EXPANSIVE WAVES 26
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.)
Merlin’s Spell – Merlin’s Spell [Full Demo] – 00:00
Scholars of the Peak – Live @ Dubrek Studios Friday 10th April 2026 – 25:30
OdNu + Ümlaut – Metamorphoses – 59:45
x.y.r. – altered zone (longform edition) – 2:00:10
Thomas Park – Failsafe – 2:30:20
Ab uno – Remorae (b side) – 2:48:00
Floating House Ensemble – Seven – 3:01:30
yttriphie – Paddock of Skies – 3:15:30
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 095
Charm Tales.
Trevor here, transmitting from home base Sollentuna, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 095 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: Hisstology sister label of Ruptured Records, Preston Capes sister label of Woodford Halse, Cyclical Dreams, Projekt Records, Buried Treasure, Machine Records, Batov Records, Lunar Module sister label of Castles In Space,
Artist on the show who has sent me material: Moray Newlands.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, copor, Planck Tone, Otis and Aeon music for the follows, likes and comments.
Side A exclusives
Drew Huddart’s Scholars of the Peak – Hermit Station No. 7 (The Lost Bird) – PCT 27 – Transmissions from Mother Hill. An album that charts a sonic topography shaped by memory, myth and movement — a suite of transmissions echoing from the ancient ridgelines and cavernous depths of Mam Tor, the legendary “Mother Hill” of the Peak District. Each piece draws from the landscape’s natural upheavals and human imprints: from ancient burial paths to a wartime wreckage, from collapsed earth to long-forgotten mines.
Due for release on September 1 on the amazing Preston Capes cassette label.
Moray Newlands – Closing (exit) – The Red Red Earth. Moray’s been ruminating on the inevitability of death and how it will come to us all at some point. The red red earth is the culmination of these thoughts and feelings. The meaning of the red red earth, he’s not entirely sure, however it does relate to the soil found along the east coast of Scotland, close to where he lives now and where, you know, one day, perhaps…. The album should ideally be listened to as a single continuous mix which I’ll be featuring on an upcoming episode of Expansive Waves.
The Red Red Earth releases August 15, 2025 on Wormhole World.
Side B exclusive
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 09 – TVCL 04. Which, of course, stands for Trevors Virtual Cassette Library. Every 17 episodes I release the music from behind my voice overs. The latest track from the latest episode is always available to listen to on Bandcamp. When I get to 17 tracks I release the album.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
💌 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.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
Mint Deluxe – Abroga – 04:26
Prefaces – Marmoura – 09:26
Farmacia – Pupe – 12:46
*Scholars of the Peak – Hermit Station No. 7 (The Lost Bird) – 15:07
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – Tall Tales – 19:13
Hverheij – In The Garden – 23:13
Trevlad – Sound Fossils – 25:34
*Moray Newlands – Closing (exit) – 30:13
Hello Mr. Klaus – Sussurri di un pianoforte, (per Manuel) – 33:29
yttriphie – absrpt/nline – 41:52
Side B – 47:27
Mindheal – I Miss Analog People – 48:12
the black Albumen – provokovieff – 51:04
Simon Heartfield – There Is No Division – 53:37
Sababa 5 – Into Orbit – 59:04
Shugorei – The Charm – 1:02:18
Scanner – Inner Ocean – 1:05:54
Bartholomew – Memorials – 1:14:42
*Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 09 – 1:17:42
Christian Wittman – Starry Night – 1:20:15
Tom Penaguin – Aborted Long Piece No2 – 1:25:35
Outro – 1:29:11
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 033
30.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Steve Roach – Fantastic Elastic – 2005 – 02:27
Tau Sagittarii – Denali – 08:00
Toxic Chicken – Cocktails in the sun – 16:13
Anubis Rude – Free – 19:42
Nobuka – balkon – 24:13
Polypores – Void Reveal! – 26:17
Mad Squabbles – Wanga – 34:28
Goat Lightning – Truth-Trance – 36:50
Dividenthal & Aumgn – Asio100cz – 39:06
B Side – 46:42
yttriphie – yrsta-fiirn – 48:34
*Dave Clarkson – Bournville – 55:08
Dr. Quandary & Elder Orange – Otherones – 58:21
Herne – Air On The Hill Tower – 1:00:07
Kevin Paczesny – Angelic Waves – 1:04:07
Red Setter – The Great Indoors – 1:08:04
Jacek Doroszenko – R_sin _io – 1:11:07
C418 – Eucalyptus Part 3 – 1:16:56
ireless – CLEANLINESS – 1:18:20
Autumna – World Inside Of You – 1:20:17
Trevs Outro – 1:24:10
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 009
31.03.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
- A Side –
sevensy – rain dance – 01:54
*The Eyes and the Mistoids – The Sea Took Our Homes – 07:02
Wodwo – a million tiny pieces – 17:38
SineRider – Vermilion – 22:28
Anubis Rude – Inner Realization – 25:07
Slobject. – Mouthless – 27:06
JICS – Rainfall In Limerick City: Just A Mess – 31:20
Jakob Lindhagen – Thicker Than Water – 33:25
Go Outside – We Dance In Our Dreams – 37:40
Kevin Paczesny – Childhood Beach – 39:10 - B Side – 44:15
Sai³ – [凡塵] Walk along the lonely street of dreams – 44:57
ThorF – Ambientalic – 51:55
odd person – the gardens of illuminated passage – 59:14
First Snow of The Year – Noir – 1:05:12
Liu Yi-wei – Hungry Honey – 1:09:40
Poloma – Matches – 1:12:39
Sven Laux – Imbalance Before Stroke – 1:15:43
yttriphie – unsettled apsis – 1:18:22
Trevs Outro – 1:21:18
Galactic Memories
09.03.2025
Trevors’ Intro , Side A – 00:00
arc rae – Stranded – 01:56
JRJ Enterprises – pancaliente – 07:10
Sven Laux – An Unfinished Feeling Making It More Awkward – 11:43
HDRF – That Satanic Toyshop Vibe – 13:57
Synthetic Villains – Are You Sure Its Safe To Go Out There? – 22:15
David Cordero – Predecible – 23:03
bios+a+ic – Rivers Keep Rising – 25:57
Erik Wøllo – Silent Creek – 32:37
yttriphie – there is no sun – 36:08
Side B – 44:31
Ossa – DayDReamLOOp – 45:12
Anubis Rude – Galactica – 48:37
Henrik Meierkord – String Drone Adagio VIII – 51:13
Ursula’s Cartridges – Childhood Memories – 01:00:22
Brendan Pollard – Levada – The Traveller – 01:04:40
Sai³ – [虛淵] Δt – 01:07:49
Kilometre Club – Dead of Winter – 01:09:38
Augen – Dreamer – 01:15:00
Trevors’ Outro – 01:20:42
Winter Thought Recovery
16.02.2025
yttriphie – siderius – 00:00
HDRF – Teeth of the Wind – 07:51
arc rae – Taiko – 17:57
The New Human / Fragile X – Thought Patterns (Fragile X remix) – 21:20
ThorF – Frontier Pt1 – 29:09
Time Rival – Music for Recovery – 39:44
Hiram – Heartwood – 42:49
Go Outside – Embodiment – 45:02
Asha Patera – The Winter Circle – 49:15
James Murray – Safehaven – 55:00
Trevlad Sounds 