HelloMeteor

Episode 2025-13: Cerulean, Orange Crush, Aonian and more

March 24, 2025 Podcast
A sunset at the foot of a mountain, with its features darkened by shade. The clouds are glowing in bright orange.

Episode 2025-13

Playlist (as aired):

• beachowl – Abysmal
  Release: Motel Pools – EP
  Label: 3361561 Records DK

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

• BLEACH SEQUENCE – Collect 200 As You Pass Go
  Release: Lost Geographies – EP
  Label: BLEACH SEQUENCE

• Aonian – Woven
  Release: Woven – Single
  Label: Aonian

• Stèv – Cheap Monogatari
  Release: Cheap Monogatari – Single
  Label: Variables

• Hello Meteor – Dusk Weather
  Release: Comfortable Loneliness
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Cerulean – Memory Lane
  Release: Memory Lane – Single
  Label: 1369135 Records DK

• Forhill – Odyssey
  Release: Figments
  Label: 913190 Records DK

• Departure – Ocean Breeze
  Release: Ocean Breeze – Single
  Label: DEPARTURE

• Orange Crush – The Distance Between Us
  Release: The Distance Between Us – Single
  Label: Orange Crush

• Six Missing & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – A Nod Farewell (Remix)
  Release: A Nod Farewell (Remix) – Single
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group

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

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

• Arovane – Cry Osaka Cry (2023 Remaster)
  Release: Lilies (2023 Remaster)
  Label: Keplar



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Sunset at the foot of Lone Mountain, Nevada”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A sunset at the foot of a mountain, with its features darkened by shade. The clouds are glowing in bright orange.”)

Episode 2025-12: Max Cooper, Sun Glitters and more

March 17, 2025 Podcast
A vibrant amber sunset with the sky almost entirely in shades of amber, while the mountains below are painted in purple hues.

Episode 2025-12

Playlist (as aired):

    • yuk. – Sundaze
      Release: Gem Drops
      Label: Dropping Gems

    • Wayward Lens – Shipyards
      Release: Shipyards – Single
      Label: 2056598 Records DK

    • Max Cooper – I Am In A Church In Gravesend Listening To Old Vinyl And Drinking Coffee
      Release: On Being
      Label: Mesh

    • Tom Day – Train to Nagano
      Release: Train to Nagano – Single
      Label: Peaks

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

    • Shigeto – Deep Breathing
      Release: Intermission – EP
      Label: Ghostly International

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

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

    • Julien Mier – Yesterday’s Downpour
      Release: Changing Currents
      Label: 631591 Records DK2

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

    • Hello Meteor – New Coffee
      Release: Mondo Canyon
      Label: Evergreen Prefecture

    • Arms and Sleepers – TAKE ME BACK
      Release: IMOLA – Single
      Label: DXFXWXU Collective

    • Casino Versus Japan – Scenic Loop
      Release: Damaged Errata – Single
      Label: Attacknine Records

    • A.L.I.S.O.N – Sunshine Girl
      Release: Sunshine Girl – Single
      Label: A.L.I.S.O.N

    • upusen – Not Good
      Release: Birds
      Label: Midwest Collective

    • Sun Glitters – No Need To Say (2022)
      Release: No Need To Say (2022) – Single
      Label: Sun Glitters

    • Monster Rally – Toucans
      Release: Flowering Jungle
      Label: Monster Rally





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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Gazing in the Direction of California”. Source: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A vibrant amber sunset with the sky almost entirely in shades of amber, while the mountains below are painted in purple hues.”)

Episode 2025-10: Hole Dweller, Hello Meteor, The Tin Box and more

March 3, 2025 Podcast
A sunset with vibrant, colorful clouds behind a mountain range. In the foreground, power lines are visible, indicating the presence of the aging infrastructure of a small desert community.

Episode 2025-10

Playlist (as aired):

• Teebs – Shells
  Release: Anicca
  Label: Brainfeeder

• Monster Rally – El Retorno
  Release: Return to Paradise
  Label: Monster Rally

• Blithe Field – Milkshakes in the Rain
  Release: Face Always Toward the Sun
  Label: Blithe Field

• Esolagoto – Humidity
  Release: Beatsupply: Crate07 – EP
  Label: Beatsupply

• BODYBITE – Woken Up by the Sun
  Release: Pretty World
  Label: 1629096 Records DK

• t.quoise – We’re Going Backwards
  Release: Life in Reverse
  Label: Soundsphere

• Hole Dweller – Morning Rain by the Overhill Yards, A Harvest of Wet Lumber
  Release: Flies the Coop
  Label: Hole Dweller

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

• Tycho – PBS
  Release: Past Is Prologue
  Label: Ghostly International

• Sun Glitters – TThhiinnggss TToo DDoo
  Release: SSoofftt TToouucchh
  Label: MERLIN – Future Archive Recordings

• Whirl – Urban Landscape
  Release: Urban Landscape
  Label: Whirl

• The Friendly Moon – Zzzzzzz
  Release: Sleep Well! – EP
  Label: The Friendly Moon

• santpoort – wen uuu – Shlohmo Cover
  Release: FOF10: wen uuu
  Label: Friends Of Friends

• Hello Meteor – Deep Understory
  Release: Mondo Canyon
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• The Tin Box – Formulae
  Release: Formulae
  Label: The Tin Box

• Wayward Lens – Shipyards
  Release: Shipyards – Single
  Label: 2056598 Records DK

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

• Behind Clouds – Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (Instrumental)
  Release: Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken – Single
  Label: Behind Clouds



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Looking Beyond, But Not Past, The Clown Motel”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A sunset with vibrant, colorful clouds behind a mountain range. In the foreground, power lines are visible, indicating the presence of the aging infrastructure of a small desert community.”)

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 2025-08: Message To Bears, Tangent Universes, Hello Meteor and more

February 17, 2025 Podcast
A peaceful winter pond surrounded by evergreen and deciduous trees. Snow covers most of the shoreline, with fallen trees partially submerged in the pond, also covered in snow.

Episode 2025-08

Playlist (as aired):

• Ruck P – Sunrise Hike
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
  Label: Chillhop Music

• Florida Skyline – Interlude
  Release: Anesthesia
  Label: Midwest Collective

• Message To Bears – Half Light
  Release: Half Light – Single
  Label: Lost Birds

• Hello Meteor – Deep Understory
  Release: Mondo Canyon
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Tangent Universes – Clouds on the Ground
  Release: For La, Vol. 2
  Label: Nettwerk

• Cialyn – Solar Echoes
  Release: Calls To Our Stations
  Label: Cialyn

• Arms and Sleepers – TAKE ME BACK
  Release: IMOLA
  Label: DXFXWXU Collective

• Invisible Pyramids – dream on
  Release: Possession, Volume 2
  Label: 1216142 Records DK

• Possums at Twilight – Awake
  Release: Interobject
  Label: Twilight Possums

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

• Casino Versus Japan – Marilyn Set Me Free
  Release: Hitori + Kaiso (1998 – 2001)
  Label: Attacknine Records

• Chris LaRue – Wool Socks
  Release: Lo-Fi Meditations – EP
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

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

• Wayward Lens – Refracting Light
  Release: Refracting Light – Single
  Label: 2056598 Records DK

• Manatee Commune – Heal
  Release: Brush
  Label: Record Union

• Blackbird Belle – Celestial Nighthawk
  Release: Celestial Nighthawk
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Arms and Sleepers – Fathers and Sons
  Release: What Tomorrow Brings
  Label: Pelagic Records

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

• The Ugly – The Wind At Your Back
  Release: Awake On The Mountain – EP
  Label: The Ugly

• Masked Man – Unknwn
  Release: Unknwn – Single
  Label: Chillhop Music



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “A Peaceful Winter Pond”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A peaceful winter pond surrounded by evergreen and deciduous trees. Snow covers most of the shoreline, with fallen trees partially submerged in the pond, also covered in snow.”)

Episode 2025-07: The Tin Box, Hello Meteor, Susumu Yokota and more

February 10, 2025 Podcast
A single caribou gazes directly at the camera, surrounded by red shrubs, with a river and forest in the background.

Episode 2025-07

Playlist (as aired):

• Hello Meteor – Soryumirai
  Release: Mondo Canyon
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Meesha – Sun Shine’inin 2002
  Release: Sun Shine’inin 2002 – Single
  Label: Meesha

• Rykard – Fading into the Light
  Release: Explorers, Vol. 4 – EP
  Label: Hunya Munya Records

• Khotin – Ivory Tower
  Release: Finds You Well
  Label: Ghostly International

• Milieu – Luke’s Rusty Drum
  Release: New Drugs for Nuclear Families of the Seventies
  Label: I, Absentee

• The Tin Box – Formulae
  Release: Formulae
  Label: The Tin Box

• Gloamie – Chickpea+Mango
  Release: In Search of Lost Time
  Label: Likes Flowers Records

• Windows 96 – Hello Earth
  Release: Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers
  Label: Windows 96

• High Tides – Summer Reflections
  Release: Paradise Daze
  Label: Rad Cult

• Bowcraft – Lunar Ex.
  Release: Many Distant Cities
  Label: 1469535 Records DK

• Cialyn – Armful of Leaves
  Release: Sour Leaves
  Label: Cialyn

• Vanilla – Dreamcatcher
  Release: Origin
  Label: Cafe del Mar Music

• Puar – Back Seat Driver
  Release: Better Late Than Never
  Label: Puar

• C-Smitten – Invisible Hipp (Soul Brother Mix ft. A.L.D.)
  Release: Hey Arnold! Beat Tape: 10th Anniversary Edition
  Label:

• Susumu Yokota – Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower
  Release: Symbol
  Label: P-VINE RECORDS

• Otesla – Gensyn
  Release: Gensyn – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Who, Me?”. Credit: Kobuk Valley National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt text: “A single caribou gazes directly at the camera, surrounded by red shrubs, with a river and forest in the background.”)

Episode 2025-05: Smokestax & Rsrch Chmcls, Dokkodo Sounds and more

January 27, 2025 Podcast
A snowy landscape with rock formations in the distance and brown, grass-like plants in the foreground. The sky is filled with colorful clouds lit by the sun.

Episode 2025-05

Playlist (as aired):

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

• Hello Meteor – The Department of Marine Sciences
  Release: The Department of Marine Sciences
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Petit Biscuit – You
  Release: You – Single
  Label: Petit Biscuit Music

• Eater – Schoolyard
  Release: Various Artists “01​:​11” PFCD29
  Label: PROGRESSIVE FOrM

• Poldoore – Celestial (A Tribute To Nujabes)
  Release: Celestial (A Tribute To Nujabes) – Single
  Label: Poldoore Music

• Chemtrails – Elapse
  Release: Taking Things Lightly
  Label: DISTROKID

• Substantial – Beyond the Stage (feat. Uyama Hiroto) [Instrumental]
  Release: Beyond the Stage (feat. Uyama Hiroto) – Single
  Label: Substantial Art & Music

• Shigeto – Huron River Drive (Evenings Remix)
  Release: Huron River Drive – EP
  Label: Ghostly International

• Smokestax & Rsrch Chmcls – Next Chapter
  Release: Next Chapter – Single
  Label: all:Lo

• Dokkodo Sounds – It’s All Gradual
  Release: Where You Thought You Wanted To Be
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Microfunk Crew – Bikini Bottom
  Release: Puzzles – EP
  Label: Microfunk Music

• Ian Aisling – Reconfigure
  Release: The Echoterra
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• AWITW – The Mist
  Release: Inside World
  Label: Golden Forest Records

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

• VIQ – Vestige
  Release: Crystal Shores
  Label: VIQ

• Sundrenched – Deep In the Lab
  Release: The Sundrenched Lofi Guitar Ensemble, Vol. 4
  Label: Dust-Tone



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Snow in the Badlands”. Credit: Badlands National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A snowy landscape with rock formations in the distance and brown, grass-like plants in the foreground. The sky is filled with colorful clouds lit by the sun.”)

Episode 2025-03: Puar, Rhombus Index, Hello Meteor and more

January 13, 2025 Podcast
A river mouth at the beach of a larger body of water, with broken snowbanks along the river's edge and ice attached to rocks in the river.

Episode 2025-03

Playlist (as aired):

• Arvo to me – Diver
  Release: Into Change
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

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

• Segue – West Coast Rain
  Release: Pacifica
  Label: 1468568 Records DK

• Ta-Ku – Love Lost (Daughter Remix)
  Release: Love Lost (Daughter Remix)
  Label: HW&W Recordings

• Manatee Commune – Island
  Release: Brush
  Label: Record Union

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

• Jinsang – Some Other Time
  Release: In Flight
  Label: VinDig

• Swimming TV – Jupiter
  Release: Jupiter – Single
  Label: 696078 Records DK2

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

• Spring In A Small Town – Compassion
  Release: Spring in a Small Town
  Label: flau

• Teen Daze – Quiet City
  Release: Quiet City – Single
  Label: FLORA

• Hello Meteor – An Aqua Media Event
  Release: The 1995 New Expo
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

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

• Rhombus Index – Digital Anemone (Lyli J Remix)
  Release: hycean revisited
  Label: See Blue Audio

• Imagined Herbal Flows – Ocean Tides
  Release: Ocean Tides – Single
  Label: Chillhop Records

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



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Winter”. Credit: Acadia National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A river mouth at the beach of a larger body of water, with broken snowbanks along the river’s edge and ice attached to rocks in the river.”)

Episode 2025-02: Hello Meteor, Ian Aisling and more

January 6, 2025 Podcast
A brown and green frog emerging from the water, perched on an aquatic plant-covered shoreline.

Episode 2025-02

Playlist (as aired):

• Soular Order – Boreal
  Release: 01/21 (A Live Album for Jamuary)
  Label: Soular Order

• Hello Meteor – Winter Blooming Flowers
  Release: The 1995 New Expo
  Label: DISTROKID

• Treetalking – Eyes of the Observer
  Release: The Unknown
  Label: SXN

• Pacific Coliseum – Endless Journey
  Release: How’s Life
  Label: FLORA

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

• Warm Ghost – I Will Return (Heathered Pearls’ Coasting In Circles Remix)
  Release: Loyal
  Label: Ghostly International

• Four Tet – Daughter
  Release: New Energy
  Label: Text Records

• Gold Panda – New Days
  Release: The Work
  Label: PLANCHA

• Freud – Setback
  Release: Setback
  Label: MERLIN – Substruct

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

• Ian Aisling – Reconfigure
  Release: The Echoterra
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• Arms and Sleepers – Disintegrating In Your Soul (Crookram Remix)
  Release: Former Kingdoms Remixed
  Label: DXFXWXU Collective

• Edamame – Mango Pulp (feat. Ian Ewing)
  Release: Bask
  Label: Gravitas Recordings

• Angeldustmite – Grillades
  Release: Second Breakfast
  Label: 967138 Records DK

• Hotel Pools – Vital
  Release: Vital / Highlights – Single
  Label: Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.

• Birocratic – Wrapped Up
  Release: Wrapped up / Falling to Pieces – Single
  Label: Birocracy



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Green Frog”. Credit: Mississippi National River and Recreation Area / National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A brown and green frog emerging from the water, perched on an aquatic plant-covered shoreline.”)

Episode 2024-52: altered sigh, NoGht, Willis Fader and more

December 23, 2024 Podcast
A frost-covered tree with snowy branches, set against a background of snow-covered trees and a clear blue sky.

Episode 2024-52

Playlist (as aired):

• altered sigh – Only Thoughts
  Release: Lost Labyrinth – EP
  Label: Lofi Records

• Edamame – Periderm
  Release: Periderm
  Label: MERLIN – Abandon Building Records

• Firephly – Muted Sun
  Release: Cozy Gloom – EP
  Label: Firephly

• Christopher Willits – Endless (Helios Remix)
  Release: Gravity Remixes – EP
  Label: Ghostly International

• Hello Meteor – Winter Blooming Flowers
  Release: The 1995 New Expo
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Pacific Coliseum – Endless Journey
  Release: How’s Life
  Label: FLORA

• Sundrenched – Hotel Orange
  Release: Emerald – EP
  Label: Dust-Tone

• NoGht – Ritual
  Release: UNIQUE
  Label: E.A.LABo MUSIC

• Braxton – Falling
  Release: Falling EP
  Label: Reflections

• Rykard – Fading into the Light
  Release: Explorers, Vol. 4 – EP
  Label: Hunya Munya Records

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

• Willis Fader – Joy of Cooking
  Release: Parts Per Million
  Label: Paradeco Records

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

• Oldtwig – Adrift
  Release: Dark Matter – EP
  Label: Oldtwig

• Yppah – Grey Eyes
  Release: Future Archive, Vol. 2
  Label: Future Archive Recordings

• A.L.I.S.O.N & Hotel Pools – Murmurs
  Release: Ultrasound
  Label: Tone Tree Music / Wild Nature / Stratford Ct.

• Joe Nora – Cat Creek
  Release: SVMMER SVN, Vol. 7
  Label: SVNSET WAVES



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Frosty”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A frost-covered tree with snowy branches, set against a background of snow-covered trees and a clear blue sky.”)

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.