VIQ

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 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 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 2025-05: 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 2025-04: Wayward Lens, ロフト tapes, Sun Glitters and more

January 20, 2025 Podcast
Snow-covered cliffs of a deep canyon with a lake on the canyon floor, under a cloudy sky.

Episode 2025-04

Playlist (as aired):

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

• Fujii – Colour Storm
  Release: EP-Tape1 – EP
  Label: -AVERSIAC-

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

• Arms and Sleepers – Thru & True
  Release: Former Kingdoms
  Label: Achillea Music

• wowflower – Cool Group
  Release: Self Portrait
  Label: Street Corner Music

• Submerse – Let’s Never Come Back Here Again
  Release: Slow Waves
  Label: Project Mooncircle

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

• Firephly – Shifting Light
  Release: Cozy Gloom – EP
  Label: 591184 Records DK2

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

• ロフト tapes – Temple 寺院
  Release: Heal カセット 81
  Label: Lofttapes Production

• Teen Daze – Rainwater Coffee
  Release: Rainwater Coffee – EP
  Label: Teen Daze

• Pacific Coliseum – Endless Journey
  Release: How’s Life
  Label: Let’s Play House

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

• VIQ – Journey
  Release: Last Path
  Label: VIQ

• KOHEI YOSHII x Komachi – Colours
  Release: Colours – Single
  Label: Inner Ocean Records

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

• Sloslylove – You and I
  Release: The Haunted
  Label: Sloslylove

• Sloslylove – First Semester Love
  Release: Secret Dreams
  Label: Sloslylove



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Canyon With Snowfall”. Credit: Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area/National Park Service, public domain [i]. (Alt Text: “Snow-covered cliffs of a deep canyon with a lake on the canyon floor, under a cloudy sky.”)

Episode 2024-36: eevee, Faint Waves, Robin Sukroso & Korora and more

September 2, 2024 Podcast
A herbaceous perennial plant with stoloniferous growth. It has small green leaves with narrow leaflets on the stems. The plant has glossy golden yellow flowers, each 2–3 cm in diameter.

Episode 2024-36

Playlist (as aired):

• VIQ – Somewhere
  Release: Dune – Single
  Label: VIQ

• Ian Aisling – Turbulence
  Release: Finally – EP
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

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

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

• RUMTUM – Metrics in Time
  Release: Reflected – EP
  Label: Tropic Tone

• Feverkin & Alaskan Tapes – Here & There
  Release: Here & There – Single
  Label: 559975 Records DK2

• Sun Glitters – It Took Me a While
  Release: It Took Me a While / Somewhere Nowhere – Single
  Label: DXFXWXU Collective

• Eliot Lipp – Young Alpine
  Release: Encounters
  Label: Young Heavy Souls

• River Yarra – Cafe del Frog
  Release: Big Material
  Label: If-Only

• Faint Waves – Technique
  Release: Paradise – EP
  Label: 7507335 Records DK

• X3SR – summerlush
  Release: Sublimation
  Label: X3SR

• Rival Consoles – Slow Song
  Release: Night Melody / Articulation
  Label: Erased Tapes

• Milieu – Autumn Fog Lifts (Yearbook Version) [Remastered]
  Release: Remodelled (Expanded & Remastered)
  Label: Milieu Music

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

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



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Hosted by Seth.


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

Episode 2024-33: Jumpel & Adi Goldstein, Site Nonsite, OceanCountyMall and more

August 12, 2024 Podcast
A path winding through a tunnel of green tree branches, with a wooden walking bridge visible further down the trail and more lush foliage surrounding the scene.

Episode 2024-33

Playlist (as aired):

• Windows 96 & Gavriel – BM1999
  Release: How To See Through Walls
  Label: Gabriel Eduardo

• Teebs – NES
  Release: Did It Again – Single
  Label: Brainfeeder

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

• Komodo – Concept 11
  Release: Still Life
  Label: Points Records

• Tycho – Daydream
  Release: Dive
  Label: Ghostly International

• Dephrase – Songs I Never Wrote
  Release: Chillhop Essentials Spring 2016
  Label: Chillhop Music

• River Yarra – Cafe del Frog
  Release: Big Material
  Label: If-Only

• Home – Come Back Down
  Release: Odyssey
  Label: HOME

• OceanCountyMall – UppAllNight
  Release: Daydream Generation
  Label: OceanCountyMall

• Forhill & VIQ – Arrival
  Release: Arrival – Single
  Label: Forhill

• Macroblank – Covert Red
  Release: RARE PSALMS COLLECTION VOL.3
  Label: Macroblank

• Aliam – aotra
  Release: Via – Single
  Label: ecotone sounds

• Site Nonsite – Moss Garden
  Release: The Japan Series
  Label: Obvious Things

• altered sigh – Void’s Lullaby
  Release: Void’s Lullaby – Single
  Label: Lost Sounds

• CJ Hoffman – Content
  Release: Feels
  Label: C.J. Hoffman



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Nature Trail”. Credit: Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-27: Rejoicer, Eliot Lipp, Flamingosis and more

June 30, 2024 Podcast
A distant snow-capped peak under the diffused reddish sunlight, with soft atmospheric shadows, contrasting against a dark nighttime foreground.

Episode 2024-27

Playlist (as aired):

• Fujii – Long Nights
  Release: Spirit Anthem
  Label: Puget Sound Collective

• Greybox – closer
  Release: Closer – Single
  Label: Greybox

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

• City Girl – Mist Beneath Your Apartment
  Release: Neon Impasse
  Label: City Girl Records

• Shlohmo – Wen Uuu
  Release: Vacation – Single
  Label: Friends of Friends

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

• Tycho – A Circular Reeducation
  Release: Past Is Prologue
  Label: ISO50 Records

• 2814 – Arcadia
  Release: Lost Fragments
  Label: Dream Catalogue

• Slow Magic – Moon
  Release: Triangle
  Label: PLANCHA

• Akay – Iroh
  Release: Iroh – Single
  Label: AKAY

• Lone – Jaded
  Release: Reality Testing
  Label: R&S Records

• Eliot Lipp – Turbo Coupe
  Release: Turbo Coupe – Single
  Label: Old Tacoma Records

• Jay Daniel – Muse
  Release: Ssd – EP
  Label: Watusi High

• VIQ – Forever
  Release: Remnants Melancholia
  Label: VIQ

• Flamingosis – Nebula Gazer
  Release: Nebula Gazer – Single
  Label: Kahuna Style

• Moshun – Strawberry Cheesecake
  Release: Emotions
  Label: Moshun Sound



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “July Alpenglow”. Credit: Denali National Park and Preserve/National Park Service, public domain [i].

Episode 2024-24: Skrypnyk, monoscape, WMD and more

June 10, 2024 Podcast
Close-up of vibrant purple flowers with bright yellow centers. Green stems hold the blooms upright against a backdrop of pristine white sand. The hot sun casts a sharp shadow of the flowers onto the sand.

Episode 2024-24

Playlist (as aired):

• Greybox – closer
  Release: Closer – Single
  Label: Greybox

• GlobulDub – Laughter
  Release: Hip – Hop Symposium Vol. 3 (Childhood) – Single
  Label: Chill Masters Records

• Skrypnyk – Whatever Makes You Happy
  Release: Suburbia
  Label: Skrypnyk

• Hello Meteor – The Building of Forests
  Release: The End of All Known Land
  Label: Evergreen Prefecture

• Steven Deblat – Is This 2 Much 4 U?
  Release: Acedia
  Label: steven deblat

• WMD – The Chills
  Release: Sophrosyne
  Label: WMD

• Memorex Memories – Beacon Hill
  Release: The Life of Riley
  Label: Stratford Ct.

• monoscape – Elysian Valley
  Release: Worldview
  Label: monoscape

• Arovane – Passage To Nagoya (2023 Remaster)
  Release: Lilies (2023 Remaster)
  Label: Keplar

• Sulyya – Romdeau
  Release: Petal Collage – Single
  Label: Ian Aisling Media

• Tycho – Outer Sunset
  Release: Simulcast
  Label: Mom+Pop

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

• VIQ – Illusion
  Release: Crystal Shores
  Label: VIQ

• Imagined Herbal Flows – Departure
  Release: Departure – EP
  Label: Seeking Blue



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Hosted by Seth.


Photo: “Gypsum Centaury in Early Summer”. Credit: White Sands National 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.