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Episode 2025-11: Elsa Hewitt, VIQ, Heathered Pearls and more

March 10, 2025 Podcast
A lenticular cloud shaped like a saucer, with orange and blue hues. The mountains below are faintly visible in the fading light of dusk.

Episode 2025-11

Playlist (as aired):

• Submerse – Bake Sale
  Release: See You Soon
  Label: Project Mooncircle

• Ian Ewing – Trinidad
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2017
  Label: Chillhop Music

• VIQ – lowtone
  Release: nothing is real – EP
  Label: From Nowhere Records

• Frameworks – Kings
  Release: Kings
  Label: Loci Records

• Feverkin – Silhouette
  Release: Silhouette – Single
  Label: 559975 Records DK2

• Dillard – Lust
  Release: Empress LP
  Label: D93 Audio

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

• Elsa Hewitt – Equinox
  Release: Dominant Heartstrings
  Label: ERH

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

• A Vision of Panorama – Mediterranean Tribal
  Release: Sentimental Coast – EP
  Label: Cala Tarida Musica

• Hu – North
  Release: Navigate – EP
  Label: anon recordings

• firephly – Blissful Material
  Release: A Familiar Stranger – EP
  Label: Firephly

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

• Mnemeau – Blood Maneuvering
  Release: Music You Don’t Show Your Friends
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Chromosphere – Barba di Bosco
  Release: Julia – EP
  Label: No Sense of Place Records

• Heathered Pearls – Perfume Catalogue
  Release: Body Complex
  Label: Ghostly International

• eevee – I Think of You At 2 a.m.
  Release: I Think of You At 2 a.m. – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Unidentified Flying Cloud Above The Solar Power Facility”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A lenticular cloud shaped like a saucer, with orange and blue hues. The mountains below are faintly visible in the fading light of dusk.”)

Episode 2025-09: Dvwnpour, Pierre LX, ISAN and more

February 24, 2025 Podcast
Snow gently falls on a distant farm, surrounded by bare deciduous trees. The farm features several red buildings with snow-covered roofs, under a winter-gray sky.

Episode 2025-09

Playlist (as aired):

• Bowcraft – Cicada
  Release: Many Distant Cities
  Label: 1469535 Records DK

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

• WMD – The Chills
  Release: Sophrosyne
  Label: 16 Entertainment LLC, under exclusive license from WMD

• Osvaldo – Leeches
  Release: Rising Tides 012
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Dvwnpour – Blueberry Glacé
  Release: Apricot
  Label: Dvwnpour

• Birocratic – Orientation
  Release: Beets
  Label: Birocratic

• Packed Rich – Crane
  Release: Ornithology – EP
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Shigeto – Tell a Tale (Bonus Track)
  Release: No Better Time Than Now
  Label: Ghostly International

• Blackbird Belle – Elegy (Instrumental)
  Release: Elegy – Single
  Label: Blackbird Belle

• Mike Forst – Grateful Again
  Release: Rising Tides 012
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

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

• Pierre LX – Untitled (love)
  Release: Loyal & True
  Label: Laral Tapes

• Pacific Coliseum – Endless Journey
  Release: How’s Life
  Label: Let’s Play House

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

• Hello Meteor – Aqualotic
  Release: The Coastal Obscure
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• ISAN – Ship
  Release: Plans Drawn In Pencil
  Label: MERLIN – Morr Music

• Elsa Hewitt – Inhaler
  Release: Lupa
  Label: ERH

• Bad Snacks – Gratitude
  Release: Bathtub Bumps
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Winter Whispers on a Distant Farm”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill, Project Chilly Chillington. (Alt Text: “Snow gently falls on a distant farm, surrounded by bare deciduous trees. The farm features several red buildings with snow-covered roofs, under a winter-gray sky.”)

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 2024-42: Puar, Matrixxman, Elsa Hewitt and more

October 14, 2024 Podcast
Two caribou with large antlers standing in a vibrant autumn landscape, surrounded by colorful bushes.

Episode 2024-42

Playlist (as aired):

• Treetalking – Stargazing
  Release: The Unknown
  Label: SXN

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

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

• Compressed Soul – Unfinished Trip
  Release: Tell Me – Single
  Label: Midnight Fashion Chill

• Hu – North
  Release: Navigate – EP
  Label: anon recordings

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

• Leon Vynehall – Movements (Chapter III)
  Release: Nothing Is Still
  Label: Ninja Tune

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

• Matrixxman – Annika’s Theme
  Release: Homesick
  Label: Ghostly International

• Patterns In Plastic – Balloons Don’t Always Fly (Sun Glitters Remix)
  Release: BDAF Remixes
  Label: Patterns In Plastic

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

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

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

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

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



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Autumn, Two Caribou In The Autumn”. Credit: Denali National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

(Alt Text: Two caribou with large antlers standing in a vibrant autumn landscape, surrounded by colorful bushes.)

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 2024-20: Six Missing, Rejoicer, I-04 and more

May 12, 2024 Podcast
Starry night sky with celestial light over a meadow surrounded by conifer trees.

Episode 2024-20

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

• Tobias – Laputa
  Release: Laputa – Single
  Label: Tobias

• Bowcraft – Video Video
  Release: Many Distant Cities
  Label: 1469535 Records DK

• Six Missing – Sitting Beachside
  Release: counter:point – EP
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group

• Rejoicer – Graveyard Party
  Release: This Is Reasonable
  Label: Circus Company

• I-04 – Proteus
  Release: I-04 – EP
  Label: Slam Pang

• Affelaye – Parhelion
  Release: The Swim – EP
  Label: Bad Taste

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

• Borealism – Slide
  Release: So, What’s New With You?
  Label: Borealism

• Shigeto – Olivia
  Release: No Better Time Than Now
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Helios and Hollie Kennif – Wild Light
  Release: Wild Light – Single
  Label: Helios and Hollie Kennif

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

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

• High Skies – Sumatra
  Release: Sumatra – EP
  Label: Miso

• Sun Glitters – What Is It For?
  Release: Apex vs. Totality – EP
  Label: DXFXWXU Collective



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Hosted by Seth.


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

Episode 2024-08: Lyli J, Visible Cloaks, Warm Ghost and more

February 19, 2024 Podcast
Looking up through a forest canopy from the ground. Most trees are evergreen, with a green and blue mixed canopy due to sunlight filtering through. Patches of sunlight peek through the leaves.

Episode 2024-08

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • IOM – You Promised to Come Back
      Release: Jupiter Himself
      Label: beatsupply
  • Daneel – Debris
      Release: Debris – EP
      Label: Inner Ocean Records
  • Warm Ghost – I Will Return (Heathered Pearls’ Coasting In Circles Remix)
      Release: Loyal
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Christopher Willits – Clear
      Release: Opening
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Steve Moore – Future 99
      Release: Broken Kills – EP
      Label: L.I.E.S.
  • Lyli J – Kotos
      Release: Vibrance – EP
      Label: Monoke Records
  • Visible Cloaks – Wheel
      Release: Lex – EP
      Label: RVNG Intl.
  • Planet Boelex – Exist
      Release: Exist
      Label: Soft Phase
  • The Tin Box – Moving Body (Movement V)
      Release: Movement I – V
      Label: The Tin Box
  • Elsa Hewitt – Massive Charade
      Release: ghostcats
      Label: ERH
  • Tycho – PBS
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: ISO50 Records
  • Pablo Bolivar & Sensual Physics – Backen Punch
      Release: Details Am Rande
      Label: Seven Villas
  • Marley Carroll – After Ours
      Release: Flight Patterns
      Label: Loci Records


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Looking Up At Trees, Pine Crest Park”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill.

Episode 2023-42: Spiritual Awareness, Possums at Twilight and more

October 16, 2023 Podcast
A shady, rocky coastline, with giant sun illuminated rock formations just off the coast. The formations are shoals and small islands or rock columns called sea stacks. One sea stack has 2 trees on top of it. A light mist is in the background. The sky is a purple-blue.

Episode 2023-42

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Chickenwizard – End Dream
      Release: Stargaze
      Label: Wizard Is a Chicken
  • A.L.I.S.O.N – Output
      Release: Signal Flow – EP
      Label: A.L.I.S.O.N
  • Hector Plimmer – Let’s Stay
      Release: Sunshine
      Label: Albert’s Favourites
  • Emancipator & 9 Theory – Bombilla
      Release: Cheeba Gold – EP
      Label: Loci Records
  • Cryptic Moses – An Island Forms
      Release: A Lake Forms – EP
      Label: darqlab_media
  • Elsa Hewitt – Moonlite
      Release: Quilt Jams
      Label: ERH
  • Arovane – Tides
      Release: Tides
      Label: Keplar
  • Slow Magic – Feel Flows (Sun Glitters Remix)
      Release: (unicode triangle) (10 Year Edition)
      Label: Slow Magic
  • London Syndrome – Roads
      Release: Obscure
      Label: London Syndrome
  • Possums at Twilight – Good Luck and Have Fun
      Release: Moments Final
      Label: MERLIN – Possums at Twilight
  • Borealism – Slide
      Release: So What’s New With You
      Label: Borealism
  • Spiritual Awareness – Zenstrumentals
      Release: Meditation in Motion:Mindfulness Sessions In Discovery
      Label: Spiritual Awareness
  • Takeleave – Sabado
      Release: Belonging
      Label: Project Mooncircle
  • TheNoiseMachine – Ice Formations
      Release: Midnight Musings – EP
      Label: 2750455 Records DK


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Olympic Coast Sea Stacks”. Credit: Olympic National 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.