Episode 2025-03: Puar, Rhombus Index, Hello Meteor and more

January 13, 2025 Podcast
A river mouth at the beach of a larger body of water, with broken snowbanks along the river's edge and ice attached to rocks in the river.

Episode 2025-03

Playlist (as aired):

• Arvo to me – Diver
  Release: Into Change
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Space Ghost – Aquarium Nightclub
  Release: Aquarium Nightclub
  Label: Tartelet Records

• Segue – West Coast Rain
  Release: Pacifica
  Label: 1468568 Records DK

• Ta-Ku – Love Lost (Daughter Remix)
  Release: Love Lost (Daughter Remix)
  Label: HW&W Recordings

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

• Mac DeMarco – Crescent City
  Release: Five Easy Hot Dogs
  Label: Mac DeMarco, LLC

• Jinsang – Some Other Time
  Release: In Flight
  Label: VinDig

• Swimming TV – Jupiter
  Release: Jupiter – Single
  Label: 696078 Records DK2

• Helios and Hollie Kennif – Sepal
  Release: Sepal – Single
  Label: Helios and Hollie Kennif

• Spring In A Small Town – Compassion
  Release: Spring in a Small Town
  Label: flau

• Teen Daze – Quiet City
  Release: Quiet City – Single
  Label: FLORA

• Hello Meteor – An Aqua Media Event
  Release: The 1995 New Expo
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Brothertiger – Tide Pool
  Release: Fundamentals, Vol. I
  Label: Brothertiger

• Rhombus Index – Digital Anemone (Lyli J Remix)
  Release: hycean revisited
  Label: See Blue Audio

• Imagined Herbal Flows – Ocean Tides
  Release: Ocean Tides – Single
  Label: Chillhop Records

• Puar – Hit The Sack
  Release: Better Late Than Never
  Label: Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Winter”. Credit: Acadia National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A river mouth at the beach of a larger body of water, with broken snowbanks along the river’s edge and ice attached to rocks in the river.”)

Episode 2025-02: Hello Meteor, Ian Aisling and more

January 6, 2025 Podcast
A brown and green frog emerging from the water, perched on an aquatic plant-covered shoreline.

Episode 2025-02

Playlist (as aired):

• Soular Order – Boreal
  Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
  Label: Soular Order

• Hello Meteor – Winter Blooming Flowers
  Release: The 1995 New Expo
  Label: DISTROKID

• Treetalking – Eyes of the Observer
  Release: The Unknown
  Label: SXN

• Pacific Coliseum – Endless Journey
  Release: How’s Life
  Label: FLORA

• Wave damage – Reoccurring Dream
  Release: Evil Play – EP
  Label: 4530854 Records DK

• Warm Ghost – I Will Return (Heathered Pearls’ Coasting In Circles Remix)
  Release: Loyal
  Label: Ghostly International

• Four Tet – Daughter
  Release: New Energy
  Label: Text Records

• Gold Panda – New Days
  Release: The Work
  Label: PLANCHA

• Freud – Setback
  Release: Setback
  Label: MERLIN – Substruct

• Machinedrum – Endless <3
  Release: Vapor City Archives
  Label: Ninja Tune

• Ian Aisling – Reconfigure
  Release: The Echoterra
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul (Crookram Remix)
  Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
  Label: DXFXWXU Collective

• Edamame – Mango Pulp (feat. Ian Ewing)
  Release: Bask
  Label: Gravitas Recordings

• Angeldustmite – Grillades
  Release: Second Breakfast
  Label: 967138 Records DK

• Hotel Pools – Vital
  Release: Vital / Highlights – Single
  Label: Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.

• Birocratic – Wrapped Up
  Release: Wrapped up / Falling to Pieces – Single
  Label: Birocracy



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Green Frog”. Credit: Mississippi National River and Recreation Area / National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A brown and green frog emerging from the water, perched on an aquatic plant-covered shoreline.”)

Episode 2025-01: Eric Hadley, Quantum Dreams, eevee and more

December 30, 2024 Podcast
A view of a valley with clouds covering the valley floor, shortly after sunset. The sky is blue with shades of orange and red.

Episode 2025-01

Episode 1 of our 2025 series was released on 30 Dec 2024.

Playlist (as aired):

• eevee – gaze
  Release: gaze – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• You Us We Them – Curiosity
  Release: Curiosity – Single
  Label: CONDUIT CREATIVE MUSIC

• Eric Hadley – A Trembling Sound
  Release: The Passerine Tapes EP
  Label: 1442394 Records DK

• Quantum Dreams – テープがなくなった
  Release: 黒体放射 (Blackbody Radiation)
  Label: Takeki Tower

• Rykard – North Cormorant Obscurity
  Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
  Label: Hunya Munya Records

• adamlondon – Maple
  Release: Hiddenhills
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Nitemoves – Antipode
  Release: Antipode – Single
  Label: Mechanical

• Seb Wildblood – of transition
  Release: sketches of transition
  Label: AMT

• Mute City – Seawall
  Release: Data Breach
  Label: Claw Solutions

• Slow Magic – Manhattan
  Release: How to Run Away
  Label: Downtown Records

• Tycho – Glider
  Release: Epoch
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Boom Bip – Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Boards of Canada Remix)
  Release: From Left to Right – EP
  Label: Lex Records

• Xky – Mercury
  Release: Mercury EP
  Label: Xky Music

• Slow Magic – Moon
  Release: Triangle
  Label: PLANCHA

• Jinsang – reflection
  Release: life
  Label: VinDig



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Cloud Floor”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A view of a valley with clouds covering the valley floor, shortly after sunset. The sky is blue with shades of orange and red.”)

Episode 2024-52: altered sigh, NoGht, Willis Fader and more

December 23, 2024 Podcast
A frost-covered tree with snowy branches, set against a background of snow-covered trees and a clear blue sky.

Episode 2024-52

Playlist (as aired):

• altered sigh – Only Thoughts
  Release: Lost Labyrinth – EP
  Label: Lofi Records

• Edamame – Periderm
  Release: Periderm
  Label: MERLIN – Abandon Building Records

• Firephly – Muted Sun
  Release: Cozy Gloom – EP
  Label: Firephly

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

• Hello Meteor – Winter Blooming Flowers
  Release: The 1995 New Expo
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Pacific Coliseum – Endless Journey
  Release: How’s Life
  Label: FLORA

• Sundrenched – Hotel Orange
  Release: Emerald – EP
  Label: Dust-Tone

• NoGht – Ritual
  Release: UNIQUE
  Label: E.A.LABo MUSIC

• Braxton – Falling
  Release: Falling EP
  Label: Reflections

• Rykard – Fading into the Light
  Release: Explorers, Vol. 4 – EP
  Label: Hunya Munya Records

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

• Willis Fader – Joy of Cooking
  Release: Parts Per Million
  Label: Paradeco Records

• ConcernedApe – Volcano Mines (Forgotten World)
  Release: Stardew Valley 1.5 (Original Game Soundtrack)
  Label: ConcernedApe

• Oldtwig – Adrift
  Release: Dark Matter – EP
  Label: Oldtwig

• Yppah – Grey Eyes
  Release: Future Archive, Vol. 2
  Label: Future Archive Recordings

• A.L.I.S.O.N & Hotel Pools – Murmurs
  Release: Ultrasound
  Label: Tone Tree Music / Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.

• Joe Nora – Cat Creek
  Release: SVMMER SVN, Vol. 7
  Label: SVNSET WAVES



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Frosty”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A frost-covered tree with snowy branches, set against a background of snow-covered trees and a clear blue sky.”)

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 2024-50: Slag Boom Van Loon, Hello Meteor and more

December 9, 2024 Podcast
Close-up of a green and yellow bird perched on a branch, with a blurred background of brown and green hues.

Episode 2024-50

Playlist (as aired):

• Vanilla – AJFA
  Release: Soft Focus
  Label: VinDig

• Teebs – Mirror Memory
  Release: Anicca
  Label: Brainfeeder

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

• Soular Order – Liminal
  Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
  Label: Soular Order

• Vanilla – Gigi
  Release: Origin
  Label: VinDig

• Ideism – Float
  Release: Everblue
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Rykard – Stars Like Dust
  Release: Explorers, Vol. 4 – EP
  Label: Hunya Munya Records

• Cialyn – Our Days Gone
  Release: Sour Leaves
  Label: Cialyn

• Nightflyer – Sanctuary
  Release: Sanctuary – Single
  Label: Nightflyer

• Hello Meteor – Covert Persephone
  Release: Premium Grey Market
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Soular Order – Sonder
  Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
  Label: Soular Order

• Telefon Tel Aviv – John Thomas on the Inside Is Nothing but Foam
  Release: Fahrenheit Fair Enough
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Julien Mier – Light Footed
  Release: Jane’s Junkyard
  Label: Lowriders Recordings

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

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



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Rock Wren”. Credit: Montezuma Castle National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “Close-up of a green and yellow bird perched on a branch, with a blurred background of brown and green hues.”)

Episode 2024-49: Dissolve in Sepia, Braxton, Ian Aisling and more

December 2, 2024 Podcast
A patchwork of red, orange, and yellow colors in the meadows along a high altitude trail.

Episode 2024-49

Playlist (as aired):

• Tycho – Epigram
  Release: Dive
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Dissolve in Sepia – Petrichor
  Release: Petrichor – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Oldtwig – Wasteland
  Release: Dark Matter – EP
  Label: Oldtwig

• Space Ghost – Peace Lily Garden (Pt. 2)
  Release: Endless Light
  Label: Tartelet Records

• Ian Aisling – Reconfigure
  Release: The Echoterra
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• Braxton – Falling
  Release: Falling – Single
  Label: Reflections

• Veiled Dawn – Intro/Origins
  Release: I – EP
  Label: 2713475 Records DK2

• Seb Wildblood – of transition
  Release: sketches of transition
  Label: AMT

• Panda Coast – Untitled
  Release: Something to Hold Onto
  Label: 691237 Records DK

• Sun Glitters – TThhiinnggss TToo DDoo
  Release: SSoofftt TToouucchh
  Label: Future Archive Recordings

• Max Cooper – Repetition
  Release: Yearning for the Infinite
  Label: Mesh

• Polygrim – Triple Negative
  Release: Brimming
  Label: Dustyroom

• Julien Mier – Light Footed
  Release: Jane’s Junkyard
  Label: Lowriders Recordings

• Arovane – Passage to Nagoya
  Release: Lilies
  Label: City Centre Offices

• Wave damage – Vanish upon completion
  Release: Promises of tomorrow – EP
  Label: 4530854 Records DK

• Senbeii – No Fear
  Release: Vessels VI
  Label: Future Astronauts



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Fall Color Along the High Lakes Trail”. Credit: Mount Rainier National Park / National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: A patchwork of red, orange, and yellow colors in the meadows along a high altitude trail.)

Episode 2024-48: Jumpel & Adi Goldstein, Qaett and more

November 25, 2024 Podcast
A small waterfall cascades between moss-covered rocks, with green leaves on plants lining the stream bank.

Episode 2024-48

Playlist (as aired):

• Third Person Lurkin – Adrift
  Release: The Lake of Woods
  Label: Bad Taste Records

• eevee – gaze
  Release: gaze – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Qaett – Along the Shore
  Release: Warm Reminders
  Label: Fedbymachines Audio

• The Sight Below – Wishing Me Asleep
  Release: Murmur – EP
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Lost Integrity – What You Want
  Release: Go Where You Wanna Go – EP
  Label: Lost Integrity

• Past Palms – Flowerbed
  Release: Empyrean – EP
  Label: 581097 Records DK

• Jumpel & Adi Goldstein – Mock State
  Release: Airth
  Label: Jumpel // Adi Goldstein ©️ 2024

• Richard Alfaro – Sands
  Release: Refract
  Label: Richard Alfaro

• TOR – Lens
  Release: Oasis Sky
  Label: Youth and Progress Recordings

• il:lo – Alma (Frameworks Remix)
  Release: Sloh Remixes – Single
  Label: Future Archive Recordings

• Laurence Guy – Claudi
  Release: Saw You for the First Time
  Label: Church

• Edamame – Lungs Full
  Release: Virga
  Label: MERLIN – Abandon Building Records

• Koresma – Turquoise (Edapollo Remix)
  Release: West Remixes – EP
  Label: Far Away Coast Records

• Dokkodo Sounds – Midwinter
  Release: Peter Bark + Friends
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Tycho – Epigram
  Release: Dive
  Label: Ghostly International

• SwuM & Delayde – Motions
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
  Label: Chillhop Music



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Waterfall”. Credit: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Park Cultural Landscapes Program / National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A small waterfall cascades between moss-covered rocks, with green leaves on plants lining the stream bank.”)

Episode 2024-47: Oowets, Quantum Dreams, Tom Day and more

November 18, 2024 Podcast
A creek flowing through a rocky hydrothermal area with steam rising, surrounded by evergreen trees.

Episode 2024-47

Playlist (as aired):

• Arms and Sleepers – For Us To Be Safe
  Release: For Us To Be Safe – Single
  Label: DXFXWXU Collective

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

• Boards of Canada – Kid for Today
  Release: In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country – EP
  Label: Warp Records

• Blackbird Belle – Champagne Birthday
  Release: Microcosm
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Oowets – Star Light Ocean
  Release: Calm Food
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Ian Aisling – Worlds Connected
  Release: The Echoterra
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• Quantum Dreams – 私が死ぬまで星は明るく輝く (The Stars Will Shine Brightly Until I Die)
  Release: 黒体放射 (Blackbody Radiation)
  Label: Takeki Tower

• CFCF – Oil
  Release: Ghostly Swim 2
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Unfound – Home
  Release: Anomaly
  Label: 899374 Records DK2

• Le Caire – Selfless
  Release: Stratford Ct. | Secret Selection #51​-​60
  Label: Stratford Ct.

• Julien Mier – Light Footed
  Release: Jane’s Junkyard
  Label: Lowriders Recordings

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

• Fujii – Sleep On The Way
  Release: Euphoria
  Label: -AVERSIAC-

• Rival Consoles – Untravel
  Release: Persona
  Label: Erased Tapes

• Soular Order – Sonder
  Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
  Label: Soular Order



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “View of Devils Kitchen”. Credit: Lassen Volcanic National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A creek flowing through a rocky hydrothermal area with steam rising, surrounded by evergreen trees.”)

Episode 2024-46: Willis Fader, Brothertiger, Hello Meteor and more

November 11, 2024 Podcast
A rocky trail winding through grass covered terrain and surrounded by deciduous trees in Alaska.

Episode 2024-46

Playlist (as aired):

• Blackbird Belle – Royal Blues
  Release: Celestial Nighthawk
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Teebs – While You Dooooo (Extended)
  Release: Collections 01
  Label: Brainfeeder

• Treetalking – Eyes of the Observer
  Release: The Unknown
  Label: SOULFULXNATURE

• Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul (Crookram Remix)
  Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
  Label: DXFXWXU Collective

• Ian Aisling – Reconfigure
  Release: The Echoterra
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• Bad Snacks – Homecoming
  Release: Neat Tape 1
  Label: backbeet records, LLC

• Sweatson Klank – Club Med 86
  Release: Inner Works – EP
  Label: Friends Of Friends

• A Sol Mechanic – Flight
  Release: Flight – Single
  Label: A Sol Mechanic

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

• Stumbleine – The Cracks Let the Light In
  Release: The Information Superhighway – Single
  Label: Stumbleine

• She’s Not Real – Crystal Panes
  Release: Crystal Panes – Single
  Label: 935288 Records DK

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

• Willis Fader – Joy of Cooking
  Release: Parts Per Million
  Label: Paradeco Records

• A.L.I.S.O.N – Oscillate
  Release: Signal Flow – EP
  Label: A.L.I.S.O.N

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

• eevee – gaze
  Release: gaze – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “On the Trail”. Credit: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park [i]. Alt Text: “A rocky trail winding through grass covered terrain and surrounded by deciduous trees in Alaska.”

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.