WaywardLens

Episode 2025-12: Max Cooper, Sun Glitters and more

March 17, 2025 Podcast
A vibrant amber sunset with the sky almost entirely in shades of amber, while the mountains below are painted in purple hues.

Episode 2025-12

Playlist (as aired):

    • yuk. – Sundaze
      Release: Gem Drops
      Label: Dropping Gems

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

    • Max Cooper – I Am In A Church In Gravesend Listening To Old Vinyl And Drinking Coffee
      Release: On Being
      Label: Mesh

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

    • gonima – Warm Season
      Release: Strands
      Label: SVNSET WAVES

    • Shigeto – Deep Breathing
      Release: Intermission – EP
      Label: Ghostly International

    • t.quoise – Wait
      Release: Life in Reverse
      Label: Soundsphere

    • ITO – The Cliff
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
      Label: SVNSET WAVES

    • Julien Mier – Yesterday’s Downpour
      Release: Changing Currents
      Label: 631591 Records DK2

    • Kettel – Twinkle Twinkle
      Release: Myam James, Pt. 1
      Label: Sending Orbs

    • Hello Meteor – New Coffee
      Release: Mondo Canyon
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture

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

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

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

    • upusen – Not Good
      Release: Birds
      Label: Midwest Collective

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

    • Monster Rally – Toucans
      Release: Flowering Jungle
      Label: Monster Rally





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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Gazing in the Direction of California”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A vibrant amber sunset with the sky almost entirely in shades of amber, while the mountains below are painted in purple hues.”)

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 2025-08: 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 2025-06: 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 2025-04: 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.”)

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.