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Episode 2024-51: Blackbird Belle, Es-K and more

December 16, 2024 Podcast
"Brown twig covered in icy white frost, shaped by the wind."

Episode 2024-51

Playlist (as aired):

• Squarepusher – Tommib
  Release: Go Plastic
  Label: Warp Records

• Blackboxx – Midnight Dance
  Release: Seablushed – EP
  Label: High Vibe Records

• Christopher Willits – Endless (Helios Remix)
  Release: Gravity Remixes – EP
  Label: Ghostly International

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

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

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

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

• Engelwood – Childhood
  Release: Hotel Wood
  Label: Engelwood

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

• Shigeto – Look At All the Smiling Faces
  Release: Full Circle
  Label: Ghostly International

• Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Boards of Canada Remix)
  Release: So Soon
  Label: Planet Mu

• Irregular Expression – Setsuko
  Release: Setsuko – Single
  Label: Setsuko

• Handycat – White Lodge
  Release: Women Of The World Vol. 2
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Frequency Control Centre – Kaleidophone
  Release: Analogs of Traces
  Label: Audionautic Records

• Tycho – Past Is Prologue
  Release: Past Is Prologue
  Label: ISO50 Records

• Scott Xylo – Where Do I Go
  Release: Where Do I Go – Single
  Label: Scott Xylo



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Frozen Twig….or Frozen Wind?”. Credit: Pipestone National Monument/National Park Service, public domain. [i]. Alt Text: “Brown twig covered in icy white frost, shaped by the wind.”

Episode 2024-38: Firephly, Compressed Soul, Arms and Sleepers and more

September 16, 2024 Podcast
A cluster of lavender-colored Spreading Phlox flowers with five petals each, surrounded by linear, needle-like leaves, forming a dense mat close to the ground.

Episode 2024-38

Playlist (as aired):

• Arms and Sleepers – Like Cotton Candy I Chewed My Dreams
  Release: Like Cotton Candy I Chewed My Dreams – Single
  Label: Pelagic Records

• Shepard – Not Bad Enough
  Release: Against Our Nation
  Label: Shepard

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

• Compressed Soul – Unfinished Trip
  Release: Tell Me – Single
  Label: Midnight Fashion Chill

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

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

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

• Frequency Control Centre – Ventral Tegmental
  Release: Ventral Tegmental – Single
  Label: Audionautic Records

• Pbs’73 – Public Television
  Release: Viewers Like You
  Label: Magic Square Records

• Elobrian Sunrise – A Peaceful Place Where Animals Gather
  Release: A Peaceful Place Where Animals Gather – Single
  Label: Prrrrrrr Records

• Greybox – Facade
  Release: Elevate – EP
  Label: Artist Intelligence Agency

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

• Jameson Hodge – Purple Moss
  Release: Purple Moss – Single
  Label: Jameson Hodge

• Emancipator & 9 Theory – Bombilla
  Release: Cheeba Gold – EP
  Label: Loci Records

• Frameworks – The Dark
  Release: Imagine Gold
  Label: MERLIN – Loci Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Spreading Phlox”. Credit: Mount Rainier National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-19: Tom Day, Hello Meteor and more

May 6, 2024 Podcast
Close-up of a caribou facing the camera. It stands amidst bright red shrubs, with a flowing river and an evergreen forest in the background.

Episode 2024-19

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

• Lusine – Rafters
  Release: Long Light
  Label: MERLIN – Ghostly International

• Sleepdealer – Astoria
  Release: Yerba
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group

• Hello Meteor – Geopolymers
  Release: Said Ghosts
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Helios and Hollie Kennif – Wild Light
  Release: Wild Light – Single
  Label: Helios and Hollie Kennif

• altered sigh – Remember
  Release: Remember – Single
  Label: Nocturne Recordings

• Eagle Eyed Tiger – Trapdoor
  Release: Future or Past – EP
  Label: Orbital Rendezvous

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

• Brothertiger – Outer Zone
  Release: Fundamentals Vol. V
  Label: Brothertiger

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

• Blackbird Blackbird – Lifestream
  Release: Hearts
  Label: PLANCHA

• Bad Snacks – While You Sleep
  Release: Bathtub Bumps
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group

• Christopher Willits – Clear (Boreta Remix)
  Release: Clear (Boreta Remix) – Single
  Label: Glass Air

• Cepia – Hoarse
  Release: Natura Morta
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Bakradze – An Evening With John
  Release: Restless
  Label: Space Hardware


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Who, Me?”. Credit: Kobuk Valley National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-03: Forhill, Christ., Koresma and more

January 15, 2024 Podcast
A fully frozen cascading waterfall covered mostly in snow. The waterway ice is blue. Trees and bushes surround the waterway.

Episode 2024-03

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Submerse – Let’s Never Come Back Here Again
      Release: Slow Waves
      Label: Project Mooncircle
  • Past Palms – Flowerbed
      Release: Empyrean – EP
      Label: 581097 Records DK
  • 100 Day Delay – Yarrow
      Release: Yarrow
      Label: 645497 Records DK
  • Departure – Ocean Breeze
      Release: Ocean Breeze – Single
      Label: DEPARTURE
  • Forhill – Tangled
      Release: Tangled – Single
      Label: Forhill
  • Mvnners – soft drive
      Release: soft drive – Single
      Label: SXN
  • Frequency Control Centre – National Sound Division
      Release: Exp.1
      Label: Bad Bat Records
  • Christ. – Making a Snow Angel (Remastered)
      Release: Blue Shift Emissions (Remastered)
      Label: Ambidextrous Records
  • Sun Glitters – TThhiinnggss TToo DDoo
      Release: SSoofftt TToouucchh
      Label: Future Archive Recordings
  • Freud – Cuban Episode
      Release: Velvet Dance – EP
      Label: Substruct Audio
  • Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul (Crookram Remix)
      Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
      Label: DXFXWXU Collective
  • Koresma – Bridges
      Release: Compass
      Label: Koresma
  • Teebs – NES
      Release: Did It Again – Single
      Label: Brainfeeder
  • A.L.I.S.O.N – Subtract
      Release: Signal Flow – EP
      Label: A.L.I.S.O.N


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Ice Flow”. Credit: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-44: Wave damage, firephly and more

October 30, 2023 Podcast
A pre-sunrise landscape, with mountaintops in view. There is a valley below that you can not see, as it is covered with fog, so it appears that the photo is taken above the clouds. The mountain tops are dark, and the background sky is illuminated by the forthcoming sun, with yellow and orange hues.

Episode 2023-44

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Takeleave – Calibu
      Release: Inner Sea
      Label: Project Mooncircle
  • Tekvision – Lament
      Release: Lament – Single
      Label: independent
  • Past Palms – Midnight Sun
      Release: When the Sun Reaches Its Highest Point in the Sky – Single
      Label: 581097 Records DK
  • Wave damage – Lost world of innocence
      Release: All about tomorrow
      Label: 4530854 Records DK
  • 20HoursAfterDawn – No Sun Into The Void
      Release: Sun Will Crackle – EP
      Label: I Low You records
  • fr√ºit – Jaded
      Release: Prism – EP
      Label: SXN
  • Cialyn – The Sun and The Light
      Release: OMEGA (Soundtrack)
      Label: Cialyn
  • Frequency Control Centre – Lucy Lost In the Window
      Release: Exp.1
      Label: Bad Bat Records
  • Neeta – Beechwood
      Release: Beechwood – EP
      Label: Neeta Sarl
  • Pablo Bolivar – Hoopoo
      Release: Framework of a Dream
      Label: Seven Villas
  • firephly – Know What I Need
      Release: Safe In Sound
      Label: 591184 Records DK2
  • Freud – Cuban Episode
      Release: Velvet Dance – EP
      Label: Substruct Audio
  • Possums at Twilight – Awake
      Release: Interobject
      Label: Possums at Twilight


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Sunrise Over an Ocean of Fog”. Credit: Shenandoah 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.