HighTides

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 2024-43: eevee, Lyli J, Brothertiger and more

October 21, 2024 Podcast
A foggy mountainside with a creek flowing down, featuring a small waterfall. The landscape is primarily covered in green grass, with a few scattered trees.

Episode 2024-43

Playlist (as aired):

• Lyli J – Kotos
  Release: Vibrance – EP
  Label: Monoke Records

• Lushloss – Old Oak
  Release: Asking/Bearing
  Label: Hush Hush

• Dissolve in Sepia – Petrichor
  Release: Spaciousness – EP
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• A.L.I.S.O.N – Output
  Release: Signal Flow – EP
  Label: A.L.I.S.O.N

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

• Ruck P – Rise Up
  Release: Hip Dozer, Vol. 1
  Label: Hip Dozer

• eevee – nourish
  Release: nourish – Single
  Label: eevee

• Christopher Willits – Clear (Boreta Remix)
  Release: Clear (Boreta Remix) – Single
  Label: Glass Air

• Manatee Commune – Wake
  Release: Wake – Single
  Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings

• Tycho – Dictaphone’s Lament
  Release: Past Is Prologue
  Label: ISO50 Records

• High Tides – Zolar
  Release: Zolar – Single
  Label: Rad Cult

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

• Ramakhandra – Haku (Rumtum Remix)
  Release: Haku (Rumtum Remix) – Single
  Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings

• Brothertiger – Outer Zone
  Release: Fundamentals, Vol. V
  Label: Brothertiger

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

• Blackbird Belle – Champagne Birthday
  Release: Microcosm
  Label: Inner Ocean Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Edith Creek in Autumn”. Credit: Mount Rainier National Park/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A foggy mountainside with a creek flowing down, featuring a small waterfall. The landscape is primarily covered in green grass, with a few scattered trees.”)

Episode 2024-28: Warriors of the Dystotheque, Smokestax & Rsrch Chmcls, and more

July 8, 2024 Podcast
Glacier carving through valley to meet a body of water, surrounded by steep mountains with summer snow caps and evergreen trees along shore.

Episode 2024-28

Playlist (as aired):

• Warriors of the Dystotheque – Telepathic Tacos
  Release: It’s A Beautiful Thing
  Label: Warriors of the Dystotheque

• Koji. – Solstice
  Release: Solstice – Single
  Label: Cafe Quality

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

• il:lo – Biome
  Release: Biome – Single
  Label: Nettwerk Music Group

• Yppah – Eastwood Park (Bonus Track)
  Release: Eighty One (Bonus Track Version)
  Label: Ninja Tune

• altered sigh – Until Tomorrow
  Release: Until Tomorrow – Single
  Label: Lost Sounds

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

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

• Rosentwig – Dawsonia
  Release: Dawsonia – Single
  Label: 904678 Records DK

• Yu-Utsu – Sun
  Release: Yu-Utsu
  Label: Midwest Collective

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

• Orange Crush – Invocation
  Release: Autumn Reflections
  Label: Orange Crush

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

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

• High Tides – Zolar
  Release: Zolar – Single
  Label: Rad Cult

• Hello Meteor – Next Time, Buddy! (DISQUALIFIED)
  Release: The Oahu GP 2: Hyper Tropic
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Glacier”. Credit: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve/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.