Tycho

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 2025-06: 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 2025-01: Eric Hadley, Quantum Dreams, eevee and more

December 30, 2024 Podcast
A view of a valley with clouds covering the valley floor, shortly after sunset. The sky is blue with shades of orange and red.

Episode 2025-01

Episode 1 of our 2025 series was released on 30 Dec 2024.

Playlist (as aired):

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

• You Us We Them – Curiosity
  Release: Curiosity – Single
  Label: CONDUIT CREATIVE MUSIC

• Eric Hadley – A Trembling Sound
  Release: The Passerine Tapes EP
  Label: 1442394 Records DK

• Quantum Dreams – テープがなくなった
  Release: 黒体放射 (Blackbody Radiation)
  Label: Takeki Tower

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

• adamlondon – Maple
  Release: Hiddenhills
  Label: SVNSET WAVES

• Nitemoves – Antipode
  Release: Antipode – Single
  Label: Mechanical

• Seb Wildblood – of transition
  Release: sketches of transition
  Label: AMT

• Mute City – Seawall
  Release: Data Breach
  Label: Claw Solutions

• Slow Magic – Manhattan
  Release: How to Run Away
  Label: Downtown Records

• Tycho – Glider
  Release: Epoch
  Label: Ghostly International

• Cepia – Hoarse
  Release: Natura Morta
  Label: Ghostly International

• Boom Bip – Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Boards of Canada Remix)
  Release: From Left to Right – EP
  Label: Lex Records

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

• Slow Magic – Moon
  Release: Triangle
  Label: PLANCHA

• Jinsang – reflection
  Release: life
  Label: VinDig



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Cloud Floor”. Credit: Team Cafe Chill. (Alt Text: “A view of a valley with clouds covering the valley floor, shortly after sunset. The sky is blue with shades of orange and red.”)

Episode 2024-51: Blackbird Belle, Es-K and more

December 16, 2024 Podcast
"Brown twig covered in icy white frost, shaped by the wind."

Episode 2024-51

Playlist (as aired):

• Squarepusher – Tommib
  Release: Go Plastic
  Label: Warp Records

• Blackboxx – Midnight Dance
  Release: Seablushed – EP
  Label: High Vibe Records

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

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

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

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

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

• Engelwood – Childhood
  Release: Hotel Wood
  Label: Engelwood

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

• Shigeto – Look At All the Smiling Faces
  Release: Full Circle
  Label: Ghostly International

• Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Boards of Canada Remix)
  Release: So Soon
  Label: Planet Mu

• Irregular Expression – Setsuko
  Release: Setsuko – Single
  Label: Setsuko

• Handycat – White Lodge
  Release: Women Of The World Vol. 2
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Frequency Control Centre – Kaleidophone
  Release: Analogs of Traces
  Label: Audionautic Records

• Tycho – Past Is Prologue
  Release: Past Is Prologue
  Label: ISO50 Records

• Scott Xylo – Where Do I Go
  Release: Where Do I Go – Single
  Label: Scott Xylo



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Frozen Twig….or Frozen Wind?”. Credit: Pipestone National Monument/National Park Service, public domain. [i]. Alt Text: “Brown twig covered in icy white frost, shaped by the wind.”

Episode 2024-50: Slag Boom Van Loon, Hello Meteor and more

December 9, 2024 Podcast
Close-up of a green and yellow bird perched on a branch, with a blurred background of brown and green hues.

Episode 2024-50

Playlist (as aired):

• Vanilla – AJFA
  Release: Soft Focus
  Label: VinDig

• Teebs – Mirror Memory
  Release: Anicca
  Label: Brainfeeder

• Tobias – Shiver
  Release: Shiver – Single
  Label: Tobias

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

• Vanilla – Gigi
  Release: Origin
  Label: VinDig

• Ideism – Float
  Release: Everblue
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Rykard – Stars Like Dust
  Release: Explorers, Vol. 4 – EP
  Label: Hunya Munya Records

• Cialyn – Our Days Gone
  Release: Sour Leaves
  Label: Cialyn

• Nightflyer – Sanctuary
  Release: Sanctuary – Single
  Label: Nightflyer

• Hello Meteor – Covert Persephone
  Release: Premium Grey Market
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

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

• Telefon Tel Aviv – John Thomas on the Inside Is Nothing but Foam
  Release: Fahrenheit Fair Enough
  Label: Ghostly International

• Tycho – Sunrise Projector
  Release: Past Is Prologue
  Label: ISO50 Records

• Julien Mier – Light Footed
  Release: Jane’s Junkyard
  Label: Lowriders Recordings

• Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Boards of Canada Remix)
  Release: So Soon
  Label: Planet Mu

• Irregular Expression – Setsuko
  Release: Setsuko – Single
  Label: Setsuko



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Rock Wren”. Credit: Montezuma Castle National Monument/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “Close-up of a green and yellow bird perched on a branch, with a blurred background of brown and green hues.”)

Episode 2024-49: Dissolve in Sepia, Braxton, Ian Aisling and more

December 2, 2024 Podcast
A patchwork of red, orange, and yellow colors in the meadows along a high altitude trail.

Episode 2024-49

Playlist (as aired):

• Tycho – Epigram
  Release: Dive
  Label: Ghostly International

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

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

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

• Space Ghost – Peace Lily Garden (Pt. 2)
  Release: Endless Light
  Label: Tartelet Records

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

• Braxton – Falling
  Release: Falling – Single
  Label: Reflections

• Veiled Dawn – Intro/Origins
  Release: I – EP
  Label: 2713475 Records DK2

• Seb Wildblood – of transition
  Release: sketches of transition
  Label: AMT

• Panda Coast – Untitled
  Release: Something to Hold Onto
  Label: 691237 Records DK

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

• Max Cooper – Repetition
  Release: Yearning for the Infinite
  Label: Mesh

• Polygrim – Triple Negative
  Release: Brimming
  Label: Dustyroom

• Julien Mier – Light Footed
  Release: Jane’s Junkyard
  Label: Lowriders Recordings

• Arovane – Passage to Nagoya
  Release: Lilies
  Label: City Centre Offices

• Wave damage – Vanish upon completion
  Release: Promises of tomorrow – EP
  Label: 4530854 Records DK

• Senbeii – No Fear
  Release: Vessels VI
  Label: Future Astronauts



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Fall Color Along the High Lakes Trail”. Credit: Mount Rainier National Park / National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: A patchwork of red, orange, and yellow colors in the meadows along a high altitude trail.)

Episode 2024-48: Jumpel & Adi Goldstein, Qaett and more

November 25, 2024 Podcast
A small waterfall cascades between moss-covered rocks, with green leaves on plants lining the stream bank.

Episode 2024-48

Playlist (as aired):

• Third Person Lurkin – Adrift
  Release: The Lake of Woods
  Label: Bad Taste Records

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

• Qaett – Along the Shore
  Release: Warm Reminders
  Label: Fedbymachines Audio

• The Sight Below – Wishing Me Asleep
  Release: Murmur – EP
  Label: Ghostly International

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

• Lost Integrity – What You Want
  Release: Go Where You Wanna Go – EP
  Label: Lost Integrity

• Past Palms – Flowerbed
  Release: Empyrean – EP
  Label: 581097 Records DK

• Jumpel & Adi Goldstein – Mock State
  Release: Airth
  Label: Jumpel // Adi Goldstein ©️ 2024

• Richard Alfaro – Sands
  Release: Refract
  Label: Richard Alfaro

• TOR – Lens
  Release: Oasis Sky
  Label: Youth and Progress Recordings

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

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

• Edamame – Lungs Full
  Release: Virga
  Label: MERLIN – Abandon Building Records

• Koresma – Turquoise (Edapollo Remix)
  Release: West Remixes – EP
  Label: Far Away Coast Records

• Dokkodo Sounds – Midwinter
  Release: Peter Bark + Friends
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

• Tycho – Epigram
  Release: Dive
  Label: Ghostly International

• SwuM & Delayde – Motions
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2021
  Label: Chillhop Music



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Waterfall”. Credit: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Park Cultural Landscapes Program / National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A small waterfall cascades between moss-covered rocks, with green leaves on plants lining the stream bank.”)

Episode 2024-44: Sweatson Klank, Dissolve in Sepia, Willis Fader and more

October 28, 2024 Podcast
A purple Periwinkle flower adorned with dew drops, set against a backdrop of lush green leaves.

Episode 2024-44

Playlist (as aired):

• Invisible Cloaks & Motion Graphics – Terrazzo
  Release: Reassemblage
  Label: RVNG Intl.

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

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

• A.L.I.S.O.N & Krosia – Spirit
  Release: Spirit – Single
  Label: A.L.I.S.O.N

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

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

• Sweatson Klank – Club Med 86
  Release: Inner Works – EP
  Label: Friends Of Friends

• A Sol Mechanic – Flight
  Release: Flight – Single
  Label: A Sol Mechanic

• Stumbleine – The Cracks Let the Light In
  Release: The Information Superhighway – Single
  Label: Stumbleine

• Invisible Language – Release
  Release: Forgive – EP
  Label: Invisible Language Music

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

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

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

• Koresma – Offshores
  Release: Compass
  Label: Koresma

• Tomas Novoa – Tundra
  Release: Espacio Negativo – EP
  Label: Tomas Novoa



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Periwinkle [Vinca major]”. Credit: Alcatraz Island/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “A purple Periwinkle flower adorned with dew drops, set against a backdrop of lush green leaves.”)

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 2024-41: Arms and Sleepers, Dokkodo Sounds and more

October 7, 2024 Podcast
A large brown and white animal with impressive antlers stands amidst autumn foliage in Alaska, surrounded by vibrant yellow and orange plants.

Episode 2024-41

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

• Dokkodo Sounds – Seeing Shapes
  Release: Seeing Shapes – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

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

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

• Tycho – Sunrise Projector
  Release: Past Is Prologue
  Label: ISO50 Records

• Pacific Coliseum – Wave Catalyst (High Tide)
  Release: Ocean City
  Label: Coastal Haze

• A.L.I.S.O.N & Krosia – Spirit
  Release: Spirit – Single
  Label: A.L.I.S.O.N

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

• Birocratic – Matlack
  Release: Beets 4
  Label: Birocratic and Many Hats Distribution

• Marley Carroll – Stay
  Release: Voices – EP
  Label: Achillea Music

• Jinsang – Night Breeze
  Release: Solitude.
  Label: Self-Released

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

• Monster Rally & RUMTUM – Wilson (Bonus Track)
  Release: Mr&Rt
  Label: Monster Rally

• Lost Flights – Attraction
  Release: Attraction – Single
  Label: Lost Flights

• Magic Touch – Rooftop Garden
  Release: Private Lesson
  Label: Total Stasis

• Boards of Canada – Happy Cycling
  Release: Music Has the Right to Children
  Label: Warp Records



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Autumn”. Credit: Denali National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].(Alt Text: “A large brown and white animal with impressive antlers stands amidst autumn foliage in Alaska, surrounded by vibrant yellow and orange plants.”)

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.