Episode 2023-40: Lusine, Planet Boelex and more

October 2, 2023 Podcast
A mid-sized creek flowing down the grassy and hilly side of a large mountain. The creek has rocks in it, and small waterfalls that form as a result of the rocks and elevation decrease. The land surrounding the creek is covered by short shrubbery that is green and yellow. There are sparsely located evergreen trees. In the background is a ridge obscured by mist or fog.

Episode 2023-40

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Reside in Flames – Sinclair Our Flight Has Arrived
      Release: Sundials Telescopes – EP
      Label: 3193825 Records DK
  • Hotel Pools & Forhill – Descent
      Release: Stratford Ct. Secret Selection #31 – 40
      Label: Stratford Ct.
  • Jon Hopkins – Immunity
      Release: Immunity
      Label: Domino Recording Co
  • Possums at Twilight – Awake
      Release: Interobject
      Label: Possums at Twilight
  • Casino Versus Japan – Marilyn Set Me Free
      Release: Hitori + Kaiso (1998 – 2001)
      Label: Attacknine Records
  • Sun Glitters – Feel It (feat. Suzy Q. Smith)
      Release: Everything Could Be Fine
      Label: Sun Glitters
  • Brothomstates – Mdrmx
      Release: Claro
      Label: Warp Records
  • Spring In A Small Town – Compassion
      Release: Spring in a Small Town
      Label: flau
  • Teen Daze – Apricot Sunset (A Void)
      Release: Pure Water (Inspired by ‘The Outlaw Ocean’ a book by Ian Urbina)
      Label: Synesthesia Media
  • Terekke – Need U
      Release: Plant Age
      Label: L.I.E.S.
  • Warm Ghost – I Will Return (Heathered Pearls’ Coasting In Circles Remix)
      Release: Loyal
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Lusine – Rafters
      Release: Long Light
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Lord Of The Isles – Waiting in Arisaig
      Release: Whities 029 – EP
      Label: AD 93
  • Astropilot & Althai – Ai-Petri
      Release: Diary of a Restless Mind (Extended Version)
      Label: AstroPilot Music
  • Planet Boelex – Upset Hexadecimal
      Release: Approach
      Label: Planet Boelex


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Edith Creek in Autumn”. Credit: Mount Rainier National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-39: Birocratic & G Mills, Sun Glitters, Frequency Control Centre and more

September 25, 2023 Podcast
Trees with golden leaves line a quiet stream. The stream has rocks in it. The surrounding landscape is rocky.

Episode 2023-39

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • A Vision of Panorama – Mediterranean Tribal
      Release: Sentimental Coast – EP
      Label: Cala Tarida Musica
  • Monster Rally – Full Sail
      Release: Mystery Cove
      Label: Monster Rally
  • Birocratic & G Mills – Delivery Pizza
      Release: Ninety-Nine
      Label: Decatur Boiz
  • Sun Glitters – What Is It For?
      Release: Totality – Single
      Label: DXFXWXU Collective
  • Lusine – Rafters
      Release: Long Light
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Manatee Commune – Cast
      Release: Cast – Single
      Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
  • Blackbird Belle – Royal Blues
      Release: Celestial Nighthawk
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Teebs – While You Dooooo (Extended)
      Release: Collections 01
      Label: Brainfeeder
  • firephly – Know What I Need
      Release: Safe In Sound
      Label: 591184 Records DK2
  • Nightflyer – Monuments
      Release: Monuments – Single
      Label: Nightflyer
  • Borealism – Slide
      Release: So What’s New With You?
      Label: Borealism
  • Frequency Control Centre – Kaleidophone
      Release: Analogs of Traces
      Label: Audionautic Records
  • Thrupence – Winston
      Release: Voyages
      Label: Jack Vanzet
  • Telefon Tel Aviv – Lotus Above Water
      Release: Fahrenheit Fair Enough
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Tycho – Past Is Prologue
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: Ghostly International


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    Hosted by Seth.

    Photo: “Autumn – Golden Colors Reflected in Stream”. Credit: Great Smoky Mountains 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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    Hosted by Seth.

    Photo: “Organ Pipe and Mountains”. Credit: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i].

    Episode 2023-37: Jinx, Gaussian Curve, Janelle Costa and more

    September 11, 2023 Podcast
    A high rocky cliff with trees in front of it. The trees are autumn colors, including orange, yellow, red and green. On top of the cliff are some trees in which you can only see the shape of. The sky is blue. The cliff is approximately 35 feet feet higher than the tree line below.

    Episode 2023-37

    Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

    • do_tell – the gate
        Release: radicle [tape]
        Label: do_tell
    • RRAREBEAR – Ginger
        Release: Relief
        Label: RRAREBEAR
    • Hector Plimmer – Let’s Stay
        Release: Sunshine
        Label: Albert’s Favourites
    • Hu – North
        Release: Navigate – EP
        Label: anon recordings
    • Pablo Bolivar – Fuse
        Release: Framework of a Dream
        Label: Seven Villas
    • Gaussian Curve – Broken Clouds
        Release: Clouds
        Label: Music From Memory
    • Tycho – From Home
        Release: Past Is Prologue
        Label: ISO50 Records
    • D.K. – Juicy
        Release: Drop
        Label: BELIEVE – Antinote
    • Jinx – Solace (Bonus) [Nightflyer Chill Mix]
        Release: Solace (Nightflyer Mix) – Single
        Label: Nightflyer
    • Janelle Costa – Rain
        Release: My Kinda Flower – EP
        Label: Janelle Costa Music
    • Matrixxman – Annika’s Theme
        Release: Homesick
        Label: Ghostly International
    • Heathered Pearls – Perfume Catalogue
        Release: Body Complex
        Label: Ghostly International
    • Boards of Canada – Peacock Tail
        Release: The Campfire Headphase
        Label: Warp Records
    • Pbs’73 – Kaleidosphere
        Release: Viewers Like You
        Label: Magic Square Records


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    Hosted by Seth.

    Photo: “Autumn Splendor”. Credit: Obed Wild and Scenic River/National Park Service, public domain [i].

    Episode 2023-36: Chickenwizard, Boards of Canada and more

    September 4, 2023 Podcast
    A sunset scene. At the bottom is a landscape of trees in the distance, showing only their profile. The sky is blue, yellow, orange and pink, and composes most of the photo.

    Episode 2023-36

    Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

    • Chickenwizard – End Dream
        Release: Stargaze
        Label: Wizard Is a Chicken
    • Shigeto – Safe in Here
        Release: No Better Time Than Now
        Label: Ghostly International
    • Leon Vynehall – Movements (Chapter III)
        Release: Nothing Is Still
        Label: Ninja Tune
    • Boards of Canada – Nothing Is Real
        Release: Tomorrow’s Harvest
        Label: Warp Records
    • Rykard – North Cormorant Obscurity
        Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
        Label: Hunya Munya Records
    • Andris Mattson – Atlantis Mantis (wildflower)
        Release: Water – EP
        Label: Wildflower Records
    • Astropilot & Althai – Ai-Petri
        Release: Diary of a Restless Mind (Extended Version)
        Label: AstroPilot Music
    • Hello Meteor – The Exoplanet Environmental Trust
        Release: Comfortable Loneliness
        Label: Evergreen Prefecture
    • creative_reality17 – B6
        Release: Attunement
        Label: creative_reality17
    • Abel, the Giant – Better Tomorrow
        Release: Beatsupply: Crate07 – EP
        Label: Beatsupply
    • Rejoicer – Lucid Intent (feat. Nitai Hershkovits)
        Release: Energy Dreams
        Label: Stones Throw Records
    • Feverkin – Silhouette
        Release: Silhouette – Single
        Label: 559975 Records DK2
    • Frameworks – Kings
        Release: Kings
        Label: FRAMEWORKS
    • Tedium Cool – 00h28
        Release: Midnight Tapes
        Label: Kulkraft Records
    • Slow Magic – Hold Still
        Release: How to Run Away
        Label: Downtown Records / Fontana North
    • Sundrenched – Hotel Orange
        Release: Emerald – EP
        Label: Dust-Tone


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    Hosted by Seth.

    Photo: “Sunset Clouds with Alpenglow”. Credit: Grand Teton National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

    Episode 2023-35: Padma Purana, Wave damage, Birocratic & G Mills and more

    August 28, 2023 Podcast
    A trail through a forest with a wooden bench. The ground cover is ferns, reaching about 3 feet high. There are several trees on the foreground providing shade to the bench. In the background are some sun-bleached trees. The trail is made of dirt and appears to be well maintained.

    Episode 2023-35

    Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

    • SwuM – If I Leave
        Release: Chillhop Essentials Winter 2019
        Label: Chillhop Music
    • A Sol Mechanic – Flight
        Release: Flight – Single
        Label: A Sol Mechanic
    • 20HoursAfterDawn – No Sun Into The Void
        Release: Sun Will Crackle – EP
        Label: I Low You records
    • Possums at Twilight – Good Luck and Have Fun
        Release: Moments Final
        Label: Possums at Twilight
    • System – Manarola
        Release: Common Water – EP
        Label: 949877 Records DK2
    • Padma Purana – Faust
        Release: Departure – EP
        Label: Padma Purana
    • A Vision of Panorama – Mediterranean Tribal
        Release: Sentimental Coast – EP
        Label: Cala Tarida Musica
    • Magic Touch – Rooftop Garden
        Release: Private Lesson
        Label: Total Stasis
    • Memorex Memories – Beacon Hill
        Release: The Life of Riley
        Label: Stratford Ct.
    • Wave damage – Lost world of innocence
        Release: All about tomorrow
        Label: 4530854 Records DK
    • Birocratic & G Mills – shoobedoo
        Release: shoobedoo – Single
        Label: Decatur Boiz
    • Spiritual Awareness – Flowing Stillness
        Release: Meditation in Motion:Mindfulness Sessions In Discovery
        Label: Spiritual Awareness
    • Forteba – Collective Flora
        Release: Collective Flora – Single
        Label: Midnight Fashion
    • boerd – Look
        Release: Misplaced
        Label: Anjunadeep


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    Photo: “Tranquility!”. Credit: Acadia National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

    Episode 2023-34: slowgramming, O.L.I.E, upusen and more

    August 21, 2023 Podcast
    A trail winding through a forest. The leaves on the trees are green and yellow. The forest is heavily wooded. On the ground are boulders spread throughout the trees, suggesting a mountainous area.

    Episode 2023-34

    Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

    • Menta – Shibuya Streets
        Release: Natural Sounds
        Label: Alpha Pup
    • Thrupence – Don’t You Mind
        Release: Lessons
        Label: Future Classic
    • upusen – Not Good
        Release: Birds
        Label: Midwest Collective
    • Hotel Pools – Highlights
        Release: Vital / Highlights – Single
        Label: Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.
    • A.L.I.S.O.N – Sunshine Girl
        Release: Sunshine Girl – Single
        Label: A.L.I.S.O.N
    • Hello Meteor – Service Access
        Release: Conditioned Air
        Label: Evergreen Prefecture
    • slowgramming – Bufffer Overffflow
        Release: are we there yet?
        Label: slowgramming
    • Jay Cliffen – Efflorescence
        Release: Inure – EP
        Label: Cliffen Music
    • edapollo – Outcast
        Release: SVMMER SVN Vol 6
        Label: SVNSET WAVES
    • Past Palms – Midnight Sun
        Release: When the Sun Reaches Its Highest Point in the Sky – Single
        Label: 581097 Records DK
    • O.L.I.E – In June
        Release: Newcastle
        Label: Midwest Collective
    • Dasta – Kiss
        Release: Moments
        Label: Blvnt Records
    • Freud – Faux Pas
        Release: Velvet Dance – EP
        Label: Substruct Audio
    • Geotic – Actually Smiling
        Release: Abysma
        Label: Ghostly International
    • Bad Snacks – Same Water Different Seas
        Release: Bathtub Bumps
        Label: Bad Snacks LLC
    • Sundrenched – Down Moon
        Release: The Sundrenched Lofi Guitar Ensemble Vol. 4
        Label: Dust-Tone


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    Hosted by Seth.

    Photo: “Blue Ridge Summit Vista Trail”. Credit: Catoctin Mountain Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

    Episode 2023-33: leafmold, Soft Static, Jinx and more

    August 14, 2023 Podcast
    A desert landscape featuring a distance rainstorm. In the foreground are short, orange hills without vegetation. Behind that are taller hills that appear blue, and are also without vegetation. Behind that is a blue cloudy sky, with two curtains of rain reaching the landscape.

    Episode 2023-33

    Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

    • wowflower – sidewalk slowdance
        Release: brodies attestupa
        Label: Wowflower
    • Southpaw – Sincerly, A Girl U Once Knew
        Release: Park63
        Label: 695581 Records DK2
    • leafmold – Culdesacs
        Release: Palms
        Label: Sleepdance Records
    • Slow Magic – Let U Go
        Release: How to Run Away
        Label: Downtown Records / Fontana North
    • Paternoster Poetry – Paternoster Elevator 2
        Release: Beats To Procrastinate To
        Label: Stevia Sphere
    • Tobias – Shiver
        Release: Shiver – Single
        Label: Tobias
    • Reside in Flames – On Through the Dark, Till Dim Stars Wane
        Release: Till Dim Stars Wane
        Label: Reside in Flames
    • Soft Static – Natural High
        Release: Natural High – Single
        Label: 3736632 Records DK
    • Yppah – Shot into the Sun
        Release: Sunset in the Deep End
        Label: Future Archive Recordings
    • Ta-Ku – Long Time No See (Ekali Remix)
        Release: Long Time No See (Ekali Remix)
        Label: Fool’s Gold Records
    • Jinx – Solace (Bonus) [Nightflyer Chill Mix]
        Release: Solace (Nightflyer Mix) – Single
        Label: Nightflyer
    • King Shi – Father’s Love
        Release: Jupiter Blues
        Label: Tekhedz, Millennium Jazz Music
    • gonima – Warm Season
        Release: Strands
        Label: SVNSET WAVES
    • VIQ – Journey
        Release: Last Path
        Label: VIQ


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    Hosted by Seth.

    “Desert Rain”. Credit: Guadalupe Mountains National Park/National Park Service, public domain. [i]

    Episode 2023-32: Tokyo Megaplex, Native Cruise, Manatee Commune and more

    August 7, 2023 Podcast
    A volcanically active body of water with steam rising above. The water in the foreground appears orange or rust colored. The water further away appears to be blue. In the background are hills with green and brown foliage. The sky conditions are mostly cloudy, with sections of blue peeking through.

    Episode 2023-32

    Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

    • Washed Out – Entrance
        Release: Paracosm
        Label: Pod
    • Manatee Commune – Wake
        Release: Wake – Single
        Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
    • Uinta – Maples
        Release: Fruits
        Label: mind.slave
    • Treetalking – S U P E R N O V A
        Release: S T A R D U S T – Single
        Label: Alpha Pup
    • Dillard – Lust
        Release: Empress LP
        Label: D93 Audio
    • Shigeto – Olivia
        Release: No Better Time Than Now
        Label: Ghostly International
    • Elsa Hewitt – Tiny Dancer
        Release: Citrus Paradisi
        Label: ERH
    • Almanacs – Coyote Blanco
        Release: Spirits of the River
        Label: Mystery Circles
    • Xky – Mercury
        Release: Mercury EP
        Label: Xky Music
    • Native Cruise – Import Memory
        Release: Sunsets & Deeper Moods
        Label: No Bad Days
    • upusen – Not Good
        Release: Birds
        Label: Midwest Collective
    • Brothertiger – Cascade
        Release: Fundamentals Vol. I
        Label: Brothertiger
    • BACKWHEN – Next World
        Release: BACKWHEN ~ Balance – EP
        Label: Chill Children
    • Flamingosis – Elevator Pass (feat. Tokyo Megaplex)
        Release: Great Hair
        Label: UKNOWY


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    Hosted by Seth.

    Photo: “Grand Prismatic Spring Colored by Thermophiles, Yellowstone National Park, 2013”. Credit: Yellowstone National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

    Episode 2023-31: Virtual Cat, Catching Flies, Eagle Eyed Tiger and more

    July 31, 2023 Podcast
    A field of wildflowers. In the foreground are green, leafy plants with a few purple bushy flowers. Behind that is the rest of the field, with blue grass-like plants. A dark tree-line is in the background. A sliver of very light blue sky can be seen.

    Episode 2023-31

    Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

    • Memorex Memories – There Is an Eternal Summer in a Grateful Heart
        Release: The Life of Riley
        Label: Stratford Ct.
    • CRAETION – Beachside
        Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 5
        Label: SVNSET WAVES
    • Terekke – Jqm
        Release: Plant Age
        Label: L.I.E.S.
    • Jack Wilbs – Water
        Release: Water
        Label: Jack Wilbs
    • Teen Daze – Looking West
        Release: Late Summer Compilation Vol.10 (Part II)
        Label: LAGASTA
    • Eagle Eyed Tiger – Protocol
        Release: SVMMER SVN vol. 7
        Label: SVNSET WAVES
    • Catching Flies – Komorebi
        Release: Silver Linings
        Label: Indigo Soul
    • Emancipator & 9 Theory – Tangerine Sour
        Release: A Thousand Clouds – EP
        Label: Loci Records
    • Letherette – Sun Up
        Release: Brown Lounge Vol. 5
        Label: Wulf
    • Monster Rally – Grassy Crystals
        Release: Botanica Dream
        Label: Monster Rally
    • Monster Rally – Escape to the Cloud Forest (Along the River)
        Release: Escape to the Cloud Forest – Single
        Label: Monster Rally
    • Swimming TV – Shaman
        Release: Raindance – EP
        Label: Cosmonostro
    • Virtual Cat – Hydrangea
        Release: June Cat
        Label: Ikimono Records
    • Elsa Hewitt – Tiny Dancer
        Release: Citrus Paradisi
        Label: ERH
    • Tomas Novoa – Tundra
        Release: Espacio Negativo
        Label: 803651 Records DK


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    Hosted by Seth.

    Photo: “Late Summer Wildflowers”. Credit: Homestead National Historical 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.