Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape. Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows remain free for the first week, then 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 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands. The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect. Now the stage begins to turn.
Roads that remember their own headlights, then loneliness painted in two colours that match the Earth.
Side A drives Mulholland in 1937 with the windows down, borrows names for unknown places the way lungs borrow air, lives in the comma of a virga that never lands, otherizes you into a pleasant hum, steps into a Toronto river that has already left for the lake, and works the grove after hours at the speed of sap.
Side B opens the other six petals: an altostratiform spirit message from Cloud School, Haku drawing a thin white line across Vespera, autumn filing unopened wishes so they can fall unnoticed, a serenade from a field that forgot its stars on purpose, a Brasstown Bridge baptism you did not schedule, and pale blue and white echoing until loneliness looks like a planet.
Overall mood: Contemplative, watery, and quietly migratory — full of Imaginary North hush, Passed Oceans dunkings, and weather that keeps the certificate. Perfect for dusk listening, dry shoes beside the river, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: roads that remember their own headlights, places without maps, rain that never quite reaches the ground, a buzz turned into a stranger, water that refuses to be the same twice, a grove that works the field after hours.
00:04:20 Elijah Fox – Mulholland Drive 1937 https://elijahfox1.bandcamp.com/track/mulholland-drive-1937 From the album: Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles. Year: 2025 Mulholland before the billboards learned to talk. 1937 still driving with the windows down, the city below not yet sure it is a city. 00:04:53 Absence – Breathing and Vibrant https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/breathing-and-vibrant From the album: Names of Unknown Places Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026 The episode title track of tonight’s weather. Unknown places borrowing names the way lungs borrow air. 00:11:50 Eluvium – Microfauna https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/track/microfauna From the album: Virga III. Label: Temporary Residence Ltd. Year: 2026 Microfauna under a virga that never lands. Whole kingdoms living in the comma between cloud and dust. 00:13:57 Tim Story – Otherize https://curiousmusicia.bandcamp.com/track/otherize From the album: Buzzle. Label: Curious Music. Year: 2025 Otherize. Buzzle sanding the edges off “you” until “you” becomes a pleasant hum in the next room. 00:16:45 Kilometre Club – This River I Step In Is Not The River I Stand In https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/kilometre-club-this-river-i-step-in-is-not-the-river-i-stand-in From the compilation album: Lake Effect: Quiet Music From Toronto. Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026 Heraclitus in Toronto. The river you stepped in has already left for the lake. Quiet music keeping its shoes dry. 00:18:37 Willebrant – Grove https://willebrant.bandcamp.com/track/grove-4 From the album: Fieldworks. Year: 2025 Grove. Fieldworks filed under trees that do not clock off. The stage turns at the speed of sap.
The lotus folds. The other six petals open. Mood mist: mid-level cloud sending post, dusk wearing a white mask, autumn keeping the unopened envelopes, a field that sings back, a bridge that dunks you anyway, loneliness painted in two colours that match the Earth.
00:24:14 Towering Vertical – Altostratiform Spirit Message https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/side-2b-altostratiform-spirit-message From the album: Cloud School. Label: Relics of the Eternal City, The Dream Journal Institute. Year: 2025 Cloud School leaving a note on the desk you cannot reach without becoming weather. 00:37:11 The Green Kingdom – Haku https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/haku From the album: Vespera. Label: whitelabrecs. Year: 2026 Haku. Vespera drawing a thin white line across the evening and calling it a kingdom. 00:39:32 Ed Herbers – Wishes That Never Came True https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/wishes-that-never-came-true From the album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings. Year: 2026 Wishes that never came true, filed under Autumn so they can fall without anyone noticing they were granted. 00:42:41 Vivid Stars Forgotten – Serenade https://vividstarsforgotten.bandcamp.com/track/serenade From the album: The Resonant Field. Label: EC Underground. Year: 2026 A serenade from a resonant field. The stars vivid, then forgot on purpose. 00:48:47 New Battalions – Baptism at the Brasstown Bridge https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/baptism-at-the-brasstown-bridge From the compilation album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings. Year: 2026 Baptism at the Brasstown Bridge. Passed Oceans offering a dunking you did not schedule. The water keeps the certificate. 00:53:51 Heÿkla – Pale Blue And White https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/track/pale-blue-and-white From the album: Echoes of Loneliness. Label: Driftworks. Year: 2026 Loneliness echoing until it looks like a planet seen from too far away. Driftworks closing the spool before the color dries.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 314. Travel safely between the frequencies. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to the new Virtual Cassette Library – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that sets the tone for the set. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If and when I get a couple more subscribers then I’ll go back to doing 90 minute versions, complete with commentary. This episode titled Waiting For You is based on the track “I’m Waiting For You” by friend of the channel Damiano Verno, better known as Arcane Trickster . Available through the Greek label Cosmicleaf Records. If you make music and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on. And if you’re enjoying the channel, please consider subscribing — even if it’s just for a month, it makes a real difference. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. No breaks, just the music.
Side A 00:00:00 THE GAYE DEVICE – Found Spaces Warm, exploratory ambient with found-sound textures and gentle electronic drift. Intimate and architectural. 00:05:27 P. G. Warren – Noctilumen Glowing nocturnal ambient with soft luminous drones and subtle bioluminescent sparkle. Dreamlike and serene. 00:08:32 The Jaffa Kid – Entitled II Playful, slightly mischievous IDM/electronic with crisp rhythms and quirky melodies. Light-footed and charming. 00:13:47 Arcane Trickster – I’m Waiting For You Mysterious, cinematic ambient with occult-tinged atmosphere and patient tension. Spellbinding and shadowy. 00:16:19 In Vitro – Celestes Celestial deep techno/ambient with airy pads and subtle propulsion. Floating and heavenly. 00:17:36 Me Lost Me – Science and Art Whimsical, poetic electronic pop with clever spoken-word elements and warm grooves. Playful and human. 00:22:05 Jetfire Prime – Sunrise Over Skyline (Rare Minidisc only Release) Radiant, retro-futurist ambient with warm analogue glow and optimistic dawn energy. Hopeful and expansive. 00:24:55 The Heartwood Institute – The Tod Haunting, folkloric dark ambient with rural British mystery and eerie stillness. Atmospheric and folk-horror tinged. Side B 00:27:57 deepspace – Rainy メガシティ 七 Precinct Cyber-noir ambient drenched in rain-soaked melancholy and dystopian neon. Deep, immersive, and cinematic. 00:32:56 CIALYN – In From the Cold II Cosy, wintry ambient with warm recovery tones and gentle melodic thaw. Intimate and comforting. 00:38:41 Sensorama – Echtzeit Crisp, real-time electronic minimalism with precise rhythms and clear German techno influence. Clean and hypnotic. 00:44:51 Home – Nosebleed Dreamy, slightly chaotic bedroom electronic with nostalgic warmth and hazy emotion. Introspective and charmingly raw. 00:47:48 Near Stoic – 94 Minimal, stoic ambient/electronic with restrained beauty and quiet emotional weight. Patient and refined. 00:51:42 Vivid Stars Forgotten – Teleport 3 Weightless cosmic ambient with low grounding bass and gentle, dissolving melodic fragments. Serene, slow-burning, and transportive.
“Evening all. Episode one-four-six of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Nozzles Carrots Laws. That’s the track you can hear underneath, and, oddly enough, it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—up on YouTube if you’re curious.” “I’m Trevor. Bringing you ninety minutes, two virtual sides, forty-five minutes each. Fifteen tracks per set. No chatter, no interruptions. Just the music, rolling on like a festival stage that turns—one act fading, another coming into view.” “Keys in focus this time: F major and D minor. New friends joining us, Good Sunset, tapes and topographies and Anasisana. familiar names including, David Cordero, Caught In Joy, Pulselovers, The Metamorph and more. labels like Lunar Module, Altus Music, Clay Pipe Music, whitelabrecs, Triplicate Records and Sincronía del Viento keeping the whole thing alive. They’re the soul of the show, really.” “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. And 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 tuned into Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 122—Ropes Shipped Along. A name, a signal, and a location. Drop it into What3Words and you’ll find the coordinates of this episode’s visual transmission. The name is also the title of the track you hear in the background—available for pre-order on Bandcamp and ready to be absorbed on YouTube. It’s the anchor of this episode, the pulse beneath the mix. As always, we embark on a 90-minute journey through sound—crafted for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and communion with the cosmos. No commentary between tracks. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Side A opens with Loula Yorke’s Time is a Succession of Such Shapes, and flows through Ironic Hill, Benge, µ-Ziq, Jogging House, and more. You’ll hear Instant Respect Latter from myself, and an exclusive remix of The Long Dead King by The Form Group of the The Leaf Library fame. Side B flips the signal with Panic Girl’s Between the Shadows, Fallen’s Awareness, Resilience, and gribbles’ Poppi. We drift through Suncastle, Stone Anthem, and an exclusive haunting excerpt from Louis Gardner’s The Lake. The full 23 minute version can be heard on yesterday’s episode of EXPANSIVE WAVES. The journey closes with Jamie Lidell’s Unmasking—a final breath before silence. 💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline. 🎶 Support the signal: Pre-order the 6th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe for just $3/month and unlock 849 archived shows—over 1,200 hours of sonic exploration. 🧙♂️ And don’t forget to leave a mark on the Mixcloud timeline. Shout out to Nanogod, who adds dimension to the mixes with his alchemical words. Every comment, every like, every vibration helps keep the channel alive. 🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
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. 💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked at the top of each show.