Frameworks

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 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 2024-26: Helios and Hollie Kennif, Affelaye and more

June 24, 2024 Podcast
Lush green Alaskan hills roll towards snow-capped mountains in the distance. A lone deer stands in the foreground.

Episode 2024-26

Playlist (as aired):

• Just Big Hills – Acacia
  Release: Acacia – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Different Sleep – Turbulance
  Release: Next Time I See You – Single
  Label: Different Sleep

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

• Dillard – Regeneration
  Release: Palm Skyline
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Volcanic Shores – Glide
  Release: Shoreline – EP
  Label: Independent

• Rsrch Chmcls – This Evening
  Release: This Evening – EP
  Label: 956233 Records DK

• Firephly – Shadows Unveiled
  Release: Shadows Unveiled – Single
  Label: Firephly

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

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

• Hector Plimmer – Let’s Stay
  Release: Sunshine
  Label: Albert’s Favourites

• Site Nonsite – Caravan Tokyo
  Release: Tokyo – EP
  Label: Obvious Things

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

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

• Frameworks – Kings
  Release: Kings
  Label: MERLIN – Loci Records

• Ox The Moron & Chirofafa – Sleptime
  Release: Rising Tides 015
  Label: SVNSET WAVES



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Summer”. Credit: Denali National Park and Preserve, public domain [i].

Episode 2023-45: Birocratic, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and more

November 6, 2023 Podcast
A view of a calm waterfront marina, including a dock with many parked boats behind it. The terrain in the background is hilly.

Episode 2023-45

Playlist (as previously run on KNHC):

  • Laflamme – Oceana
      Release: Palm
      Label: Underground Parking
  • Letherette – Sun Up
      Release: Brown Lounge Vol. 5
      Label: Wulf
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Brush
      Release: I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon
      Label: Ghostly International
  • Haunted Lakes – Disappearance
      Release: The SS Chicora | Disappearance
      Label: Haunted Lakes
  • Koresma – Free (Marley Carroll Remix)
      Release: North Remixes – EP
      Label: Koresma
  • Tomas Novoa – Tundra
      Release: Espacio Negativo – EP
      Label: Tomas Novoa
  • Flamingosis – Hidden Attraction
      Release: Great Hair
      Label: Flamingosis
  • Special Q – Reach the Top
      Release: Freedom – Single
      Label: Stratford Ct.
  • Birocratic – snowdown
      Release: Snowdown – Single
      Label: Birocracy
  • Poldoore & Ian Urbina – Nomad
      Release: Astray (Inspired by ‘The Outlaw Ocean’ – a book by Ian Urbina) – Single
      Label: The Outlaw Ocean LLC
  • Frameworks – Titles
      Release: Kings
      Label: FRAMEWORKS
  • Jinsang – Never Know
      Release: In Flight
      Label: VinDig
  • Nemea – Silva (Pt. 2)
      Release: Bare/Silva/Mirror
      Label: Nemea
  • Edamame – Lungs Full
      Release: Virga
      Label: Abandon Building Records
  • Soft Static – 05
      Release: Warrior in a Garden
      Label: 3736632 Records DK
  • Stumbleine – Ember
      Release: Ghosting
      Label: Stumbleine
  • Mndsgn – Hiking
      Release: Breatharian
      Label: MERLIN – Fresh Selects


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Hosted by Seth.

Photo: “Calm on the Water” A photo of Bay Street Lake on a cold but normal afternoon with a railway, houses, mountains, shipyards, boats, and grass with little lavender spots in the background. Credit: Darius Doom Scott, JSMS Photography Club, February 18, 2022, Bay Street Lake. Used by permission.

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.