Podcast

Episode 2023-07: Janelle Costa, KOHEI YOSHII x Komachi, Lifeformed and more

February 13, 2023 Podcast
A snowy mountain range with frost covered Hoar Trees in the foreground. The sky is blue.

Episode 2023-07

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 12 Feb 2023):

  • KOHEI YOSHII x Komachi – Colours
      Release: Colours – Single
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Lifeformed – Pillars of Pepper
      Release: Fastfall (Dustforce Original Game Soundtrack)
      Label: LOOPDISK
  • Resotone – What Never Was.
      Release: What Never Was. – Single
      Label: 702767 Records DK
  • RUMTUM – Commit Way
      Release: Isles in Indigo
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Koresma – Northern Lights
      Release: North – EP
      Label: Koresma
  • Bowcraft – Autumn Every
      Release: Many Distant Cities
      Label: 1469535 Records DK
  • Janelle Costa – Rain
      Release: My Kinda Flower – EP
      Label: Janelle Costa Music
  • Richard Alfaro – Alone
      Release: Refract
      Label: Richard Alfaro
  • X3SR – Infinite
      Release: Infinite – EP
      Label: X3SR
  • 20HoursAfterDawn – No Sun Into The Void
      Release: Sun Will Crackle – EP
      Label: I Low You records
  • Galactic Language – Modern Flora
      Release: Arrival (Deluxe)
      Label: Galactic Language
  • Pbs’73 – Kaleidosphere
      Release: Viewers Like You
      Label: 635970 Records DK
  • Gold Panda – Pink and Green
      Release: Good Luck and Do Your Best
      Label: Tugboat Records
  • Catching Flies – Mama’s Wisdom
      Release: Komorebi / Mama’s Wisdom – Single
      Label: Indigo Soul



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Photo: “Winter – Hoar Frost Coated Trees”. Credit: Great Smoky Mountains National Park/NPS Photo, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-06: Mac DeMarco, Jinx & Nightflyer, Decisive Koala and more

February 6, 2023 Podcast
An image of a night sky in a rural area. The sky is star filled, with some clouds, and hues of blue and orange. There are shadows of trees in the foreground as well as evidence of human habitation in the form of a utility pole.

Episode 2023-06

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 05 Feb 2023):

  • Kaelyn – The Mood
      Release: The Mood – Single
      Label: Majestic Casual Records
  • Floating Forest – Lonesome (Special Edition)
      Release: Nature Sounds After Dark
      Label: Floating Forest
  • Mac DeMarco – Crescent City
      Release: Five Easy Hot Dogs
      Label: Mac’s Record Label
  • Boards of Canada – Turquoise Hexagon Sun
      Release: Music Has the Right to Children
      Label: Warp Records
  • Chris LaRue – Wool Socks
      Release: Lo-Fi Meditations
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • lover girl – Soft Lights
      Release: Stay Asleep – Single
      Label: SXN
  • Jinx & Nightflyer – Solace (Nightflyer Mix)
      Release: Solace (Nightflyer Mix) – Single
      Label: Nightflyer
  • Elven Mirrors. – Walking Meditation
      Release: Chrono
      Label: Azlyn Records!
  • Le Caire – Selfless
      Release: Stratford Ct. | Secret Selection #51‚Äč-‚Äč60
      Label: Stratford Ct.
  • Sloslylove – Memories (Secrets)
      Release: Secret Dreams
      Label: Sloslylove
  • Decisive Koala – Locate Memories
      Release: Locate Memories – Single
      Label: Decisive Koala
  • BODYBITE – Woken Up by the Sun
      Release: Pretty World
      Label: 1629096 Records DK
  • Recondite – Equal (Bonus Track)
      Release: Dwell
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Illuvia – Summer Cloud
      Release: Summer Rain – Single
      Label: Dewtone Recordings
  • Site Nonsite – Moss Garden
      Release: Kyoto – EP
      Label: Obvious Things
  • Third Person Lurkin – Adrift
      Release: The Lake of Woods
      Label: Bad Taste Records



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Photo: “Night Sky”. Credit: Cedar Breaks National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-05: RRAREBEAR, Geotic, Tobias and more

January 30, 2023 Podcast
A blue sky with white clouds. The shadowy side of two mountains is in the foreground.

Episode 2023-05

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 29 Jan 2023):

  • mtbrd – Damn Fine Coffee
      Release: Damn Fine
      Label: SMOOV
  • Monster Rally – Grassy Crystals
      Release: Botanica Dream
      Label: Monster Rally
  • Arms and Sleepers – A Mission to Prague
      Release: Black Paris 86 (15th Anniversary Edition)
      Label: Arms and Sleepers
  • AstroLogical – Symbiosis
      Release: Private World – EP
      Label: Bastard Jazz Canada
  • Edamame – Lungs Full
      Release: Virga
      Label: Abandon Building Records
  • Sundrenched – Autumn Memories
      Release: The Sundrenched Lofi Guitar Ensemble Vol 4
      Label: Dust-Tone
  • Koresma – Waves
      Release: South – EP
      Label: Koresma
  • Treetalking – Move With Purpose
      Release: The Unknown
      Label: SXN
  • Hello Meteor – Monsoon Landing
      Release: Welcome To New Cascade
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • RRAREBEAR – Ginger
      Release: Relief
      Label: RRAREBEAR
  • High Tides – Zolar
      Release: Zolar – Single
      Label: Rad Cult
  • Geotic – Accept
      Release: To Not Now Nor To Ever Despair
      Label: Basement’s Basement
  • Chemtrails – Soft
      Release: Taking Things Lightly
      Label: Chemtrails
  • Tobias – Shiver
      Release: Shiver – Single
      Label: Tobias
  • Teen Daze – Paradiso
      Release: Paradiso – Single
      Label: Flora
  • wowflower – Untuch
      Release: Self Portrait
      Label: Street Corner Music



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Photo: “White Pass, Klondike Gold Rush NHP, Alaska”. Credit: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Park Cultural Landscapes Program/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-04: Digitalverein, rosequartz, Hu and more

January 23, 2023 Podcast
A short waterfall emptying into a green pond. The pond is surrounded by greenery.

Episode 2023-04

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 22 Jan 2023):

  • Nitemoves – Antipode
      Release: Antipode – Single
      Label: Mechanical
  • Arvo to me – Into Change
      Release: Into Change
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • M-Cubed – Out of Hiding
      Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
      Label: SVNSET WAVES
  • Arms and Sleepers – Hurry Slowly (Manatee Commune Remix)
      Release: Swim Team Remixed
      Label: Arms and Sleepers
  • Chemtrails – Elapse
      Release: Taking Things Lightly
      Label: Chemtrails
  • rosequartz – interlude
      Release: interlude – Single
      Label: SVNSET WőõVES
  • Machinedrum – Endless <3
      Release: Vapor City Archives
      Label: Ninja Tune
  • Richard Alfaro – Inside
      Release: Refract
      Label: Richard Alfaro
  • Home – Tides
      Release: Odyssey
      Label: Home
  • Hu – North
      Release: Navigate – EP
      Label: anon recordings
  • The Sight Below – Wishing Me Asleep
      Release: Murmur – EP
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Digitalverein – Next to Mont Royal
      Release: Tiefer Ins System
      Label: Seven Villas Voyage
  • mu arae – A Far Away Place
      Release: Rising Tides 011
      Label: SVNSET WAVES



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Photo: “Antelope Spring Waterfall”. Credit: Chickasaw National Recreation Area/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-03: Slag Boom Van Loon, Space Ghost, MossGatherer and more

January 16, 2023 Podcast
A brown deer looking at the photographer in a field of tall brown grass. The deer is next to a wooden split-row fence.

Episode 2023-03

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 15 Jan 2023):

  • P.SUS – What We Feel
      Release: Open Ears Open Mind Open Heart
      Label: P.SUS
  • Bowcraft – Monorail
      Release: Many Distant Cities
      Label: 1469535 Records DK
  • Space Ghost – 4 Am
      Release: 4 Am – Single
      Label: Tartelet Records
  • MossGatherer – Standing Right There
      Release: Out There – EP
      Label: XVI Records
  • Rykard – North Cormorant Obscurity
      Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
      Label: Hunya Munya Records
  • Blackbird Belle – I Know
      Release: Microcosm
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • GlobulDub – Hoverin’
      Release: Hip – Hop Symposium Vol. 3 (Childhood) – Single
      Label: Chill Masters Records
  • Richard Alfaro – Field
      Release: Refract
      Label: Richard Alfaro
  • Orange Crush – Invocation
      Release: Autumn Reflections
      Label: Orange Crush
  • Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Boards of Canada Remix)
      Release: So Soon
      Label: Planet Mu
  • Xky – Shapes
      Release: Mercury EP
      Label: Xky Music
  • Freud – Cuban Episode
      Release: Velvet Dance – EP
      Label: Substruct Audio
  • Bakradze – An Evening With John
      Release: Restless
      Label: Space Hardware



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Photo: “Deer and Split-row Fence”. Credit: Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-02: Telepopmusik, Monster Rally and more

January 9, 2023 Podcast
A person kayaking on a lake at sunset, with mountains in the background. The sky is a dark blue.

Episode 2023-02

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 08 Oct 2023):

  • Telepopmusik – Smile (Natural High Remix)
      Release: Smile (Natural High Remix)
      Label: Universal Music Publishing France
  • Monster Rally – Ginger on the Wind (feat. Mira Cook)
      Release: Menagerie – Single
      Label: Gold Robot Records
  • Thrupence – Winston
      Release: Voyages
      Label: Thrupence
  • Floating Forest – Dream Palace (Special Edition)
      Release: Nature Sounds After Dark
      Label:
  • Oscar Oscar – Himeji
      Release: Himeji – Single
      Label: Majestic Casual Records
  • Southpaw – Sincerly A Girl U Once Knew
      Release: Park63
      Label: 695581 Records DK2
  • Koresma – Waves
      Release: South – EP
      Label: Koresma
  • Able the Giant – Better Tomorrow
      Release: Beat Supply: Crate07
      Label: Beat Supply
  • TheNoiseMachine – Don’t Worry So Much
      Release: Midnight Musings – EP
      Label: 2750455 Records DK
  • Altitude. – The Camp
      Release: Knight – EP
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Sun Glitters – Beside Me
      Release: Everything Could Be Fine
      Label: Sun Glitters
  • Macroblank – Covert Red
      Release: RARE PSALMS COLLECTION VOL.3
      Label: Macroblank
  • Lone – Echo Paths
      Release: Always Inside Your Head
      Label: Greco-Roman
  • TOR – City 66
      Release: Oasis Sky
      Label: Youth and Progress Recordings
  • WMD – Another song about Ruby
      Release: Sophrosyne
      Label: WMD



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Photo: “Winter Kayaking, Lake Clark Sunset”. Credit: Lake Clark National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-01: Elven Mirrors., t.quoise, Ramakhandra and more

January 2, 2023 Podcast
Distant blue mountains that are snow covered with haze.

Episode 2023-01

  • Elven Mirrors. – Deep And Solemn
      Release: Chrono
      Label: Azlyn Records
  • Laflamme – Bo-Tree
      Release: Canopy – EP
      Label: Canopy
  • t.quoise – Life in Reverse
      Release: Life in Reverse
      Label: Soundsphere
  • Bowcraft – Saltair
      Release: Many Distant Cities
      Label: 1469535 Records DK
  • Catching Flies – Silver Linings
      Release: Silver Linings
      Label: Indigo Soul
  • IG88 – Want
      Release: Want – Single
      Label: IG88
  • Galactic Language – Spacial Echoes
      Release: Arrival
      Label: Galactic Language
  • Casino Versus Japan – Marilyn Set Me Free
      Release: Hitori + Kaiso (1998 – 2001)
      Label: Attacknine Records
  • Rykard – North Cormorant Obscurity
      Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
      Label: Hunya Munya Records
  • Melorman – Salty Air
      Release: For the Sun
      Label: Same Difference Music
  • Ramakhandra – Haku (Rumtum Remix)
      Release: Haku (Rumtum Remix) – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Dylan Stark – Northern
      Release: Heartland
      Label: Civil Music
  • Frameworks – Rotations
      Release: Imagine Gold
      Label: Loci Records



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Photo: “Mt. Carrie”. Credit: Olympic National Park/NPS photo, public domain [i].

Episode 2022-52: Christopher Willits, The Sight Below, Machinedrum and more

December 26, 2022 Podcast
A mountain waterfall with a steep drop, fully frozen.

Episode 2022-52

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

  • Cialyn – Second Wave
      Release: Sour Leaves
      Label:
  • Third Person Lurkin – Adrift
      Release: The Lake of Woods
      Label: Bad Taste Records
  • Tycho – Ascension
      Release: Dive
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Hello Meteor – Charcoal and Ash
      Release: The Coastal Obscure
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Shigeto – Olivia
      Release: No Better Time Than Now
      Label: Ghostly International
  • lover girl – Soft Lights
      Release: Stay Asleep – Single
      Label: SXN
  • Christopher Willits – Clear
      Release: Opening
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Dan Black – Hot Cocoa
      Release: Winter
      Label: DystopiaPop
  • Telefon Tel Aviv – Life Is All About Taking Things In and Putting Things Out
      Release: Fahrenheit Fair Enough
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Lusine – Jetstream
      Release: Language Barrier
      Label: Hymen Records
  • The Sight Below – Wishing Me Asleep
      Release: Murmur – EP
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Soular Order – Sonder
      Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
      Label: Soular Order
  • Machinedrum – Endless <3
      Release: Vapor City Archives
      Label: Ninja Tune
  • Boards of Canada – Turquoise Hexagon Sun
      Release: Music Has the Right to Children
      Label: Warp Records



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Photo: “Frozen Upper Falls” (The waters of Frijoles Creek following over the Upper Falls can freeze almost entirely during serious cold snaps in mid-winter). Credit: Bandelier National Monument, National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2022-51: Visitors, Gold Panda, Almanacs and more

December 19, 2022 Podcast
A clear pond showing the reflection of the trees on the shoreline.

Episode 2022-51

Playlist (as run on KNHC on 18 Dec 2022):
We’re posting this a little early based on a very reasonable request 🙂

  • Elven Mirrors. – Deep And Solemn
      Release: Chrono
      Label: Azlyn Records
  • Invention & Ben Bada Boom – Scala Naturae (ft. Evil Needle)
      Release: Holism
      Label: Blvnt Records
  • Visitors – Nothing is Necessary
      Release: Nothing is Necessary – Single
      Label: Visitors
  • Gold Panda – New Days
      Release: The Work
      Label: City Slang
  • Almanacs – Coyote Blanco
      Release: Spirits of the River
      Label: Mystery Circles
  • Hello Meteor – Tobacco and Rain
      Release: Community Broadcasting
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Teen Daze – Rainwater Coffee
      Release: Rainwater Coffee – EP
      Label: Teen Daze
  • Elsa Hewitt – Tiny Dancer
      Release: Citrus Paradisi
      Label: ERH
  • Space Ghost – 4 Am
      Release: 4 Am – Single
      Label: Tartelet Records
  • Lusine Icl – Jetstream
      Release: Language Barrier
      Label: Hymen Records
  • The Faded – Uncertainties
      Release: Uncertainties
      Label: The Faded
  • Steve Moore – Beloved Exile
      Release: Beloved Exile
      Label: Temporary Residence Ltd.
  • Tycho – From Home
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: ISO50 Records



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Photo: “Blackwater Pond Reflection”. Credit: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2022-50: Pablo Bolivar & Sensual Physics, upusen and more

December 12, 2022 Podcast
A purple Periwinkle flower with dew drops, on a background of green leaves.

Episode 2022-50

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

  • Lord RAJA – Dipteres Pt. 2
      Release: Rubies – EP
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Shepard – Not Bad Enough
      Release: Against Our Nation
      Label: Shepard
  • upusen – Tape End
      Release: Birds
      Label: Midwest Collective
  • Orange Crush – Invocation
      Release: Autumn Reflections
      Label: Orange Crush
  • Sun Glitters – Too Much to Lose
      Release: Everything Could Be Fine
      Label: Sun Glitters
  • Shigeto – Miss U
      Release: No Better Time Than Now
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Takeleave – Calibu
      Release: Inner Sea
      Label: Project Mooncircle
  • Swimming TV – Falling
      Release: Raindance – EP
      Label: Cosmonostro
  • Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul
      Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
      Label: Achillea Music
  • Eyukaliptus – Summit
      Release: The Moon_tape
      Label: 857594 Records DK
  • Koresma – Offshores
      Release: Offshores – Single
      Label: Koresma
  • Pablo Bolivar & Sensual Physics – Backen Punch
      Release: Details Am Rande
      Label: Seven Villas
  • Tycho – A Walk (Kolombo Remix)
      Release: Dive (Deluxe Version)
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Garden City Movement – Move On (Teen Daze Remix)
      Release: Entertainment – EP
      Label: BLDG5



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Photo: “Periwinkle [Vinca major]”. Credit: Alcatraz Island/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.