14 September 2019 (4 Hr. Anniversary Special!)

In 1993 I began my 6th ever radio program, and first for KAOS Olympia. 26 years and two stations later I am still doing What’s This Called? This week marks our first year completed at the remarkable Freeform Portland station! We celebrated with a 4 hour show that began by saying a sad goodbye to Daniel Johnston , included a lengthy sampling of the Unexplained Sounds Group compilation Anthology of contemporary music from Middle East , new music form Aidan Baker, Kim Gordon, and Negativland, and so much more!

HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE THIRD HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE FOURTH HOUR HERE:

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PLAYLIST:

    • Daniel Johnston “Happy Time” [Fun]
    • TV On The Radio “Walking The Cow” [The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered]
    • Daniel Johnston “Loner” [Don’t Be Scared]
    • Daniel Johnston “I Killed The Monster” [Artistic Vice]
    • Spectrum “True Love Will Find You in the End” [Their Sympathetic Majesties Request]
    • Daniel Johnston “Death” [Why Me? (Live Volksbühne Berlin)]
    • Daniel Johnston “King Kong” [Yip Jump Music]
    • Built To Spill “Some Things Last A Long Time” [The Normal Years]
    • Calvin Johnson “Sorry Entertainer” [The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered]
    • Jad Fair “What The World Need Now” [It’s Spooky]
    • Rebecca Moore “Cartoon Lust” [Home Wreckording 1997-1999]
    • Sin Ned & Uneasy Chairs “Gwai” [Zeitgeist]
    • The Silverman “Nature of Illusion (edit)” [Nature of Illusion]
    • The Social Stomach “Live @ Lombard Pub” [Freeform Portland Benefit]
    • Alex Reagan “Central Square Mausoleum” [Horse Printer]
    • Nilufer Ormanli “Art of Dying” [Anthology of contemporary music from Middle East]
    • Pharoah Chromium “Gaza Requiem” [Anthology of contemporary music from Middle East]
    • Ahmed Selah “Khitam” [Anthology of contemporary music from Middle East]
    • Guy Galem “Parallels” [Anthology of contemporary music from Middle East]
    • Eric Hausmann “Callarobbie (feat. RLLRBLL)” [16 Degrees]
    • Kim Gordon “Air BnB” [Air BnB]
    • Adrian Belew “The Rail Song” [Desire Of The Rhino King]
    • Negativland “Discernment” [True False]
    • Cabbage Patch Kill Dolls “Forget About Me” [Cabbage Patch Kill Dolls]
    • Skip Martin “Hammer Blow” [The Music From Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer]
    • Lord Nelson “Shango” [Rough Guide To Voodoo]
    • Ravi Shankar “Hollywood Dhun” [Hollywood, 1971]
    • Savant “The Neo-Realist” [Artificial Dance]
    • Overdose the Katatonic “Nodded Into Bliss” [Unreleased Track]
    • Einsturzende Neubauten “ZNS” [Strategies Against Archetecture II]
    • The Tape-Beatles “Desire “ [Death of Vinyl]
    • Mouse On Mars “Maus Mobil” [Rost Pocks]
    • Bardo Pond “Destroying Angel” [Ticket Crystals]
    • Black Dice “Endless Happiness – Eye Remix” [DFA Records Compilation #2]
    • MC5 “The American Ruse” [Back In The USA]
    • Big Star “September Gurls” [#1 Record/Radio City]
    • Aidan Baker “Lurking In Some Corner” [The Forever Tapes]
    • Unwound “Behold the Salt (Live ATP)” [All Tomorrow’s Parties 1.1]
    • Melvins “Let Me Roll It” [Freak Puke]
    • Fad Gadget “Back To Nature” [The Fad Gadget Singles]

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31 August 2019 (w/ guest BC Miller)

This week on What’s This Called?, your host Ricardo Wang was joined in the Freeform Portland studio by local PDX dj, musician and zine editor B.c. Miller!

BC is the admin of the CIRCLE OF TYRANTS music discussion Facebook group which functions as his online zine. It was originally intended to be the name of his Portland noiserock band, Sewers of Paris, who broke up in 2013. He put out fanzines Fringe Weird and Ears For Breakfast back in the ’90s, and was a cohost of the classic KBOO program Night of the Living Tongue for some years as well. He has his ear to the #underground, especially #NoWave, obscure #GarageRock#PostHardcoreand other #AvantRock that lives on the fringes.

HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:

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PLAYLIST:

  • Henry Mancini “Main Title” [Touch of Evil (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)]
  • Walking Seeds “Caveman” [Peel Session]
  • Throbbing Gristle “Hit By a Rock – Remastered” [D.O.A. The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Remastered)]
  • Buffalo Tom “Sunflower Suit” [Buffalo Tom]
  • Mini-Mutations “From Beach ’til Calm (edit)” [“You Are There”]
  • American Music Club “Western Sky” [California]
  • Naked Skinnies “All My Life” [(7″ single)]
  • Squirrel Bait “Sun God” [Squirrel Bait]
  • Cowboys “Teenage Lifestyle” [7″ single]
  • The Psychedelic Furs “Soap Commercial” [The Psychedelic Furs]
  • The Psychedelic Furs “India” [The Psychedelic Furs]
  • Armchair Migraine Journey “Magnetic Blood Drowning” [Blood Coupling Magnet]
  • Sleepers “No Time” [Seventh World EP]
  • The Psychedelic Furs “All That Money Wants” [All Of This And Nothing]
  • Echo and the Bunnymen “Never Stop” [Porcupine]
  • Pussy Galore “Yu Gung” [Yu Gung] (FCC Abort remix)
  • Kai Winding “Experiment in Terror” [Jazz Noir]
  • The Chocolate Watchband “Expo 2000” [No Way Out]
  • Loop “Collision” [The World In Your Eyes (2009 Remastered Edition)]
  • Spacemen 3 “Losing Touch With My Mind” [The Sound of Confusion]
  • Goblin “L’alba dei morti viventi – Originale” [Zombi]