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 148
27 November 2025
“Evening all. Episode one-four-eight of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Cook Hobble Recruited. 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.” This episode has an exclusive track Karesansui by Wellington, New Zealand based artist CZiGO. Karesansui means “dry landscape” or “dry mountain water” and refers to a minimalist style of Japanese garden that uses rocks, gravel, and sand to represent natural landscapes like mountains, islands, and rivers without any water. These gardens, often found in Zen Buddhist temples, are designed for contemplation and meditation, symbolizing natural elements through careful arrangement and raked gravel patterns that mimic water. Karesansui is from the upcoming album Techno Feudal which drops December 12 on Machine Records.
” New friends joining us this episode like, Übung, Elastic colors, WarpCensor and Dissociative Identity Quartet. Also familiar names including, Future Children, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Robert Rich, and, Oceanographer. Labels like Cyclical Dreams, Mahorka, I Low You Records, Astra Solaria Recordings, Buried Treasure, Adventurous Music, Imaginary North, Castles in Space and more 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.”
Intro – 00:00
Brainquake + Grosso Gadgetto – Hooked (Go Back To Start) – 03:06
Übung– Essex – 06:09
Drune – Nucleia – 09:05
Future Children – Fire being her only possible end part 2 – 12:41
Elastic colors – I’m going to miss the flight – 15:08
Phexioenesystems – Twin Fog – 18:07
Active Dark Filament – Eventides – 21:10
WarpCensor – Silence 3 – 24:10
Lapre – Tedan (bureau b edit) – 27:06
David Dellacroce & Quatrefoil – House of Mirrors – 30:12
Metric System 1981 – Down To The Sea – 34:21
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Renewal and Regeneration – 36:21
Fastus – Rothko – 39:57
The Exerion – Standing here (as time goes by) – 42:57
Catherine Tang – Of Moving Pieces – 45:22
B Side – 48:09
A’Bear – Psychic Weave – 48:39
Agnes Martian – The Observer – 51:39
Rupert Hine – Hartland Echoes – 56:39
the black Albumen – Girl From The Baltic Sea – 57:40
Glacis & Polaroid Notes – There Is A Field (Of Hope And Regret) – 1:00:42
Kreidler – Beginn / Drücken – 1:03:41
Socool – dreamnumber9 – 1:06:45
Robert Rich – Particles – 1:09:50
CZiGO – Karesansui – 1:13:02
Dissociative Identity Quartet – Running towards empty spaces – 1:16:23
Andrea Cichecki – Fragmented Reality – 1:18:42
IDTiL – Chimes of Intermission – 1:22:15
Francis Morning – Secretpaths – 1:24:37
Maps and Diagrams – between opposites – 1:27:34
Oceanographer – Forever Again – 1:30:31
Outro – 1:39:36
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 129
15 October 2025
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Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at the coordinates ///action.scam.running—Episode 129 of The Virtual Cassette Library. A title, a signal, a portal.
Also it’s the track you’re hearing in the background. Available for pre-order on Bandcamp, already whispering through YouTube, it sets the tone for what’s to come.
These mixes are 90-minute genre bending drifts through curated frequencies—designed for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and quiet communion with the cosmos. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion.
Styles take us through electronica, ambient, berlin school, a dash of global funk, and more.
The A side includes releases from some of my favourite labels Kahvi Collective, Adventurous Music, Cyclical Dreams, Batov Records, Mahorka, Home Normal with artist such as The Soviet Space Dog Project, and Buddahat.
The B side includes some more great labels like whitelabrecs, Passed Recordings, and le mont analogue. Also two exclusive tracks. One from Australian artist April Emily a.k.a. ff8282 from her upcoming release a thin membrane between her hand. Dropping October 30th on 4000 Records. The other by Lorna Dune from her upcoming release Sequential Dreaming. Dropping October 28th on the always amazing Mystery Circles label.
Head’s up! There’s just 22 days left until my first compilation for digital release. Which will be dropped on the 6th of November. Check out the socials if you want to get involved. It’s already got a bunch of fine artists lined up including Oceanographer, Dark Fidelity HiFi, The Gaye Device and many more.
💌 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 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe and unlock 857 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.
Intro – 00:00
Weldroid – Castle – 03:07
Blanket Swimming & Toni Dimitrov – Hermetic (edit) – 06:19
BMH vs 1980 – Stay Wild – 13:37
Marek Manowski – Lake II – 15:50
The Soviet Space Dog Project – STM 01 (Saturday Afternoon Jam) – 22:32
Buddahat – Tasty Space Noodles Pt.3 – 32:16
La Chooma – Praise – 36:17
Brainquake + Grosso Gadgetto – Ghostship Wanderer – 38:46
amble – to see the world as you do – 43:48
Side B – 48:06
Active Dark Filament – Running In Silence – 48:53
Synthotherapy – The New Normal – 52:50
JARR – Little Becka – 58:43
Trevlad – Sonic Cartography – 1:05:12
Augen – Encounter – 1:09:01
*Lorna Dune – Arising – 1:15:30
Asha Patera – I Never Felt That In You – 1:18:26
Gallery Six – Geshi – 1:22:36
*ff8282 – summer, all too human – 1:26:31
Outro – 1:30:09
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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