten galaxies through tracks named after stars, constellations, and nebulae like “Upsilon Persei,” “Mirach,” and “Blue Snowball Nebula.” Clocking in at over 54 minutes of timeless, expanding atmospheres—recorded in Paris across late 2024—the album masterfully evokes a sense of infinite drift and subtle darkness, where every tone feels like a dying signal flickering in the black between stars, delivering an immersive, meditative experience of profound depth and quiet grandeur ideal for stargazing contemplation or late-night cosmic surrender.
This is Upsilon Persei by Christian Wittman
That was Christian Wittman with Upsilon Persei.
Now to end the first half from Sven Laux.
Shades is a meticulously curated compilation marking Whitelabrecs’ 10-year anniversary, curated by label founder Harry Towell and pressed on striking green vinyl, serving as both a celebratory snapshot and conceptual milestone that traces the label’s evolution from handmade CDr beginnings to refined ambient artistry. Spanning deep drones, fractured tape loops, synth-clarinet interplay, and electro-acoustic sprawls on Side A before shifting to enveloping modern classical strings, atmospheric piano, trombone, and radio-tinged closers on Side B—featuring contributions from Low Altitude, blochemy, Clariloops, Andrew Heath, Sven Laux, Adrian Lane, Gustav Davidsson, and Glåsbird—the album weaves a cohesive tapestry of tonal contrast, quiet escapism, and immersive beauty that’s meditative, textural, and profoundly evocative of the label’s signature serene yet expansive soundworld.
This is When Rain Didn’t Come by Sven Laux
Opening side B. Electronic Phantoms by maya ongaku is the Fujisawa, Japan-based trio’s vibrant second EP (following their 2023 debut Approach to Anima), a six-track collection released in 2024, that channels live-jam energy from extensive touring into dancefloor-ready grooves blending synths, drum machines, fluid guitars, ethereal woodwinds, and organic percussion like maracas and flute. Tracks such as the hypnotic opener “Iyo no Hito,” driving “Anoyo Drive,” tender “Love with Phantom,” and the multi-part meditative “Meiso Ongaku” series explore human-machine symbiosis amid AI-era phantoms—fusing krautrock pulses, psychedelic warmth, and subtle unease into an uplifting, body-moving sound that’s both spiritually reflective and irresistibly rhythmic, perfectly capturing the band’s desire to make listeners dance while jamming in harmony with electronic “phantoms.”
This is the track Anoyo Drive by maya ongaku available on the Guruguru Brain label.
That was maya ongaku with Anoyo Drive
Hollow Headaches by dogs versus shadows aka Lee Pylon is a concise 16-track collection of experimental lo-fi hip hop and 90s-influenced electronica released August, 2024, on Third Kind Records, shifting from his earlier dark radiophonic hauntings to a unified set of beat workouts and atmospheric soundscapes that evoke the quiet magic of British urban liminality—night buses, empty sidings, wet subways, and forgotten corners. Short, evocative pieces like “Sprawlopoly,” “Back Of The Bins,” “Rizla Brollie,” and the title track conjure colourful, everyday grime through lo-fi textures, subtle hauntology nods, and enigmatic grooves, making it an ideal headphone companion for wandering ordinary streets and discovering hidden inspiration in the mundane, with bonus vinyl-mastered side-long mixes adding extra immersion. Out on Third Kind Records.
This is the track The Lovely Eye by dogs versus shadows
That was dogs versus shadows with The Lovely Eye.
I Can Guide You Through the Maze by schalter.exe (released February 13, on Moniker Eggplant) is an 8-track digital EP (~29 minutes) built entirely on the custom OPLoid FM-Synthesizer emulating the iconic OPL2/OPL3 chips of MS-DOS era sound cards, channeling raw, lo-fi FM tones into vivid sonic portraits of fictional computer games—from dense tactical realms and dystopian shadows to humorous, lighthearted excursions. Tracks like “welcome_1.mid,” “Emotional Main Title Theme,” “Skeletons rule the Earth,” and “Maze Corridors” revive the nostalgic charm of 8-bit adventure soundtracks with direct digital grit, experimental IDM/braindance flair, and a uniform yet richly varied palette that blends vaporwave haze, ambient drift, and retro-techno pulses into an immersive, text-parser-evoking journey that’s both playfully retro and intriguingly modern—perfect for late-night nostalgia dives or pixelated daydreams. Available via the Moniker Eggplant label.
This is Skeletons rule the Earth by schalter.exe.
That was schalter.exe with Skeletons rule the Earth
Now Nine Breaths by theAdelaidean (aka Sean Williams, #1 New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning poet) is a serene 10-track ambient/drone/minimalism opus released January 16, on Projekt Records, crafting soft, intricate beds of sustained drones and gently evolving synths to capture fleeting moments of everyday stillness—like dust in sunlight, rain-dancing leaves, or forest birdsong—while drawing conceptual inspiration from haiku’s single-breath brevity to explore profound emotional and visceral shifts in brief spans of time. With tracks ranging from concise meditations like “Loss” and “Spiraling Thought” to the vast, hour-long closer “Horizon,” accompanied by Williams’ own poems, the album creates safe, resonant sonic spaces of layered textures and subtle nuances that invite deep, lingering contemplation of the ordinary’s hidden depths, resulting in a hauntingly beautiful, introspective listen ideal for quiet reflection, late-night unwinding, or falling asleep to its gentle, shimmering embrace.
I give you the track Spiraling Thought by theAdelaidean.
That was theAdelaidean with Spiraling Thought.
Next Subvert Yourself by No Arrival is a six-track EP from 2019 on the Bricolage label, delivering his signature blend of atmospheric rhythmic electronics and fragmented experimental soundscapes through warm melodic pulses, odd time signatures, sputtered bass, staggered percussion, splintered samples, vocal fragments, and organic backdrops that evoke digital disorder with an underground edge. Tracks like “New U,” “Group Flow,” “Play,” and “Universal Echo” create a bold, curious, and subculturally resonant affair—perfect for intelligent dancers seeking shifting directions, subtle unease, and immersive, ever-evolving grooves that feel both intimate and defiantly off-kilter.
This is Play by No Arrival
That was No Arrival with Play
Hey, before we move on, don’t forget to check out my new show Chord Confessions. Real stories, important music, relatable events. Get involved and send in your tales. Now back to the show. the strange night out – a mystical horrorstory EP by rikardfvs (an ambient artist from Uppsala, Sweden) is a concise four-track digital EP released January 9, 2026, on Sounds for the Soul Records, clocking in at roughly 22:40 minutes of evocative, shadowy soundscapes that unfold like a cryptic nocturnal tale through titles—”strange night,” “the kiosk,” “oh the hidden knife,” and “confused afterward”—suggesting an eerie progression from unsettling encounter to lingering disorientation.
This is the track the kiosk by rikardfvs
That was rikardfvs with the kiosk
A Point Blank Dream by The Home Current (Martin Jensen, the prolific Luxembourg-based Danish electronic artist) is a vibrant 14-track return to form—his first full album since 2024’s Tales From The Leisure League—released February 6, on Subexotic Records, bursting with chunky melody lines, bass-driven grooves, trademark twists and turns, and an “inner-city alien gang thriller” conceptual vibe that channels old-school THC energy akin to his early Poly Youth or Static Caravan eras. From punchy openers like “High Priests Of Nothing” and “Chew Unseen” to the evocative title track, the album delivers toe-tapping, grey-matter-tickling electronic excursions full of stylistic range, post-industrial echoes (with nods to Cabaret Voltaire’s fluid period), and playful yet thoughtful production—mastered and artworked by Dan Seville of Subexotic, with sleeve notes by Moonbuilding’s Neil Mason—making it a fresh, invigorating blast of vintage-yet-vital experimental electronica ideal for nocturnal drives or focused headphone immersion.
This is the track Dexter by The Home Current
That was The Home Current with Dexter
Winding down the show now with the penultimate track Sunday by Le Code (Alexandre de Charrin), released back in July, 2023, on Toronto’s Imaginary North label, is a gentle five-track ambient EP (~22 minutes) that captures the languid essence of a restful day through soft, drifting synths, subtle textures, and warm, unhurried atmospheres in pieces like the title track, “Lazy Day,” “Long Morning,” and “Last Quiet Minutes,” plus a dreamy Raphah rework of the latter. Mastered by Chad Skinner with artwork by Mitch Burke, this name-your-price digital release delivers concise, meditative serenity—evoking slow mornings, quiet reflection, and effortless calm—ideal for unwinding, background focus, or savoring the simple beauty of ordinary stillness in pure, imagination-fueled ambient form.
Here’s the title track Sunday by Le Code
That wasLe Code with Sunday
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Now back to the show. To end this week Bones by Jogging House (Frankfurt-based ambient artist) is a warm, warbly eight-track collection released February 17, on Seil Records, crafted in single-take recordings straight to 1/4″ tape using a minimal setup of Digitakt II, Korg MS20, Cocoquantus, and other cozy analog gear like Solid Felt, Mood, Meraki, Bim & Bam. Tracks such as “Tourism,” “Janitor,” “Cement,” “Lantern,” “Upwind,” “Parker,” “Thread,” and “Know” unfold as glowing, airy ambient loops that gently waver like tidal drifts, fringed with soft analogue buzz and tape warmth, creating soft, cozy, meditative soundscapes that evoke intimate hardware-filled rooms and spontaneous, in-the-moment serenity—perfect for grounding daily life, quiet reflection, or sinking into lush, dreamy textures with subtle downtempo and lo-fi edges.
I leave you with the track Lantern by Jogging House Thanks for joining us. Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Trevlad – Decay Cars Suffice – 01:55
Moray Newlands – A king ruled the state in the early days – 05:21
Enofa – Anti-Entropic Chamber – 07:29
Nathaniel Cross – Goodbye For Now – 11:13
John Haughey & Tarotplane – Impossible Vistas – 18:51
Thought Bubble – Let The Light – 25:27
Go Kurosawa – sada no umi – 33:11
Willebrant – The Gathered Few (Lakeside Fire Mix – slowed and reverb) – 38:50
Saïph – Dramatis personae – 49:12
Christian Wittman – Upsilon Persei – 54:34
Sven Laux – When Rain Didn’t Come – 1:00:01
B Side – 1:06:29
maya ongaku – Anoyo Drive – 1:06:45
dogs versus shadows – The Lovely Eye – 1:12:37
schalter.exe – Skeletons rule the Earth – 1:15:32
theAdelaidean – Spiraling Thought – 1:19:57
No Arrival – Play – 1:25:18
rikardfvs – the kiosk – 1:31:54
The Home Current – Dexter – 1:37:44
Le Code – Sunday – 1:41:53
Jogging House – Lantern – 1:46:37
Outro – 1:53:40
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Chord Confessions 1
Well at last here it is the pilot episode of Chord Confessions.
The idea is simple. What is a piece of music that has had a profound impact on you? And what’s the story behind it. That’s it.
I get to say nice things about you. You get to tell your life changing story, and we all get tot hear the most important music on the planet.
I was thinking of starting off the show with a an entry of my own but changed my mind when this fine chap sent his story. Anyone who has crossed his path will instantly have a smile on their face when I mention Gareth Evans. Such a wonderful supporter of the electronic community, a fantastic sense of humour and a humble soul.
Gareth Evans, better known by his aliases HDRF and Horror Dwarf, is a UK-based electronic musician and synth enthusiast hailing from the market town of Omskirk in West Lancashire UK . He crafts atmospheric, experimental soundscapes that blend retro-futurism, prog influences, and dare I say a love for classic horror aesthetics.
Evans adopted the “Horrordwarf” moniker back in 2001 for his SoundCloud uploads, later streamlining it to HDRF as his primary project name. Since diving into production with a used Mac and audio interface, he’s built a prolific catalog on Bandcamp, with over a dozen releases across various labels, including live improvisations, long-form ambient pieces like Pseudochrome 92, and themed works such as Live Soundtracks to Silent Films (featuring Roland synths for eerie, cinematic vibes).
A self-described “middle-aged synth enthusiast,” he performs live sparingly but memorably—recent highlights include sets at events like Switched On in Whitby—and collaborates with figures in the underground electronic scene. Whether invoking dusty memories, exploring wire-and-water drones, or channeling spectral voyages, HDRF’s music carries a distinctive, retro-infested-synth charm that’s equal parts nostalgic and forward looking.
Check out his Bandcamp at hdrf.bandcamp.com for the full haunting discography.
Here’s Gareth’s story:
My gateway drug into musical maturity and the world of leftfield ambient music.
I stumbled across the Penguin Cafe Orchestra in a late night BBC concert broadcast in 1989 (and never repeated).
Arriving home at the end of our annual book shopping/fish and chips trip to Southport with my mum. We ate at our favourite restaurant, Chip Ahoy (I’m not joking here) and trawled the multitude of second hand bookshops that were there in the day (almost all gone now).
I remember I picked up a book called The Devil Hunter, about Father Amarth (later the subject of a documentary film by William Friedkin and a rather dire film starring Russell Crowe, entitled The Pope’s Exorcist) and read it on the bus home.
I probably picked up some Pan Horror stories or something classy by Guy N Smith too.
It was the school summer holidays so no requirement to get up early so I did my usual thing of scouring all 4 channels available to me on my portable TV.
I’ve wanted to re-watch it for years and I’ve just (to my delight) found it on YouTube. I figure this is the 1988 lineup from the When in Rome album (with Annie Whitehead on Trombone)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Live at the BBC 1989
The late 80’s were a weird time for music. Dance music hadn’t evolved into a state that I found acceptable (although Acid house was creeping into my consciousness). I wasn’t big on the rock bands of the time (other than The Cure and Talk Talk). This was something else. Organic, intimate and unlike anything I had ever heard before. I loved the whole concert, but it was the final track that blew me away. Seeing them probably took my music journey into a far more leftfield and better direction. I’d say that watching this concert was a pivotal moment. My “Sex Pistols at Lesser Free Trade Hall” only without the swearing.
As I worked my way through their brief and beautiful back catalogue, the standard album overall is 1987’s Signs of Life. I love every track on that album and probably listen to it (along with Spirit of Eden) at least once a month.
Broadcasting from Home (from which Harmonium forms the opening) is a mixed bag. Ryuichi Sakamoto shows up on one track (He returns the favour later in the decade by allowing Simon Jeffes to guest on Field Music, on his Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia album, which also features Thomas Dolby).
The story of the track is equally odd. During a visit to Japan, Simon Jeffes finds the Harmonium dumped, brings it back to his hotel and composes the tune on it.
The track has been covered by a wide range of artists (there are a lot of Irish bands doing it). Even The Orb did a version entitled Pandaharmonium. Alex Paterson’s day job was A&R for Brian Eno’s EG label which probably explains the connection.
I was heartbroken when Simon passed away in 1998 aged just 49.
I never got to see them in concert, but thankfully the Penguin Cafe lives on, with a bunch of young musicians led by Simon’s son Arthur who is astonishingly talented.
I was very fortunate to meet him last year during a solo piano recital in Liverpool and finally got the chance to tell him how much his father’s music meant, and continues to mean, to me.
Thanks for that Gareth and here it is Penguin Cafe Orchestra. with Music for a Found Harmonium.
Amazing stuff there from Penguin Café Orchestra and Music for a Found Harmonium sent in by HDRF.
We stay in the Uk now and head to scenic West Yorkshire more specifically Morley. A kosmische-inspired electronic ambient project who is Andrew Howden better known as The Gaye Device. Andrew Crafts reflective, immersive soundscapes that evoke cosmotronic daydreams and cloud-watching serenity, the Gaye Device draws from vintage synth textures, subtle kosmische influences, and introspective atmospheres—often with a gentle, meditative drift that feels both nostalgic and expansive.
Active for over two decades, The Gaye Device has built a steady discography of full-length albums and contributions to compilations, released on respected underground labels including Submarine Broadcasting Company, Sounds For The Soul Records, Machina Ad Noctem, and others. Standout releases include Ruins exploring haunted abbey themes), Structures, The Cut Sleeve (2023), and more recent works like Electrohome (March 2025), The Nacre Octagon (Feb 2025), Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Sep 2025), and Routes (December 2025). Tracks frequently appear in ambient mixes and radio shows, with features on BBC Introducing West Yorkshire, and my own shows.
Known for a low-key, and DIY ethos. Whether conjuring weightless dreams, echoing hazes, or aetheric flows, The Gaye Device delivers soothing, cinematic electronica perfect for deep listening and quiet contemplation.
Dive into the shimmering world at gayedevice.bandcamp.com.
Here’s Andrew’s story.
How did The Gaye Device get here? Creating electronic music that hopefully ascends your brainwaves to another dimension! Let me tell you…
1970s suburban grey England post punk…I was too young to be punked up…still at middle school and at the tender age of 13…the closest I got to punk was ripping up a pair of white corduroy trousers and safety pinning them together and wearing a black shirt with talcum powder on my face…I flounced downstairs to show my parents my new look…to them falling about in laughter….I knew I was feeling different and I knew I was right…because I didn’t care…fast forward a few weeks later… sitting on the school playing fields with the girls who read Smash Hits magazine….we were all huddled round listening to the top 40 on a plastic panda bear shaped transistor radio….number one comes on and it’s Gary Numan with “are friends electric?”
Something short circuited in my brain…that massive synth riff….the alienated vocals and lyrics…that look on the front of Smash Hits…white hair, black kohl eyeliner…I suddenly realised that maybe snogging boys would be more fun than snogging girls….how could something that felt so right, be wrong? So thank you Gary Numan…..having boyfriends was definitely electric!
Amazing Andrew, And here it is Gary Newman with Are Friends Electric?
The amazing Gary Newman there with Are Friends Electric? Newman has also featured heavily in my own path of music discovery, and thank you to the Gaye Device for bringing memories and sharing his story.
Now on to the living legend, Ian Boddy. A pioneering British electronic musician, composer, sound designer, and analogue synth aficionado based in Sunderland, UK. Born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, he first delved into music in the late 1970s while studying Biochemistry in Newcastle upon Tyne. Inspired by German electronic pioneers like Tangerine Dream, he taught himself synthesis and tape manipulation at an Arts Council-funded studio, launching a career spanning over four decades of ambient, Berlin School, and kosmische-influenced electronica.
Boddy’s early output included cassette releases like Images (1980) and Elements of Chance (1981) on the Mirage label, followed by vinyl LPs such as The Climb (1983) and Phoenix (1986). He transitioned to CD with Odyssey (1989) and founded his own Something Else Records in the 1990s for albums like The Uncertainty Principle (1993) and collaborations under the ARC moniker with Mark Shreeve.
In 1999, he established DiN Records, a respected independent label dedicated to ambient electronica that bridges classic 1970s analogue warmth with modern experimental digital textures. DiN has released over 90 titles, including Boddy’s solo works and acclaimed collaborations with artists such as Markus Reuter, Robert Rich, Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle), Erik Wøllo, Bernhard Wöstheinrich, and Harald Grosskopf. Standout releases include Outpost (2002) with Rich, Lithosphere (2005), Axiom (2020), and more recent highlights like Transmissions (DiN92, 2025) with Erik Wøllo, Doppelgänger (DiN91, 2025) with Grosskopf, and the 25th Anniversary Edition of Caged (2025) with Chris Carter—featuring remasters and new tracks.
A master of modular and vintage analogue gear, Boddy’s music evokes expansive, immersive soundscapes: drifting sequences, atmospheric textures, and hypnotic rhythms that transport listeners into contemplative realms. His philosophy emphasizes tools as means to musical ends, blending hardware passion with thoughtful composition.
With a prolific discography and ongoing label curation—including the modular-focused Tone Science sub-series—Boddy remains a cornerstone of the ambient and electronic underground.
Explore his world at ianboddy.bandcamp.com or dinrecords.bandcamp.com.
Here’s Ians story.
In my teen years at secondary school I first got into the prog side of things, although not so much the big 3 at the time, Genesis, ELP or Yes but rather the quieter corners of that world with bands such as Camel & Focus.
Then I distinctly remember hearing two tracks on the radio that completely changed my whole musical path.
The first was Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares by Tangerine Dream from their classic album Phaedra.
It was aired on mainstream BBC Radio 1 by Alan Freeman on his rock show on a Saturday afternoon.
Although I can’t remember exactly when this was it was probably 1974 so I would have been around 15 years old.
Then around the same time, although possibly the year after in 1975, I heard the last 10 minutes played (as an excerpt) of Wahnfried 1883 from the album Timewind by Klaus Schulze, on a local radio station called Metro, based in Newcastle. The DJ was Geoff Brown and aired on a Saturday night between 10PM – 1AM. The news would usually play at 1AM and would be followed by a last track lasting about 10 minutes before the show and station shut down for the night. The evening in question when this track played he omitted to say what it was and I was so enamoured by it that for the first and only time I rang up a radio station the next day to enquire about a tracks name. Armed with this information I immediately headed up to Newcastle and the shop J.G. Windows to track this album down. I can remember standing in one of the listening booths getting very strange looks from folk as they wandered by me trying to figure out what this weird music was I was listening to. Needless to say I bought the album there & then.
Both pieces had an enormous effect on both my musical taste but also in my musical career which started a few years after whilst at University. To me the music didn’t even sound like it had been created by human beings but rather beamed in from some other dimension. In those days there was simply no reference points. No-one had created music like this before. And to this day both albums stand out as at the pinnacle of that music style that has since became known as Berlin School.
Thanks for that Ian. Just a quick note to the listeners. Can you imagine a young teenager today listening to music like this and thinking I have to get this? I only got to hear 10 minutes of it I need to hear the rest? Does any kid today have that sort of concentration span? Anyway, I’ve kept both tracks in the show just because of Ian’s legendary status. Even if they do take up about half the show this is 40 minutes of music in their entirety in honour of 15 year old Ian. Bless you sir. First Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares by Tangerine Dream followed by Wahnfried 1883 by Klaus Schulze. Catch you on the other side, of the universe…
Welcome back ye travellers of outer and inner space. That was Klaus Shulze with Wahnfried 1883. Instruments on this track, including the ARP 2600, ARP Odyssey, EMS Synthi-A, Elka String synth, Farfisa Professional Duo organ, piano, and Synthanorma sequencer. Before that was Tangerine Dream with Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares primarily performed by Edgar Froese. Froese recorded the piece in one take, playing a double-keyboard Mellotron with phasing effects. Monique Froese, his wife, operated the knobs on the phasing device during the recording. Thank you to Ian Boddy for his story.
Next up a great friend of the channel Pascal Brugger, a Swiss multi-disciplinary creative from Fribourg, is the driving force behind the electronic music project aeon. Described by the artist himself as a collection of bittersweet electronic soundscapes, aeon represents his shift from playing in rock bands to a deeply personal solo venture in ambient, atmospheric, and experimental electronica.
Based in Switzerland, Brugger crafts immersive, melancholic tracks rich in synthesizer layers, subtle textures, and emotive depth—often blending nostalgic warmth with introspective, sometimes haunting tones. His work features collaborations, such as with Mexico based artist [ominous sound] and guitar contributions from Alexander Gaylon on tracks like “Extravehicular Activities,” evoking cosmic drift and emotional resonance.
Active on Bandcamp where he maintains a low-key but dedicated presence. He’s been spotlighted in interviews, such as a Q&A on I Have That on Vinyl, where he discusses his influences, vinyl passion, and creative process as an underground music enthusiast and independent artist (with ties to art direction and visual creativity).
Whether exploring thin-ice fragility, outer-space excursions, or bittersweet reveries, aeon’s music delivers contemplative, synth-driven journeys ideal for late-night reflection or immersive listening.
Dive into the soundscapes on aeon7.bandcamp.com
Here’s a couple of very short but nonetheless important tales from pascal.
As a child, I lived with my grandmother, and when I fell asleep after a day of adventures in nature, I would hear my uncle playing the cassette of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ through the wall. I think it’s this strange feeling of enchanting and slightly frightening sounds from Welcome to the Machine that I try to recreate in my compositions.
In 2012, I had the chance to see ‘Dead Can Dance’ in a magnificent hall designed for classical music. at one point, the vibrations of the instruments and Lisa Gerrard’s voice created a kind of physical wave that moved me to tears. and looking discreetly around me, I noticed that most of the crowd was in the same state. That track was ‘The Host Of Seraphim’. Cheers for that Pascal and here they are Pink Floyds Welcome to the Machine followed by Dead Can Dance and The Host Of Seraphim.
Thanks for those tales Pascal and a couple of legendary pieces indeed. Next,
Graeme Walker, known artistically as The Earl Of Dean, is an Edinburgh-based experimental electronic musician and sound explorer who burst onto the scene in 2025. Embracing synthesis, ambient textures, and avant-garde electronics, he crafts introspective, atmospheric works that blend drone, subtle rhythms, and evocative sound design—often with a sense of cosmic wonder, melancholy, or quiet intensity.
Starting his project in 2025, Walker quickly established a presence with his debut EP Silence About To Break (July 2025), featuring tracks like the haunting ambient drone “Stardust Cluster,” followed by his sophomore album Silence Has Broken (October 2025). His catalog includes single releases such as “Raising The Flag At Andriivka” (a one-take improvisation from August 2025) and appearances in compilations and radio shows, including features on my shows and WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips. His music has garnered support from underground electronic communities, with plays highlighting its experimental edge and personal, self-directed approach. A third album is due out first half of 2026 on Moolakii Club Audio Interface label and a 4th completed hopefully to be released later in the year once he’s sorted that out. He’s also a keen gig goer, and tries to attend a gig a week at least especially grass roots stuff and is an avid collector of music whether that be vinyl, cassette or CD.
As a self-taught creator focused on exploration for its own sake, The Earl Of Dean delivers raw, unpolished yet deeply immersive soundscapes—whether drifting through starry clusters, marching toward abyssal depths, or weaving dub-infused pulses and bell-like resonances.
Explore the evolving sonic realm at earlofdean.bandcamp.com.
Here’s Graeme’s story.
When I was a kid aged about 10 or 11 I used to hang out with a friend, sadly no longer with us, playing his two brothers and sisters 7” singles. Essentially we were young punks hooked on the Pistols and The Clash but one day flicking through the collection I was intrigued by a picture cover of a crash test dummy. It was The Normal’s Warm Leatherette / T.V.O.D double A sided single. The first release on Mure records by a certain Daniel Miller. I remember sticking on T.V.O.D (that title must have intrigued 10/11 year old me more) on the old box record player with built in speaker waiting on the typical guitar chord protest to be greeted with the sublime electronica and minimalism. Electronically cold, clinical and primitive it changed a very young music fans view forever. Next up Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, before progressing to John Fox, Fad Gadget, DAF etc etc etc. It’s saved me from The GBH’s, Exploiteds of the UK82 world I guess. I do admit though that I’m fond of Discharge.
Well here it is super short and to the point. That noise snare did it for me. Let’s go…
Yes, that was The Normal with T.V.O.D. Thanks to The Earl Of Dean.
Now another name you should all know Pablo Bilbao. A musician born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Who started playing rock music and has been making electronic music for over 20 years. In 2014, he began his solo career with his project Pabellón Sintético. He is also part of the projects Cartas de Japón and Rayo Hunters. As well as being one of the founders of the Cyclical Dreams label.
Bilbao has channeled the spirit of late-1970s and early-1980s electronic pioneers into a distinctive blend of Berlin School sequences, cosmic ambient drifts, darksynth shadows, and immersive cinematic textures—merging analog warmth with digital precision for expansive, architectural soundscapes.
Drawing inspiration from the masters of the era, his music often evokes vast sonic architectures, themes of memory, existence, and infinite horizons, frequently tying into modernist design motifs (as seen in albums like Machine for Living [2025, Cyclical Dreams], a radiant homage to Le Corbusier’s principles and structures, featuring pulsating rhythms, shimmering sequences, and ethereal atmospheres crafted on gear such as Moog Mother-32, Korg ARP Odyssey, Arturia MatrixBrute, Behringer Model D, and Yamaha DX7). Other notable releases include Mies van der Rohe’s dreams, Instructions for building an orange (produced with Lucas Tripaldi), Visiones, Mother: 32 Days Traveling, and collaborative works like Veiled Portraits (2024) and Clouds and Terrain with Paul Ellis, plus Last Call with Tripaldi—delivering everything from astral voyages and morphic resonances to live sessions and dark, introspective forms.
Primarily released through the respected Cyclical Dreams label, Pabellón Sintético’s catalog stands out in the underground ambient and Berlin School revival scenes for its engaging, listenable depth and engineered grace—perfect for deep immersion in luminous voids or celebratory transmissions of sonic energy.
Dive into the pulsating cosmos at pabellonsintetico.bandcamp.com or explore label highlights at cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com.
Here’s Pablos story:
When I was around 12 or 13 years old, I loved listening to music. I remember that in the mid-80s, bands like Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, etc. really caught my attention. They were all bands whose main instrument was the synthesizer. I liked the melodies and sounds of those songs. At that time, I was already living in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina. I had moved from the big city of Buenos Aires to a small town of 100,000 inhabitants. My father was a journalist and broadcaster. He owned one of the first FM radio stations in the city. He started buying and receiving vinyl records and cassettes. I spent a lot of time listening to all the music he received before he took the records to the radio station. One afternoon, I remember finding a single vinyl record, a promotional vinyl, one of those that had one track on each side. One of the songs was Radioactivity by Kraftwerk. It was the English version. I remember being struck by the sound that seemed to come from some distant planet.
It sounded different from anything else. Its dark and mysterious atmosphere captivated me. It was definitely the final push I needed to realize that I wanted to play synthesizers. This song made me even more interested in instrumental electronic music. In those days, it wasn’t easy to get hold of albums of that style, especially in a small town. I started listening to some other songs by Kraftwerk, Jarre, and Vangelis. Radioactivity was the gateway to discovering the music I love most.
A cornerstone in the development of electronic music there with Kraftwerk’s Radioactivity.
Now for this first episode of Chord Confessions I had to choose someone beyond important. The person you all need to thank for this show to even exist. That person is Terran. My wife and life companion. Anyone who has shown the slightest bit of interest in the channel knows the effort and time I put into promoting independent music is bordering on insane. My wonderful wife has been extremely supportive of this effort even though it brings only joy to myself and a couple of dozen listeners.
If it wasn’t for her song choice our paths probably would have never crossed.
I’m glad Terran made that choice so early in life after witnessing this song. She’s starred in many of the top Musicals here in Sweden including Rent, Saturday Night Fever and My Fair Lady, where we met for the first time. She’s also the Neena Fatale character in the trash disco group PAY TV created by the Swedish Electro legend Håkan Lidbo.
Here’s her story:
When I was 6 or 7 I got to see the movie Singing In the Rain starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Conner and Debbie Reynolds and it was the scene with Gene Kelly literally Singing in the rain that created the thought in my head. That’s what I’m going to do. The way Gene moved, the way he told the story of the lyrics in song the way he told the story by not saying a word. The way he looks at the cop and the way you can feel his overwhelming feeling of love as he gives his umbrella away to the passing stranger at the end.
Anyway let’s put a smile on our faces. Take it away Gene.
Wonderful, and fitting as I know if you’re in the UK or Ireland at the moment you could use the positive energy of Singing in the Rain from Gene Kelly. Thanks to my Wonderful wife Thérèse Andersson Lewis for her story and life choice that brought us together.
and now another great figure on the electronic scene.
The British Stereo Collective is the retro-futurist electronic music project of Phil Heeks, a composer, artist, and producer based in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. Channeling the golden era of 1970s and 1980s British television theme compilations, library music LPs, film soundtracks, and vintage sound effects records, Heeks creates evocative, nostalgic electronica that feels like unearthed broadcasts from an alternate timeline—blending synth-driven melodies, atmospheric pads, pulsing rhythms, and cinematic flair with influences from Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, and BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneers.
Active since at least the early 2020s, the project has built a dedicated following in the hauntological, library music revival, and retro-synth scenes through prolific releases on Bandcamp and labels like Castles in Space (via their subscription library) and Two Headed Dog. Standout albums include Mystery Fields (2021), the long-awaited sequel Iniquitous (2024, a smokey-green vinyl time capsule of “TV music from an alternate reality”), Tomorrow, The Stars (2022), Starburst: The Album (2025), Praktische Elektronik (2025), and Horizon 9, alongside singles, collaborations (such as with Mark Price on tracks like “Exogenesis”), and Cherry Audio synth showcases like “Themes from Stranger Things” (2025), “Come What May,” and “Ghosts in the Machine.”
Whether conjuring alien landscapes, unexplained phenomena, moonbase anthems, or shadowy tech-talk grooves, The British Stereo Collective delivers melodic, eclectic progressive electronic soundscapes that are equal parts playful homage and immersive sonic fiction—perfect for fans of library electronica, retro-futurism, and imaginary soundtracks.
Explore the full discography and dive into the analogue nostalgia at thebritishstereocollective.bandcamp.com.
Here’s Phil’s story:
When I was about 8 years old, my teacher Miss Morrow (with whom I was besotted) set the class a challenge. She played us all a piece of music, without revealing the title or what the piece was meant to represent and set us the task of interpreting the music in a drawing or painting. I created a spooky, atmospheric graveyard scene. The music clearly had an impact on me as, many years later, thanks to the help of an older cousin who owned the album, I finally got to learn what it was and I love it to this day.
It taps into a dichotomy in my personality, in that although I generally hate to take things seriously, I seem to have always been drawn to beauty in melancholia from a very early age, especially in music.
The track was ‘Funeral For A Friend’ the first part of a two-part piece that concludes with ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ from ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ by Elton John.
Ah the wonderful Elton John with Funeral for a Friend Love Lies Bleeding. Thank you to The British Stereo Collective for your story.
For my own entry I’m going to skip a couple of early periods in my life, the goth period and the metal period.
Right around the end on my school years. I spent evenings recording pirate radio channels in Dublin. There I first heard many artists I later became obsessed with after my move to Sweden. I fell for genres like Krautrock, Rock in Opposition and it’s eccentric cousin the Canterbury scene.
I met Daniel aka “Pocket Pavillions” only a few weeks after my arrival in Sweden and he expanded my musical mind more than anyone in my life. He also had a passion for these leftfield genres. Anyway The artist I’ve chosen is Can and the track One More Night from their landmark 1972 album Ege Bamyasi.
I studied Jazz drums for a few years and I’ve always considered Take 5 as a stand alone jazz standard. It was also my gateway drug into odd time signatures. One More night is a 7/8 masterpiece held together by Jaki Liebezeit’s “metronomic” groove.
Daniel made the observation that the rhythmic sound that starts to creep in at 2:50 is an audio cable being touched and released. I also love that the entire album is a live jam. Can practiced what they called “spontaneous composition,” where they would jam for hours without pre-written music. Bassist and engineer Holger Czukay was responsible for keeping the tape rolling at all times to capture these elusive moments of inspiration. I often wonder how long this session was originally and where in that session this is taken from and if it’s spliced together from different parts.
This is Can – One More Night from 1972.
That was Can with One More Night. We’re closing up shop on this the first but hopefully not last episode of Chord Confessions. I really hope it has resonated with some of you out there. Maybe it’s inspired you to send in a story. Please do.
Now then, we end with Asha Patera who is a UK-based ambient electronic artist crafting immersive soundscapes that blend downtempo rhythms, post-rock textures, and ethereal electronica. With a focus on moody, atmospheric compositions, the project evokes contemplative moods through layers of drifting synths, subtle melodies, and nature-inspired imagery often shared alongside the music.
Releases like Sunblind, Call To Silence, and various compilation appearances showcase a signature style of introspective, cinematic electronic music. Whether exploring themes of time, silence, or quiet reflection, Asha Patera creates sonic worlds that invite deep listening and escape.
Here’s Ashas story
I’ve always had a varied interest in music, but by my teenage years I was a dyed in the wool metalhead, long hair, leather jacket – the typical emblems of my tribe. It all changed for me one night, when I’d been out and was crashing at a mate’s house (whose father was a police inspector of all things!), and after having a joint before bed we decided to fall asleep to some tunes. ‘Iron Maiden’ I announced, completely serious as if that was conducive to a chilled mood. Even though he was a year younger than me, my friend looked at me and shook his head with wisdom beyond his years. ‘No, this is more suitable’ and he put something on that within a minute had me rethinking my life choices!
I was taken away on a magic carpet ride of emptiness, repetition and no discernible melody, interjected with some guy talking in what seemed Russian; yet I was absolutely enthralled at what I was hearing. From that day it was as if I had turned some page and my music world opened to what seemed limitless possibilities. The tune was the last track on side one of The Orb’s Adventure’s Beyond the Ultraworld, and we were listening to the majestic Spanish Castles in Space – to this day one of my all time favourite tunes. I still remained true to my metal roots, and even now some (many!) years later I still appreciate the adrenaline rush of fast guitar music, but that day was a turning point for me, and even though I was somewhat under the influence, I remember it all as if it were yesterday.
00:00:00 Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music for a Found Harmonium
00:14:36 Gary Numan – Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
00:27:07 – Tangerine Dream – Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares
00:36:56 Klaus Schulze – Wahnfried 1883
01:09:38 Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine
01:16:59 Dead Can Dance – The Host of Seraphim
01:26:57 The Normal – T.V.O.D.
01:34:47 Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
01:43:30 Nacio Herb Brown – Singing In the Rain
01:52:04 Elton John – Funeral For A Friend Love Lies Bleeding
02:05:24 Can – One More Night
02:14:29 The Orb – Spanish Castles In Space
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178
15 February 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever fragment of time you’ve found yourself in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178. I’m Trevor—your host, your guide, your occasional sonic conspirator.
A sonic journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
So, settle in. Let the kettle boil. Let the cat sleep. Let the world spin without you for a while.
We float tonight through drifts of ambient electronic, modular wanderings, dubwise echoes, some art rock angles, leftfield pop inflections, drone undertows, and the odd burst of experimental pop. Places flicker by: Wormhole World gatherings, Republic of Music corners, Castles in Space haunts, Invisible Inc. pathways, Four Flies shadows, and points scattered from Lancashire to Vilnius, Munich to Mexico City.
The longest stretch in the selection comes from Caught in Joy – Elsewhere, a patient unravelling that lingers in the mind. The shortest snaps past in a flash with Allmanna Town – Sample 24, not even reaching the minute mark.
We begin with Dubberrookie and Winter Weather, a seasonal drift from A Wormhole Xmas 2025 on Wormhole World. Chilled dub pulses meet wintry synth haze, gentle echoes folding into themselves like snow settling on rooftops.
Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Dubberrookie – Winter Weather. Dubberrookie will appear on my upcoming compilation “Puzzles of the Psyche”. There’s still time. Send in your entries by March 25.
Now Floating Points with Precursor, the bonus unreleased cut from the Elaenia 10 Year Anniversary on the Republic of Music label. Sparse piano gestures meet subtle electronic undercurrents, a quiet prelude that breathes slow and deliberate.
Floating Points – Precursor.
Next up Bahia Brazil based artist – Navin Kala offers Vijf from Spinoza on a favourite label of the show Mystery Circles. Minimalist piano lines trace thoughtful paths, space around each note allowing contemplation to gather.
Navin Kala – Vijf. A reminder now if you have a piece of music that has meant a lot to you for some reason tell me about it. I’m putting together a new show called “Chord Confessions” and I need some tales behind the most important music ever released. PM me on the socials or email me trevlad@gmail.com Now back to the show.
Now amping up the drone. Stewart Keller brings Disheveled Zen from the whopping 100 track 2020-2025 Archives. Loosened field recordings and soft electronics tangle in a relaxed, almost accidental calm.
Stewart Keller – Disheveled Zen.
Here’s me Trevlad with Curving Archive Scales from the Trick or Treat 4 compilation on Sounds for the Soul. Archive dust and curving scales weave a long, meditative thread, time marked in subtle modular shifts.
Trevlad – Curving Archive Scales. Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Bernt Haas, who I believe is part of the Cries from the LTN outfit. Also Liquid Shape and The Tall Librarian. Thanks for the follow.
Now Mexico City based artists Eafhm and Mwamwa collaborate on Luzne (Mwamwa Part) from the split release on Secuencias Temporales. Dubby bass hums beneath fragmented vocal traces, a hazy half-step wander.
Eafhm, Mwamwa – Luzne (Mwamwa Part).
And now for something completely different. Deerhoof deliver L’Amour Stories from Apple O’ on Joyful Noise Recordings. Quick, angular art rock bursts with playful yelps and tight rhythmic jabs.
Deerhoof – L’Amour Stories.
Garda slips in Substratum from S-Lyga on the Neotantra label. Deep drone layers build slow atmospheric weight, substratum textures rumbling low.
Garda – Substratum.
Now time to punk it up. Tinned Meats present Caught in the Wild from Kilter on I Heart Noise. Raw edges meet noisy propulsion, caught somewhere between garage grit and wilder impulses. Mad stuff…
Tinned Meats – Caught in the Wild.
And now Keith Seatman with Tonight’s Guests Are? from the forthcoming Counting to Ten Then Back Again on Castles in Space. Radiophonic quirks and psych-folk fragments evoke childhood games and firework packaging memories, playful yet oddly disorienting.
Keith Seatman – Tonight’s Guests Are?
The Polish legend of Coconut Creek, Caught in Joy closes Side A with Elsewhere.
Karol is the most prolific Berlin school artist on the planet. He produces so much quality music on a weekly basis. Which he records live and can be witnessed on his Youtube channel. Analogue drooling adventures. The track Elsewhere is from the release Colorfield. Self released back in mid December. Karol has released 4 albums since then just for some perspective. This is Analogue coloured space drifts to close out the first side of the show.
Side B
We turn the cassette. If you have something you want featured on the shows lease don’t be shy. I’m not on a schedule which means I get to do shows several times a week, which means you won’t have to wait long to hear your music here. Here’s a label that does just that from the fantastic Italian label Four Flies Records. Chiaré opens with Ago e Filo from the album Sei. Italian library echoes meet modern restraint, strings and subtle grooves threading through.
Chiaré – Ago e Filo.
Now LOULA YORKE shares The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without) from Live Compendium 2 on Truxalis. Live-captured modular meditations unfold with quiet intensity, water-like ripples expanding.
LOULA YORKE – The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without).
Next another artist who has contributed in the past to my compilations the fantastic The Music Liberation Front Sweden who arrive with A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing from their collection on Third Kind Records. Warped pop edges bend familiar shapes into something skewed and resilient.
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing.
And Now Higamos Hogamos rework Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager) from Voyager Dubs on Glasgows Invisible, Inc. Deep dub transformations stretch the original into cavernous space.
Higamos Hogamos – Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager).
Francesca Guccione offers Mechanical Promenade from Connected 3 on IUWE Records. Mechanical rhythms promenade alongside delicate electric piano, a poised mechanical dance. A wonderful must have compilation celebrating 9 of the best female experimental electronic out there. In fact the entire label focuses on the beauty of female diversity in electronic music. Enjoy.
Francesca Guccione – Mechanical Promenade.
Komodo Kolektif follow with Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub) also from that Voyager Dubs compilation on Invisible, Inc. Drone devotion meets dub disciple rites, heavy and hypnotic. Invisible, Inc. is a label I wish I could play more of on the channel, and just can’t for financial reasons. They are great so if you can grab some of their beautiful physical releases.
Komodo Kolektif – Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub).
Now friend of the show Russian artist Ndorfik contributes Tahvi from Solos on People Can Listen. 5/8 Idm explorations carve sparse, introspective paths. Ndorfik has enlightened me on the fact that Mixcloud is not available without streaming through VPNs in his neck of the woods. So I send him the files of past shows so he can spread the good word.
Ndorfik – Tahvi.
Now the penultimate track and two masters of the ambient scene. Rhucle & Arbee bring Mournful Sky from Plain on David Cordero curated label Noray Records. Mournful ambient skies drift with gentle melancholy, field-like textures breathing slow.
Rhucle & Arbee – Mournful Sky.
Material for future shows is always welcome. Send your vibrations to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths glow at trevor.se and in each show’s timeline.
Until the next cassette turns.
Trevor, signing off from Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178.
I leave you with the very short track Sample 24 by Allmanna Town Allmanna Town is Phil Dodds who runs the amazing Waxing Crescent Records and my fellow Stockholm dweller Jonas Geiger Ohlin of The New Emphatic fame. this track is from Rodents out on their own Bandcamp imprint. Sampled fragments glitch and reform in rodent-quick bursts.
And that fades us out. Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Dubberrookie – Winter Weather – 01:35
Floating Points – Precursor – 08:18
Navin Kala – Vijf – 14:06
Stewart Keller – Disheveled Zen – 19:21
Trevlad – Curving Archive Scales – 20:45
Eafhm, Mwamwa – Luzne (Mwamwa Part) – 23:52
Deerhoof – L’Amour Stories – 29:14
Garda – Substratum – 31:21
Tinned Meats – Caught in the Wild – 34:30
*Keith Seatman – Tonight’s Guests Are? – 36:56
Caught In Joy – Elsewhere – 39:36
B Side – 47:04
Chiaré – Ago e Filo – 47:43
LOULA YORKE – The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without) – 51:08
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing – 56:50
Higamos Hogamos – Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager) – 1:02:56
Francesca Guccione – Mechanical Promenade – 1:08:49
Komodo Kolektif – Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub) – 1:13:31
Ndorfik – Tahvi – 1:18:51
Rhucle & Arbee – Mournful Sky – 1:23:32
Allmanna Town – Sample 24 – 1:25:32
Outro – 1:27:09
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 177
08 February 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever 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…
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 177. Good night.
Intro – 00:00
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley– Laugh and cricket – 02:13
f5point6 – 432 Hz (Remastered) – 05:12
Time Rival – Deleter – 07:16
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – La chute des dominos – 09:54
Heaven Topology – Heartspace – 12:20
pjpriiincess – my teeth crush bones – 13:32
Masefield Labs – Station Keeping – 16:42
zerosummer – Nebula – 22:54
G!GA LURGH – Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive) – 27:44
Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Under Open Skies – 30:35
Emanuele Errante – Permanent Sunset – 32:47
B Side – 37:22
Trevlad – Glare Belonged Reaction – 37:41
Kreidler – Im Betrieb (IV) – 42:20
Clark – Civilians – 45:20
Pandacetamol – Simply Pour – 49:12
Ed Herbers – The Moon (How Bright It Is) – 51:16
On Idyl – Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood) – 54:54
Apta – Shivers – 1:03:17
Devras Plexi – Relational – 1:08:08
Paul Beaudoin – to hold you safe – 1:12:21
Outro – 1:17:48
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 176
04 February 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve managed to carve out for yourself. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 176. I’m your guide, Trevor.
The cassette sits ready in the deck, labels hand-scribbled, oxide already flaking a bit at the edges. Side A and Side B, twenty artists strung across them like beads on a frayed string. We’ll flip the tape halfway through, that satisfying clunk and hiss, because some things refuse to be digital.
Tonight we drift through ambient drifts, kosmische pulses, drone meditations, a touch of library funk, some psychedelic sprawl, electroacoustic murmurs from places like Bulgaria, the UK, Munich, Buenos Aires, Athens, Rome, Sheffield, Colorado, and a few others that don’t fit neatly on any map. The longest track stretches out patiently, Asha Patera’s – Wandering in the Upside Down from Sounds for the Soul Records, clocking in at just over 11 minutes. Durations aside, none hurry. There’s an exclusive track which open the B side from Moscow artist DEE_KAY and his track Bellcut. But we’ll get to all that in a bit.
Headphones on if you’ve got them. Volume where it feels intimate. Let the kettle whistle if it wants to. The world can wait.
We begin with a January release from the Mahorka label in Bulgaria, a collected volume of drone and teknoiz spanning a decade. Autonomаton offers The UFO project remix—eerie, floating synth washes that suggest something observed from a great height, unhurried and slightly unsettling in the best way. From the album Collected Not Lost 2015-2025 Vol 1: Drone and Teknoiz.
Autonomаton – The UFO project remix.
Next, Mark Ellery Griffiths with Synthi Sequence B. Loops and sequences built on vintage synths, patient repetitions that build quiet architectures. Mark is a regular of my shows and doesn’t get the credit he should. Check out his Bandcamp releases. He’s nudging on 50 and they’re name your price. Synthi Loops Sequences 2025 – Self released back in December.
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Sequence B.
Danielle Nia now, Longing For Togetherness. Warm, enveloping tones from i u we records, a gentle pull toward connection without ever forcing the issue. Stunning patchwork from the great Connected 3 compilation. Released a couple of weeks back on i u we records.
Danielle Nia – Longing For Togetherness.
Greek artist Substak and his track Apartment Window from Belgian ambient label Daydreamers. A quick view onto quiet streets, field recordings woven into subtle rhythms, the sound of somewhere lived-in and watched over time. From the EP Empty Bench – released not two weeks ago.
Substak – Apartment Window.
A good friend of the channel Asha Patera, Wandering in the Upside Down. Dream-logic drifts and inverted atmospheres from Sounds for the Soul Records, like walking through familiar rooms that have rearranged themselves while you slept. The Vale of Shadows – Sounds for the Soul. Which is a Stranger Things inspired ambient compilation. Also released in January. This is the long haul.
Asha Patera – Wandering in the Upside Down.
Belgian artist Jeroen Lauwers is, Red Stars Over Tokyo with In Trance from self released The Burning Spiral. Pulsing, hypnotic acid tinged layers that suggest endless night drives through neon-lit cities that might not exist. The Burning Spiral. released back in December.
Red Stars Over Tokyo – In Trance.
Southend On Sea artist Adrian Lane, After The Deluge. Post-flood calm, piano and strings emerging from residue, reflective, haunted and sparse. Their Ghosts and Ours – out on Sheffields finest Audiobulb.
Adrian Lane – After The Deluge.
Argentinian artist Puppy Bordiga with mRn, Solarium. Collaborative warmth, sunlit electronics and gentle percussion from Walking the Way III. Self released back in November.
Puppy Bordiga with mRn – Solarium.
ATA Records is a label and I can’t get my head around if they are also a band. They really know their library stuff but on this release and others the artist is simply ATA Records, no credits to the artists which is a shame. Anyway This is Tatsuya, The Sword. Library archive material, cinematic and evocative, with a heartfelt flute. drawn from Vol 4. The Library Archive Vol 4 – ATA Records.
ATA Records – Tatsuya, The Sword.
Tape flip. The mechanism clicks, heads realign, oxide continues its slow decay. Side B.
Coming up the exclusive for episode 176 is by Moscow Marist DEE-KEY now, Bellcut. Sharp, precise cuts through ambient haze from Local Gods. Local Gods. Drops next week in the 12 of February. Remember where you heard it first.
DEE-KEY – Bellcut.
Now from one of the best Italian jazz-funk library albums of the ’70s. Oscar Rocchi’s Genziana. Herbal, pastoral electronics evoking wild flowers and Italian hillsides, from Erbe Selvatiche on Four Flies Vaults which is the digital imprint of Four Flies Records.
Oscar Rocchi – Genziana.
Now to a favourite label and a release from November. Grant Beasley, The Vanishing Point. This is the title track. Horizon-line drones and slow dissolves. Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point – Cyclical Dreams.
Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point.
Next filter sweep time. LA artist Good Sunset, Taormina. Which is a hilltop town on the island of Sicily and I bet they have good sunsets there. Sun-drenched, cinematic reveries from Cinema Everything on Mystery Circles.
Good Sunset – Taormina.
And here’s one from me, under Trevlad—EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious). A previous transmission excerpt, layered and recursive. TVCL 07 – Trevlad.
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious).
Next the poppiest piece I’ve played in a good while. Nostalgia 77, You Where In My Dream Last Night. Dream-state jazz inflections, soft and lingering. Love the bass lines and sound. This is the first single from their upcoming EP titled: When The Lights Gone. Which drops on the 1 May on Nostalgia 77’s Bandcamp page.
Nostalgia 77 – You Where In My Dream Last Night.
Next up Guitars and synth with GROSSO GADGETTO, and “the track Once there was only dark”. Apocalyptic soundscapes for a world winding down, from “Soundtrack for a Dying World by Dark Supreme & Grosso Gadgetto”. Sampled voices of Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson.
GROSSO GADGETTO – “Once there was only dark”.
Now get your world music psychedelic slippers on. We’re off to Melbourne Australia. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Flying Microtonal Banana. Microtonal excursions, psychedelic without apology, the shortest in the episode at 2:34 yet packing strange tunings into tight space. From the album of the same fantastic name. Released on the Heavenly Recordings label about a year ago.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana.
Now back to 2021 and some wonky synth chords. Near Stoic, Music For A Friend. Intimate, thoughtful pieces from Notebook Thoughts Short Stories on Third Kind Records. A definite Boards of Canada vibe to this one.
Near Stoic – Music For A Friend.
Now I wish my doorbell sounded more like this. The penultimate track and the ultimate wind down. Miguel Otero, Blooming in Sturton Street. Gentle blooms and street-level calm from Islas Calm Cloud. One of the recent compilations let loose on Whitelabrecs. Get it now…
Miguel Otero – Blooming in Sturton Street.
And before the tape ends. Thanks for staying with it. These transmissions aren’t built for haste, and neither, I suspect, are you. Support the artists if any of this lodged somewhere—buy the music, share the names. Stream this one on Mixcloud for a week if you need to revisit. All the paths and links live at trevor.se.
And if it was possible to close on a chiller note I think I have you covered. We close with Astropilot, The River Knows No Hurry. Flowing, unforced kosmische from Stockholm label Valley View Records, a reminder that some currents simply continue.
Until the next time the cassette calls. Stay resonant. Stay expansive. Let the sounds find their own way.
Trevor, signing off.
Astropilot – The River Knows No Hurry.
Intro – 00:00
Autonomаton – The UFO project remix – 01:45
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Sequence B – 06:21
Danielle Nia – Longing For Togetherness – 09:37
Substak – Apartment Window – 16:03
Asha Patera – Wandering in the Upside Down – 18:25
Red Stars Over Tokyo – In Trance – 28:44
Adrian Lane – After The Deluge – 35:44
Puppy Bordiga w. Various – Solarium (with mRn) – 38:46
ATA Records – Tatsuya, The Sword – 41:43
B Side – 45:35
*DEE-KEY – Bellcut – 45:52
Oscar Rocchi – Genziana – 50:50
Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point – 53:21
Good Sunset – Taormina – 1:01:15
Trevlad– EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious) – 1:04:46
Nostalgia 77 – You Where In My Dream Last Night – 1:07:54
GROSSO GADGETTO – “Once there was only dark” – 1:12:06
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana – 1:20:12
Near Stoic – Music For A Friend – 1:23:08
Miguel Otero – Blooming in Sturton Street – 1:27:32
Astropilot – The River Knows No Hurry – 1:32:45
Outro – 1:36:42
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 174
28 January 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve washed up in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-four. I’m Trevor, turning the reels in the half-light, playing custodian to these sounds that drift in from places most folk never bother to tune toward.
We’ve got twenty artists lined up across the two sides tonight, twenty fragments of cassette spirit. No rush, no hits, no pleading for your attention. Ambient drifts mingle with electroacoustic textures, spiritual jazz breathes alongside kraut-tinged electronics, improv flickers meet drone horizons. Patience is the only ticket required.
Side A coming right up as we ease in with Bary Center and The Source Of Something Greater – Guide Me Through The Hills Of Your Home – Third Kind Records back in 2020. I’d describe this as Textured ambient with a glitch undercurrent, dub-like pulses buried in meditative marshland haze, a quiet hope threading through the sadness.
Then Asheville, North Carolinas Spooqs brings the shortest track of the episode clocking in a 2:27 with Lyskae, The Fissure – Biomes. Cinematic electroacoustic soundscapes, a pilgrimage mapped in melody across dunes and into salt water, landscapes that remember your footprints.
CV Vision follows with The Jam – Bureau B 2025 – Bureau B. A slice from the label’s latest roundup, electronics carrying that Hamburg lineage of krautrock echoes and avant-garde restraint.
The longest offering this round at 6:53 Resonating With Life offers Spinning Out of The Skies – Resonating With Life – Cyclical Dreams. Drone and ambient suspended in slow rotation, skies that keep unfolding long after you’ve looked away.
Another short one at 2:50 Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio step up with Imitation Squid – Wattzotica. Which came out today January 28 on A favourite label and channel sponsoring Mystery Circles. I’d say this is Free improvisation from the Joshua Tree, punk-edged bass from Watt meeting synths and drums in unscripted motion, raw and restless.
GODTET deliver Stepper – +The Sydney Symphony Orchestra – La SAPE records. Spiritual jazz meeting orchestral weight, live from the Sydney Opera House, improvisation threading through fixed structures like light through stone.
Now, me, Trevlad with Obey Beams Starting – TVCL 09. Ambient electronics pulled from the library’s own recent episodes, beams that start quiet and refuse to explain themselves.
Camp of Wolves and Summer’s End – Bear Creek – Castles in Space Lunar Module imprint. Fading seasonal glow, folk-tinged atmospheres cooling into dusk.
Angel Wail – When The Burden Felt Too Heavy. A solitary voice in the weight, A self released single that will be featured on my next compilation Puzzles of the Psyche. A reminder to get your entries in for this before March 25th. This Is classic synth shapings with a sad story.
And closing Side A, one of the longer pieces of the episode at 6:50 Jarguna / Odile Bruckert / Henrik Meierkord close the side with The First Sunrise I Remember – Furrows Of Memory – Projekt Records. Memory etched in gentle field recordings and strings, the first light recalled across years.
Side B.
Hipwell opens with Too Much – Too Much. Available through Island House Recordings. This is Direct, unadorned, a title that says everything and nothing more.
Hipnotic Earth brings Snow Begins To Fall – Islas Calm Cloud – Whitelabrecs. Winter settling in slow layers, calm cloud islands drifting.
OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance and mRn with En el Viento – Southern Lands – Southern Lands. On another show sponsoring label Audiobulb. Wind-carried voices and tones, Argentinas southern latitudes whispering through the mix.
Das Kinn – Nichts – Bureau B 2025 – Bureau B. Another from the Bureau B harvest, negation turned into sound, sparse and deliberate.
Clearways offers Mirage – Latrality. Illusions held in place by careful electronics, edges that shimmer and refuse to solidify.
Serbian artist nedogled with Toplina – Upavi Snovi. Warmth in dream states, tones that wrap rather than strike.
Autistici – 2.25 Degrees of Internalisation – Familiarity Unfolded. Another one out on Audiobulb. Internal shifts measured in fractions, unfolding slow and precise.
London based, Time Attendant brings Lapping Up Flames – The Feral Mould. Flames consumed in reverse, feral shapes moulded into something almost gentle. An odd one this, avant garde in places.
Lorna Dune with Perseids – Sequential Dreaming. Another great release from Mystery Circles. Meteor trails across dreaming sequences, streaking light in the dark.
And now, as the tape hisses toward silence, a few words before we disappear again. Thanks for staying with it. These shows aren’t built for crowds, and neither, perhaps, are you. Support the artists where you can—buy the tapes, the downloads, the vinyl when it appears. Whisper their names into whatever void listens. It matters more than metrics suggest.
This episode streams free on Mixcloud for a week, full links and credits at trevor.se and in the comments. Leave a word if something landed. Or don’t. Quiet has its own frequency.
Until the wind shifts or the reel ends—whichever arrives first—stay resonant, stay expansive, let the universe keep its own counsel.
Antwerp based autumna closes the show with sea flames – Murmurs In The Mist – Trevlad. Flames on water, murmurs rising through fog, a final dissolution.
Don’t miss out on my next compilation. Details on my Bandcamp page.
That was Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-four. Good night.
Intro – 00:00
Bary Center – The Source Of Something Greater – 01:36
Spooqs – Lyskae, The Fissure – 05:45
CV Vision – The Jam – 07:45
Resonating With Life – Spinning Out of The Skies – 10:22
Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Imitation Squid – 16:38
GODTET – Stepper – 19:24
Trevlad – Obey Beams Starting – 23:52
Camp of Wolves – Summer’s End – 29:41
Angel Wail– When The Burden Felt Too Heavy – 33:01
Jarguna / Odile Bruckert / Henrik Meierkord – The First Sunrise I Remember – 36:09
B Side – 43:00
Hipwell – Too Much – 43:16
Hipnotic Earth – Snow Begins To Fall – 47:05
OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance and mRn – En el Viento – 53:21
Das Kinn – Nichts – 58:08
Clearways – Mirage – 1:01:17
nedogled – Toplina – 1:06:24
Autistici – 2.25 Degrees of Internalisation – 1:11:43
Time Attendant – Lapping Up Flames – 1:15:11
Lorna Dune – Perseids – 1:19:08
autumna – sea flames – 1:23:20
Outro – 1:29:00
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 173
27 January 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve drifted into. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-three. I’m Trevor, turning the reels in the quiet hours.
We approach this one as always—with the old cassette in mind. Side A first, then the satisfying clunk of the flip midway through. Twenty artists tonight, drawn from the shelves where the quieter signals live. Expect drifts of drone and deep ambient, patches of electroacoustic haze, touches of field-recorded exotica, slow-unfolding modular pulses, and the occasional submerged melody that surfaces like something half-remembered from another room. Places flicker through too: underwater trenches, Los Angeles highways at off-hours, Mediterranean dream coasts, vast starry processions, the interior of mechanical bird boxes, and the soft geometries of winter rooms.
No rush. No hooks to grab you. Only the slow uncoiling of sound.
Side A – 00:00
We begin with Nelson, British Columbia based Codedekay and out of place, from Vol. 9 – The Struggle on (We Are The New Underground) Weatnu Records. A patient unfolding of displaced tones, edges softened by time and repetition.
Then an old pseudonym of the artist Time Rival is Supply Fi who brings Unruly Cascade, taken from Unruly Predation on Triplicate Records who I believe Michael Southard, Time Rivals, Supply Fi’s real name, helped create. Cross-genre currents here—ambient electronics that fold and fracture without ever quite settling. Grab this, it’s a name your price release.
I know we’re all over the Christmas vibe already. But at least here in Sweden the snow lies thick. So here’s Omni Gardens with Winter Wonderland, from the Christmas release on Moon Glyph. Familiar seasonal shapes viewed through gauze, Moog warmth and mellotron drift turning the usual into something hushed and interior.
Now one of the channels favourites with some 90s vibe Lounge. I get a hint of Lemon Jelly wafting through this one. THE GAYE DEVICE offers Argent Echo from Routes. Silvered reflections in electronic form, routes that loop back on themselves with deliberate calm.
This next one is the opening track on my second compilation release. This is Ursula’s Cartridges who submerges us in Mighty Underwater Adventure (UC’s Challenger Deep Remix), from Resonances from the Depths. Dubbed echoes refracted through deep pressure, bubbles rising slow.
Things fall apart now with Dissolved who arrives with Alveolate Minds, Exposure Fields on Mahorka. Grainy, fragmented atmospheres—drone and broken beats meeting in alveolar spaces, porous and breathing.
Belgian artist MICADO gives us An Afternoon Reflection from Mindscapes on Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams. Gentle modular lines catching light, a pause where the day leans back.
Now to help us into the zone is Dormance who closes the first side with Dormance 14, from II on Mahorka. Pure dormancy—Squeaky toys, dub tones, and a spoon in a tumble dryer do half the work.
Flip the tape. Listen for the mechanism.
Opening the B side is channel champion brain, melting, Stephen James Buckley aka, Polypores opens the reverse with The Body Is The Spaceship, Hungry Vortex. The longest track of the episode clocking in at 11:30. Organic electronics as vessel, pulsing inward and outward in equal measure. Get everything Stephen releases and thank me later.
Now a haunting melody of the free by Kilmarth feat. Silly Shadow with A Paradox So Cruel from Cherophobia on Adventurous Music. Paradox held lightly—shadows and light in tender opposition.
Next the shortest track of the episode at 1:36 Elijah Fox drifts through Her Palace from Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles. Highway-side reveries, palace built from exhaust and sunset haze.
Now into the darkness with Autonomаton who present Endless stars procession from Collected Not Lost 2015-2025 Vol. 1 on Mahorka. Dub Drones tracing constellations in slow parade.
Next up Michal Turtle & HOVE with Only Sawdust Remains from Sawdust Dreams. Sawdust as memory material, fragile and aromatic. A pumping beat over tribal vibes.
Friend of the show now and a short one. Not the artist but the track. I have no idea what Dave Clarkson’s height is. Here he conjures Mechanical Bird Box Exotica from The Ghosts of Christmas Past and the Effects on Mental Health on Mortality Tables. Clockwork birds singing through antique mechanisms, exotica tuned to melancholy.
Here’s an adventurous outing by Edward Givens with Rapid Eye Movement (a Dance) from the album, Terra. Dream-state pagan motion, eyes flicking beneath lids.
Here an offering of my own. This is Trevlad with EXPANSIVE WAVES 20 (Airtime Text Reacting) from TVCL-08. Airtime caught in reactive loops—waves folding back on their own transmission.
Now French synth miestro Alex Ringess with the final track And Now Let’s Play This New Game from Asynchronicity. Asynchronous invitation, rules written in delay and overlap.
Next an odd one by Catharæ with In my world from Dreams of the Mediterranéant on Adventurous Music. Mediterranean shores remade as interior landscape, trails tracing the mind.
And now the penultimate piece some deep bass tones from Christian Kleine who brings Slow from the 2025 Label Compilation mixed by Todos on A Strangely Isolated Place. Deliberate tempo, everything given room to breathe.
And now, as the tape nears the end, a few words before the leader. Thanks for staying with it. These programmes aren’t built for playlists or quick consumption, and neither are the ears that find them. Support the artists when you can—buy the music, name their work in quiet corners. It matters more than algorithms admit.
This episode streams free for a week on Mixcloud, links and credits at trevor.se and in the comments. Say something if the mood takes you. Or let the silence hold. Both are welcome.
I leave you with the wonderful Sussex Telecom who signs off with Kendophaz from the 2022 release Creator Warehouse on channel sponsoring Third Kind Records. Phased signals from some coastal telecom exchange, wires humming in the wind.
Until the next wind or the next run-out groove—stay resonant, stay expansive. Let the frequencies find their own way back to you. Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Codedekay – out of place – 01:54
Supply Fi – Unruly Cascade – 04:44
Omni Gardens – Winter Wonderland – 10:35
THE GAYE DEVICE – Argent Echo – 13:20
Ursula’s Cartridges – Mighty Underwater Adventure (UC’s Challenger Deep Remix) – 16:41
Dissolved – Alveolate Minds – 26:59
MICADO – An Afternoon Reflection – 30:16
Dormance – Dormance 14 – 38:50
B Side – 43:38
Polypores – The Body Is The Spaceship – 43:55
Kilmarth – A Paradox So Cruel (feat. Silly Shadow) – 55:11
Elijah Fox – Her Palace – 59:30
Autonomаton – Endless stars procession – 1:00:36
Michal Turtle & HOVE – Only Sawdust Remains – 1:06:02
Dave Clarkson – Mechanical Bird Box Exotica – 1:14:19
Edward Givens – Rapid Eye Movement (a Dance) – 1:16:32
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 20 (Airtime Text Reacting) – 1:19:40
Alex Ringess – And Now Let’s Play This New Game – 1:22:16
Catharæ – In my world – 1:27:53
Christian Kleine – Slow – 1:31:16
Sussex Telecom – Kendophaz – 1:33:23
Outro – 1:38:47
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 170
21 January 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve managed to carve out for yourself. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy. I’m Trevor, pulling another virtual tape from the imaginary shelf, blowing off the fantasy dust, and sliding it into the dreamed up deck.
Cassette tapes have two sides, of course. We’ll play through Side A, then flip it—virtually, mind you—and carry on with Side B. Twenty artists tonight, drawn from various corners, various decades in some cases, but all of them worth the time. No rush. The show runs as long as the tape does.
Styles drift across ambient swells from northern latitudes, submerged electronics that sound like sonar pings in forgotten wrecks, sparse house pulses, field-recorded quietudes, kinetic experiments, and a few moments of outright joyful confusion. Places echo through too: underwater depths around the MV Creteblock, Japanese winter clear skies in fuyubare which is Japanese and means just that, clear winter skies. We have snow-covered expanses in Stella Rossa territory, and various abstracted laboratories of sleep and decryption.
Side A kicks off with Berlin based, Metric System 1981 – Diffusion – Solar Return: Gollden Hour Mix – out on Toronto based ambient label – Imaginary North.
A slow unfurling of synthetic haze, layers peeling back like morning mist over still water. Patient, golden-hour glow without the need for resolution.
Don’t be fooled by this chilled opening Now we ramp up the party with Oh Mr James – The Acid Riddle – Extracellular Gig Ticket Promo CD I’ve been ranting about on the past couple of episodes – Buried Treasure.
Acid lines twist through a riddle of percussion and odd vocal fragments. Something peculiar and insistent lurks here, half-buried in the mix.
Taking us back down now, to a much darker place is Warmfield – Wreck of the MV Creteblock – Resonances from the Depths – Which is my own compilation album released on the Trevlad Bandcamp page. Pick it up for a buck. It’s got 24 Stellar artists. And a reminder to get your entries in for the next compilation dropping at the end of March.
Deep submersion piece, creaking hulls and distant bubbles. Feels like listening from inside a sunken freighter somewhere in cold northern seas. Warmfield with Wreck of the MV Creteblock
Now we’re entering Electro world with Revok – No Reflection – Mirror – A digital Bandcamp self release.
Mirrors without reflections: stark, echoing electronics that fold in on themselves. Minimal surfaces, maximum unease.
Over we drift to Lawrence – Spark – Spark EP – Ghostly International, which dropped way back in 2004.
A gentle house flicker, warm and understated. Spark as in ignition, but slow-burning, Detroit lineage felt in the restraint.
And now an absolute belter. This will have you on your feet in no time. In fact I featured it on my new series called Alone on the dance floor along with that Revok piece I played earlier. This is Baxter Dury – with the title track from the album Allbarone – Out on London based Heavenly Recordings.
Spoken-edged narratives over loose grooves. Pub philosophy meets off-kilter funk, delivered deadpan.
Shuffling up the genres again now. So how about some psych-surf rock? This is The Hamiltones – Suit Up – In Space – A name your price release on Buffalo, New York based Swimming Faith Records.
Cosmic soul strut, horns and tight rhythms lifting off into orbit. Feels like getting dressed for a mission beyond the atmosphere.
Now for some super fresh Electro stabs from SubDan – You – Moments of Joy – Out on Nottingham, UK based Remnants records.
Quiet joy in electronic form, soft pads and subtle shifts. A moment caught and held.
Now some gorgeous IDM from Djrum – Waxcap – Under Tangled Silence – Out on London label Houndstooth.
Mycelial rhythms, fungal growth in sound. Percussion that breathes, field recordings woven into the undergrowth.
The penultimate track of the A side brings the bliss with Luis Miehlich – 冬晴 (Fuyubare) – Verses – Out on the Dewtone label.
Winter clear sky translated to tones: crystalline, open space, Japanese seasonal precision in ambient form.
We end the A side in field recording teratory Lorebound – Tales of Decryption – AvRPG – Available on South Korean label Prekursor
Encrypted narratives unlocked layer by layer. RPG ambience with cryptic melodies emerging from static.
B Side
We open with some pretty wild jazz from Ljubljana, Slovenia based Etceteral – Minus – Kimatika – Out on Glitterbeat Records.
Subtraction as composition: negative space filled with sparse tones and distant pulses.
Next an old favorite of mine in the form of Benge – Five Fifty Eight – Orgoustic Plus 30.
Modular drift, clockwork precision meeting organic warmth. Time marked in subtle increments.
Now Tom Bragl – Tidal Force – Pielesh – Out on name your price Finnish label Kahvi Collective
Gravitational pull in electronic waves, tides rising slow and inevitable.
Next up Alexander Caminada aka Phonosonic – The Drifting Quiet – Sleeplaboratory60 – Whitelabrecs.
Quiet that drifts rather than settles. Field recordings and gentle drones in a sleep lab haze. I’ve played a lot from this compilation so go grab it on whitelabrecs.
While we’re on this record let’s take another dip with Tides – Light Veils –
Veils of light over water, translucent layers shimmering. Companion piece feel, same whitelabs stillness.
Now we head back to Buried treasure and that amazing Extracellular exclusive this time from Gong Girl – Kinetic Kinetic Kinetic – Extracellular Gig Ticket Promo CD.
Kinetic energy in perpetual motion, circling without landing.
So what’s missing from the episode? Ah, flutes and xylophones I hear you cry. Well I’ve got you covered. Not me personally but Dual Dialect – Conglomerate III – Meme-leak Mosaic – Conglomerate EP – out on Aussie label 4000 records.
Mosaic of leaking fragments, dialect collisions in glitch and rhythm. Chaotic assembly.
Lovely stuff there from Dual Dialect. Now to the penultimate track of episode 170 from mate of the channel. Simon Heartfield – Across The Snow – Stella Rossa – all live hardware stuff zero computers. Featuring a vocal samples by Isle of Wight artist Roberta Fidora.
Snowfield traversal: cold expanse, distant horizons in melodic ambient strokes.
To end this episode we bliss out with two artists I’ve played in previous outings but not together. Well here they are. Anita Tatlow & Runaway Horses – with the opening piece from their 5 track EP – The Shore from Above – The his is – confused and happy – out on Echoes Blue Music.
Shoreline vantage, happiness tangled with confusion. Voices and strings adrift on the edge.
Outro –
And then the tape will wind to the end. Thanks for staying with it. These selections aren’t chasing trends or filling slots—they’re simply pieces I wanted to hear in sequence. Support the artists where you can: Bandcamp pages, physical releases if they exist, or at least send a whisper of appreciation their way. It all travels further than you think.
This episode streams on Mixcloud for a short while, links and full credits at trevor.se, comments open if anything strikes you. Or stay quiet. Quiet has its own frequency.
Until the next tape calls—stay curious, stay listening. Here is Anita Tatlow & Runaway Horses with confused and happy.
Intro – 00:00
Metric System 1981 – Diffusion – 01:36
*Oh Mr James – The Acid Riddle – 04:41
Warmfield – Wreck of the MV Creteblock – 08:06
Revok – No Reflection – 12:36
Lawrence – Spark – 16:21
Baxter Dury – Allbarone – 22:29
The Hamiltones – Suit Up – 26:34
SubDan – You – 29:39
Djrum – Waxcap – 34:43
Luis Miehlich – 冬晴 (Fuyubare) – 39:28
Lorebound – Tales of Decryption – 42:39
B Side – 44:40
Etceteral – Minus – 44:58
Benge – Five Fifty Eight – 48:56
Tom Bragl – Tidal Force – 54:20
Alexander Caminada – The Drifting Quiet – 1:00:02
Tides – Light Veils – 1:03:54
Gong Girl – Kinetic Kinetic Kinetic – 1:08:20
Dual Dialect – Conglomerate III – Meme-leak Mosaic – 1:11:31
Simon Heartfield – Across The Snow – 1:15:29
Anita Tatlow & Runaway Horses – confused and happy – 1:19:54
Outro – 1:23:46
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Alone on the Dance Floor 01
For people that dance to a different tune.
00:00:00 Multiplex – AI novox
00:04:35 Saïph – Tellurkraft
00:08:49 Revok – No Reflection
00:12:38 Baxter Dury – Allbarone
00:16:36 Pulses – This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
00:21:12 WEALDHAM – Spectral Points
00:25:06 Autechre – Tankraken
00:29:44 Le Morte d’Abby – Perturbation
00:36:53 WDX – Interval
00:41:03 H-M O – Rise and Shine
00:43:50 Stefan Gubatz – Mono
00:47:38 Fflwcs – Calon
00:52:19 Rapides in dub / Dirty Bongo – track 00
00:54:40 Voidscan – Beneath The Weight of Dreams
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 169
17 January 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
This is Trevor here, on the 17th of January 2026. Bringing you Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, cassette number 169.
Two sides, as ever. A flip in the middle. Twenty names scratched onto the insert in biro that’s starting to fade.
We begin Side A, with Lisbon Portugal based JB Kyron and Tony Watts who together call themselves Hidden Horse — Trespass Into The Maze from their forthcoming release Renewer and also on the
upcoming vinyl compilation Extracellular — from Buried Treasure. Which, at the moment can only be heard on CD when you purchase a Gig Ticket Promo. A gig featuring some great acts highlighting avant-garde abstraction & hip-swinging electronica which takes place at the Rising Sun Arts Centre, in Reading, on the 28th of February. Tickets are only 6 pounds. A no brainer if you’re in that neck of the woods.
Trespass Into The Maze is a slow unfurling of field recordings and distant bells, like walking through fog that remembers your footsteps.
So headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Next up is Scottish artist.
Veryan — and the remix version of Needles At The Bottom Of The Sea, by Jules Straw aka, Pinklogik. Taken from the three track, name your price, self released, Broken Mirrors EP.
Deep sub-aquatic drift, pulses that rise and fall like breath under pressure.
Dolphins of Venice — Guldschmitt
From Captains of Industry — Mahorka.
Golden drones meet faint mechanical clatter, somewhere between Venice canals and abandoned factories.
Coming up the channels best friend in the form of Gareth Evans also known as Horrowdwarf or HDRF — here with one of the many great tracks from my own curated 45 track compilation Resonances From The Depths. Gareth is one of those people you’re happy to have on the planet, and deserves at least a plaque for being himself.
Layered aquatic melancholy, synths that bubble and subside without ever quite surfacing. HDRF, But Drowning.
Now some damp drones from Mosaicist — Unseen For The Day
From The Fog Is Lifting — released back in November on Whitelabrecs.
Quiet guitar figures dissolve into haze, the sound of light slowly leaving a room.
Now another track from that Buried treasure Extracellular compilation from
Domotic — Ossature. Originally released on the self released Fourrure Sounds Vol. 2 —
Bone-dry textures and soft fur-like pads, intimate and strangely tactile with bonkers bubbling percussive sequences.
Next up LA based Steve Pacheco takes us out into the clouds with — Aspen Grove
From Islas Calm Cloud — Whitelabrecs.
Gentle wind through high branches, sparse piano notes caught in the aspens.
Now from Antwerp, Belgium Gregory Geerts also known as, Strangebird~Sounds brings us some Eurorack modular magic with the track — FLUORITE
From Minerals Form The Crust
Crystalline resonances, mineral shimmer that feels both ancient and newly formed. Released on Audiobulb Records yesterday.
Another exclusive track also from Audiobulb records now from idiiom wonderful improvised vocalisations in the title track Neural Network dropping on the 7th of February.
Glitching, half-remembered machine dreams, edges that blur between code and consciousness.
Finishing off the A side is an artists I played yesterday on the EXPANSIVE WAVES episode. This is applecore — fmbient
From Contact At The Deep Bottom — a name your price release that dropped on the 11th of January via the Mahorka label.
Warm, lo-fi ambient hum, like a distant server farm breathing in the night.
Side B
Starting of the second half of the show is a release from yesterday from Argentinian synthesist Ulises Labaronnie — Evening thoughts
From Cycles De Mémoire — Cyclical Dreams.
Reflective, almost elegiac pads that drift through twilight memory.
And now Bernard Grancher — with, excuse my French, Sous les flots incertains et la fange du matin, which translates as Under the uncertain floods and the mire of the morning
From Astra Lumen Solaria which dropped January 6th on artist curated label Astra Solaria Recordings.
Blissful retro synth currents, morning mud, slow and deliberate.
Gareth Jones — erSprach
From Mortality Tables single — released January 12th on Mortality Tables.
Odd sampled fragments, suspended in vast reverb, half incantation.
And now the brothers Clive and Mark Ives also known as Woo — Abstract Objects
From the album M=C — Self released on the 21st of December.
Floating, free-form abstraction, gentle percussion that never quite commits to rhythm.
Some deep drone now from the legends The Black Dog — Sleep Deprivation 44: Frayed Edges Consciousness
From The Black Dog Presents Sleep Deprivation Greatest Hits Vol. 3.
Exhausted, fraying electronics, the sound of a mind at 4 a.m. still refusing to shut down.
Now a name we’ve all grown up with in Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk fame here with the track Another Reality
From the compilation Bureau B 2025
Kosmische pulse, clean and measured, a doorway left ajar to somewhere parallel.
We head back to Whitelabrecs and a release that dropped today in the form of the must have compilation Sleeplaboratory6.0 here is French artist Eric Allietta better known as Ancient Astronaut — Lightened.
Weightless drift, light slowly returning after long dark.
Rutger Zuydervelt — House of Strength
From House of Strength — released last November on the amazing Dutch label, Dronarivm.
Architectural drones, solid yet permeable, like walking through rooms made of sound.
The penultimate piece from the episode is also an exclusive track from Third Kind Records 5 quid subscription service which entitles subscribers to exclusive stuff as well as 50% off merch.
Rupert Lally & Nicholas Langley — Acid Pavilions
Acid-touched modular wanderings, pavilions erected and dismantled in the same breath.
Before the reels slow, a few words.
Thanks for staying with it. These tapes aren’t made for playlists or algorithms.
They’re made for the hours when the rest of the world has gone quiet.
If anything here stayed with you, find the artists, buy the music, keep the small labels breathing.
Stream this one on Mixcloud while it lasts, links and credits at trevor.se and in the comments.
Say something if the mood takes you. Or say nothing. Both are fine.
I was recently back in Dublin for a few days and met with a couple of my closest friends from the past. At the honorary pub session there was excitement about this final act. Who are new to me oddly. Thanks to Garret and Graham for the heads up. This is
Thee Oh Sees — Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster
From Floating Coffin — Self released
Garage-psych motorik churn, the only moment tonight where things get properly physical.
Until the next cassette finds its way into the deck—stay resonant.
Trevor, signing off.
Intro – 00:00
*Hidden Horse – Trespass Into The Maze – 00:20
Veryan – Needles At The Bottom Of The Sea (Pinklogik Remix) – 05:01
Dolphins of Venice – Guldschmitt – 09:30
HDRF – But Drowning – 13:15
Mosaicist – Unseen For The Day – 15:46
Domotic – Ossature / Fourrure Sounds – 21:16
Steve Pacheco – Aspen Grove – 23:55
Strangebird~Sounds – FLUORITE – 33:49
idiiom – Neural Network – 36:39
applecore – fmbient – 40:53
B Side – 43:52
Ulises Labaronnie – Evening thoughts – 44:20
Bernard Grancher – Sous les flots incertains et la fange du matin – 47:09
Gareth Jones – erSprach – 50:32
Woo – Abstract Objects – 53:24
The Black Dog – Sleep Deprivation 44: Frayed Edges Consciousness – 54:26
Karl Bartos – Another Reality – 58:15
Ancient Astronaut – Lightened – 1:01:12
Rutger Zuydervelt – House of Strength – 1:04:57
*Rupert Lally & Nicholas Langley – Acid Pavilions – 1:12:54
Thee Oh Sees – Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster – 1:18:05
Outro – 1:22:24
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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EXPANSIVE WAVES 22
16 Janurary 2026
INTRO – 00:00
Patrick R. Pärk – Meandering Infinite Rotor – 00:42
Caught In Joy – Copenhagen Magic – 15:11
*Sons of Faust – Neverthelessness – 27:22
This is an exclusive track included as a Bonus track on the vinyl release of Pioneers Without Frontiers
American Astro Monkey Project – Selective Mix Part 2 – 46:31
applecore – contact at the deep bottom – 1:13:02
Martin Stürtzer – Long Range Signal – 1:26:41
WHI Recordings – Descending-Snowdon – 1:43:47
The Gaye Device – Mystie Blue – 1:56:03
*track is unreleased at the the time of the episode’s publication.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 167
14 January 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Intro – 00:00
Blank Thomas – Mencase – 00:23
Aphex Twin – Portreath Harbour – 03:21
Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project (ft. Amelie Orator) – a symbiotic relationship – 06:30
Autumn Of Communion – Rhea – 09:23
Jo Johnson – Unpicking Remnant 1 – 19:53
Elastic colors – Simple like the other one – 27:11
Everyday Dust – The Colossal Skeleton – 29:26
x.y.r. – dennis in wonderland – 33:31
Trevlad – Nest Infants Talents – 38:34
The Lifted Index – Collapsing the Vanguard – 40:12
B Side – 42:59
willowlaun – intersectional (feat. gregory darden) – 43:24
Secret Nuclear – Echoing – 48:01
Sven Wunder – Daybreak – 51:19
Hélène Vogelsinger – Mirror Arcana – XXI. The World – 53:01
Kaiho Zion – Who listens to the voice of a parrot in the midst of big drums – 54:09
Michele Andreotti – Laubia – 57:59
odd person – absolutely haunted – 1:01:26
Virgo – Oblivion – 1:04:06
WNDFRM – WVLT 021 – 1:09:53
Fallen – Lost Empathy, New Complicity – 1:15:02
Outro – 1:21:25
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 166
12 January 2026
Virtual mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists, two sets. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Intro – 00:00
Drew Mulholland – Serpents – 01:39
Animal Visions – sassafras – 02:40
EKT – Burn Bag – 06:29
LuC. – BODY (The After World) – 11:44
Nonima + Abdicant – AMBERSEQ – 20:15
Le Morte d’Abby – Escape Velocity – 25:57
Stephen Lopkin – Pigment (Part 1) – 31:24
Agnes Martian – Elsewhere – 36:23
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Different Rooms (feat. Josh Johnson) – 42:38
B Side – 49:55
Dunya – Gravity Elastic Feelings – 50:17
S. Costa – Truth Home – 54:47
Constant Little Ghost – sandcastles – 1:00:05
Talkdemonic – Awake in the Dark – 1:05:26
Christian Wittman – Blue Snowball Nebula – 1:09:32
o[rlawren] – poiesis – 1:14:52
Thme – Moving, So Slowly – 1:19:56
Eucalyptus – Up Express – 1:25:16
Trevlad – Awoken Fancied Powers – 1:33:20
*Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell, Alya Al Sultani – Let The Light In – 1:37:12
madebyitself – f33lings – 1:45:11
Outro – 1:49:58
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 165
10 January 2026
Virtual 90 minute mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 30 artists, two 45 minute sets. A spoken intro followed by music only show. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
“Hello, Trevor here, and this is the all new Virtual Cassette Library and episode one‑six‑five.
First up we have the La Ponto Ensemblo which is actually a duo made up of Hans-Dieter Schmidt and Edward-Clark Cornell who together make delicate and harsh neo-classical pieces. This is track five from their latest release Fragile Objects: In A Harsh Environment.
Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.
Next up an old favourite of mine in the form of fellow Irishman David K. Mason. Better known as Listening Center. Mason is now based in New York and runs the rather fantastic Temporary tapes label. Although this track, Plugged In Nollaig, (nollaig being Irish for Christmas) is from the Subexotic Records compilation EP Yule 25.
Just a heads up, starting back on episode 156, there’s a little cipher game running through the series. Each episode, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten episodes, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ll get it right.
Now next up the original sounds of Sam Prekop. Sam is a master of modular synthesis. This is the title track from his latest release Open Close which is available through Thrill Jockey Records.
Now Mark Donlon also known as CZiGO with the dare I say jazz fusion injected piece, SERPITUDE, from his album, Techno Feudal. The latest to drop on New Zealand based Machine Records.
Now Russian artist NDORFIK with the Idm vibe Saimaa which is named after a Finnish lake and here is given a Finnish remix by the legendary Lackluster. The album of the same name is available through the Local Gods label.
Next up is from the i u we records label. A label focussing on the beauty of female diversity in electronic music.
The artist is Silver Galaky and is a duo made up of Anna-Maria Van Reusel on modular and keyboard synthesizers, and usually a very imaginative guitarist Dennis Slypen. Although this piece might well be just anna letting loose on her 5U Moon Modular system. The track is Strahlensammler and is from the upcoming compilation release connected #3. Dropping on i u we records on the 20th of January.
Now one of my favourite Swedish artists at the moment. Albin Johansson who simply goes by the name Albin. Everything Albin has released is gold. He has that retro library music ear which I cherish. This is the title track from the name your price EP DFAM which I believe is entirely written on the Moog Drummer From Another Mother. Albin is also a curator of the Malmö label Paltunes. Let’s go.
And now staying in Sweden in a way. from my neighbours up the road Passed Recordings recent, must have Chrimbo compilation The Ghost of Christmas passed I’ve pulled another great track from the 35 piece strong release in the form of this short entry, Snowfields by the artist Angel who I no nothing about. Enjoy…
Next up a long live piece I’ve kept its entirety for the episode. This is the artist Ryan Watts who goes by the wonderful name of Akira Film Script. Here with the piece E. Not to be confused with E or E.. Which are tracks on the same album titled Live at the Modern. It’s released on a label you should all know by now, whitelabrecs run by the unstoppable Harry Towell.
And now to end the virtual A side another figure of the ambient scene who does more than his fair share, Boris Potschubay who we all know as Jogging House. Boris curates the fantastic label Seil Records on which he has released the album Kiosk. Here he is with the track Worn.
Starting off the B side was the wonderful harp-like piano sounds and jazz phrasings of Brooklyn based artist Eliot Krimsky with the track, Transmission, from the album, I Made My House. Out on the outstanding Moon Glyph
Next a track of my own titled Trunk Stubbed Wiser which is a What3Words geographical location where I’ve filmed a visual to go with the piece on youtube.
It’s from the album TVCL 07.
Now a legend who for me embodies the late 90s IDM mood. French artist Alain Pachins, better known as, CIALYN here with a live take called, Last Lights / Winds Reader, from the album, 24:1900 Session Live.
Now to Melbourne bassist and producer Karl Willebrant. The ultra prolific Willebrant has released two albums since the release of The Knight Seas which was released in November. Here is an almost 11 minute treat, Thoughts of Them (A Knight on a Beach Mix – slowed and reverb)
Next up the unmistakable organic electronic sound of KILN which is actually a group made up of Kevin Hayes, Kirk Marrison, and Clark Rehberg III. Here is a track from their 8th album, Lemon Borealis. Which was released on the wonderful label, A Strangely Isolated Place. This is Ptarmigan which is a form of grouse found in northern and arctic regions.
And now a short piece from the fun Dutch artist Toxic Chicken. This is the track, Inner Worlds, from the album, Felicity out on the brilliant label Ingrown Records.
Staying with Ingrown Records, here is another quicky, from label curator, Raw Ryan , here as the artist, Anubis Rude, and the 37 second ditty, Spirit Bell, from the album, Explorer. Support the Ingrown Records label. It’s needed.
Next up Jason Courtney aka, In Darkness There Is Light shortened to (IDTiL),
and another Machine Records release titled, A Screensaver Of Emotions, this is the pumping minute long, Ahhhh Sequence.
Now to the penultimate track and something different from British born, Vienna based, Mark Peter Royce Featuring Cecilia C from Tempestine and the track, Antidote, from the album Twilight in the Altered World.
We end with the beautiful ambient warblings of Collette Andrea who goes by the name Gollden. Collette helps curate the Toronto based label Imaginary North together with Daniel Field of Kilometre Club fame. Thank you all for tuning into episode 165 of the Virtual Cassette library. I hope you like its new direction. Sending us home is Gollden with, destiny #9, from the album, Destiny.
Intro – 00:00
La Ponto Ensemblo – V – 00:45
Listening Center – Plugged In Nollaig – 04:43
Sam Prekop – Open Close – 07:35
CZiGO – SERPITUDE – 13:07
Ndorfik – Saimaa (Lackluster Remix) – 16:05
Silver Galaxy – Strahlensammler – 19:40
Albin – DFAM – 24:40
Angel – Snowfields – 28:47
Akira Film Script – E. – 32:22
Jogging House – Worn – 42:25
B Side – 45:02
Eliot Krimsky – Transmission – 45:31
Trevlad – Trunk Stubbed Wiser – 47:56
CIALYN – Last Lights / Winds Reader – 52:24
Willebrant – Thoughts of Them (A Knight on a Beach Mix – slowed and reverb) – 58:26
KILN – Ptarmigan – 1:07:40
Toxic Chicken – Inner Worlds – 1:10:35
Anubis Rude – Spirit Bell – 1:12:04
IDTiL – Ahhhh Sequence – 1:12:35
Mark Peter Royce – Antidote (Feat. Tempestine) – 1:13:37
Gollden – destiny #9 – 1:17:33
Outro – 1:21.23
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