You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A harbour drawn in soft pencil, then a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting. Side A keeps the seaweed’s appointment with the tide, still feels the earth turn under autumn leaves, dwells in holds large enough to stay, leaves an uncatalogued card in the drawer on purpose, lets silent water hold its breath so you can hear the room, and insists the clock has already spoken. Side B prefers the present tense inside a mutual blur, arrives as “we” with the nights already longer, receives a sincere note from the mothership, pauses between acts with the curtain half-raised, clips the verbs of quiet figures so the meaning stays intact, and lets the low cloud say hello in its own register. Overall mood: Slightly seasonal, and quietly precise — full of soft harbours, open scores, and sentences shortened but still whole. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that are still listening, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A Mood mist: a harbour drawn in soft pencil, an earth still turning under autumn, holds large enough to dwell in, a card left out of the catalogue, water that keeps its counsel, a clock that insists on the hour.
00:02:18 From A Harbour Softly Drawn (Fraser McGowan) – Seaweed (Exclusive Track) Album: Shepherds. Label: DRONARIVM Shepherds, DRONARIVM. The green that keeps the tide’s appointment, soft as the harbour that drew it. 00:08:23 Ed Herbers – I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-still-feel-the-earth-turn Album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings Season Cycle: Autumn, Passed Recordings. Title of the hour. The ground still doing its quiet work under the leaves. 00:10:04 Many Pretty Blooms – Immense Holds https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/immense-holds Album: Dwell On Beauty. Label: whitelabrecs Dwell on beauty, whitelabrecs. The climb that prefers to stay, and the view that agrees. 00:15:32 Ümlaut – Uncatalogued https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mlaut-uncatalogued Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique Source unknown, Camembert Électrique. Jeff Düngfelder’s card left in the drawer on purpose. The house still listening. 00:24:27 Luca Longobardi – Aqua Tacita https://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/track/aqua-tacita-2 Album: Aqua Tacita. Label: Seil Records Silent water, Seil. The surface holding its breath so you can hear the room. 00:31:17 Portland Vows – Cuckoo https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/track/cuckoo Album: Cuckoo. Label: Third Kind Records Third Kind. Everything is the case, and the case is the clock, and the clock has already spoken.
Side B Mood mist: a blur that prefers the present tense, a we that arrived with the nights drawing in, a note from a mothership, an interval between acts, quiet figures with their verbs trimmed, a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A stone cut in a century that has already left, then a MicroKorg noticing the room has changed. Side A polishes a gemstone that arrived already old, keeps the distant sea far enough that you can hear it and stay dry, leaves an extra chair for two girls and the half that stayed, counts masts the harbour fog is still deciding to show, gathers every last drop, and opens a portal onto a room you have already been in. Side B lets the moon wobble a little more than it meant to show, hums rare earths through a circuit board in a language older than the plug, listens as a Connecticut house stretches fridge and rain into a room you can stand in, counts ninety minutes of air still in the lungs, files a ghost that already knew the address, and lets a stolen memory agree the room has changed. Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly haunted, and quietly domestic — full of polite distances, home-shelf murmurs, and water that remains generous with the air. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that pay attention, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a stone cut in a century that has already left, a sea kept at a polite distance, two girls and the half that stayed, masts drawn in fog, a drop counted to the end, a portal that remembers you first.
00:02:18 Sophos – From another time https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/sophos-from-another-time Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]. Label: Cyclical Dreams Gemstones VII, the facet that arrived already old. Cyclical Dreams polishing it anyway. Title of the hour. 00:05:15 Ghostloop – The Distant Sea https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-distant-sea Album: The Distant Sea. Label: Noray Records (Exclusive track) Noray keeping the water far enough that you can hear it and still stay dry. 00:09:52 Restive Plaggona – Two Girls (And A Half) https://dvntt.bandcamp.com/track/two-girls-and-a-half Album: Leftina / Osha. Label: DVNTT Leftina, Osha, and the fraction that walked between them. DVNTT leaving the extra chair. 00:12:44 The Earl of Dean – Masts In The Harbour Fog https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/masts-in-the-harbour-fog Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings Passed Oceans counting the spars you can see and the ones the mist is still deciding to show. 00:19:41 Laura Burton – Every Last Drop https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/every-last-drop Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings The ocean asked to be thorough, and she was. Passed Recordings keeping the glass upright. 00:22:01 Portal of Reflections – Memories https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/track/memories Album: Portal. Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat A portal that opens onto a room you have already been in. Ethereal Projector holding the curtain.
Mood mist: a moon wobbling in its library, rare earths singing through a circuit board, a Connecticut house paying attention, ninety minutes of air still in the lungs, a haunt filed under the home label, a MicroKorg noticing the room has changed.
00:24:48 NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Libration https://nouvelleslecturescosmopolites.bandcamp.com/track/libration Album: Conjonction Astrale. The small wobble that lets you see a little more of the moon than it meant to show. Conjonction Astrale keeping the book open. 00:30:05 Bit Cloudy – Motherboard Rare Earths Excerpt 1 https://bitcloudy.bandcamp.com/track/motherboard-rare-earths-part-1 Album: Motherboard Rare Earths (For Krankenhaus 2026). Minerals that learned to compute, scored for Krankenhaus. The board humming in a language older than the plug. 00:33:52 Ümlaut – The House Listens https://audiobulb.bandcamp.com/ (Exclusive) The house listens. Fridge, sink, kettle, furnace, rain on the glass, the click of a metronome. Audiobulb letting the ordinary stretch until it becomes a room you can stand in. 00:38:13 exquisitecorpse – ninetyminutesfromdrowning https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/ninetyminutesfromdrowning Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings Ninety minutes from drowning. Passed Oceans still counting, still generous with the air. 00:40:29 odd person – absolutely haunted https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/odd-person-absolutely-haunted Album:Murmurs in the Mist. Label: Trevlad Murmurs in the mist, on the home shelf. Trevlad filing a ghost that already knew the address. 00:42:39 Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine – Something Odd (is Happening) https://prozapine.bandcamp.com/track/something-odd-is-happening Album: Melancholy Melodies & Stolen Memories. Stolen memories, a MicroKorg, a television from a decade that still thinks it is on. The room agrees.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 318. Travel safely between the frequencies. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
00:00:00 Field Lines Cartographer – The Shadow Pool Deep, immersive ambient with shadowy textures and subtle time-bending drones. Atmospheric and introspective.
00:08:35 Dubberrookie – Spaced Around Wobbly, experimental piano electronics with spacious, playful drift. Quirky and hypnotic.
00:12:44 Cousin Silas – Dream Cargos (Dream Cargos) Dreamy, cinematic ambient with rich layers and gentle cargo-like movement. Evocative and transportive.
00:25:19 Letters from Mouse – Cosm Bubbling analogue synthscapes with warm, cosmic Scottish charm. Fluid and mesmerizing.
00:31:03 Mark Ellery Griffiths – K2 Expansive, mountainous ambient with towering drones and icy textures. Majestic and isolating.
00:36:26 PILOTPRIEST – Bonus Track – Dream Drone Five Dark, cinematic dream-drone with brooding intensity. Atmospheric and filmic.
00:37:25 Paul Beaudoin + Ümlaut – Me Before You Thoughtful experimental ambient exploring presence and absence. Delicate and introspective.
00:40:58 Steve Roach – The Perfection of Solitude Masterful deep ambient with infinite space and profound stillness. Pure, immersive solitude.
00:55:50 *Sons of Faust – Echo Without Origin Exclusive track which I based the whole mix on. Transportive and profound.
01:03:56 anthéne, Simon McCorry – No Sign Of Leaving Gentle, drifting ambient with warm cello tones and soft electronics. Comforting and lingering.
01:06:37 log(m) & Laraaji – Deeping Beatless Beatless ambient collaboration with Laraaji’s signature luminous joy. Deep, blissful, and transcendent.
01:11:44 Pabellón Sintético – Mother 03 Synthetic, organic ambient with maternal warmth and evolving textures. Nurturing and hypnotic.
01:13:56 Peltiform – Numerik II Precise, numeric ambient electronics with clean, mathematical flow. Structured yet ethereal.
01:17:27 O Yuki Conjugate – Retrograde Dark, ritualistic ambient with brooding depth and subtle percussion. Atmospheric and mysterious.
01:19:43 Adonai Atrophia – Silence Is Our Way Back Home Minimal, introspective drones guiding toward silence. Meditative and spiritually resonant.
00:01:00 CLAIR, Jude Rogers – Love Spoken-word house piece with Jude Rogers reciting intimate lines over warm, inviting grooves. Gentle, danceable, and thoughtfully human. 00:06:30 idiiom – Real Sad Experimental vocal electronics blending processed voice, technology, and emotion. Intimate, textural, and quietly haunting. 00:10:38 Hverheij – The Pain Inside Atmospheric, introspective soundscaping with emotional depth. Reflective and cinematic, evoking inner landscapes. 00:14:15 Neuro… No Neuro – Cleaning is Key Abstract electronic minimalism with glitchy, hypnotic patterns. Precise, arid, and subtly unsettling. 00:15:20 Future Children – A glimpse of the sea Dreamy, disorganized ambient drift with watery textures and loose, exploratory feel. Immersive and slightly unmoored. 00:17:20 Hildegard von Bingen, Micah Frank, Chet Doxas – O Vis Eternitatis – Kodomo Remix Modern ambient reinterpretation of medieval chant. Ethereal, spacious, and reverent with subtle electronic warmth. 00:21:15 Ümlaut – Because you are alive Contemplative experimental composition focused on presence and silence. Delicate, thoughtful, and quietly uplifting. 00:35:55 Martin Archer & Claire McAllister – Fruits In All Directions Free-jazz/electronic hybrid with playful, colourful improvisation. Organic, inventive, and joyfully directionless. 00:38:25 Moray Newlands – (Put me in) the red red earth Earthy, ritualistic ambient folk with rich, grounded textures. Mystical and deeply rooted. 00:45:23 Lying Cat – Hanbreya Weirdly beautiful electronic with occult-tinged atmosphere. Moody, textured, and intriguingly off-kilter. 00:50:10 Elinch – grau03 Minimal, grey-hued synthesizer study. Restrained, atmospheric, and patiently hypnotic. 00:51:45 Joseph Shabason – Parks & Demos Warm, jazzy ambient with saxophone-led introspection. Melancholic, nostalgic, and beautifully blurred. 00:55:25 Miguel Otero & Raquel Pavón – Too warm for the yellow butterflies Gentle, summery acoustic/electronic piece. Intimate, hazy, and delicately evocative.
Good evening… or morning… or whatever smeared fragment of clock time you’ve drifted into tonight. This is EXPANSIVE WAVES 26. I’m Trevor — your host, your unreliable cartographer of the long haul, your occasional sonic conspirator.
This one’s not built for the impatient. Eight pieces. Each one stretching beyond twelve minutes. Together they uncoil for over three hours. If you came looking for hooks, drops, or anything that resembles forward motion, best to paddle elsewhere. Or just dim the lights, let the room breathe, and allow the ceiling to become a slow-moving planetarium. That works too.
Big thanks to Ivo Petrov at the Mahorka label for nudging me into a Plank Tone. I got gloriously lost and ended up delivering four. The first surfaced on April 8th. Tonight you’ll hear more of those strange, unhurried faces — independent corners, leftfield wanderers, music that refuses to be hurried.
We open with a twenty-four-minute soup. For anyone who’s ever been in a band, this is that glorious end-of-session moment when everyone’s a little fried and the music starts melting at the edges.
Merlin’s Spell — Merlin’s Spell [Full Demo] A warm, hazy collective trance where sounds blur into one another like ink dropped in still water. Recorded back in 1978, gently refurbished for 2026. Out on The Dream Journal Institute — every penny heading to local libraries and quiet good causes.
That was Merlin’s Spell with Merlin’s Spell. Settle in now. Let the kettle do its slow work. Let the cat claim your chest like a small, purring dictator. Let the outside world keep spinning without you for a while.
Next, a dear friend of the show: Drew Huddart, recording as Scholars of the Peak. Fresh from a live set at Dubrek in Derby — the whole concert, audience whoops and all, because Drew decided not to chop it into polite pieces. Glorious nostalgic synths that feel like warm Sunday light through old lace curtains in the Peak District.
Scholars of the Peak — Live @ Dubrek Studios, Friday 10th April 2026 Bleeps and warm analogue sighs drifting through a room full of gentle human noise — the kind of set that makes you nostalgic for the future.
Now we arrive at the longest single piece I’ve ever slipped into this programme — a full hour, trimmed by a few cheeky seconds just so the software would swallow it. This is serious business.
OdNu + Ümlaut — Metamorphoses An ever-shifting ambient landscape that never settles, never repeats, never lets you look away. Not lazy drift — this is meticulous, constantly breathing evolution. Out on Audiobulb, arriving June 6th. Prepare to be quietly astonished.
An old favourite now — the Russian master x.y.r. who can drop you straight into deep jungle with nothing more than a few well-placed field recordings and patient tones.
x.y.r. — altered zone (longform edition) Birdsong threading through endless green layers, turning any room into a porch overlooking humid canopy at dusk. Tip for fellow travellers: when in doubt, add birds. They open windows that weren’t there before.
Back into the Mahorka family, 2019 vintage.
Thomas Park — Failsafe Blade Runner rain on a corrugated tin roof, random synth trumpet stabs cutting through toxic haze. Neon signs flickering in puddles that never quite dry.
Still in the Mahorka stable, this time 2014.
Ab uno — Remorae (b side) Deep drone waters where subtle synth lines move like slow silver fish just beneath the surface — barely visible, yet impossible to ignore once you notice them.
Penultimate unfolding, from The Jewel Garden label’s compilation.
Floating House Ensemble — Seven Sax and strings delicately sprinkled over choral swells, like light catching on the edge of a slow-moving tide. As the Bandcamp page quietly reminds us: “I stood there, the whole day wrapped around me. I stood there, crying, smelling vine.”
And so the waves begin their gentle retreat for another evening. Eight long forms. Eight patient unfoldings. If any of them settled into the quieter corners of your night, you’ll find the links and love on the episode page at trevor.se and in the Mixcloud comments.
Feel free to leave something on the timeline — a half-thought, a soft sigh, or even a single emoji that somehow contains the entire universe.
We close episode twenty-six with Michael Plaster, recording as yttriphie.
yttriphie — Paddock of Skies Twinkling space music from the album Solipsis on Projekt Records — delicate starlight that slowly swells until the whole sky feels like it’s breathing with you.
Until the next fragment of drifting time pulls us back into the same warm current… this is Trevor, signing off from EXPANSIVE WAVES 26.
Cheerio…
(Tracklist with links remains exactly as provided — because even in the longform fog, some things should stay perfectly clear.)
Evening all. Episode one-four-nine of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Window Invented Drain. That’s the track you can hear underneath, and it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—it’s up on YouTube if you’re curious. I’m Trevor. Ninety minutes here, two virtual sides, forty-five minutes each. Fifteen tracks per set. No chatter, no interruptions. The music rolls on like a festival stage that turns—one act fading, another coming into view. Tonight you’ll hear an exclusive from Paul Beaudoin with Ümlaut. Also music from Bruno Bavota, Wil Bolton, and a track that has disappeared from a release by The Form Group. Later on, another exclusive from Foster Neville. Rival Consoles, Erik Wøllo, and dogs versus shadows are in the mix. Plus a track by zerosummer which I can’t seem to locate—drop a comment if you know. Labels like whitelabrecs, Mahorka, and Third Kind Records are part of the current orbit, each one feeding into this library of sound. If you’d like to be part of these missions, send your work to trevlad@gmail.com. Track links are at trevor.se, and marked in the Mixcloud timeline. The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre-order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. The second compilation, Resonances from the Depths, is under construction—get involved, send in your damp entries. Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 131 of The Virtual Cassette Library. Engine Puppets Balloons is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and it’s geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube. These mixes are 90-minute genre bending drifts through curated frequencies. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. 15 tracks per side with a side change in the middle. Styles take us through folktronica, new age, ambient, berlin school, modern classical and more. Send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Links to all the tracks are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline. Pre-order the 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe and unlock 859 archived shows. Shout out to Nanogod, whose alchemical words add dimension to the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every follow, subscription, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing. So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 106 Jotting Hero Mystery. Which is not only the soundtrack in the background but a geographical location according to What3words with its own video. Pre order the album on Bandcamp to support the channel, it gets released when it reaches the Mixcloud subscriber count which is currently 16. Of course if you do subscribe there’ll not only be an extra track but you’ll also get all my albums for the monthly subscription price of 3 dollars. These episodes are 90-minute musical journeys. This episode is a spectral drift through modular hauntology, Sardinian piano reveries, and aquatic synth rituals. woven together into two, uninterrupted, 45 minute virtual cassette sides, with a metaphysical flip halfway through. A lovingly warped mixtape for dusk listeners, headphone wanderers, and those who find comfort in the crackle of forgotten formats. The shows are designed for a walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
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Trevor here, transmitting from home base Sollentuna, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 087. A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Old Technology, Bathysphere Records, DRONARIVM, Fonodroom, Viaduct Promotions, Mahorka, Four Flies Records, whitelabrecs, Cyclical Dreams, and, Audiobulb.
Sponsoring artist: The Green Kingdom.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
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Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨