Only two hours of sunlight after the fog finally lifted in Portland today, and I was blessed to spend them in the Freeform Portland dj booth!

HEAR THE 1st HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE 2nd HOUR HERE: 

PLAYLIST:

• Wire “40 Versions – 2006 Remastered Version” [154]
• Astrid Sonne “Strong, Calm, Slow” [Cliodynamics]
• Edward Ka-Spel “Laughing Gas” [Dream Logik 1]
• Ute Lemper sings Elvis Costello “Punishing Kiss” [Punishing Kiss]
• The Beach Boys “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times – Remastered” [Pet Sounds (Original Mono & Stereo Mix Versions)]
• Sonic Youth “Antenna” [The Eternal]
• Qweerteest “Clouds” [Anthology of Persian Experimental Music]
• Arthur Russell “You Have Did The Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In” [Springfield]
• almost automatic landscapes “leave your reality aside” [International Experimental Music Compilation Volume II]
• Dave Phillips “Categorical thinking doesn’t do justice to the complexity of life” [INTERACTIONS A Guide to Swiss Underground Experimental Music]
• Earthmonkey “Descent Into Basecloud” [Be That Charge]
• Bark Psychosis “Nothing Feels” [Independency]
• Bill Horist “Requiem for Endless Days” [Covalent Lodge]
• Clara! y Maoupa “Truenos” [Luna Nueva]
• Sharkbait “Mr. Fernando” [The Big One]
• The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown “I Put a Spell on You” [The Crazy World of Arthur Brown]
• The Pink Fairies “Uncle Harry’s Last Freakout” [Never-Neverland]
• Lou Reed “She’s My Best Friend” [Coney Island Baby]
• bullfinch “audio voluntary” [International Experimental Music Compilation Volume II]
• Amy Denio/Pale Nudes “Axis” [Tutto Bene]
• Daevid Allen “Fastfather” [Divided Alien Playbax 80]
• Moodring “Mixer” [phoolan devi]

What’s This Called? is proud to be moving into our second year at Freeform Portland, which we honestly believe to be the coolest station the program has ever lived at. It’s that time of year where we implore you that come to WTC for the most obscure and independently produced experimental audio work around to help keep the station where we make the shows afloat! https://www.freeformportland.org/donate/

Your host Ricardo Wang was joined by frequent cohost DJ Victrola of Guitar Shop to make the case for why Freeform Portland is doing revolutionary work fighting the culture wars on behalf of diversity and free creativity. Much great experimental music was shared in the process.

HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:

PLAYLIST:

• Savage Republic “Next to Nothing” [Tragic Figures]
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 “The Piston and the Shaft” [Strangers from the Universe]
• Bardo Pond “White Turban (The Traveller) “ [All Tomorrow’s Parties 1.1]
• Nate Trier “Palehound” [Palehound in a Sea of Color]
• Marlo Eggplant “Tandem” [Exercises]
• George & Caplin “Horse Fair When I’m 32” [He Really Got Through to Advertising]
• Iggy Pop “We Are The People” [Free]
• Whirling Hall of Knives “2-Bar Heater and Smoke” [Electic Lava]
• Somesurprises “High Rise” [somesurprises]
• The Continental Cousins “Kana Kapila” [60s Jungle Garage Teen Beat]
• Miss Murgatroid “Ballad of the Panatonic” [Myoclyonic Melodies]
• Nyctalllz “The Humanity Demise” [The Humanity Demise]
• Rhys Chatham “Hard Edge (the Wire Editions)” [The Wire Tapper 2]
• Sonic’s Rendezvous Band “Electrophonic Tonic – The Best Stuff You Havent Heard” [Sonic’s Rendezvous Band]
• Negativland “True False” [True False]
• Kim Gordon “Get Yr Life Back” [No Home Record]

Yolo on a pilgrimage we’re at Freeform Portland an extra week. So between two What’s This Called? is this space that is also but not entirely the same. Go to your mirror and turn it upside down. Watch carefully.

HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:

PLAYLIST:

• Ennio Morricone “The desert – Il deserto” [The good, the bad and the ugly]
• 헤이스트링 “A bottomless pit” [Salto]
• Between “Devotion” [Soul Jazz Records Presents DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1972-83]
• Jen Morris “Auterepart” [Interactions A Guide to Swiss Underground Experimental Music]
• Staruha Mha “Tar B Tymahe” [Unknown Files]
• Surya “Serenade Upgrade” [Music to Watch]
• Amy Denio “Wolf Moon” [Eureka]
• Lixo “Writer’s Block (feat. Trim)” [Writer’s Block]
• Flying Lotus “Takashi” [Flamagra]
• The Idealist “Bad Things Happen Dub (Wire Tapper edit)” [The Wire Tapper 51]
• The Soft Moon “Primal Eyes” [The Soft Moon]
• Spectral Bazaar “Neptune” [The Planets]
• Sky High Diamonds “The Discoverer” [Witchcraft & Black Magic in the United Kingdom]
• Adrian Belew “She Is Not Dead” [Desire Of The Rhino King]
• Lightning Bolt “Halloween 3” [Sonic Citadel]
• Kim Gordon “Air BnB” [No Home Record]
• Negativland “Destroying Anything” [True False]
• Lene Lovich “Writing on the Wall” [Stateless]
• Hans Castrup “Full of Used Notes” [The world is all that is…]
• Kollectiv “Rambo Zambo” [Deutsche Elektronische Musik (Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83)]
• Farouk Adil “Surface Crack” [Anthology of contemporary music from Middle East]
• Buck Young “Bell Jar of Whiskey” [Buck II: Where Do You Want It?]
• The Caretaker “Stage 6: Place in the World fades away” [Everywhere at the end of Time]