Podcast

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.”)

Episode 2025-08: Message To Bears, Tangent Universes, Hello Meteor and more

February 17, 2025 Podcast
A peaceful winter pond surrounded by evergreen and deciduous trees. Snow covers most of the shoreline, with fallen trees partially submerged in the pond, also covered in snow.

Episode 2025-08

Playlist (as aired):

• Ruck P – Sunrise Hike
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
  Label: Chillhop Music

• Florida Skyline – Interlude
  Release: Anesthesia
  Label: Midwest Collective

• Message To Bears – Half Light
  Release: Half Light – Single
  Label: Lost Birds

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

• Tangent Universes – Clouds on the Ground
  Release: For La, Vol. 2
  Label: Nettwerk

• Cialyn – Solar Echoes
  Release: Calls To Our Stations
  Label: Cialyn

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

• Invisible Pyramids – dream on
  Release: Possession, Volume 2
  Label: 1216142 Records DK

• Possums at Twilight – Awake
  Release: Interobject
  Label: Twilight Possums

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

• Casino Versus Japan – Marilyn Set Me Free
  Release: Hitori + Kaiso (1998 – 2001)
  Label: Attacknine Records

• Chris LaRue – Wool Socks
  Release: Lo-Fi Meditations – EP
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

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

• Wayward Lens – Refracting Light
  Release: Refracting Light – Single
  Label: 2056598 Records DK

• Manatee Commune – Heal
  Release: Brush
  Label: Record Union

• Blackbird Belle – Celestial Nighthawk
  Release: Celestial Nighthawk
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Arms and Sleepers – Fathers and Sons
  Release: What Tomorrow Brings
  Label: Pelagic Records

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

• The Ugly – The Wind At Your Back
  Release: Awake On The Mountain – EP
  Label: The Ugly

• Masked Man – Unknwn
  Release: Unknwn – Single
  Label: Chillhop Music



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “A Peaceful Winter Pond”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A peaceful winter pond surrounded by evergreen and deciduous trees. Snow covers most of the shoreline, with fallen trees partially submerged in the pond, also covered in snow.”)

Episode 2025-07: The Tin Box, Hello Meteor, Susumu Yokota and more

February 10, 2025 Podcast
A single caribou gazes directly at the camera, surrounded by red shrubs, with a river and forest in the background.

Episode 2025-07

Playlist (as aired):

• Hello Meteor – Soryumirai
  Release: Mondo Canyon
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Meesha – Sun Shine’inin 2002
  Release: Sun Shine’inin 2002 – Single
  Label: Meesha

• Rykard – Fading into the Light
  Release: Explorers, Vol. 4 – EP
  Label: Hunya Munya Records

• Khotin – Ivory Tower
  Release: Finds You Well
  Label: Ghostly International

• Milieu – Luke’s Rusty Drum
  Release: New Drugs for Nuclear Families of the Seventies
  Label: I, Absentee

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

• Gloamie – Chickpea+Mango
  Release: In Search of Lost Time
  Label: Likes Flowers Records

• Windows 96 – Hello Earth
  Release: Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers
  Label: Windows 96

• High Tides – Summer Reflections
  Release: Paradise Daze
  Label: Rad Cult

• Bowcraft – Lunar Ex.
  Release: Many Distant Cities
  Label: 1469535 Records DK

• Cialyn – Armful of Leaves
  Release: Sour Leaves
  Label: Cialyn

• Vanilla – Dreamcatcher
  Release: Origin
  Label: Cafe del Mar Music

• Puar – Back Seat Driver
  Release: Better Late Than Never
  Label: Puar

• C-Smitten – Invisible Hipp (Soul Brother Mix ft. A.L.D.)
  Release: Hey Arnold! Beat Tape: 10th Anniversary Edition
  Label:

• Susumu Yokota – Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower
  Release: Symbol
  Label: P-VINE RECORDS

• Otesla – Gensyn
  Release: Gensyn – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Who, Me?”. Credit: Kobuk Valley National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt text: “A single caribou gazes directly at the camera, surrounded by red shrubs, with a river and forest in the background.”)

Episode 2025-06: Neighborhood Libraries, Sun Glitters and more

February 3, 2025 Podcast
A wide view of glaciers with frozen flows flowing into a bay. The sky is clear and blue, and snow-covered mountains surround the scene. Ice floats in the water.

Episode 2025-06

Playlist (as aired):

• lover girl – Dearly
  Release: Stay Asleep – Single
  Label: SOULFULXNATURE

• Es-K – Auralenze
  Release: Balancing Act (Part 2)
  Label: Es-K

• Heathered Pearls – Cast in Lemon & Sand
  Release: Body Complex
  Label: Ghostly International

• Tomas Novoa – Escala de Grises
  Release: Escala de Grises – EP
  Label: Tomas Novoa

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

• Neighborhood Libraries – What Will We Have Left
  Release: For LA Vol. 2
  Label: Nettwerk

• Wayward Lens – Refracting Light
  Release: Refracting Light – Single
  Label: 2056598 Records DK

• Panic Girl – Monotones
  Release: Cake on Jupiter
  Label: Modularfield

• City Girl – Mist Beneath Your Apartment
  Release: Neon Impasse
  Label: City Girl Records

• Wave damage – Vivid Blue
  Release: Vivid Blue – EP
  Label: 4530854 Records DK

• Elsa Hewitt – Pop Tuna
  Release: Citrus Paradisi
  Label: ERH

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

• Jay Cliffen & LaFlamme – Earth Jewels
  Release: Canopy – EP
  Label: Canopy

• Tycho – Coastal Brake
  Release: Dive
  Label: Ghostly International

• Nerddelic Studio Works – Snore
  Release: The Sun & the Moon
  Label: Nerddelic Studio Works

• Ideism – Mend
  Release: SVMMER SVN, Vol. 7
  Label: SVNSET WAVES



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Glaciers”. Credit: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain. [i]. Alt Text: “A wide view of glaciers with frozen flows flowing into a bay. The sky is clear and blue, and snow-covered mountains surround the scene. Ice floats in the water.”

Episode 2025-05: Smokestax & Rsrch Chmcls, Dokkodo Sounds and more

January 27, 2025 Podcast
A snowy landscape with rock formations in the distance and brown, grass-like plants in the foreground. The sky is filled with colorful clouds lit by the sun.

Episode 2025-05

Playlist (as aired):

• Laurence Guy – Claudi
  Release: Saw You for the First Time
  Label: Church

• Hello Meteor – The Department of Marine Sciences
  Release: The Department of Marine Sciences
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Petit Biscuit – You
  Release: You – Single
  Label: Petit Biscuit Music

• Eater – Schoolyard
  Release: Various Artists “01​:​11” PFCD29
  Label: PROGRESSIVE FOrM

• Poldoore – Celestial (A Tribute To Nujabes)
  Release: Celestial (A Tribute To Nujabes) – Single
  Label: Poldoore Music

• Chemtrails – Elapse
  Release: Taking Things Lightly
  Label: DISTROKID

• Substantial – Beyond the Stage (feat. Uyama Hiroto) [Instrumental]
  Release: Beyond the Stage (feat. Uyama Hiroto) – Single
  Label: Substantial Art & Music

• Shigeto – Huron River Drive (Evenings Remix)
  Release: Huron River Drive – EP
  Label: Ghostly International

• Smokestax & Rsrch Chmcls – Next Chapter
  Release: Next Chapter – Single
  Label: all:Lo

• Dokkodo Sounds – It’s All Gradual
  Release: Where You Thought You Wanted To Be
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Microfunk Crew – Bikini Bottom
  Release: Puzzles – EP
  Label: Microfunk Music

• Ian Aisling – Reconfigure
  Release: The Echoterra
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• AWITW – The Mist
  Release: Inside World
  Label: Golden Forest Records

• Horizon Fire – Asimov
  Release: Earthlight
  Label: DistroKid.com 579457

• VIQ – Vestige
  Release: Crystal Shores
  Label: VIQ

• Sundrenched – Deep In the Lab
  Release: The Sundrenched Lofi Guitar Ensemble, Vol. 4
  Label: Dust-Tone



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Snow in the Badlands”. Credit: Badlands National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A snowy landscape with rock formations in the distance and brown, grass-like plants in the foreground. The sky is filled with colorful clouds lit by the sun.”)

Episode 2025-04: Wayward Lens, ロフト tapes, Sun Glitters and more

January 20, 2025 Podcast
Snow-covered cliffs of a deep canyon with a lake on the canyon floor, under a cloudy sky.

Episode 2025-04

Playlist (as aired):

• Windows 96 – Hello Earth
  Release: Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers
  Label: Windows 96

• Fujii – Colour Storm
  Release: EP-Tape1 – EP
  Label: -AVERSIAC-

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

• Arms and Sleepers – Thru & True
  Release: Former Kingdoms
  Label: Achillea Music

• wowflower – Cool Group
  Release: Self Portrait
  Label: Street Corner Music

• Submerse – Let’s Never Come Back Here Again
  Release: Slow Waves
  Label: Project Mooncircle

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

• Firephly – Shifting Light
  Release: Cozy Gloom – EP
  Label: 591184 Records DK2

• Willis Fader – Joy of Cooking
  Release: Parts Per Million
  Label: Paradeco Records

• ロフト tapes – Temple 寺院
  Release: Heal カセット 81
  Label: Lofttapes Production

• Teen Daze – Rainwater Coffee
  Release: Rainwater Coffee – EP
  Label: Teen Daze

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

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

• VIQ – Journey
  Release: Last Path
  Label: VIQ

• KOHEI YOSHII x Komachi – Colours
  Release: Colours – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

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

• Sloslylove – You and I
  Release: The Haunted
  Label: Sloslylove

• Sloslylove – First Semester Love
  Release: Secret Dreams
  Label: Sloslylove



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Canyon With Snowfall”. Credit: Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “Snow-covered cliffs of a deep canyon with a lake on the canyon floor, under a cloudy sky.”)

Episode 2025-03: Puar, Rhombus Index, Hello Meteor and more

January 13, 2025 Podcast
A river mouth at the beach of a larger body of water, with broken snowbanks along the river's edge and ice attached to rocks in the river.

Episode 2025-03

Playlist (as aired):

• Arvo to me – Diver
  Release: Into Change
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

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

• Segue – West Coast Rain
  Release: Pacifica
  Label: 1468568 Records DK

• Ta-Ku – Love Lost (Daughter Remix)
  Release: Love Lost (Daughter Remix)
  Label: HW&W Recordings

• Manatee Commune – Island
  Release: Brush
  Label: Record Union

• Mac DeMarco – Crescent City
  Release: Five Easy Hot Dogs
  Label: Mac DeMarco, LLC

• Jinsang – Some Other Time
  Release: In Flight
  Label: VinDig

• Swimming TV – Jupiter
  Release: Jupiter – Single
  Label: 696078 Records DK2

• Helios and Hollie Kennif – Sepal
  Release: Sepal – Single
  Label: Helios and Hollie Kennif

• Spring In A Small Town – Compassion
  Release: Spring in a Small Town
  Label: flau

• Teen Daze – Quiet City
  Release: Quiet City – Single
  Label: FLORA

• Hello Meteor – An Aqua Media Event
  Release: The 1995 New Expo
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Brothertiger – Tide Pool
  Release: Fundamentals, Vol. I
  Label: Brothertiger

• Rhombus Index – Digital Anemone (Lyli J Remix)
  Release: hycean revisited
  Label: See Blue Audio

• Imagined Herbal Flows – Ocean Tides
  Release: Ocean Tides – Single
  Label: Chillhop Records

• Puar – Hit The Sack
  Release: Better Late Than Never
  Label: Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Winter”. Credit: Acadia National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A river mouth at the beach of a larger body of water, with broken snowbanks along the river’s edge and ice attached to rocks in the river.”)

Episode 2025-02: Hello Meteor, Ian Aisling and more

January 6, 2025 Podcast
A brown and green frog emerging from the water, perched on an aquatic plant-covered shoreline.

Episode 2025-02

Playlist (as aired):

• Soular Order – Boreal
  Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
  Label: Soular Order

• Hello Meteor – Winter Blooming Flowers
  Release: The 1995 New Expo
  Label: DISTROKID

• Treetalking – Eyes of the Observer
  Release: The Unknown
  Label: SXN

• Pacific Coliseum – Endless Journey
  Release: How’s Life
  Label: FLORA

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

• Warm Ghost – I Will Return (Heathered Pearls’ Coasting In Circles Remix)
  Release: Loyal
  Label: Ghostly International

• Four Tet – Daughter
  Release: New Energy
  Label: Text Records

• Gold Panda – New Days
  Release: The Work
  Label: PLANCHA

• Freud – Setback
  Release: Setback
  Label: MERLIN – Substruct

• Machinedrum – Endless <3
  Release: Vapor City Archives
  Label: Ninja Tune

• Ian Aisling – Reconfigure
  Release: The Echoterra
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul (Crookram Remix)
  Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
  Label: DXFXWXU Collective

• Edamame – Mango Pulp (feat. Ian Ewing)
  Release: Bask
  Label: Gravitas Recordings

• Angeldustmite – Grillades
  Release: Second Breakfast
  Label: 967138 Records DK

• Hotel Pools – Vital
  Release: Vital / Highlights – Single
  Label: Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.

• Birocratic – Wrapped Up
  Release: Wrapped up / Falling to Pieces – Single
  Label: Birocracy



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Green Frog”. Credit: Mississippi National River and Recreation Area / National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A brown and green frog emerging from the water, perched on an aquatic plant-covered shoreline.”)

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.