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Episode 2024-16: Helios & Hollie Kennif, Naia Spira and more

April 15, 2024 Podcast
Dramatic landscape with sharply eroded cliffs and pointed rock formations, some in shadow. The foreground is covered in tall grass. A clear blue sky with patches of white, fluffy clouds completes the scene.

Episode 2024-16

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

• Birocratic, Brock Berrigan, iamalex & Philanthrope – Brockoli
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
  Label: Chillhop Music

• Peter Bark – Golden Hour
  Release: Empty Rooms
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Feverkin – Eternal Ascent pt. I (feat. Na√Øa Spiral)
  Release: Eternal Ascent (Original Soundtrack) – EP
  Label: 559975 Records DK2

• Hello Meteor – Heated Seats
  Release: Community Broadcasting
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Forteba – Collective Flora
  Release: Collective Flora – Single
  Label: Midnight Fashion

• Bad Snacks – Settle In
  Release: Bathtub Bumps
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group

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

• Volo – Wild Mind
  Release: Wild Mind – EP
  Label: Vibecast

• Zane Alexander – End of Eons
  Release: End of Eons – Single
  Label: Zane Alexander

• YOUTH 83 & Forhill – Currents
  Release: Currents – Single
  Label: YOUTH 83

• Chemtrails – Hoverpad
  Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Helios and Hollie Kennif – Slow Motion Dream
  Release: Slow Motion Dream – Single
  Label: Unseen

• RUMTUM – Shade Fader
  Release: Isles in Indigo
  Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings

• Yu-Utsu – Clear
  Release: Yu-Utsu
  Label: Midwest Collective

• cerulean – Imagine
  Release: Imagine – Single
  Label: 1369135 Records DK

• Monster Rally – Baja Samba
  Release: Return to Paradise
  Label: Monster Rally


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Photo: “Badlands Shadows @ Badlands National Park”. Credit: Shaina Niehans, National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-13: Pbs’73, Chickenwizard and more

March 25, 2024 Podcast
Desert mountain valley with a rainbow arcing below a mostly clear blue sky. Light rain falls on the dry brown ground where scattered desert plants grow.

Episode 2024-13

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

•Pbs’73 – VVonderhaze
  Release: Technicolor Dreamer – EP
  Label: Magic Square Records

•Chickenwizard – End Dream
  Release: Stargaze
  Label: Wizard Is a Chicken

•Kodomo – Concept 11
  Release: Still Life
  Label: 5 Points Records

•Hello Meteor – tropik(e)l- (BONUS STAGE)
  Release: The Oahu GP
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

•Edamame – Wrong Flock
  Release: Nightlights
  Label: MERLIN – Abandon Building Records

•Teen Daze – The Endless Summer
  Release: Lost Songs 3
  Label: Teen Daze

•Eputty – 13th Feb 1997
  Release: Untitled Works – Single
  Label: Pulp Glitchin Records

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

•Four Tet – Unicorn
  Release: Beautiful Rewind
  Label: Text Records

•Sabi – Loose Contrulled
  Release: Forma. 3.10
  Label: PROGRESSIVE FOrM

•Gold Panda – The Most Liveable City
  Release: Half of Where You Live
  Label: Ghostly International

•FadedAeon – Out to Sea
  Release: Aqueous Anemoia
  Label: 1216998 Records DK2

•Memorex Memories – Wasting Time
  Release: Let Me Love You – Single
  Label: 1030018 Records DK2

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

•upusen – Nice Fridge
  Release: Birds
  Label: Midwest Collective


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Photo: “The Ajo Mountains During a Winter Rain”. Credit: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-11: Sweatson Klank, RUMTUM and more

March 11, 2024 Podcast
Snow-covered evergreen trees in the foreground of a majestic snow-capped mountain, with wisps of steam rising from its peak. A clear sky completes the picture.

Episode 2024-11

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

•Gas-Lab – Mermaids
  Release: Mermaids – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

•Hello Meteor – Coastal Island Cruise
  Release: The Oahu GP
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

•Six Missing & Zac Colwell – The Lake – Dokkodo Sounds Remix (feat. Dokkodo Sounds)
  Release: Unfolding
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

•edapollo – By the River
  Release: Blue Spring
  Label: Opine

•Tobias – Shiver
  Release: Shiver – Single
  Label: Tobias

•Blank Banshee – Frozen Flame
  Release: Mega
  Label: Hologram Bay

•Gold Panda – New Days
  Release: The Work
  Label: City Slang

•il:lo – Biome
  Release: Biome – Single
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group

•Koresma – Free (Marley Carroll Remix)
  Release: North Remixes – EP
  Label: Koresma

•Yppah – Phoenix by Midnight (Bonus Track)
  Release: Eighty One (Bonus Track Version)
  Label: Ninja Tune

•Space Ghost – New World Energy (Ambient Mix)
  Release: New World Energy (Ambient Mix)
  Label: Tartelet Records

•Catching Flies – True Colours
  Release: True Colours – Single
  Label: Indigo Soul

•Dephrase – Songs I Never Wrote
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2016
  Label: Chillhop Music

•Vanilla – Arrow
  Release: Origin
  Label: Self-Released

•RUMTUM – Chroma Bloom
  Release: Chroma Bloom – Single
  Label: Rose Garden

•Sweatson Klank – Summer Chronicles
  Release: Summer Chronicles – Single
  Label: Friends Of Friends

•Virtual Cat – Overcast Sky
  Release: June Cat
  Label: Ikimono Records


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Photo: “Steam Rising From Mt. Wrangell”. Credit: NPS Photo by Bryan Petrtyl (Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain) [i].

Episode 2024-10: Mnemeau, Janelle Costa, Santa Rita and more

March 4, 2024 Podcast
Lightly snow-covered landscape of a gorge with a winding river and steep hillsides. Snow on tree branches in foreground. Mostly cloudy sky.

Episode 2024-10

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Bitykradne – Downtown
      Release: Downtown – Single
      Label: Play It Again Sam
  • Santa Rita – Malachite
      Release: Malachite – Single
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Green Echoes – Hive
      Release: Hive – EP
      Label: Green Echoes
  • innerinnerlife – Gingko Biloba
      Release: R U Ok? – EP
      Label: Eastern Nurseries
  • ITO – The Cliff
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Mvnners – Soft Drive
      Release: Soft Drive – Single
      Label: SXN
  • Forhill – Tangled
      Release: Tangled – Single
      Label: Forhill
  • Hello Meteor – The Ceramic District
      Release: Conditioned Air
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Es-K & Kurt Stewart & STEEN – Pieces of Mind
      Release: Pieces of Mind – Single
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Chrome Sparks – <3 & Soul
      Release: My <3
      Label: Chrome Sparks
  • Janelle Costa – Vibrations
      Release: Vibrations – Single
      Label: Janelle Costa Music
  • Space Ghost – Lavender Oil
      Release: Aquarium Nightclub
      Label: Tartelet Records
  • Mnemeau – Blood Maneuvering
      Release: Music You Don’t Show Your Friends
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Shigeto – Detroit Pt. II
      Release: The New Monday
      Label: Ghostly International


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Photo: “Snow in the Gorge”. Credit: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain. [i].

Episode 2024-06: SwuM & Delayde, Koresma and more

February 5, 2024 Podcast
A rustic brown cabin nestled in a snowy forest clearing. Snow-laden evergreen trees stand tall in the background and foreground, framing the quaint cabin. A light dusting of snow blankets the ground, creating a peaceful winter wonderland scene.

Episode 2024-06

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Shigeto – Huron River Drive
      Release: Lineage
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Teebs – NES
      Release: Did It Again – Single
      Label: Brainfeeder
  • Feverkin & Kalaido – Jewel
      Release: Jewel – Single
      Label: 559975 Records DK2
  • Hello Meteor – Ten Forward
      Release: The Turn After a Storm
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Koresma – Northern Lights
      Release: Compass
      Label: Koresma
  • Blackbird Belle – Champagne Birthday
      Release: Microcosm
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Secret Terminal – Chromatablast
      Release: Unity
      Label: 1264937 Records DK
  • Fujii – Astray
      Release: EP-Tape1 – EP
      Label: -AVERSIAC-
  • Whirl – Soft Grass
      Release: Urban Landscape
      Label: Whirl
  • il:lo – Vega
      Release: Vega
      Label: Nettwerk Music Group
  • Hello Meteor – South Shore Rain
      Release: The End of All Known Land
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • P.SUS – End of the Rainbow
      Release: Sound Traveler
      Label: P.SUS
  • Space Ghost – Ufo
      Release: Dance Planet
      Label: Tartelet Records
  • A.L.I.S.O.N – Crystal Bloom
      Release: Crystal Bloom – Single
      Label: A.L.I.S.O.N
  • Manatee Commune – Thalassophobia
      Release: Crescent Lake – EP
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • SwuM & Delayde – Motions
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
      Label: Chillhop Music


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Photo: “The Caretaker’s Cabin in Winter”. Credit: Valles Caldera National Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-01: Manatee Commune, Possums at Twilight, Space Ghost and more

January 1, 2024 Podcast
In the foreground is a landscape with flowing hills and no vegetation. The hills are covered in a shallow blanket of snow. Behind the hills are a line of trees, about a quarter mile away. The sky shows a bright moon about to set on the horizon. The sky is blue and purple.

Episode 2024-01

Happy New Year!

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Peter Bark – Back Roads
      Release: Empty Rooms
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Daneel – Karma Chamomile
      Release: Debris – EP
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Koji. – Solstice
      Release: Solstice – Single
      Label: Cafe Quality
  • C-Smitten – Operation Ruthless: Filtered Bounce Mix
      Release: Hey Arnold! Beat Tape: 10th Anniversary Edition
      Label: C-Smitten
  • High Skies – Sumatra
      Release: Sumatra – EP
      Label: Miso
  • Possums at Twilight – The Day Slowly Elapses
      Release: Moments, Final
      Label: Twilight Possums
  • Space Ghost – New World Energy (Ambient Mix)
      Release: New World Energy (Ambient Mix) – Single
      Label: Tartelet Records
  • Hotel Pools – Modes
      Release: Modes – Single
      Label: Wild Nature
  • Soft Static – I am an Ocean
      Release: I am an Ocean – Single
      Label: 3736632 Records DK
  • AWITW – The Mist
      Release: Inside World
      Label: Golden Forest Records
  • Adamlondon – Maple
      Release: Hiddenhills
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • edapollo – Synesthesia
      Release: Synesthesia (Teen Daze Remix) – Single
      Label: Foreign Family Collective
  • Hello Meteor – Heated Seats
      Release: Community Broadcasting
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Manatee Commune – Cast
      Release: Cast – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Gold Panda – Your Good Times Are Just Beginning
      Release: Good Luck and Do Your Best
      Label: City Slang
  • Sensi Sye – Wake Up
      Release: Wake Up – Single
      Label: Sensi Sye


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Photo: “Moonset in Winter”. Credit: Wind Cave National Park/National Park Service, public domain. [i].

Episode 2023-52: Cloudchord, Helios, Koresma and more

December 25, 2023 Podcast
Icicles hanging from below an escarpment. The icycles are robust and light blue. There is white ice on the ground.

Episode 2023-52

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • IOM – You Promised to Come Back
      Release: Jupiter Himself
      Label: beatsupply
  • SwuM & Delayde – Motions
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
      Label: Chillhop Music
  • Cloudchord – Slippers (feat. Karavelo)
      Release: Reverence
      Label: Cloudchord
  • Birocratic – At Most
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Winter 2017
      Label: Chillhop Music
  • Rsrch Chmcls – This Evening
      Release: This Evening – EP
      Label: 956233 Records DK
  • Hello Meteor – Cozy Mart
      Release: Comfortable Loneliness
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Fujii – Sleep On The Way
      Release: EUPHORIA
      Label: -AVERSIAC-
  • The Aurora Principle – Wishful Sleeping
      Release: Wishful Sleeping – Single
      Label: 599578 Records DK
  • Igama – Cold
      Release: Endure – Single
      Label: 666608 Records DK2
  • Helios – Well Within
      Release: Espera
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Bad Snacks – While You Sleep
      Release: Bathtub Bumps
      Label: Nettwerk Music Group
  • Tycho – Hours
      Release: Dive
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Blank Banshee – Frozen Flame
      Release: Mega
      Label: Hologram Bay
  • Koresma – Northern Lights
      Release: Compass
      Label: Koresma
  • Emancipator – Eve II (Odesza Remix)
      Release: Dusk to Dawn Remixes
      Label: Loci Records
  • Jinsang – Untold
      Release: Life
      Label: VinDig


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Photo: “Ice Formations Along the Pictured Rocks Escarpment off Sand Point Road”. Credit: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-43: Pbs’73, Gramofaune, Handycat and more

October 23, 2023 Podcast
A canyon with minimal vegetation and tiny bits of snow near the valley mountain peaks. In the foreground are wild flowers and a few evergreen trees. The sky is blue.

Episode 2023-43

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Pbs’73 – VVonderhaze
      Release: Technicolor Dreamer – EP
      Label: Magic Square Records
  • Arms and Sleepers – In the Jaws of Life
      Release: Safe Area Earth
      Label: Future Archive Recordings
  • Leon Vynehall – Movements (Chapter III)
      Release: Nothing Is Still
      Label: Ninja Tune
  • il:lo – Alma (Frameworks Remix)
      Release: Sloh Remixes – Single
      Label: Future Archive Recordings
  • Gramofaune – You Can Do Anything
      Release: ep – EP
      Label: Gramofaune
  • Handycat – White Lodge
      Release: Women Of The World Vol. 2
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Birocratic – Castles in My Cup
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2016
      Label: Chillhop Music
  • Bonus Points – Nine to Five
      Release: Eventide
      Label: Bonus Points
  • Home – Oort Cloud
      Release: Odyssey
      Label: ORCHARD – Home
  • Sun Glitters – What Is It For?
      Release: Apex vs. Totality – EP
      Label: DXFXWXU Collective
  • Eagle Eyed Tiger – Frontier
      Release: On the Run
      Label: Orbital Rendezvous
  • 2814 – Arcadia
      Release: Lost Fragments
      Label: Dream Catalogue
  • Cialyn – Spread Receipt
      Release: Sour Leaves
      Label: Cialyn
  • Warm Ghost – I Will Return (Heathered Pearls’ Coasting In Circles Remix)
      Release: Loyal
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Hello Meteor – Tropikal (BONUS STAGE)
      Release: The Oahu GP
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture


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Photo: “North Fork Cascade Canyon”. Credit: Grand Teton National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-38: Birocratic & G Mills, Peter Bark, Lifeformed and more

September 18, 2023 Podcast
There is a tall green cactus in the foreground that loosely resembles a set of organ pipes, with some brown, yellow and green underbrush. The landscape is a desert, with a tall, quickly rising mountain in the not-too-far background. There is little to no vegetation on the mountain. The sky is blue with two white, fluffy clouds.

Episode 2023-38

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Greybox – closer
      Release: Closer – Single
      Label: Greybox
  • Lifeformed – Swimming While It Rains
      Release: Fastfall (Dustforce Original Game Soundtrack)
      Label: LOOPDISK
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Mt Baker
      Release: @0 EP1
      Label: MERLIN – Ahead Of Our Time
  • Chemtrails – Soft
      Release: Vivid Yet Just Beyond Tangible
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Qaett – Army of One
      Release: Leavereveal
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Blackbird Belle – Kyoto Recall
      Release: Microcosm
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Chrome Sparks – Your Planet
      Release: Sparks – EP
      Label: Future Classic
  • Birocratic & G Mills – shoobedoo
      Release: shoobedoo – Single
      Label: Decatur Boiz
  • Hello Meteor – Tobacco and Rain
      Release: Community Broadcasting
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Nerddelic Studio Works – Snore
      Release: The Sun & the Moon
      Label: Nerddelic Studio Works
  • Manatee Commune – Wake
      Release: Wake – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Gold Panda – New Days
      Release: The Work
      Label: City Slang
  • Yppah – Grey Eyes
      Release: Grey Eyes – Single
      Label: Future Archive Recordings
  • Lushloss – Old Oak
      Release: Asking/Bearing
      Label: Hush Hush
  • Edamame – My
      Release: Periderm
      Label: Abandon Building Records
  • Peter Bark – Heat Lightning
      Release: Empty Rooms
      Label: Inner Ocean Records


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Photo: “Organ Pipe and Mountains”. Credit: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument/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.