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Episode 2024-23: Elsa Hewitt, Blank Banshee, Mac DeMarco and more

June 2, 2024 Podcast
Close-up of a tough evergreen plant with long, sword-shaped leaves. Raindrops bead on the leaves. The background is blurred, showing a forest of yucca plants.

Episode 2024-23

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

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

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

• Galleriet – Amore (Instrumental)
  Release: The Instrumentals
  Label: Galleriet

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

• TOR – City 66
  Release: Oasis Sky
  Label: Youth and Progress Recordings

• Hello Meteor – Conditioned Air
  Release: Conditioned Air
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Drips Zacheer – Gardenia
  Release: Gardenia – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Koresma & edapollo – On the Horizon
  Release: On the Horizon – Single
  Label: Koresma & Edapollo

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

• Eagle Eyed Tiger – Frontier
  Release: On the Run
  Label: Orbital Rendezvous

• Rosentwig – Wabi-Sabi
  Release: Kopfkino – EP
  Label: 904678 Records DK

• Elsa Hewitt – For My Confusion
  Release: Chaos Emeralds
  Label: Tompkins Square

• Space Ghost – 4 AM
  Release: 4 Am – Single
  Label: Tartelet Records

• Chrome Sparks – Sugar
  Release: Chrome Sparks
  Label: Counter Records

• AWITW – Faces
  Release: Inside World
  Label: Golden Forest Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Rain and Yucca”. Credit: Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-12: Lexx, Jesse Whomst and more

March 18, 2024 Podcast
An elk stands near a seasonal stream, looking out over rolling grasslands, sand dunes, and mountains capped with snow in the distance. Clear blue sky above.

Episode 2024-12

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

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

•Timewarp inc – Smoke Miash (Santuri Version mCurtis Remix)
  Release: Smoke Miash (Santuri Version mCurtis Remix) – Single
  Label: Timewarp Music

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

•Orloe – All Recorded Days
  Release: Vessels IX
  Label: Future Astronauts

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

•Swimming TV – With You
  Release: Raindance – EP
  Label: Cosmonostro

•Jesse Whomst – Rain Clowds
  Release: Yawn – EP
  Label: Jesse Whomst

•AstroLogical – Symbiosis
  Release: Private World – EP
  Label: Bastard Jazz Canada

•E.Vax – Always
  Release: E.Vax
  Label: Perfect Branch

•Chrome Sparks – Sugar
  Release: Chrome Sparks
  Label: Counter Records

•X3SR – miss u
  Release: Sublimation
  Label: X3SR

•Sloslylove – You and I
  Release: The Haunted
  Label: Sloslylove

•Takeleave – The Woods
  Release: Belonging
  Label: Project Mooncircle

•Pool Boy – Empty Buffet
  Release: Pool Boy – LP
  Label: Coastal Haze

•Edapollo – Wildflower (Marley Carroll Remix)
  Release: Blue Spring – EP (Remixes)
  Label: Opine

•Lexx – Prelude to Happiness
  Release: Cosmic Shift
  Label: Lexx Music


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Elk at Big Spring Creek”. Credit: Great Sand Dunes 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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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Snow in the Gorge”. Credit: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve/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].

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.