26 December 2015: Boxing Day on What’s This Called?

This year’s White Noizze Xxmaz on What’s This Called? has been cancelled as our annual guest star Noah Mickens has informed us that he can no longer offer his services as he has entered into, shall we say, a much cozier agreement.

However, we digress. The show, somebody must have once said convincingly, must go on. And although we may be feeling boxed in and trapped at this conjuncture, that’s OK because it is in fact BOXING DAY!

So set your listening device at 12 PM Pacific Standard Time to the beautiful KPSU audio stream and let your host Ricardo Wang recover along with you from the holiday explosion. 

The Christmas goats bey one last time as we pack all our decorations and loot away to the likes of The Melvins, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Giant Worm, Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live, Chrome, Edward Ka-Spel, Mecca Normal, A Silver Mt. Zion, Volcano the Bear, and perhaps most exciting, Brand New Cyclopsycho!

Your holiday decompression is our pleasure.

19 December 2015

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time your host Ricardo Wang reveals some of his picks for best experimental music recordings of 2015 on What’s This Called? at KPSU.org!

Your host admits, he didn’t always get to recordings right when they came out and in researching for this show found favorites for the year he hadn’t heard yet. But honestly, that isn’t too far from how the show is put together every week… Tago Mago is still one of the best records I listened to a lot in 2015 even if it came out a few decades before.

Relive (or live for the first time if you’re just getting up…) 2015 while we are still barely in it! Hit the Audio Stream at Noon

Show Playlist:

• Maar   Daniel Menche & Mamiffer   Crater
• CybersKapes (edit)   Edward Ka-Spel   CybersKapes
• Lionsong   Bjork   Vulnicura Strings
• Lunar Caves   The Orb   Moonbuilding 2703 AD
• Huffing Panties for the Emperor   Armchair Migraine Journey  A Brained Hefty Yeti Fry
• f = (2.3)   Carter Tutti Void   f (x)
• World War 4   A Star Too Far   Saucers Over Lincoln
• Kannon 2   Sunn O)))   观世音 Kannon
• Damogen Furies   Squarepusher  Damogen Furies
• Shadow Child  The Pop Group   Citizen Zombie

And Here Is Ricardo’s 2015 10 Favorite Experimental Recordings List!

Daniel Menche & Mammifer – Crater
Sunn O))) – 观世音 Kannon
Edward Ka-Spel – CypersKapes
The Orb – Moonbuilding 2703 AD
Carter Tutti Void – f (x)
Bjork – Vulnicura Strings
A Star Too Far – Saucers Over Lincoln
The Pop Group – Citizen Zombie
Squarepusher – Damogen Furies
Armchair Migraine Journey – Blood Coupling Magnet

5 December 2015

• Space Car Concept Car PRND Soundcloud
• Time and the Diamond Zach Zinn Slow Fall
• Think of One Christian Asplund with Logan Hone (Thelonius Monk) Locust Salon, 9 October 2015
• Distorted Reality Particle Smasher Soundcloud
• Cfutr 0 SunFalls Soundcloud
• With Kind Regards (edit) Year of the Lips Soundcloud
• Frogman Cometh Nital Etch Film Soundtrack
• Threshd Bruce Hamilton Soundcloud
• Bemsha Swing Devilsclub Soundcloud
• Landings Kaapin Soundcloud

Footnotes: https://whatsthiscalled.net/2015/12/05/5-december-2015

Blow the roof off Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time. your host Ricardo Wang brings you experimental and irregular sounds on What’s This Called? from wherever there is electricity.

Dance your synapses to the likes of PRND, frst hwiin chrch of mscln, Christian Asplund, Zach Zinn, Particle Smasher, Bruce Hamilton, Sunfalls, Nital Etch, Year of the Lips, Devilsclub, Kaapin and MORE!

Reattach your clock tower and set it to the Audio Stream!

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