Episode 2023-36: Chickenwizard, Boards of Canada and more

September 4, 2023 Podcast
A sunset scene. At the bottom is a landscape of trees in the distance, showing only their profile. The sky is blue, yellow, orange and pink, and composes most of the photo.

Episode 2023-36

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Chickenwizard – End Dream
      Release: Stargaze
      Label: Wizard Is a Chicken
  • Shigeto – Safe in Here
      Release: No Better Time Than Now
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Leon Vynehall – Movements (Chapter III)
      Release: Nothing Is Still
      Label: Ninja Tune
  • Boards of Canada – Nothing Is Real
      Release: Tomorrow’s Harvest
      Label: Warp Records
  • Rykard – North Cormorant Obscurity
      Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
      Label: Hunya Munya Records
  • Andris Mattson – Atlantis Mantis (wildflower)
      Release: Water – EP
      Label: Wildflower Records
  • Astropilot & Althai – Ai-Petri
      Release: Diary of a Restless Mind (Extended Version)
      Label: AstroPilot Music
  • Hello Meteor – The Exoplanet Environmental Trust
      Release: Comfortable Loneliness
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • creative_reality17 – B6
      Release: Attunement
      Label: creative_reality17
  • Abel, the Giant – Better Tomorrow
      Release: Beatsupply: Crate07 – EP
      Label: Beatsupply
  • Rejoicer – Lucid Intent (feat. Nitai Hershkovits)
      Release: Energy Dreams
      Label: Stones Throw Records
  • Feverkin – Silhouette
      Release: Silhouette – Single
      Label: 559975 Records DK2
  • Frameworks – Kings
      Release: Kings
      Label: FRAMEWORKS
  • Tedium Cool – 00h28
      Release: Midnight Tapes
      Label: Kulkraft Records
  • Slow Magic – Hold Still
      Release: How to Run Away
      Label: Downtown Records / Fontana North
  • Sundrenched – Hotel Orange
      Release: Emerald – EP
      Label: Dust-Tone



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Photo: “Sunset Clouds with Alpenglow”. Credit: Grand Teton National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-35: Padma Purana, Wave damage, Birocratic & G Mills and more

August 28, 2023 Podcast
A trail through a forest with a wooden bench. The ground cover is ferns, reaching about 3 feet high. There are several trees on the foreground providing shade to the bench. In the background are some sun-bleached trees. The trail is made of dirt and appears to be well maintained.

Episode 2023-35

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • SwuM – If I Leave
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Winter 2019
      Label: Chillhop Music
  • A Sol Mechanic – Flight
      Release: Flight – Single
      Label: A Sol Mechanic
  • 20HoursAfterDawn – No Sun Into The Void
      Release: Sun Will Crackle – EP
      Label: I Low You records
  • Possums at Twilight – Good Luck and Have Fun
      Release: Moments Final
      Label: Possums at Twilight
  • System – Manarola
      Release: Common Water – EP
      Label: 949877 Records DK2
  • Padma Purana – Faust
      Release: Departure – EP
      Label: Padma Purana
  • A Vision of Panorama – Mediterranean Tribal
      Release: Sentimental Coast – EP
      Label: Cala Tarida Musica
  • Magic Touch – Rooftop Garden
      Release: Private Lesson
      Label: Total Stasis
  • Memorex Memories – Beacon Hill
      Release: The Life of Riley
      Label: Stratford Ct.
  • Wave damage – Lost world of innocence
      Release: All about tomorrow
      Label: 4530854 Records DK
  • Birocratic & G Mills – shoobedoo
      Release: shoobedoo – Single
      Label: Decatur Boiz
  • Spiritual Awareness – Flowing Stillness
      Release: Meditation in Motion:Mindfulness Sessions In Discovery
      Label: Spiritual Awareness
  • Forteba – Collective Flora
      Release: Collective Flora – Single
      Label: Midnight Fashion
  • boerd – Look
      Release: Misplaced
      Label: Anjunadeep



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Photo: “Tranquility!”. Credit: Acadia National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-34: slowgramming, O.L.I.E, upusen and more

August 21, 2023 Podcast
A trail winding through a forest. The leaves on the trees are green and yellow. The forest is heavily wooded. On the ground are boulders spread throughout the trees, suggesting a mountainous area.

Episode 2023-34

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Menta – Shibuya Streets
      Release: Natural Sounds
      Label: Alpha Pup
  • Thrupence – Don’t You Mind
      Release: Lessons
      Label: Future Classic
  • upusen – Not Good
      Release: Birds
      Label: Midwest Collective
  • Hotel Pools – Highlights
      Release: Vital / Highlights – Single
      Label: Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.
  • A.L.I.S.O.N – Sunshine Girl
      Release: Sunshine Girl – Single
      Label: A.L.I.S.O.N
  • Hello Meteor – Service Access
      Release: Conditioned Air
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • slowgramming – Bufffer Overffflow
      Release: are we there yet?
      Label: slowgramming
  • Jay Cliffen – Efflorescence
      Release: Inure – EP
      Label: Cliffen Music
  • edapollo – Outcast
      Release: SVMMER SVN Vol 6
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Past Palms – Midnight Sun
      Release: When the Sun Reaches Its Highest Point in the Sky – Single
      Label: 581097 Records DK
  • O.L.I.E – In June
      Release: Newcastle
      Label: Midwest Collective
  • Dasta – Kiss
      Release: Moments
      Label: Blvnt Records
  • Freud – Faux Pas
      Release: Velvet Dance – EP
      Label: Substruct Audio
  • Geotic – Actually Smiling
      Release: Abysma
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Bad Snacks – Same Water Different Seas
      Release: Bathtub Bumps
      Label: Bad Snacks LLC
  • Sundrenched – Down Moon
      Release: The Sundrenched Lofi Guitar Ensemble Vol. 4
      Label: Dust-Tone



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Photo: “Blue Ridge Summit Vista Trail”. Credit: Catoctin Mountain Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-33: leafmold, Soft Static, Jinx and more

August 14, 2023 Podcast
A desert landscape featuring a distance rainstorm. In the foreground are short, orange hills without vegetation. Behind that are taller hills that appear blue, and are also without vegetation. Behind that is a blue cloudy sky, with two curtains of rain reaching the landscape.

Episode 2023-33

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • wowflower – sidewalk slowdance
      Release: brodies attestupa
      Label: Wowflower
  • Southpaw – Sincerly, A Girl U Once Knew
      Release: Park63
      Label: 695581 Records DK2
  • leafmold – Culdesacs
      Release: Palms
      Label: Sleepdance Records
  • Slow Magic – Let U Go
      Release: How to Run Away
      Label: Downtown Records / Fontana North
  • Paternoster Poetry – Paternoster Elevator 2
      Release: Beats To Procrastinate To
      Label: Stevia Sphere
  • Tobias – Shiver
      Release: Shiver – Single
      Label: Tobias
  • Reside in Flames – On Through the Dark, Till Dim Stars Wane
      Release: Till Dim Stars Wane
      Label: Reside in Flames
  • Soft Static – Natural High
      Release: Natural High – Single
      Label: 3736632 Records DK
  • Yppah – Shot into the Sun
      Release: Sunset in the Deep End
      Label: Future Archive Recordings
  • Ta-Ku – Long Time No See (Ekali Remix)
      Release: Long Time No See (Ekali Remix)
      Label: Fool’s Gold Records
  • Jinx – Solace (Bonus) [Nightflyer Chill Mix]
      Release: Solace (Nightflyer Mix) – Single
      Label: Nightflyer
  • King Shi – Father’s Love
      Release: Jupiter Blues
      Label: Tekhedz, Millennium Jazz Music
  • gonima – Warm Season
      Release: Strands
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • VIQ – Journey
      Release: Last Path
      Label: VIQ



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“Desert Rain”. Credit: Guadalupe Mountains National Park/National Park Service, public domain. [i]

Episode 2023-32: Tokyo Megaplex, Native Cruise, Manatee Commune and more

August 7, 2023 Podcast
A volcanically active body of water with steam rising above. The water in the foreground appears orange or rust colored. The water further away appears to be blue. In the background are hills with green and brown foliage. The sky conditions are mostly cloudy, with sections of blue peeking through.

Episode 2023-32

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Washed Out – Entrance
      Release: Paracosm
      Label: Pod
  • Manatee Commune – Wake
      Release: Wake – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Uinta – Maples
      Release: Fruits
      Label: mind.slave
  • Treetalking – S U P E R N O V A
      Release: S T A R D U S T – Single
      Label: Alpha Pup
  • Dillard – Lust
      Release: Empress LP
      Label: D93 Audio
  • Shigeto – Olivia
      Release: No Better Time Than Now
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Elsa Hewitt – Tiny Dancer
      Release: Citrus Paradisi
      Label: ERH
  • Almanacs – Coyote Blanco
      Release: Spirits of the River
      Label: Mystery Circles
  • Xky – Mercury
      Release: Mercury EP
      Label: Xky Music
  • Native Cruise – Import Memory
      Release: Sunsets & Deeper Moods
      Label: No Bad Days
  • upusen – Not Good
      Release: Birds
      Label: Midwest Collective
  • Brothertiger – Cascade
      Release: Fundamentals Vol. I
      Label: Brothertiger
  • BACKWHEN – Next World
      Release: BACKWHEN ~ Balance – EP
      Label: Chill Children
  • Flamingosis – Elevator Pass (feat. Tokyo Megaplex)
      Release: Great Hair
      Label: UKNOWY



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Photo: “Grand Prismatic Spring Colored by Thermophiles, Yellowstone National Park, 2013”. Credit: Yellowstone National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-31: Virtual Cat, Catching Flies, Eagle Eyed Tiger and more

July 31, 2023 Podcast
A field of wildflowers. In the foreground are green, leafy plants with a few purple bushy flowers. Behind that is the rest of the field, with blue grass-like plants. A dark tree-line is in the background. A sliver of very light blue sky can be seen.

Episode 2023-31

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Memorex Memories – There Is an Eternal Summer in a Grateful Heart
      Release: The Life of Riley
      Label: Stratford Ct.
  • CRAETION – Beachside
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 5
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Terekke – Jqm
      Release: Plant Age
      Label: L.I.E.S.
  • Jack Wilbs – Water
      Release: Water
      Label: Jack Wilbs
  • Teen Daze – Looking West
      Release: Late Summer Compilation Vol.10 (Part II)
      Label: LAGASTA
  • Eagle Eyed Tiger – Protocol
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Catching Flies – Komorebi
      Release: Silver Linings
      Label: Indigo Soul
  • Emancipator & 9 Theory – Tangerine Sour
      Release: A Thousand Clouds – EP
      Label: Loci Records
  • Letherette – Sun Up
      Release: Brown Lounge Vol. 5
      Label: Wulf
  • Monster Rally – Grassy Crystals
      Release: Botanica Dream
      Label: Monster Rally
  • Monster Rally – Escape to the Cloud Forest (Along the River)
      Release: Escape to the Cloud Forest – Single
      Label: Monster Rally
  • Swimming TV – Shaman
      Release: Raindance – EP
      Label: Cosmonostro
  • Virtual Cat – Hydrangea
      Release: June Cat
      Label: Ikimono Records
  • Elsa Hewitt – Tiny Dancer
      Release: Citrus Paradisi
      Label: ERH
  • Tomas Novoa – Tundra
      Release: Espacio Negativo
      Label: 803651 Records DK



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Photo: “Late Summer Wildflowers”. Credit: Homestead National Historical Park / National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-30: G Mills & Birocratic, Nightflyer, Frequency Control Centre and more

July 24, 2023 Podcast
A creek with water running toward the camera's perspective. The sunset is occurring towards the direction of the head of the creek. The creek has many rocks in it, make the water run as rapid. The land area around is grassy with trees that are filtering the sunset. The sun is bright yellow and reflects on the rapids.

Episode 2023-30

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Gold Panda – Swimmer
      Release: The Work
      Label: City Slang
  • Ian Aisling – Turbulence
      Release: Finally
      Label: MERLIN
  • G Mills & Birocratic – Delivery Pizza
      Release: Delivery Pizza – Single
      Label: Decatur Boiz
  • Lifeformed – Cider Time
      Release: Fastfall (Dustforce Original Game Soundtrack)
      Label: LOOPDISK
  • Lusine – Just a Cloud (feat. Vilja Larjosto)
      Release: Sensorimotor
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Fujii – Colour Storm
      Release: EP-Tape1 – EP
      Label: -AVERSIAC-
  • Blackbird Belle – Royal Blues
      Release: Celestial Nighthawk
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Teebs – While You Dooooo (Extended)
      Release: Collections 01
      Label: Brainfeeder
  • Boards of Canada – Turquoise Hexagon Sun
      Release: Music Has the Right to Children
      Label: Warp Records
  • Nightflyer – Monuments
      Release: Monuments – Single
      Label: Nightflyer
  • Arms and Sleepers – Greetings from Tokyo
      Release: Black Paris 86 (15th Anniversary Edition)
      Label: Arms and Sleepers
  • Frequency Control Centre – Kaleidophone
      Release: Analogs of Traces
      Label: Audionautic Records
  • Thrupence – Winston
      Release: Voyages
      Label: Jack Vanzet
  • Telefon Tel Aviv – Lotus Above Water
      Release: Fahrenheit Fair Enough
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Tycho – Past Is Prologue
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: Ghostly International



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Photo: “Pipestone Creek at Sunrise”. Credit: Pipestone National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-29: Chickenwizard, slowgramming, Rosentwig and more

July 17, 2023 Podcast
A river with water moving rapidly through a rocky landscape, creating white rapids. Other than the rapids, the water is blue. The rocks are brown and shiny from the mist of the water. In the background is a hillside with green trees. The sky is clear and blue.

Episode 2023-29

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • slowgramming – can you don’t
      Release: are we there yet
      Label: slowgramming
  • Chickenwizard – End Dream
      Release: Stargaze
      Label: Wizard Is a Chicken
  • RUMTUM – Coastal Ruins
      Release: Isles in Indigo
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Boards of Canada – Left Side Drive
      Release: Trans Canada Highway – EP
      Label: Warp Records
  • 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: 904678 Records DK
  • Space Ghost – 4 Am
      Release: 4 Am – Single
      Label: Tartelet 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 – EP
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • il:lo – Reine (feat. Brain Blake)
      Release: Places – EP
      Label: Nettwerk Music Group



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Photo: “Angel Falls Rapids”. Credit: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-28: Shatter Hands, Koresma & Koala Karlous, Frequency Control Centre and more

July 10, 2023 Podcast
The sun is setting behind a ridge of mountains. In the foreground is the edge of a cliff exposing the jagged, but beautiful landscape below. Another range of mountains falls between the cliff and the ridge with the sunset. The landscape is orange, and the sky is shades of green and purple, with a yellow and orange sunset.

Episode 2023-28

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Tobias – Laputa
      Release: Laputa – Single
      Label: Tobias
  • Emancipator – Waxin
      Release: Mountain of Memory
      Label: Loci Records
  • Koresma & Koala Karlous – All Turn to One
      Release: All Turn to One – Single
      Label: Koresma
  • Psalm Trees & Guillaume Muschalle – Days Go By (ft. Julien Brunard)
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
      Label: Chillhop Records
  • Ian Aisling – Turbulence
      Release: Finally
      Label: MERLIN – Independent
  • Laflamme – Crystal Sky
      Release: Helen
      Label: LaFlamme
  • Chrome Sparks – <3 & Soul
      Release: My <3
      Label: Chrome Sparks
  • Shatter Hands – Singlespeed
      Release: Land Fly
      Label: Urban Waves Records
  • FadedAeon – Out to Sea
      Release: Aqueous Anemoia
      Label: 1216998 Records DK2
  • Prismic Delight – Bridge Sessions
      Release: Mystical Volume I
      Label: Optimystic Records
  • fr√it – Prism
      Release: Prism – EP
      Label: Alpha Pup
  • Lusine Icl – Jetstream
      Release: Language Barrier
      Label: Hymen Records
  • Frequency Control Centre – Kaleidophone
      Release: Analogs of Traces
      Label: Audionautic Records
  • Bad Snacks – Drift
      Release: Bathtub Bumps
      Label: Bad Snacks LLC



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

Episode 2023-27: leafmold, BeachesBeaches, FTP and more

July 3, 2023 Podcast
View of a canyon extending to the horizon. The canyon is shaded with sunlight reaching the peaks of the mountains within the canyon. In the foreground is the shaded edge of a cliff. The sky is blue with some white clouds on the horizon.

Episode 2023-27

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Bowcraft – Cicada
      Release: Many Distant Cities
      Label: 1469535 Records DK
  • Monster Rally – El Retorno
      Release: Return to Paradise
      Label: Monster Rally
  • Flamingosis – Future Lounge (feat. A Sol Mechanic)
      Release: Kahunastyle
      Label: Kahuna Style
  • Hello Meteor – The Tropic Sport Lounge
      Release: The Oahu GP
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Hotel Pools – Distance (feat. Memorex Memories)
      Release: Distance – Single
      Label: Lofi Records
  • X3SR – Farewell
      Release: Sublimation
      Label: X3SR
  • FTP – sometimes i sit alone (slowgramming remix)
      Release: are we there yet
      Label: slowgramming
  • leafmold – Pacific
      Release: Palms
      Label: Sleepdance Records
  • Richard Alfaro – Alone
      Release: Refract
      Label: Richard Alfaro
  • Tycho – Dictaphone’s Lament
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: Ghostly International
  • System – Manarola
      Release: Common Water – EP
      Label: 949877 Records DK2
  • C418 & Kuabee – Tingle
      Release: Excursions
      Label: C418
  • Ethan Wilson – World Lines
      Release: Relativity – EP
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • BeachesBeaches – I Know There’s An Answer (BeachesBeaches Edit)
      Release: I Know There’s An Answer – (BeachesBeaches Edit)
      Label: BeachesBeaches



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Photo: “South Rim Village Sunset”. Credit: Grand Canyon National Park/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.