Episode 2023-22: Rosentwig, Ethan Wilson and more

May 29, 2023 Podcast
A body of water at dusk or dawn, with mountains jetting out of the water, forming islands or peninsulas. The sky is light purple and there is a light mist.

Episode 2023-22

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Gloamie – Sookie
      Release: Sookie – Single
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • SwuM – If I Leave
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Winter 2019
      Label: Chillhop Music
  • RUMTUM – Coastal Ruins
      Release: Isles in Indigo
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Blackboxx – Stranded Under Sunsets
      Release: Seablushed – EP
      Label: Slime
  • Ethan Wilson – World Lines
      Release: Relativity – EP
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Dillard – Regeneration
      Release: Palm Skyline
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Imagined Herbal Flows – Evolve
      Release: Departure – EP
      Label: Seeking Blue
  • Rosentwig – Dawsonia
      Release: Dawsonia – Single
      Label: Rosentwig
  • Emancipator – Goodness
      Release: Baralku
      Label: Loci Records
  • Hello Meteor – Charcoal and Ash
      Release: The Coastal Obscure
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Freud – Faux Pas
      Release: Velvet Dance – EP
      Label: Substruct Audio
  • Feverkin – Silhouette
      Release: Silhouette – Single
      Label: 559975 Records DK2
  • Chris LaRue – Wool Socks
      Release: Lo-Fi Meditations
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • il:lo – Reine (feat. Brain Blake)
      Release: Places – EP
      Label: Nettwerk Music Group



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Photo: “Ofu Lagoon”. Credit: National Park of American Samoa/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-21: Ramakhandra, 憂鬱, Telequanta and more

May 22, 2023 Podcast
View of the night sky at sunset. The sky is becoming dark blue, and the sun is still illuminating the greenery on the ground. The sky is filled with stars, and gets deeper blue as the altitude increases.

Episode 2023-21

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Angeldustmite – Chilaquiles
      Release: Second Breakfast
      Label: 967138 Records DK
  • Teebs – Mirror Memory
      Release: Anicca
      Label: Brainfeeder
  • Shigeto – Look At All the Smiling Faces
      Release: Full Circle
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Nerddelic Studio Works – Snore
      Release: The Sun & the Moon
      Label: Nerddelic Studio Works
  • Feverkin & Koresma – Folds
      Release: Folds – Single
      Label: Feverkin & Koresma
  • Chemtrails x Richard Alfaro – Leisure Trail
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 6
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Jay Cliffen & LaFlamme – Bo-Tree
      Release: Canopy – EP
      Label: Canopy
  • Microfunk Crew – Bikini Bottom
      Release: Puzzles – EP
      Label: Microfunk Music
  • Telequanta – Programmable Matter
      Release: Programmable Matter – Single
      Label: Telequanta
  • Ramakhandra – Haku (Rumtum Remix)
      Release: Haku (Rumtum Remix) – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Oscar Oscar – Himeji
      Release: Himeji – Single
      Label: Majestic Casual Records
  • Steven Deblat – Is This 2 Much for U
      Release: i s t h i s 2 m u c h f o r u
      Label: Steven Deblat
  • Imagined Herbal Flows – Breeze
      Release: Floating – EP
      Label: DDM Recordings
  • Yu-Utsu – Sun
      Release: Sun – Single
      Label: 憂鬱



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Photo: “Night Sky”. Credit: Cedar Breaks National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-20: 100 Day Delay, Petit Biscuit and more

May 15, 2023 Podcast
A baby marmot, largely with white fur, and brown eyes, ears, nose and toes. There is some greenery in the foreground, and brown and green foliage in the out-of-focus background.

Episode 2023-20

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Shlohmo – Wen Uuu (Covered by Santpoort)
      Release: FOF10: Friends of Friends at 10
      Label: Friends of Friends Music
  • lover girl – Dearly
      Release: Stay Asleep – Single
      Label: SXN
  • Arovane – Cry Osaka Cry (2023 Remaster)
      Release: Lilies (2023 Remaster)
      Label: City Centre Offices
  • 100 Day Delay – Yarrow
      Release: Yarrow
      Label: 645497 Records DK
  • Petit Biscuit – Sunset Lover (Manatee Commune Remix)
      Release: Sunset Lover (Remixes)
      Label: Petit Biscuit Music
  • Jinsang – night breeze
      Release: Solitude.
      Label: Vinyl Digital GmbH
  • Hello Meteor – Lanai Lookout
      Release: Lanai Lookout – Single
      Label: FiXT
  • Lyli J – Agave
      Release: Micro Wanders
      Label: See Blue Audio
  • X3SR – Farewell
      Release: Sublimation
      Label: X3SR
  • Foewi – Archipelago/Urbanaxia
      Release: Archipelago/Urbanaxia – Single
      Label: 1205714 Records DK
  • Imagined Herbal Flows – Departure
      Release: Departure – EP
      Label: Seeking Blue
  • VIQ – Illusion
      Release: Crystal Shores
      Label: VIQ
  • Frequency Control Centre – Float Left
      Release: Exp.1
      Label: Bad Bat Records
  • Frameworks – The Dark
      Release: Imagine Gold
      Label: Loci Records
  • Fallen Roses & B dom – Yours and Nobody Elses’s
      Release: Yours and Nobody Elses’s – Single
      Label: Majestic Casual Records



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Photo: “Marmot Baby”. Credit: Denali National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-19: t.quoise, Drips Zacheer and more

May 8, 2023 Podcast
A woodpecker's head peering out the woodpecker's hole in a tree. The woodpecker has a red forehead with brown stripes. The background is our of focus, with brown branches and some blue sky.

Episode 2023-19

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Arovane – Passage to Nagoya (2023 Remaster)
      Release: Lilies (2023 Remaster)
      Label: City Centre Offices
  • Space Ghost – Aquarium Nightclub
      Release: Aquarium Nightclub
      Label: Tartelet Records
  • Orange Crush – Invocation
      Release: Autumn Reflections
      Label: Orange Crush
  • t.quoise – Life in Reverse
      Release: Life in Reverse
      Label: Soundsphere
  • flow.ctrl – Nightlight
      Release: Lullaby – EP
      Label:
  • fr√ľit – Yellow Waters
      Release: Opal Melt – EP
      Label: SXN
  • Pablo Bolivar – Fuse
      Release: Framework of a Dream
      Label: Seven Villas
  • Drips Zacheer – Gardenia
      Release: Gardenia – Single
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Frequency Control Centre – National Sound Division
      Release: Exp.1
      Label: Bad Bat Records
  • Hu – North
      Release: Navigate – EP
      Label: anon recordings
  • Boards of Canada – Everything You Do Is a Balloon
      Release: Hi Scores
      Label: Skam Records
  • 20HoursAfterDawn – Sweetness Of Fake Pollution
      Release: Sun Will Crackle – EP
      Label: I Low You records
  • Monster Rally – Enchanted Wine
      Release: Return to Paradise
      Label: Monster Rally



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Photo: “Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)”. Credit: Fort Stanwix National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-18: Francesca Guccione, Windows 96 and more

May 1, 2023 Podcast
A black millipede walking on a stone gravel surface.

Episode 2023-18

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Francesca Guccione – Ganymede
      Release: Tales from the Deepest Lights Vol. I – EP
      Label: Modularfield
  • Windows 96 – Hello Earth
      Release: Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers
      Label: Windows 96
  • Frequency Control Centre – Kaleidophone
      Release: Analogs of Traces
      Label: Audionautic Records
  • Marley Carroll – Home Planet
      Release: Home Planet – Single
      Label: Melanaster Records
  • Cialyn – In From The Cold
      Release: In From The Cold
      Label: Cialyn
  • Pbs’73 – Antennas In Air
      Release: Technicolor Dreamer – EP
      Label: Magic Square Records
  • Wave damage – Burn Together
      Release: Evil Play – EP
      Label: 4530854 Records DK
  • RUMTUM – Shade Fader
      Release: Isles in Indigo
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • boerd – Look
      Release: Misplaced
      Label: Anjunadeep
  • Sloslylove – Secret Dreams
      Release: Secret Dreams
      Label: Sloslylove
  • Decisive Koala – Locate Memories
      Release: Locate Memories – Single
      Label: Decisive Koala
  • Yu-Utsu – Sun
      Release: Sun – Single
      Label: 憂鬱
  • Teebs – Shells
      Release: Anicca
      Label: Brainfeeder



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Photo: “American Giant Millipede”. Credit: Blue Ridge Parkway/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-17: Digitalverein, Wave damage, Birocratic and more

April 24, 2023 Podcast
Cafe Chill logo consisting of 3 evergreen trees on a white background.

Episode 2023-17

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Artist – Song
      Release: Release
      Label: Label
  • Wave damage – Burn Together
      Release: Evil Play – EP
      Label: 4530854 Records DK
  • Senoy – —- [Flower]
      Release: M
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Lyli J – Glow
      Release: Spirit Realm – EP
      Label: Monoke Records
  • Birocratic – snowdown
      Release: Snowdown – Single
      Label: Birocracy
  • Tobias – Something
      Release: Something – Single
      Label: AmbientMusicalGenre
  • Digitalverein – Next To Mont Royal
      Release: Tiefer Ins System
      Label: Seven Villas Voyage
  • Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Boards of Canada Remix)
      Release: So Soon
      Label: Planet Mu Records Ltd.
  • Brothomstates – Mdrmx
      Release: Claro
      Label: Warp Records
  • Frameworks – Titles
      Release: Kings
      Label: FRAMEWORKS
  • Poldoore & Ian Urbina – Nomad
      Release: Astray (Inspired by ‘The Outlaw Ocean’ – a book by Ian Urbina) – Single
      Label: The Outlaw Ocean LLC
  • edapollo – By the River
      Release: Blue Spring
      Label: Opine
  • Gold Panda – New Days
      Release: The Work
      Label: PLANCHA



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Episode 2023-16: Birocratic, Cialyn, Petite Douceur and more

April 17, 2023 Podcast
Driftwood on the beach.

Episode 2023-16

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • BODYBITE – Woken Up by the Sun
      Release: Pretty World
      Label: 1629096 Records DK
  • Birocratic – snowdown
      Release: Snowdown – Single
      Label: Birocracy
  • Mvnners – Her in Mind
      Release: Her in Mind – Single
      Label: SXN
  • Petite Douceur – I Know (Sunday Morning Mix)
      Release: I Know (Sunday Morning Mix)
      Label: Petite Douceur
  • Hello Meteor – The Ceramic District
      Release: Conditioned Air
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Hotel Pools – Spring
      Release: Constant
      Label: Wild Nature
  • Cialyn – The Sun and The Light
      Release: OMEGA (Soundtrack)
      Label: Cialyn
  • Tycho – Dictaphone’s Lament
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Horizon Fire – Asimov
      Release: Earthlight
      Label: DistroKid.com 579457
  • Pbs’73 – Kaleidosphere
      Release: Viewers Like You
      Label: 635970 Records DK
  • Bibio – Look at Orion!
      Release: Silver Wilkinson
      Label: Warp Records
  • Shigeto – Miss U
      Release: No Better Time Than Now
      Label: Ghostly International
  • fr√ľit – Gemology
      Release: Opal Melt – EP
      Label: SXN
  • Sundrenched – Tomorrow
      Release: The Sundrenched Lofi Guitar Ensemble Vol 4
      Label: Dust-Tone



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Photo: “Green Turtle Breathing”. Credit: Virgin Islands National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-15: Wave damage, Astropilot and more

April 10, 2023 Podcast
"Night Sky". Credit: Cedar Breaks National Monument, National Park Service, public domain.

Episode 2023-15

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Giraffage – SLO
      Release: Comfort
      Label: Giraffage
  • Flamingosis & The Kount – Rhythm Ritual
      Release: Maniacs!
      Label: Flamingosis & The Kount
  • Wave damage – Evil Play
      Release: Evil Play – EP
      Label: 4530854 Records DK
  • Astropilot – Tenderness
      Release: Tenderness – Single
      Label: AstroPilot Music
  • Hello Meteor – The Ceramic District
      Release: Conditioned Air
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Cialyn – The Sun and The Light
      Release: OMEGA (Soundtrack)
      Label: Cialyn
  • Tycho – Dictaphone’s Lament
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Soular Order – Liminal
      Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
      Label: Soular Order
  • Lyli J – Lunari
      Release: Lunari – EP
      Label: Monoke Records
  • Jinx – Solace (Bonus) [Nightflyer Chill Mix]
      Release: Solace (Nightflyer Mix) – Single
      Label: Nightflyer
  • Florida Skyline – Let’s Go Home Now
      Release: Anesthesia
      Label: Midwest Collective
  • Memorex Memories – Beacon Hill
      Release: The Life of Riley
      Label: Stratford Ct.
  • Teebs – Prayers i
      Release: Anicca
      Label: Brainfeeder
  • Jinsang – bliss
      Release: life
      Label: VinDig



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Photo: “Night Sky”. Credit: Cedar Breaks National Monument, National Park Service, public domain. (Used previously due to technical issues)

Episode 2023-13: Rosentwig, Jinx and more

March 27, 2023 Podcast
A halo around the sun, over a snowy landscape, with mountain peaks in the foreground. The sky is party cloudy but bright.

Episode 2023-13

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Shigeto – Safe in Here
      Release: No Better Time Than Now
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Sundrenched – Flyby
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • A Sol Mechanic – Flight
      Release: Flight – Single
      Label: A Sol Mechanic
  • Orange Crush – Invocation
      Release: Autumn Reflections
      Label: Orange Crush
  • t.quoise – Life in Reverse
      Release: Life in Reverse
      Label: Soundsphere
  • Hello Meteor – Emergent Algorithms
      Release: Community Broadcasting
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Rosentwig – Dawsonia
      Release: Dawsonia – Single
      Label: Rosentwig
  • Koresma – Northern Lights
      Release: North – EP
      Label: Koresma
  • Marley Carroll – Ice Cavern
      Release: Ice Cavern / Water Temple – Single
      Label: Loci Records
  • Ramakhandra – Haku (Rumtum Remix)
      Release: Haku (Rumtum Remix) – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Jinx – Solace (Bonus) [Nightflyer Chill Mix]
      Release: Solace (Nightflyer Mix) – Single
      Label: Nightflyer
  • Lyli J – Lunari
      Release: Lunari – EP
      Label: Monoke Records
  • gonima – Warm Season
      Release: Strands
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • VIQ – Journey
      Release: Last Path
      Label: VIQ



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Photo: “Sun Halo”. Credit: Denali National Park and Preserve / National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-12: ロフト tapes, Catching Flies, Earthen Sea and more

March 20, 2023 Podcast
A deep orange moon rising from the mountain obscured horizon. The sky is dark blue. The mountains appear barren of vegetation, except for some evergreen trees near the peak.

Episode 2023-12

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Visible Cloaks – Wheel
      Release: Lex – EP
      Label: RVNG Intl.
  • ロフト tapes (loft tapes) – Arrival 到着
      Release: Heal カセット 81
      Label: lofttapes
  • Earthen Sea – Shiny Nowhere
      Release: Ghost Poems
      Label: kranky
  • Precept – Ascend
      Release: When We Are in Bloom
      Label: analog horizons
  • Boards of Canada – Aquarius
      Release: Music Has The Right To Children
      Label: Warp Records
  • fr√ľit – Prism
      Release: Prism – EP
      Label: SXN
  • Pablo Bolivar – Fuse
      Release: Framework of a Dream
      Label: Seven Villas
  • Warm Ghost – I Will Return (Heathered Pearls’ Coasting In Circles Remix)
      Release: Loyal
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Catching Flies – Komorebi
      Release: Silver Linings
      Label: Indigo Soul
  • Mute City – Seawall
      Release: Data Breach
      Label: Claw Solutions
  • Freud – Cuban Episode
      Release: Velvet Dance – EP
      Label: Substruct Audio
  • Koresma – Liquid Lady
      Release: Liquid Lady – EP
      Label: Koresma
  • Hello Meteor – tropikel (BONUS STAGE)
      Release: The Oahu GP
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture



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Photo: “Moonrise, Curecanti National Recreation Area, 2015”. Credit: Curecanti National Recreation Area / National Park Service, public domain [i].

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.