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.
A luminous, slightly forensic ambient journey through corridors of evidence, papery lanterns, and planets that have not finished burning. Side A opens an investigation the cameras invent as they roll, then cracks a cosmic oval, grows emerald armour between patio bricks, combs strings into sand that will not stay, squeezes two minutes of smear-test whimsy, and ends on a wind prayer written for people and cats.
Side B walks dry iron valleys toward utopian lullabies, cuts others from the seventh gemstone tray, argues a Messiah into demo clothes, wires splendour so slowly it can curve, refuses to hurry its illusions, and keeps Batov’s ten-year sun turning with all it can do. Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly jewelled — full of evidence the ghost leaves behind, sand still deciding, and light that knows which pocket it came from. Perfect for late listening, slow wiring, or sitting with the corridor while the next spool still waits.
00:03:06 Department of Light – Investigation #1 https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-1 Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ Label: The Dream Journal Institute Sofia walks a corridor that only exists when the cameras are rolling. Five triangles of evidence. The library fund gets whatever the ghost leaves behind. 00:09:07 Michael Brückner – Coda (A Pure Oval Shape) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/coda-a-pure-oval-shape Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165] Label: Cyclical Dreams An oval so clean it could be an eye or an Ei. The cosmic egg cracks, then politely puts itself back together for the coda. 00:13:06 Soda Lite – Emerald Armour https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/album/011-soda-lite-cape-gooseberry Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry) Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By Cape gooseberry armour — a papery lantern grown between patio bricks. The plant singing on a cliff that did not invite an audience. 00:16:05 Trem 77 – Staers https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/staers Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting Henrik’s strings combed into sand. A painting you are not allowed to keep; only to notice while the grains are still deciding. 00:22:47 Daily Mail Comments Section – A Short Song About Sex https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/a-short-song-about-sex Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test Two minutes of smear-test pop that arrived in a dream before Charli could steal the name. Whimsy wearing steel-capped boots. 00:23:37 Frank Pels – Wind Prayer https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/wind-prayer Album: Voyager Label: Ambient Cat A wind prayer written for people and for cats. Voyager opening a window the size of a synth trail and calling it home.
00:29:07 Fallen – From Dry Iron Valleys to Utopian Realms https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/from-dry-iron-valleys-to-utopian-realms-2 Album: Stars are Crashing, Home are Burning, Hearts are Changing-Notes from a Distant World/Detuned Lullabies for the Old Planet Label: Touched Music Dry iron valleys emptying into a realm that believes in lullabies. Forty-one records walking toward a planet that has not finished burning. 00:39:15 AeTopus – Others https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/aetopus-others Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166] Label: Cyclical Dreams Others, cut from the seventh tray of gemstones. Berlin School light bouncing off a stone that knows which pocket it came from. 00:43:25 SPTW – Messiah (demo version) https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/messiah-demo-version Album: EUTHYMIA Label: Mahorka. Messiah in demo clothes. SP-404 and an MPC arguing with pencils and bottles until euthymia agrees to sit still. 00:45:02 Dirk Serries – Slowly Wired https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/ Album: Curves of Splendor Label: Projekt Records Guitar wired so slowly the splendour has time to curve. VidnaObmana’s cousin taking the long way around the intrusive world. 00:56:21 DUSQ – Illusions https://daydreamerslabel.bandcamp.com/track/illusions Single: Illusions. Label: Daydreamers Illusions that refuse to hurry. Belarus folded into Daydreamers’ fourth quiet continuation. 00:58:55 Wax Machine – All I Can Do https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-can-do Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years Label: Batov Records All they can do is keep the ten-year sun turning. Batov’s suitcase still unpacked on the rotating floor.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 312. Travel safely between the frequencies. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
00:00:00 Nu Guinea, Tony Allen – Howls Funky Afrobeat reworking of Tony Allen’s rhythms with electronic jazz-psych energy. Groovy, percussive, and full of life. 00:04:25 Wax Machine – Face Of All Psychedelic folk-rock with dreamy, wandering grooves and hazy textures. Warm, exploratory, and gently hypnotic. 00:06:09 Okay Temiz – Denizalti Rüzgarlan Vibrant Turkish percussion and cosmic jazz fusion. Energetic, rhythmic, and joyfully eclectic. 00:09:14 Misha Panfilov – Eureka Warm analog psych-jazz with soulful grooves and hypnotic repetition. Cinematic, funky, and deeply immersive. 00:17:58 Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart – No Change Is Sexy Dub-infused post-punk with heavy bass and world rhythms. Raw, hypnotic, and politically charged. 00:21:38 Mong Tong – Jou-Tau Sample-based Taiwanese psychedelic trip with swirling textures and ritualistic energy. Mysterious and propulsive. 00:25:58 SiP – Malabar Laid-back global grooves with sunny, melodic charm. Breezy and effortlessly digable. 00:33:31 Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 – Entrance Psychedelic rock with Eastern-tinged hypnosis and fuzzy warmth. Trippy, immersive, and beautifully meandering. 00:35:25 Skyjelly – I Know (Brainquake remix) Dreamy, warped electronic remix with floating textures and subtle glitch. Ethereal and mind-bending. 00:39:48 Bobby Oroza, El Michels Affair – Losing It Soulful retro vibes with tight horns, lush production, and heartfelt vocals. Smooth and heartfelt. 00:42:40 Amin Payne x Hari Sivanesan – Intraditional Fusion of traditional Indian elements with modern beats and global grooves. Intricate, respectful, and vibrant. 00:44:55 La Chooma – Lonely Atmospheric, melancholic electronic with subtle tropical undertones. Intimate and reflective. 00:48:41 Sababa 5 – Descent Middle Eastern psych-funk grooves with driving rhythms and hypnotic melodies. Funky and transportive. 00:49:12 El Michels Affair, Bobby Oroza – Stack The Deck Tight, cinematic soul with swaggering horns and cool vocals. Vintage-inspired and instantly catchy. 00:52:22 MARINERO – Through the Fog Misty, atmospheric Latin-tinged folk with dreamy production. Haunting and poetic. 00:55:33 CV Vision – Tropical (Drop Out) Lo-fi tropical psych with hazy, sun-soaked grooves. Relaxed and blissfully detached. 00:56:46 Ivan Von Engelberger’s Asteroid – Thought Forms Spacey, improvisational jazz-rock with cosmic exploration. Trippy and expansive. 01:00:44 Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Crossing Drifting Sands Ambient desert soundscapes with drifting textures and subtle tension. Evocative and cinematic. 01:04:21 Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Lobbo Saharan blues meets lush psych grooves. Warm, hypnotic, and beautifully collaborative. 01:08:02 Dr. Quandary – Linear A Mysterious, sample-heavy beats with ancient script vibes. Abstract, head-nodding, and intriguing. 01:10:14 Elite Beat – Budget Dancehall Playful, lo-fi dancehall with raw energy and cheeky charm. Fun, bouncy, and infectious. 01:13:48 Arp – Folding Water Ambient electronic minimalism with fluid, rippling textures. Meditative and serene. 01:18:33 Gábor Szabó, The California Dreamers – White Rabbit Psychedelic jazz guitar take on the classic—elegant, groovy, and enchantingly trippy. 01:20:39 Monsters At Work – Magic Morning Uplifting, whimsical electronic folk with bright melodies. Feel-good and sparkling. 01:22:34 Chocolate Hills, The Orb – Cracking Kraken Dubby, oceanic ambient with The Orb’s signature weirdness. Deep, immersive, and playful. 01:24:41 Psyché – Angizia Dreamy psych-pop with lush layers and emotional depth. Enchanting and cinematic. 01:28:02 Siti Muharam – Pakistan Powerful taarab-inspired vocals with rich East African grooves. Soulful and culturally resonant. 01:34:00 Tapes – Silence Please Minimal ambient tape loops and gentle textures. Quiet, spacious, and perfectly calming.
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, I’m Trevor, and this is episode one‑six‑one of the Virtual Cassette Library—which also happens to be my 900th mix show. I’m not entirely sure how that happened, but here we are. Today’s theme is Obey Beams Starting—which, as usual, is both the track you’re hearing underneath and a location you can find on a map, if you’re the sort who enjoys chasing coordinates on What3Words. We’ve got ninety minutes ahead—two sides, fifteen tracks each. Some names you’ll know, some you won’t, and that’s half the fun. Early on you’ll hear Night Birds by The Inventors of Aircraft—an exclusive from the upcoming Whitelabrecs compilation sleeplaboratory6.0. Always a pleasure to be able to share something before it officially takes flight. Now then, 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. The rest of the show wanders through winter light, spectral electronics, Casio memories, kosmische detours, festive oddities, and the occasional unexpected left‑turn. The sort of thing you might stumble across late at night on a shortwave dial, wondering if you imagined it. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 142 of The Virtual Cassette Library. Patch Adults Pebble is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and its geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube. I’m Trevor and I curate these 90-minute genre bending drifts through frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Two, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per set with a side change half way. Imagine the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view. Styles for this episode range from electronic to poetic lounge, from indie rock to dungeon synth. The musical keys in focus are F and D minor. This episode contains four exclusives, two of which are being released today. The first is from myself and a track from the album TVCL 7 which drops today. I release an album every 16 episodes with the complete versions of the background soundscapes from each episode. The second exclusive also being released today is from the wonderfully talented Andrew Wasylyk. The track, First Moonbeams Of Adulthood should have appeared on Clay Pipe Music before this reaches your ears. The third exclusive is from Veelargo. Liqueed Chainfx is from the album Drealusions and drops on the Bricolage label November 21st. The fourth exclusive is the track Means of Escape, Pt. 1 by Daniel Vincent from his album Means of Escape which drops on his Bandcamp page on Friday 14th of November. Also we’re joined by some friends of the channel like gribbles, The Earl of Dean and survey channel as well as supporting labels like Third Kind Records, Subexotic Records, Castles in Space, Mortality Tables and many more. All the artists and labels are the soul of this show.
If you’d like to be included on future episodes 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. Also you can now grab the first compilation album Murmurs in the Mist with 45 artists. Subscribe and unlock 875 archived shows. Remember, every comment, every like, every follow, subscription and, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing. So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at the coordinates ///iron.binders.voice—Episode 125 of The Virtual Cassette Library. A title, a signal, a portal. The track you’re hearing—“Iron Binders Voice”—isn’t just the name of the episode. It’s the pulse beneath my voice, the gravitational center of today’s journey. Available for pre-order on Bandcamp, already whispering through YouTube, it sets the tone for what’s to come. These mixes are 90-minute drifts through curated frequencies—designed for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and quiet communion with the cosmos. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. 🌀 Side A opens with Neil Cowley Trio, Ikjoyce, Albin, HDRF, and Synthetic Villains. La Ponto Ensemblo and Nitai Hershkovits with Daniel Dor guide us through harmonic terrain, while Savta and Buried Marie close the side with spectral warmth. 🌊 Side B flips the signal with Wax Machine, Voyage Futur, and Brainstory. Telegrafía, Loris S. Sarid, and Listening Center stretch the horizon. Prairiewolf, OdNu, Musette, and Shugorei bring us into dreamlike folds, while The Cromagnon Band, Backwards Cavern & Mwamwa, and Ginger Root seal the transmission. 💌 Want to be part of the signal? Send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline. 🎶 Pre-order the 6th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe for just 3 quid and unlock 852 archived shows. 🧙♂️ Shout out to Nanogod, whose alchemical words add dimension to the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every vibration helps keep the channel alive. 🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 312
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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.
A luminous, slightly forensic ambient journey through corridors of evidence, papery lanterns, and planets that have not finished burning.
Side A opens an investigation the cameras invent as they roll, then cracks a cosmic oval, grows emerald armour between patio bricks, combs strings into sand that will not stay, squeezes two minutes of smear-test whimsy, and ends on a wind prayer written for people and cats.
Side B walks dry iron valleys toward utopian lullabies, cuts others from the seventh gemstone tray, argues a Messiah into demo clothes, wires splendour so slowly it can curve, refuses to hurry its illusions, and keeps Batov’s ten-year sun turning with all it can do.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly jewelled — full of evidence the ghost leaves behind, sand still deciding, and light that knows which pocket it came from. Perfect for late listening, slow wiring, or sitting with the corridor while the next spool still waits.
00:03:06 Department of Light – Investigation #1
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-1
Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆
Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Sofia walks a corridor that only exists when the cameras are rolling. Five triangles of evidence. The library fund gets whatever the ghost leaves behind.
00:09:07 Michael Brückner – Coda (A Pure Oval Shape)
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/coda-a-pure-oval-shape
Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165]
Label: Cyclical Dreams
An oval so clean it could be an eye or an Ei. The cosmic egg cracks, then politely puts itself back together for the coda.
00:13:06 Soda Lite – Emerald Armour
https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/album/011-soda-lite-cape-gooseberry
Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry)
Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By
Cape gooseberry armour — a papery lantern grown between patio bricks. The plant singing on a cliff that did not invite an audience.
00:16:05 Trem 77 – Staers
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/staers
Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting
Henrik’s strings combed into sand. A painting you are not allowed to keep; only to notice while the grains are still deciding.
00:22:47 Daily Mail Comments Section – A Short Song About Sex
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/a-short-song-about-sex
Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test
Two minutes of smear-test pop that arrived in a dream before Charli could steal the name. Whimsy wearing steel-capped boots.
00:23:37 Frank Pels – Wind Prayer
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/wind-prayer
Album: Voyager
Label: Ambient Cat
A wind prayer written for people and for cats. Voyager opening a window the size of a synth trail and calling it home.
00:29:07 Fallen – From Dry Iron Valleys to Utopian Realms
https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/from-dry-iron-valleys-to-utopian-realms-2
Album: Stars are Crashing, Home are Burning, Hearts are Changing-Notes from a Distant World/Detuned Lullabies for the Old Planet
Label: Touched Music
Dry iron valleys emptying into a realm that believes in lullabies. Forty-one records walking toward a planet that has not finished burning.
00:39:15 AeTopus – Others
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/aetopus-others
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]
Label: Cyclical Dreams
Others, cut from the seventh tray of gemstones. Berlin School light bouncing off a stone that knows which pocket it came from.
00:43:25 SPTW – Messiah (demo version)
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/messiah-demo-version
Album: EUTHYMIA
Label: Mahorka.
Messiah in demo clothes. SP-404 and an MPC arguing with pencils and bottles until euthymia agrees to sit still.
00:45:02 Dirk Serries – Slowly Wired
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/
Album: Curves of Splendor
Label: Projekt Records
Guitar wired so slowly the splendour has time to curve. VidnaObmana’s cousin taking the long way around the intrusive world.
00:56:21 DUSQ – Illusions
https://daydreamerslabel.bandcamp.com/track/illusions
Single: Illusions.
Label: Daydreamers
Illusions that refuse to hurry. Belarus folded into Daydreamers’ fourth quiet continuation.
00:58:55 Wax Machine – All I Can Do
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-can-do
Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years
Label: Batov Records
All they can do is keep the ten-year sun turning. Batov’s suitcase still unpacked on the rotating floor.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 312.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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