Episode 2025-18: Boards of Canada, Gaussian Curve, Botany and more

April 28, 2025 Podcast
Upward view of tall evergreen and coniferous trees against a blue sky, with one dead tree standing among them.

Episode 2025-18

Playlist (as aired):

Time Artist Song Release Duration Released Label
0:01 Actress Fire and Light Karma & Desire 1:09 2020 Ninja Tune
0:02 Luc Myle Asset 001 – 4 Velveteen – EP 3:50 2019 Hidden Assets
0:07 Botany Benefactress Feeling Today – EP 3:31 2010 Western Vinyl
0:10 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Mt Baker @0 EP1 4:45 2021 MERLIN – Ahead Of Our Time
0:15 Forteba Collective Flora Collective Flora – Single 4:19 2023 Midnight Fashion
0:22 Heathered Pearls Precious Dive (Indian Wells Remix) Loyal Reworks 4:48 2013 Ghostly International
0:26 Sun Glitters DDeepptthhlleessss SSoofftt TToouucchh 4:10 2020 Future Archive Recordings
0:31 SSIEGE Nebbia Spugna Meteora – EP 3:00 2021 Knekelhuis
0:34 Boards of Canada Amo Bishop Roden In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country – EP 5:54 2000 Warp Records
0:42 Jinx Solace (Bonus) [Nightflyer Chill Mix] Solace (Nightflyer Mix) 3:45 2023 Nightflyer
0:45 Gaussian Curve Broken Clouds Clouds 4:41 2014 Music From Memory
0:50 Substantial Beyond the Stage (feat. Uyama Hiroto) [Instrumental] The Garden 3:33 2018 Substantial Art & Music
0:54 Edamame Bask Bask 3:23 2017 Gravitas Recordings
0:57 Puar Against The Clock Better Late Than Never 1:34 2024 Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Looking Up from the Shore”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “Upward view of tall evergreen and coniferous trees against a blue sky, with one dead tree standing among them.”)

Episode 2025-17: Quantum Dreams, beachowl, Mnemeau and more

April 21, 2025 Podcast
Sunrise light illuminates the mountain peak while the base remains in shadow, with dark blue tones. The sky above is blue with a few scattered clouds.

Episode 2025-17

Playlist (as aired):

Time Artist Song Release Duration Released Label
0:01 Shigeto Silver Lining No Better Time Than Now 2:49 2013 Ghostly International
0:03 beachowl Abysmal Motel Pools – EP 2:10 2024 3361561 Records DK
0:07 Treetalking Eyes of the Observer The Unknown 3:44 2021 SXN
0:11 Luden Oasis Locomotion / Oasis – Single 3:07 2022 Enhanced Chill
0:14 il:lo Vega Vega 3:24 2017 Nettwerk Music Group
0:17 Kasseo Finale Finale – Single 2:20 2020 K Records
0:22 Firephly Passage To The Sky Passage To The Sky – Single 4:24 2020 firephly
0:26 Four Tet Unicorn Beautiful Rewind 2:41 2013 Text Records
0:29 Manatee Commune Lavender (feat. Vervex) Brush 3:59 2014 Record Union
0:33 Fujii Long Nights Spirit Anthem 2:31 2022 Puget Sound Collective
0:35 Photay Off-Piste Onism 4:22 2017 Astro Nautico
0:42 Quantum Dreams テープがなくなった 黒体放射 (Blackbody Radiation) 4:20 2024 Takeki Tower
0:46 Mnemeau Blood Maneuvering Music You Don’t Show Your Friends 3:46 2021 Evergreen Prefecture
0:50 A.L.I.S.O.N & Krosia Spirit Spirit – Single 4:14 2021 A.L.I.S.O.N
0:54 FadedAeon Out To Sea Aqueous Anemoia 4:35 2020 1216998 Records DK2



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Sunrise, But Only on the Mountain”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “Sunrise light illuminates the mountain peak while the base remains in shadow, with dark blue tones. The sky above is blue with a few scattered clouds.”)

Episode 2025-16: Guggenz, Osvaldo, Teebs and more

April 14, 2025 Podcast
A calm pond reflects a blue sky, tall reeds, and evergreen trees. Small green trees frame the foreground.

Episode 2025-16

Playlist (as aired):

Time Artist Song Release Duration Released Label
0:01 Osvaldo Leeches Rising Tides 012 2:37 2018 SVNSET WAVES
0:03 Teebs NES Did It Again – Single 2:22 2022 Brainfeeder
0:07 Swimming TV Shaman Raindance – EP 3:48 2018 Cosmonostro
0:11 DNZ Wanderlust Wanderlust – Single 3:40 2016 DNZ
0:14 Takeleave You Inner Sea 4:11 2018 Project Mooncircle
0:19 Monster Rally Tropical Showers Return to Paradise 0:54 2013 Monster Rally
0:22 Pbs’73 Butterfly Inside Yesterday Network 4:06 2017 635970 Records DK
0:26 Emancipator Baralku Baralku 3:12 2017 Loci Records
0:29 Packed Rich Dreamin’ (feat. Fraeuleinastrid) Ornithology – EP 2:08 2018 SVNSET WAVES
0:31 Steve Moore Beloved Exile Beloved Exile 4:46 2019 Temporary Residence Ltd.
0:36 Guggenz This Love I’ve Met Chillhop Essentials Spring 2016 3:45 2016 Chillhop Music
0:42 Almanacs Coyote Blanco Spirits of the River 3:36 2022 Mystery Circles
0:45 X3SR All That U Have Infinite – EP 3:29 2017 X3SR
0:49 A.L.I.S.O.N & Hotel Pools Murmurs Ultrasound 2:07 2022 Tone Tree Music / Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.
0:51 Teen Daze Modern Compromise Modern Compromise – Single 2:48 2022 FLORA
0:54 Rosentwig Labyrinth Dreamstate 4:53 2022 904678 Records DK



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Reed Reflections”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A calm pond reflects a blue sky, tall reeds, and evergreen trees. Small green trees frame the foreground.”)

Episode 2025-15: The Tin Box, cerulean, VIQ and more

April 8, 2025 Podcast

Episode 2025-15

Playlist (as aired):

Time Artist Song Release Duration Released Label
0:01 Botany Benefactress Feeling Today – EP 2:59 2010 Western Vinyl
0:03 Teebs Double Fifths Ardour 2:00 2010 Brainfeeder
0:07 Wayward Lens Shipyards (burnt and spliced) Shipyards (burnt and spliced) – Single 4:11 2024 2056598 Records DK
0:11 The Tin Box Formulae Formulae – EP 3:25 2025 The Tin Box
0:14 cerulean Memory Lane Memory Lane – Single 2:55 2025 cerulean
0:17 VIQ lowtone nothing is real – EP 2:08 2025 From Nowhere Records
0:21 Casino Versus Japan Scenic Loop Damaged Errata – Single 6:17 2015 Attacknine Records
0:28 The Sight Below Wishing Me Asleep Murmur – EP 5:34 2009 Ghostly International
0:33 Lusine Rafters Long Light 2:46 2023 Ghostly International
0:36 Orloe All Recorded Days Vessels IX 3:23 2021 Future Astronauts
0:42 Moonnight Sequence By the City Shibuya Secrets – Single 4:08 2022 Odysea
0:46 Ethan Wilson World Lines Relativity – EP 3:22 2021 SVNSET WAVES
0:49 Hello Meteor Sub Hadal The Department of Marine Sciences 2:24 2022 Evergreen Prefecture
0:51 Tycho Epoch Epoch 5:34 2016 Ghostly International
0:57 SLR 01.Wav Graphite 1:29 2017 slr



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Hosted by Seth.



Episode 2025-14: Tropicalpurples, Soft Static, Pacific Coliseum and more

March 31, 2025 Podcast
Two logs floating on a pond, covered in snow, with a dark sky overhead.

Episode 2025-14

Playlist (as aired):

• VIQ – lowtone
  Release: nothing is real – EP
  Label: From Nowhere Records

• Slow Magic – Toddler Tiger
  Release: Triangle
  Label: PLANCHA

• Shatter Hands – Singlespeed
  Release: Land Fly
  Label: Urban Waves Records

• Emancipator – Eve II (Odesza Remix)
  Release: Dusk to Dawn Remixes
  Label: Loci Records

• Manatee Commune – Pools
  Release: Crescent Lake – EP
  Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings

• Criibaby & Surfer Dave – Me into You (In the Garden)
  Release: In the Garden
  Label: Friends of Friends

• Max Cooper – The Missing Piece
  Release: On Being
  Label: Mesh

• Tropicalpurples – Yuta’s Curse
  Release: Uhh.. EP
  Label: Anjunachill

• Sun Glitters – Red signals.
  Release: Red signals in a twilight loop.
  Label: Sun Glitters

• Orange Crush – Manual Drift
  Release: Manual Drift – Single
  Label: Orange Crush

• Soft Static – Between Sheets
  Release: Between Sheets – Single
  Label: Soft Static

• Xky – Shapes
  Release: Mercury EP
  Label: Xky Music

• Pacifix – Your Eyes
  Release: Rising Tides 007
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Aphex Twin – IZ-US
  Release: Come to Daddy
  Label: Warp Records

• Pacific Coliseum – Understanding (Extended Version)
  Release: Voice Wave
  Label: Noire & Blanche



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Two cold logs, floating”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “Two logs floating on a pond, covered in snow, with a dark sky overhead”)

Episode 2025-13: Cerulean, Orange Crush, Aonian and more

March 24, 2025 Podcast
A sunset at the foot of a mountain, with its features darkened by shade. The clouds are glowing in bright orange.

Episode 2025-13

Playlist (as aired):

• beachowl – Abysmal
  Release: Motel Pools – EP
  Label: 3361561 Records DK

• t.quoise – Chillax
  Release: Life in Reverse
  Label: Soundsphere

• BLEACH SEQUENCE – Collect 200 As You Pass Go
  Release: Lost Geographies – EP
  Label: BLEACH SEQUENCE

• Aonian – Woven
  Release: Woven – Single
  Label: Aonian

• Stèv – Cheap Monogatari
  Release: Cheap Monogatari – Single
  Label: Variables

• Hello Meteor – Dusk Weather
  Release: Comfortable Loneliness
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Cerulean – Memory Lane
  Release: Memory Lane – Single
  Label: 1369135 Records DK

• Forhill – Odyssey
  Release: Figments
  Label: 913190 Records DK

• Departure – Ocean Breeze
  Release: Ocean Breeze – Single
  Label: DEPARTURE

• Orange Crush – The Distance Between Us
  Release: The Distance Between Us – Single
  Label: Orange Crush

• Six Missing & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – A Nod Farewell (Remix)
  Release: A Nod Farewell (Remix) – Single
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group

• Robin Sukroso & Korora – Deep Sea
  Release: Deep Sea – Single
  Label: Wuza Records

• 100 Day Delay – Yarrow
  Release: Yarrow
  Label: 645497 Records DK

• Arovane – Cry Osaka Cry (2023 Remaster)
  Release: Lilies (2023 Remaster)
  Label: Keplar



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Sunset at the foot of Lone Mountain, Nevada”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A sunset at the foot of a mountain, with its features darkened by shade. The clouds are glowing in bright orange.”)

Episode 2025-12: Max Cooper, Sun Glitters and more

March 17, 2025 Podcast
A vibrant amber sunset with the sky almost entirely in shades of amber, while the mountains below are painted in purple hues.

Episode 2025-12

Playlist (as aired):

    • yuk. – Sundaze
      Release: Gem Drops
      Label: Dropping Gems

    • Wayward Lens – Shipyards
      Release: Shipyards – Single
      Label: 2056598 Records DK

    • Max Cooper – I Am In A Church In Gravesend Listening To Old Vinyl And Drinking Coffee
      Release: On Being
      Label: Mesh

    • Tom Day – Train to Nagano
      Release: Train to Nagano – Single
      Label: Peaks

    • gonima – Warm Season
      Release: Strands
      Label: SVNSET WAVES

    • Shigeto – Deep Breathing
      Release: Intermission – EP
      Label: Ghostly International

    • t.quoise – Wait
      Release: Life in Reverse
      Label: Soundsphere

    • ITO – The Cliff
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
      Label: SVNSET WAVES

    • Julien Mier – Yesterday’s Downpour
      Release: Changing Currents
      Label: 631591 Records DK2

    • Kettel – Twinkle Twinkle
      Release: Myam James, Pt. 1
      Label: Sending Orbs

    • Hello Meteor – New Coffee
      Release: Mondo Canyon
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture

    • Arms and Sleepers – TAKE ME BACK
      Release: IMOLA – Single
      Label: DXFXWXU Collective

    • Casino Versus Japan – Scenic Loop
      Release: Damaged Errata – Single
      Label: Attacknine Records

    • A.L.I.S.O.N – Sunshine Girl
      Release: Sunshine Girl – Single
      Label: A.L.I.S.O.N

    • upusen – Not Good
      Release: Birds
      Label: Midwest Collective

    • Sun Glitters – No Need To Say (2022)
      Release: No Need To Say (2022) – Single
      Label: Sun Glitters

    • Monster Rally – Toucans
      Release: Flowering Jungle
      Label: Monster Rally





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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Gazing in the Direction of California”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A vibrant amber sunset with the sky almost entirely in shades of amber, while the mountains below are painted in purple hues.”)

Episode 2025-11: Elsa Hewitt, VIQ, Heathered Pearls and more

March 10, 2025 Podcast
A lenticular cloud shaped like a saucer, with orange and blue hues. The mountains below are faintly visible in the fading light of dusk.

Episode 2025-11

Playlist (as aired):

• Submerse – Bake Sale
  Release: See You Soon
  Label: Project Mooncircle

• Ian Ewing – Trinidad
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2017
  Label: Chillhop Music

• VIQ – lowtone
  Release: nothing is real – EP
  Label: From Nowhere Records

• Frameworks – Kings
  Release: Kings
  Label: Loci Records

• Feverkin – Silhouette
  Release: Silhouette – Single
  Label: 559975 Records DK2

• Dillard – Lust
  Release: Empress LP
  Label: D93 Audio

• eevee – Summertime
  Release: Summertime – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Elsa Hewitt – Equinox
  Release: Dominant Heartstrings
  Label: ERH

• Milieu – Swaying Palms
  Release: Swaying Palms
  Label: Milieu Music

• A Vision of Panorama – Mediterranean Tribal
  Release: Sentimental Coast – EP
  Label: Cala Tarida Musica

• Hu – North
  Release: Navigate – EP
  Label: anon recordings

• firephly – Blissful Material
  Release: A Familiar Stranger – EP
  Label: Firephly

• ConcernedApe – Volcano Mines (Forgotten World)
  Release: Stardew Valley 1.5 (Original Game Soundtrack)
  Label: ConcernedApe

• Mnemeau – Blood Maneuvering
  Release: Music You Don’t Show Your Friends
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Chromosphere – Barba di Bosco
  Release: Julia – EP
  Label: No Sense of Place Records

• Heathered Pearls – Perfume Catalogue
  Release: Body Complex
  Label: Ghostly International

• eevee – I Think of You At 2 a.m.
  Release: I Think of You At 2 a.m. – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Unidentified Flying Cloud Above The Solar Power Facility”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A lenticular cloud shaped like a saucer, with orange and blue hues. The mountains below are faintly visible in the fading light of dusk.”)

Episode 2025-10: Hole Dweller, Hello Meteor, The Tin Box and more

March 3, 2025 Podcast
A sunset with vibrant, colorful clouds behind a mountain range. In the foreground, power lines are visible, indicating the presence of the aging infrastructure of a small desert community.

Episode 2025-10

Playlist (as aired):

• Teebs – Shells
  Release: Anicca
  Label: Brainfeeder

• Monster Rally – El Retorno
  Release: Return to Paradise
  Label: Monster Rally

• Blithe Field – Milkshakes in the Rain
  Release: Face Always Toward the Sun
  Label: Blithe Field

• Esolagoto – Humidity
  Release: Beatsupply: Crate07 – EP
  Label: Beatsupply

• BODYBITE – Woken Up by the Sun
  Release: Pretty World
  Label: 1629096 Records DK

• t.quoise – We’re Going Backwards
  Release: Life in Reverse
  Label: Soundsphere

• Hole Dweller – Morning Rain by the Overhill Yards, A Harvest of Wet Lumber
  Release: Flies the Coop
  Label: Hole Dweller

• Boards of Canada – In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country
  Release: In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country – EP
  Label: Warp Records

• Tycho – PBS
  Release: Past Is Prologue
  Label: Ghostly International

• Sun Glitters – TThhiinnggss TToo DDoo
  Release: SSoofftt TToouucchh
  Label: MERLIN – Future Archive Recordings

• Whirl – Urban Landscape
  Release: Urban Landscape
  Label: Whirl

• The Friendly Moon – Zzzzzzz
  Release: Sleep Well! – EP
  Label: The Friendly Moon

• santpoort – wen uuu – Shlohmo Cover
  Release: FOF10: wen uuu
  Label: Friends Of Friends

• Hello Meteor – Deep Understory
  Release: Mondo Canyon
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• The Tin Box – Formulae
  Release: Formulae
  Label: The Tin Box

• Wayward Lens – Shipyards
  Release: Shipyards – Single
  Label: 2056598 Records DK

• il:lo – Alma (Frameworks Remix)
  Release: Sloh Remixes – Single
  Label: Future Archive Recordings

• Behind Clouds – Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (Instrumental)
  Release: Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken – Single
  Label: Behind Clouds



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Looking Beyond, But Not Past, The Clown Motel”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A sunset with vibrant, colorful clouds behind a mountain range. In the foreground, power lines are visible, indicating the presence of the aging infrastructure of a small desert community.”)

Episode 2025-09: Dvwnpour, Pierre LX, ISAN and more

February 24, 2025 Podcast
Snow gently falls on a distant farm, surrounded by bare deciduous trees. The farm features several red buildings with snow-covered roofs, under a winter-gray sky.

Episode 2025-09

Playlist (as aired):

• Bowcraft – Cicada
  Release: Many Distant Cities
  Label: 1469535 Records DK

• Bad Snacks – Homecoming
  Release: Neat Tape 1
  Label: backbeet records, LLC

• WMD – The Chills
  Release: Sophrosyne
  Label: 16 Entertainment LLC, under exclusive license from WMD

• Osvaldo – Leeches
  Release: Rising Tides 012
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Dvwnpour – Blueberry Glacé
  Release: Apricot
  Label: Dvwnpour

• Birocratic – Orientation
  Release: Beets
  Label: Birocratic

• Packed Rich – Crane
  Release: Ornithology – EP
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Shigeto – Tell a Tale (Bonus Track)
  Release: No Better Time Than Now
  Label: Ghostly International

• Blackbird Belle – Elegy (Instrumental)
  Release: Elegy – Single
  Label: Blackbird Belle

• Mike Forst – Grateful Again
  Release: Rising Tides 012
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Space Ghost – Aquarium Nightclub
  Release: Aquarium Nightclub
  Label: Tartelet Records

• Pierre LX – Untitled (love)
  Release: Loyal & True
  Label: Laral Tapes

• Pacific Coliseum – Endless Journey
  Release: How’s Life
  Label: Let’s Play House

• Wave damage – Evil Play
  Release: Evil Play – EP
  Label: 4530854 Records DK

• Hello Meteor – Aqualotic
  Release: The Coastal Obscure
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• ISAN – Ship
  Release: Plans Drawn In Pencil
  Label: MERLIN – Morr Music

• Elsa Hewitt – Inhaler
  Release: Lupa
  Label: ERH

• Bad Snacks – Gratitude
  Release: Bathtub Bumps
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Winter Whispers on a Distant Farm”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill, Project Chilly Chillington. (Alt Text: “Snow gently falls on a distant farm, surrounded by bare deciduous trees. The farm features several red buildings with snow-covered roofs, under a winter-gray sky.”)

About Café Chill

Café Chill is Public Radio's human curated chill mix, produced by KNHC Productions in Seattle, WA.
Host & Curator: Seth B.
Manager: Richard J Dalton
Café Chill is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

About The Curator/Host

Seth  has been involved in the Pacific Northwest electronic music scene for years, as a member of Go Periscope and several other projects. In 2015, he became part of the Café Chill team, taking hosting and curation duties.