Emancipator

Episode 2025-14: Tropicalpurples, Soft Static, Pacific Coliseum and more

March 31, 2025 Podcast
Two logs floating on a pond, covered in snow, with a dark sky overhead.

Episode 2025-14

Playlist (as aired):

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

• Slow Magic – Toddler Tiger
  Release: Triangle
  Label: PLANCHA

• Shatter Hands – Singlespeed
  Release: Land Fly
  Label: Urban Waves Records

• Emancipator – Eve II (Odesza Remix)
  Release: Dusk to Dawn Remixes
  Label: Loci Records

• Manatee Commune – Pools
  Release: Crescent Lake – EP
  Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings

• Criibaby & Surfer Dave – Me into You (In the Garden)
  Release: In the Garden
  Label: Friends of Friends

• Max Cooper – The Missing Piece
  Release: On Being
  Label: Mesh

• Tropicalpurples – Yuta’s Curse
  Release: Uhh.. EP
  Label: Anjunachill

• Sun Glitters – Red signals.
  Release: Red signals in a twilight loop.
  Label: Sun Glitters

• Orange Crush – Manual Drift
  Release: Manual Drift – Single
  Label: Orange Crush

• Soft Static – Between Sheets
  Release: Between Sheets – Single
  Label: Soft Static

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

• Pacifix – Your Eyes
  Release: Rising Tides 007
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Aphex Twin – IZ-US
  Release: Come to Daddy
  Label: Warp Records

• Pacific Coliseum – Understanding (Extended Version)
  Release: Voice Wave
  Label: Noire & Blanche



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Two cold logs, floating”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “Two logs floating on a pond, covered in snow, with a dark sky overhead”)

Episode 2024-38: Firephly, Compressed Soul, Arms and Sleepers and more

September 16, 2024 Podcast
A cluster of lavender-colored Spreading Phlox flowers with five petals each, surrounded by linear, needle-like leaves, forming a dense mat close to the ground.

Episode 2024-38

Playlist (as aired):

• Arms and Sleepers – Like Cotton Candy I Chewed My Dreams
  Release: Like Cotton Candy I Chewed My Dreams – Single
  Label: Pelagic Records

• Shepard – Not Bad Enough
  Release: Against Our Nation
  Label: Shepard

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

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

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

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

• Horizon Fire – Asimov
  Release: Earthlight
  Label: DistroKid.com 579457

• Frequency Control Centre – Ventral Tegmental
  Release: Ventral Tegmental – Single
  Label: Audionautic Records

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

• Elobrian Sunrise – A Peaceful Place Where Animals Gather
  Release: A Peaceful Place Where Animals Gather – Single
  Label: Prrrrrrr Records

• Greybox – Facade
  Release: Elevate – EP
  Label: Artist Intelligence Agency

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

• Jameson Hodge – Purple Moss
  Release: Purple Moss – Single
  Label: Jameson Hodge

• Emancipator & 9 Theory – Bombilla
  Release: Cheeba Gold – EP
  Label: Loci Records

• Frameworks – The Dark
  Release: Imagine Gold
  Label: MERLIN – Loci Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Spreading Phlox”. Credit: Mount Rainier National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-32: Robin Sukroso & Korora, Melorman, Es-K and more

August 5, 2024 Podcast
A meadow filled with vibrant summer wildflowers, predominantly yellow and blue, surrounded by green shrubbery.

Episode 2024-32

Playlist (as aired):

• Es-K – T_a_W
  Release: Balancing Act (Part 2)
  Label: Es-K

• Emancipator – Alligator
  Release: Mountain of Memory
  Label: Loci Records

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

• Melorman – Salty Air
  Release: For the Sun
  Label: Antonis Chaniotakis

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

• Robin Sukroso & Korora – Deep Sea
  Release: Deep Sea – Single
  Label: Wuza Records

• 100 Day Delay – Yarrow
  Release: Yarrow
  Label: 645497 Records DK

• Forhill – Odyssey
  Release: Figments
  Label: Forhill

• Ao Logics – Cat N Johnny
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2016
  Label: Chillhop Music

• Four Tet – Teenage Birdsong
  Release: Sixteen Oceans
  Label: Text Records

• Khotin – Dwellberry
  Release: Beautiful You
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Cialyn – Spread Receipt
  Release: Sour Leaves
  Label: Cialyn

• Deep Shoq – Marathon
  Release: Pause – EP
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

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



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Summer Flowers at Cape Krusenstern National Monument”. Credit: Cape Krusenstern National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-30: Jameson Hodge, From P60, Wave Damage and more

July 22, 2024 Podcast
Calm lake at dusk. Blue water with a darkening shoreline. Elements of color linger in the clouds of the twilight sky.

Episode 2024-30

Playlist (as aired):

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

• C-Smitten – Operation Ruthless: Filtered Bounce Mix
  Release: Hey Arnold! Beat Tape: 10th Anniversary Edition
  Label: C-Smitten

• Peter Bark – Slow Down
  Release: Slow Down // Safe Haven – Single
  Label: Peter Bark

• Trees Can Talk – Beacon
  Release: Beacon – Single
  Label: Trees Can Talk

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

• Emancipator – She Gone To the River
  Release: Mountain of Memory
  Label: Loci Records

• Jameson Hodge – Self Loathe Self Love
  Release: Portrait II (2019-2021)
  Label: Jameson Hodge

• From P60 – Muzai in the House
  Release: Born Ready (feat. MD) – EP
  Label: Midnight Fashion Records

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

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

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

• Wave Damage – Vivid Blue
  Release: Vivid Blue – EP
  Label: 4530854 Records DK

• ロフト tapes – Harmony 調和
  Release: Heal カセット 81
  Label: lofttapes

• SwuM – If I Leave
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Winter 2019
  Label: Chillhop Music

• Natty Reeves – Canoe
  Release: Canoe – Single
  Label: DeepMatter Records

• Laflamme – Oceana
  Release: Palm
  Label: Underground Parking



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “The Waters”. Credit: Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-05: Teen Daze, Invisible Language, Firephly and more

January 29, 2024 Podcast
A solitary rock formation stands stoic against the backdrop of a vast desert landscape. The forces of nature have sculpted this ancient rock formation into a mesmerizing work of art, its weathered beauty a testament to the passage of time.

Episode 2024-05

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Giraffage – Girl
      Release: Comfort
      Label: Giraffage
  • Rosentwig – Psithurism
      Release: Kopfkino – EP
      Label: 904678 Records DK
  • Firephly – A Fracture In Time
      Release: A Fracture In Time – Single
      Label: Firephly
  • IG88 – Hiding in My Hands
      Release: Hiding in My Hands
      Label: STYLSS
  • A.L.I.S.O.N & Hotel Pools – Lifted
      Release: Ultrasound
      Label: Tone Tree Music / Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.
  • Emancipator – Pancakes
      Release: Baralku
      Label: Loci Records
  • Birocratic – Wrapped Up
      Release: Wrapped up / Falling to Pieces – Single
      Label: Birocracy
  • Chemtrails – Elapse
      Release: Taking Things Lightly
      Label: Chemtrails
  • Tycho – From Home (Mux Mool Remix)
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Volo – Wild Mind
      Release: Wild Mind – EP
      Label: Vibecast
  • Lone – Echo Paths
      Release: Always Inside Your Head
      Label: Greco-Roman
  • Invisible Language – Release
      Release: Forgive EP
      Label: Invisible Language Music
  • Teen Daze – Quiet City
      Release: Quiet City – Single
      Label: FLORA
  • Gold Panda – Pink and Green
      Release: Good Luck and Do Your Best
      Label: City Slang


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Cracked Rocks”. Credit: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-52: Cloudchord, Helios, Koresma and more

December 25, 2023 Podcast
Icicles hanging from below an escarpment. The icycles are robust and light blue. There is white ice on the ground.

Episode 2023-52

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • IOM – You Promised to Come Back
      Release: Jupiter Himself
      Label: beatsupply
  • SwuM & Delayde – Motions
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
      Label: Chillhop Music
  • Cloudchord – Slippers (feat. Karavelo)
      Release: Reverence
      Label: Cloudchord
  • Birocratic – At Most
      Release: Chillhop Essentials Winter 2017
      Label: Chillhop Music
  • Rsrch Chmcls – This Evening
      Release: This Evening – EP
      Label: 956233 Records DK
  • Hello Meteor – Cozy Mart
      Release: Comfortable Loneliness
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture
  • Fujii – Sleep On The Way
      Release: EUPHORIA
      Label: -AVERSIAC-
  • The Aurora Principle – Wishful Sleeping
      Release: Wishful Sleeping – Single
      Label: 599578 Records DK
  • Igama – Cold
      Release: Endure – Single
      Label: 666608 Records DK2
  • Helios – Well Within
      Release: Espera
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Bad Snacks – While You Sleep
      Release: Bathtub Bumps
      Label: Nettwerk Music Group
  • Tycho – Hours
      Release: Dive
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Blank Banshee – Frozen Flame
      Release: Mega
      Label: Hologram Bay
  • Koresma – Northern Lights
      Release: Compass
      Label: Koresma
  • Emancipator – Eve II (Odesza Remix)
      Release: Dusk to Dawn Remixes
      Label: Loci Records
  • Jinsang – Untold
      Release: Life
      Label: VinDig


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Ice Formations Along the Pictured Rocks Escarpment off Sand Point Road”. Credit: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-41: Virtual Cat, leafmold, Sun Glitters and more

October 9, 2023 Podcast
A close up of a bee on a flower. The flower has white petals with a yellow style. The bee is black with a yellow upper torso, and is fussy. The background is out of focus, but is green from the foliage.

Episode 2023-41

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • leafmold – Prickly Pear
      Release: Palms
      Label: Sleepdance Records
  • Bad Snacks – Virgo
      Release: Virgo – Single
      Label: Bad Snacks LLC
  • Tycho – A Circular Reeducation
      Release: Past Is Prologue
      Label: ISO50 Records
  • Sun Glitters – What Is It For?
      Release: Apex vs. Totality – EP
      Label: DXFXWXU Collective
  • Pbs’73 – Public Television
      Release: Viewers Like You
      Label: Magic Square Records
  • Vanilla – Fuji
      Release: Origin
      Label: VinDig
  • Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul (Crookram Remix)
      Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
      Label: DXFXWXU Collective
  • Teebs – Mirror Memory
      Release: Anicca
      Label: Brainfeeder
  • Ruck P – Rise Up
      Release: Hip Dozer Vol. 1
      Label: Hip Dozer
  • Emancipator – Dodo
      Release: Mountain of Memory
      Label: Loci Records
  • Sinh – Early Spring (feat. Masego)
      Release: Early Spring (feat. Masego) – Single
      Label: 695094 Records DK
  • Evan Geesman – Timido
      Release: Lengua
      Label: Ubiquity Records
  • Monster Rally – Orchids
      Release: Return to Paradise
      Label: Monster Rally
  • Birocratic – Boys’ Bop
      Release: Boys’ Bop – Single
      Label: Chillhop Music
  • Home – Oort Cloud
      Release: Odyssey
      Label: Home
  • Virtual Cat – Hydrangea
      Release: June Cat
      Label: Ikimono Records


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Narcissus Papyraceus, Paper Whites with Bee”. Credit: Natchez 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.