Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 342
Another reel of the Virtual Cassette Library begins. Twelve tracks, two sides. A virtual cassette that turns itself at the halfway mark, the oxide catching just long enough to mark the seam before the second side continues.
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Mind the flip.
Ratios that refuse to sit still, then a star named Denebula that may or may not exist.
Side A measures the ratios from slightly different angles and finds the whole thing rather flattering, lets the chicken wear the badge while the noise blushes, sets vibrant matter dancing so the gooseberry can nod along, cracks the cosmic egg into a sequel already writing its memoirs, keeps just moving with the diagrams packing a small suitcase, and lets the neon lights hum a little tune while the virtual woman is quite pleased about it. Side B seats the melancholia in a chair that already understands, lets the shades of light choose their favourites, sends the vector already in flight so the trick can land, lodges the rainmodulator while the dogs and the shadows negotiate a truce, keeps the northern furniture with Autobaba in the other room, and surveys a star named Denebula with the spear already pointing somewhere kind.
Overall mood: Playful, and quietly flattered — full of nodding gooseberries, comfortable chairs, and stars that may or may not exist. Perfect for dusk listening, soft sofas, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: ratios that refuse to sit still, a chicken with a fondness for noise, matter that vibrates like a gooseberry in a good mood, an egg that cracked the cosmos and is now doing a sequel, something just moving because it can, neon lights that have opinions.
00:00:00 Altus – Parallax Ratios
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/parallax-ratios
Album: Echo Bloom. Label: Altus Music
The ratios already measuring each other from slightly different angles and finding the whole thing rather flattering.
00:08:17 Toxic Chicken – I Heart Noise
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/toxic-chicken-i-heart-noise-2
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
The chicken already wearing the badge. The noise already blushing.
00:09:04 Soda Lite – Vibrant Matter
https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/track/vibrant-matter
Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry). Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By
The matter already doing a little dance. The gooseberry already nodding along.
00:11:47 Michael Brückner – The Egg of Ecquirlo – Part 2
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/the-egg-of-ecquirlo-part-2
Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
The crack already larger. The egg already writing its memoirs.
00:21:38 maps and diagrams – just moving
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/just-moving
Album: returning light. Label: Home Normal
The moving already under way. The diagrams already packing a small suitcase.
00:26:06 Virtual Woman – Neon Lights
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/track/virtual-woman-neon-lights
Album: Cyberpunk. Label: Sounds for the Soul Records
The lights already humming a little tune. The woman already virtual, and quite pleased about it.
Side B
Mood mist: a melancholia that has found a comfortable chair, shades of light arranging themselves, a vector that knows where it’s going, a rainmodulator that has become stuck and is now taking up a hobby, furniture from the north, a star named Denebula that may or may not exist.
00:27:54 Restive Plaggona – Melancholia
https://dvntt.bandcamp.com/track/melancholia
Album: Leftina / Osha. Label: DVNTTMassachusetts
The melancholia already seated. The chair already understanding.
00:31:06 Erik Wøllo – Shades of Light
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/shades-of-light
Album: Label: Projekt Records
The shades already drawn. The light already choosing its favourite ones.
00:34:35 Vorpalgaze – Vector
https://ab-vorpalgaze.bandcamp.com/track/vector
Album: Trickjumps. Label: Audiobulb
The arrow already in flight. The trick already landed.
00:38:12 dogs versus shadows – Rainmodulator Stuck
https://blackpylon.bandcamp.com/track/rainmodulator-stuck
Album: wx. Label: Black Pylon
The modulator already lodged. The dogs and the shadows already negotiating a truce.
00:40:55 Västlänken – Moebel
https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/track/moebel
Album: HNR024: Moebel / Autobaba. Label: Höga Nord Rekords
The sofa already northern. The Autobaba already in the other room.
00:47:18 SURVEY CHANNEL – Denebula
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/denebula
Album: Along the Wind Spear. Label: Triplicate Records
The star already surveyed. The spear already pointing somewhere kind.
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