Episode 2022-39: Possums at Twilight, Arms and Sleepers, Bad Snacks and more

September 26, 2022 Podcast
Fluffy white and blue clouds over a desert landscape dotted with joshua trees at dusk.

Episode 2022-39

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 25 Sep 2022):

  • Possums at Twilight – Moments of Isolation
      Release: Interobject
      Label: Possums at Twilight
  • GlobulDub – Laughter
      Release: Hip – Hop Symposium, Vol. 3 (Childhood) – Single
      Label: Chill Masters Records
  • Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul (Crookram Remix)
      Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
      Label: Achillea Music
  • Edamame – Mango Pulp (feat. Ian Ewing)
      Release: Bask
      Label: Gravitas Recordings
  • Ramakhandra – Haku (Rumtum Remix)
      Release: Haku (Rumtum Remix) – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • A Sol Mechanic – Flight
      Release: Flight – Single
      Label: A Sol Mechanic
  • Unfound – Without
      Release: Without – Single
      Label: 899374 Records DK
  • il:lo – Ronda
      Release: Distances – EP
      Label: Nettwerk Music Group
  • Chemtrails – Hoverpad
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Dasta – Kiss
      Release: Moments
      Label: Blvnt Records
  • Bad Snacks – Virgo
      Release: Virgo – Single
      Label: Bad Snacks LLC
  • YOUTH 83 & Forhill – Currents
      Release: Currents – Single
      Label: YOUTH 83
  • Elsa Hewitt – Massive Charade
      Release: Ghostcats
      Label: ERH
  • Lone – Echo Paths
      Release: Always Inside Your Head
      Label: Greco-Roman
  • Slow Magic – Toddler Tiger
      Release: Triangle
      Label: PLANCHA



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Photo: “Fluffy clouds over joshua tree landscape”. Credit: Joshua Tree National Park (National Park Service), public domain [i].

Episode 2022-38: upusen, Affelaye, gonima, Almanacs and more

September 19, 2022 Podcast
Old black and white photograph of a person in a canoe in Alaskan waters.

Episode 2022-38

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 18 Sep 2022):

  • Janelle Costa – Rain
    Release: My Kinda Flower – EP
    Label:
 Janelle Costa Music
  • Tobias – Laputa
    Release: Laputa – Single
    Label:
 Tobias
  • Possums at Twilight – Moments of Isolation
    Release: Interobject
    Label:
 Possums at Twilight
  • Dillard – Regeneration
    Release: Palm Skyline
    Label:
 SVNSET WAVES
  • Memory Scale – The Shadow and the Shape (Live Version)
    Release: Music Files, Vol. 2 (Live Version) – Single
    Label:
 Memory Scale
  • Qaett – Army of One
    Release: Leavereveal
    Label:
 Inner Ocean Records
  • upusen – Tape End
    Release: Birds
    Label:
 Midwest Collective
  • Affelaye – Mirah
    Release: Idiolect – EP
    Label:
 Bad Taste
  • Bad Snacks – Lost in Thought
    Release: Bathtub Bumps
    Label:
 Bad Snacks LLC
  • Swoon – Haunt My Dreams
    Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 5
    Label:
 SVNSET WAVES
  • wowflower – You Love Him
    Release: Self Portrait
    Label:
 Street Corner Music
  • gonima – Warm Season
    Release: Strands
    Label:
 SVNSET WAVES
  • Almanacs – Coyote Blanco
    Release: Spirits of the River
    Label:
 Mystery Circles
  • TOR – Lightraker
    Release: Oasis Sky
    Label:
 Youth and Progress Recordings
  • Max Cooper – Spectrum
    Release: Spectrum – EP
    Label:
 Mesh



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Photo: “Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 26269)”. Credit: Sitka National Historical Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2022-37: Bonobo, Hello Meteor, Arovane and more

September 12, 2022 Podcast
Rain clouds in sky and large field of tallgrass and wildflowers in foreground

Episode 2022-37

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 11 Sep 2022):

  • Bonobo – Elysian
      Release: Fragments
      Label: Ninja Tune
  • Fosterbeats – Trumbo
      Release: The SunShakers Tape
      Label: 1959029 Records DK
  • Hello Meteor – The Northern Rim Archipelago
      Release: Welcome To New Cascade
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Deep Shoq – Marathon
      Release: Pause – EP
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • RUMTUM – Escape Cape (Brothertiger Remix)
      Release: Escape Cape (Brothertiger Remix) – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Vanilla – Fuji
      Release: Origin
      Label: VinDig
  • Washed Out – Don’t Give Up
      Release: Paracosm
      Label: Pod
  • Teebs – While You Dooooo (Extended)
      Release: Collections 01
      Label: Brainfeeder
  • Rhoda – For You (Flamingosis Remix)
      Release: For You (Flamingosis Remix) – Single
      Label: Rhoda
  • A.L.I.S.O.N – Always In My Dreams
      Release: Sunshine Girl – Single
      Label: A.L.I.S.O.N
  • Arovane – Tides
      Release: Tides (2022 Remaster)
      Label: Keplar
  • Imagined Herbal Flows – Breeze
      Release: Floating – EP
      Label: DDM Recordings
  • Macroblank – can’t fight it
      Release: RARE PSALMS COLLECTION VOL.4
      Label: Macroblank
  • Eyukaliptus – Summit
      Release: The Moon_tape
      Label: 857594 Records DK



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Photo: “June 2006 Rain on the Prairie”. Credit: NPS Photo (Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve), public domain [i].

Episode 2022-36: Prashant Naidu, Teen Daze, Rhoda, GlobulDub and more

September 5, 2022 Podcast
A rock on a bed of red leaves.

Episode 2022-36

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 04 Aug 2022):

  • wowflower – Cool Group – Release: Self Portrait
  • Teebs – Mirror Memory – Release: Anicca
  • Teen Daze – Modern Compromise – Release: Modern Compromise – Single
  • X3SR – All That U Have – Release: Infinite – EP
  • Departure – Ocean Breeze – Release: Ocean Breeze – Single
  • Third Person Lurkin – Adrift – Release: The Lake of Woods
  • Rhoda – For You (Flamingosis Remix) – Release: For You (Flamingosis Remix) – Single
  • GlobulDub – Laughter – Release: Hip – Hop Symposium, Vol. 3 (Childhood) – Single
  • Koresma – Northern Lights – Release: North – EP
  • High Tides – Zolar – Release: Zolar – Single
  • Orange Crush – Invocation – Release: Autumn Reflections
  • Prashant Naidu – Garden of Dreams – Release: Dancing Mystic EP
  • edapollo – By the River – Release: Blue Spring
  • Sniffle Party – All the Snow Is Gone – Release: Peach Dream – EP
  • Eagle Eyed Tiger – Frontier – Release: On the Run


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    Photo: “Rock on Red Autumn leaves” (The sentimental feeling of fall in this picture is a great roll to have in the background). Credit: Darius Doom Scott, JSMS Photography Club Photos, February 18, 2022. Used by permission.

    Episode 2022-35: Decisive Koala, Slow Magic, Bitykradne and more

    August 29, 2022 Podcast
    A Giant Green Anemone in a colorful tidepool.

    Episode 2022-35

    Playlist (as run on KNHC on 28 Aug 2022):

  • Vanilla – Ajfa – Release: Soft Focus
  • Jay Cliffen & LaFlamme – Ocean Breath – Release: Canopy – EP
  • Lyli J – Lunari – Release: Lunari – EP
  • Yppah – Shot into the Sun – Release: Sunset in the Deep End
  • Bitykradne – Downtown – Release: Downtown – Single
  • Insightful – Without – Release: All That Is Left Is Right
  • TOR – Lightraker – Release: Oasis Sky
  • Raine – Our Own – Release: Our Own
  • Macroblank – can’t fight it – Release: RARE PSALMS COLLECTION VOL.4
  • Sloslylove – Memories (Secrets) – Release: Secret Dreams
  • Decisive Koala – Locate Memories – Release: Locate Memories – Single
  • Slow Magic – Manhattan – Release: How to Run Away
  • Takeleave – Sabado – Release: Belonging
  • boerd – Look – Release: Misplaced


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    Photo: “Giant Green Anemone”. The giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) is a common tidepool critter seen along Redwood’s 37 miles of coastline. Credit: Redwood National and State Parks (National Park Service), public domain [i].

    Episode 2022-34: lover girl, Peter Bark, Prashant Naidu and more.

    August 22, 2022 Podcast
    Blue water with a transparent spot showing the ground below the water.

    Episode 2022-34

    Playlist (as run on KNHC on 21 Aug 2022):

  • lover girl – Dearly – Release: Stay Asleep – EP
  • Peter Bark – Dancing Dust – Release: Empty Rooms
  • Anenon – Myriad Multiples – Release: Gem Drops
  • Elsa Hewitt – Pop Tuna – Release: Citrus Paradisi
  • Seemio – Untitled ii – Release: Untitled – Single
  • Triv & Slowpoke – All that Matters – Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 4
  • Prashant Naidu – Garden of Dreams – Release: Dancing Mystic EP
  • 100 Day Delay – Yarrow – Release: Yarrow
  • Hello Meteor – A Blue Incredible – Release: Comfortable Loneliness
  • Eagle Eyed Tiger – Feathers – Release: Feathers
  • Bad Snacks – Autumn – Release: Bathtub Bumps
  • Manatee Commune – Thalassophobia – Release: Crescent Lake – EP
  • Edamame – Mango Pulp (feat. Ian Ewing) – Release: Bask
  • Emancipator – Pancakes – Release: Baralku
  • A.L.I.S.O.N – Subtract – Release: Signal Flow – EP


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    Photo: “Blue water near Bay Street Marina”. The calming waters in the lakeshore are now one of the favorites for my photography. Credit: Darius Doom Scott, JSMS Photography Club, March 5th, 2022, used by permission.

    Episode 2022-33: Memorex Memories, BeachesBeaches, Reside in Flames and more

    August 15, 2022 Podcast
    A colorful duck perched on a rock in the middle of a mountain stream.

    Episode 2022-33

    Playlist (as run on KNHC on 14 Aug 2022):
    Memorex Memories – Summers Lullaby
    Gloamie – Chickpea+Mango
    Monster Rally & RUMTUM – Jungle
    Chisari – Cycles (feat. Hello Meteor) (Pacific Coast Highway Mix)
    Richard Alfaro – Our Thing (feat. Tainsus)
    Aso – Special
    Teebs – While You Dooooo (Extended)
    Washed Out – Don’t Give Up
    Vanilla – Fuji
    Freud – Setback
    Birocratic – Dead Cat in the Parking Lot
    IHF & Ian Urbina – Wonder
    BeachesBeaches – Got Feel
    Blackbird Belle – Royal Blues
    Reside in Flames – Sundials Telescopes



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    Photo: “Harlequin Duck”. Credit: Glacier National Park (National Park Service), public domain [i].

    Episode 2022-32: lover girl, Haunted Lakes, Deep Shoq and more

    August 7, 2022 Podcast
    Grizzly Bear close up photo.

    Episode 2022-32

    Playlist (as run on KNHC on 07 Aug 2022):
    lover girl – Dearly
    Imagined Herbal Flows – Ocean Tides
    Teebs – While You Dooooo (Extended)
    Dokkodo Sounds – With U In the Clouds
    RUMTUM – Commit Way
    Neeta – Beechwood
    firephly – Passage To The Sky
    Haunted Lakes – Disappearance
    Manatee Commune – White Smoke (feat. Marina Price)
    boerd – Look
    fr眉it – Prism
    Deep Shoq – Marathon
    Tycho – A Walk (Kolombo Remix)



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    Photo: “‘Grizzly Bear’ (Grizzly, or brown, bears are found throughout Denali)”. Credit: Denali National Park and Preserve/NPS Photo, public domain [i].

    Episode 2022-31: 100 Day Delay, Poldoore & Ian Urbina and more and more

    August 1, 2022 Podcast
    A sun-lit panel of petroglyphs during summer solstice.

    Episode 2022-31

    Playlist (as run on KNHC on 31 July 2022):
    Poldoore & Ian Urbina – High Tide
    BODYBITE – Woken Up by the Sun
    Kyte Mika – Portland Journal
    Plaid – Do Matter
    100 Day Delay – Yarrow
    Awlnight – Rare Footage
    Decisive Koala – Locate Memories
    Forhill – Expanse
    Sloslylove – Memories (Secrets)
    Yu-Utsu – Sun
    A.L.I.S.O.N – Weightless
    Feverkin – Coyote
    TOR – Lightraker
    System – Manarola
    Photay – Off-Piste
    Sundrenched – Down Moon



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    Photo: “Archeology – Petroglyphs at Summer Solstice” (Sunlight dances across a panel of petroglyphs during summer solstice). Credit: Petrified Forest National Park (National Park Service), public domain [i].

    Episode 2022-30: Neeta, Richard Alfaro, Esbe and more

    July 25, 2022 Podcast
    Beach on a desert lake with mountains in the background during sunset.

    Episode 2022-30

    Playlist (as run on KNHC on 24 July 2022):
    Bad Snacks – Lost in Thought
    Angeldustmite – Tamago Kake Gohan
    Chemtrails – Hoverpad
    High Tides – Zolar
    Richard Alfaro – Field
    Bad Snacks – When Everything is Easier (feat. MAE.SUN)
    Neeta – Beechwood
    Esbe – Darling (Remastered)
    WMD – A Downpour Spent Inside Under a Blanket / Always With You
    Yppah – Light Cycle
    Poldoore – Alfama
    Ramakhandra – Haku (Rumtum Remix)
    Koresma – Northern Lights
    Marley Carroll – Ice Cavern
    A Sol Mechanic – Flight



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    Photo: “Fisherman’s Trail”. Credit: Lake Mead 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.