21 September 2013: Big Big Love

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Austin Rich

21 September 2013: Big Big Love

Love Big Big

Last Mistress	Body/Head	Coming Apart
Kveikur	Sigur Ros	Kveikur
September Song	Ute Lemper	But one Day
Chemical Playschool	Legendary Pink Dots	Ancient Daze
Love Will Find You in the End	Sonic Boom & Spectrum	What Came Before
Track 5	Bristol Barnstormers	4/18/10
Dove 1 – Noodles & Cheese	Andrew Liles	Black Widow
Sister Morphine	Marianne Faithful	The Millennium Collection
Spirit Duet	Mary Ellen Childs	Wreck
Rocket Number Nine	Sun Ra	My Brothers the Wind & Sun n. 9
Recession Psychonaut	Sun Foot	Purple & Orange
102 Creep	Eric Hausmann	Invisible Films
Palace Posy	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest

14 September 2013: ALTO!, Live.

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Austin Rich

14 September 2013: ALTO!, Live.

Throbbing LIVE double drum and guitar loop madness set, and an interview to remember as well! Alto! from Portland live warming up for their gig at the free KPSU benefit at Slim’s in St. John’s TONIGHT!

Indian Summer	Sonic Boom & Spectrum	What Came Before
Interplanetary Music	Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra	Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth / Interstellar Low Ways
Duck & Cover	The Red Krayola	Hazel
Live!	Alto!	on What’s This Called?
Season of the witch	Donovan	Sunshine Superman
Interview!	Alto!	on What’s This Called?
Whistling Teapot (Rag)	Smog	The Doctor Came At Dawn

07 September 2013: Special Two Hour Show!

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Austin Rich

07 September 2013: Special Two Hour Show!

Not quite the weekly 6 hour show from the mid ’90s, but fun to stretch out again nonetheless!

Syria	Specimen	Batastrophe
Piece 1-3	Alto!	Alto!
God Had Amnesia	The Giant Worm	Can of Worms
The Weeping Demon	Rllrbll	DREAMS
Crystal (Wire Tapper edit)	Kikuchi Yukinori	Wire Tapper 26
Skidded	Hypnogogic Orchestra	The Hypnogogic Orchestra
Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum	Un Festin Sagital	Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum
She Moves Through the Fair	FAIRPORT CONVENTION	What We Did On Our Holidays
Moonstah	Earthmonkey	Pharmacy Fields
Probably a Robbery	Renegade Soundwave	Electricity
Ecstatic Forlorness	Troum	Eald-Ge-Streon
Iron Glove	Psychic TV	Dreams Less Sweet
Sonata II for Pepared Piano	John Cage	Sound Forms for Piano
Solitude	Expo 70	Black Ohms
Ghost Dance	Marianne Faithful	Faithful

31 August 2013: 20th Anniversary Show!!!

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Austin Rich

31 August 2013: 20th Anniversary Show!!!

Somewhere in the Summer of 1993 this program was launched on KAOS FM in Olympia WA. It was not Ricardo Wang’s first radio show, but it is obviously his longest running. What’s This Called began 20 years ago sometime in the summer of 1993 at KAOS 89.3 FM in Olympia WA and it lived there for ten years. In 2005 it came back to life in Portland OR at http://kpsu.org/ Saturday, August 31st, 2013 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time I will be celebrating the 20 years of experimental music, drone, noise, post-punk, and beauty.

Intro/Brave Men Run	Sonic Youth	Bad Moon Rising
On the Wires of Our Nerves	Add N to X	On the Wires of Our Nerves
Heathen Earth	The Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages
The Seer Returns	Swans	The Seer
Back in the USSR	Ramsey Lewis	Plays the Beatles Songbook
Painted My Teeth	Jandek	Modern Dances
Indecent Men	Paco Jones	A Second Chance Again
Iris Was a Pupil	Autechre	Move of Ten
The Shadow World	Sun Ra	A Night in Berlin/My Brothers the Wind & Sun N.
Casting a Spell	Motion Sickness of Time Travel	ladyz in noyz 3
Intergalactic Aliens	Half Japanese	Bone Head
Wear Your Love Like Heaven	Donovan	The Greatest Hits

17 August 2013: onlyyoucanrockmerockme

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Austin Rich

17 August 2013: onlyyoucanrockmerockme

A procession of heavy hitters from LPD to Sun City Girls. Duck!

Esher Everywhere	Legendary Pink Dots	The Gethsemane Option
Piece 5 (H.F.F.L.)	Alto!	Alto!
Pulsar	Earthmonkey	Pharmacy Fields
Space Prophet Dogon	Sun City Girls	torch of the mystics
Song For A Warrior	Swans	The Seer
Emerging Nation	Steve Fisk	448 Deathless Days
Come to Dust	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest
White Nights	Psychic TV	Dreams Less Sweet
Warhead	Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages

03 August 2013: Deanne McAdams Remembered

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Austin Rich

03 August 2013: Deanne McAdams Remembered

Two years after her passing, we play some songs by Deanne McAdams, and some of her favorite artists.

Just Like U Said It Would Be	Nomy Lamm	Effigy
Pinwheels (cut)	Pro Ex Marauders	I’m Sorry, But…
ghost cracked glass	Leopards	Leopards
Greyhound with a Lime	Dead Air Fresheners with Chuck Swaim	Infamous Polywogs
NYC Ghosts & Flowers	Sonic Youth	NYC Ghosts & Flowers
The Killer Wasps of Borneo	Pro Ex Marauders	I’m Sorry, But…
her innocent stock of words	Hood	Silent ’88
trial by fire (or Jandek’s Vagina)	Leopards	unreleased
I See a Darkness	Bonnie “Prince” Billy	I See a Darkness
Three Little Birds	Bob Marley	Legend
New Wave Fuck (cut)	Pro Ex Marauders	I’m Sorry, But…
red murder, gray dawn	Leopards	Leopards
Song to the Siren	This Mortal Coil	It’ll End in Tears
song for Mark	Leopards	unreleased

27 July 2013

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Austin Rich

27 July 2013

Stretch your head!

Cold Earth	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest
Mystic Prophecy	Sun Ra	A Night in Berlin
Bird and Person Dyning (edit)	Alvin Lucier	Bird and Person Dyning
Flexi Head	Earthmonkey	Pharmacy Fields
Slapstick Apocalypse	Lucy Bonk	Ladyz in Noyz 3
rew (1)	Autechre	Move of Ten
Nervios Para Una Condena	Un Festin Sagital	Sic Deus Dilexit Mundun
Personality Crisis	New York Dolls	Self Titled

20 July 2013: Bringing It All Back Home!

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Austin Rich

20 July 2013: Bringing It All Back Home!

Make That Nature Scene!

Monsoon (edit)	William Hooker/Roger Miller/Lee Ranaldo	Monsoon
Archetypal Space	William Hooker/DJ Olive/Glenn Spearman	Mindfulness
Brainstorm (Live 1976)	Hawkwind	Atomhenge 76
Making the Nature Scene (Live 1983)	Sonic Youth	Live Venlo Holland, 12.27.83
Ben’s Radio	Sun City Girls	Funeral Mariachi
Destroyer of Paradise	noisepoetnobody & Sisiutl	Flicks of Mica
Glimmering Endless Possibilities	noisepoetnobody & Vance Galloway	Uranium 238
You Can’t Breathe Memories	Hood	The Lost You
Extra Terrestrial Tabernacle	Bastard Noise	Rrrevenge Disc 2 (PUMPKINMAN)

06 July 2013: Paco Jones, LIVE!

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Austin Rich

06 July 2013: Paco Jones, LIVE!

Paco’s 2nd live appearance on What’s This Called? this time with piano and new ep produced by Steve Fisk in tow! Paco Jones Live on What’s This Called? with Austin Rich engineering.

Film Score #1	Paco Jones	CDR
Live	Paco Jones	on What’s This Called?
Film Score #2	Paco Jones	CDR
Interview	Paco Jones	on What’s This Called?
Nothing Time	Paco Jones	Lost in the Supermarket
Interview	Paco Jones	on What’s This Called?
Y	Paco Jones	CDR

22 June 2013: 19th Oly Experimental Music Fest Preview!

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Austin Rich

22 June 2013: 19th Oly Experimental Music Fest Preview!

This year’s fest was a blast, and the artists represented here all bring the goods! 19th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Fest Preview!

No Cry	Tone Dogs	Ankety Low Day
Live at the Chapel	Noisepoetnobody	Video
Behold the Man	Thinking Plague	In Extremis
ARUBBJr 11-9-12	ARU & Bob Bucko JR.	CDR
Track One	Aural Resuscitation Unit	Dub Plate Vol. 1
@ PDX Pop Now	Soup Purse	video
Track One	Derek M. Johnson	aileron-Ist wing
Live @ 16th Oly Experimental Music Fest	KnotPineBox	video
To Grieve the Heart	dead air fresheners	video

15 June 2013: Summer Freeze

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Austin Rich

15 June 2013: Summer Freeze

Audio slurpees melted in an hour. Lets rock kids!

Sonic Reducer RFTT	Rocket From the Tombs	Rocket Redux
The Departed	Iggy & the Stooges	Ready to Die
Station to Station	The Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages
Streets of Calcutta	Anada Shankar Experience & the State of Bengal	Look into the Flower
Avatar	Swans	The Seer
Summer Freeze	Unwound	Leaves Turn Inside Your
Excuse Me, Let’s Make Love	Ennio Morricone	High – The Trippier Side of the Morricone Genius
Reptilizin on Us	Pepe Wismeer	Un-
Take Two	Spring Heel Jack	68 Million Shades
Heathen Earth	The Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages
Howling for Judy	Jeremy Steig	Look into the Flower

08 June 2013: Andrea Glauer and Bert Wilson Retrospectives

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Austin Rich

08 June 2013: Andrea Glauer and Bert Wilson Retrospectives

Guest dj Ryan A. Ray brings in some incredible music and help memoralize one forgotten artist and one classic great improvisor, both of which were friends and inspirations.

untitled	Andrea Glauert and Paul Rubenstein
Phenominal Dinosaur Prophets	Andrea Glauert with Ryan Ray
Daydream	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
Gypsy	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
In A Land	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
Mother Night	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
Da Doot Doot Doo	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
Ashes to Ashes	Jill Baber	For All Time
Oliver James	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes
All the Tall Buildings	Neon Fear
You’ve Got To Be In Tune With The Universe	Bert Wilson, Nancy Curtis, Jeffery Morgon	Interdimensional Interface
Do We Want to Go On?	Bert Wilson, Nancy Curtis, Jeffery Morgon	Interdimensional Interface
ghost cracked glass	Leopards	Leopards
song for Mark	Leopards	unreleased
trial by fire (or Jandek’s Vagina)	Leopards	unreleased

01 June 2013: Summer’s Here and the Time is Right

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Austin Rich

01 June 2013: Summer’s Here and the Time is Right

For experimental music in the street.

Faust	Blood Thirsty Butchers	Live 2003
Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America)	John Zorn	The Big Gundown – John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone
Focus on Sanity	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come
Embassy of the Living God	Sun Ra	The Great Lost Albums
Pharoah Chromium	Chrome	Alien Soundtracks
Mining a Dead Moon	Edward Ka-Spel	One Last Pose Before the Ruin
Light Echoes I	Steve Moore	Light Echoes
BeatSurgeryDisasters	Aural Resuscitation Unit	Tour 2012 CD-R
Planet-Air	Ariel Kalma	Osmose

25 May 2013: Fresh and Tasty

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Austin Rich

25 May 2013: Fresh and Tasty

ARU, Autechre, Flying Lotus, heavy hitters! Scads of newness!

Phototechnique	Aural Resuscitation Unit	The Golden Strand ep
In Spring	Paco Jones	A Second Chance Again
rew (1)	Autechre	Move of Ten
Table Tennis (ft. Laura Darlington)	Flying Lotus	Cosmogramma
Friends of the Earth	Edward Ka-Spel	One Last Pose Before the Ruin
Mother of the World	Swans	The Seer (Disc 1)
Event Horizon	Orbit Service	A Calm Note from the West
Emerald Fanged Dancer	Expo 70	Black Ohms
Summertime	Laetitia Sadier	The Trip
Sanity Belt	Pepe Wismeer	Un-
Madmen and Spiders	Paco Jones	A Second Chance Again
Monk’s Soundcheck (edit)	Aural Resuscitation Unit	DP V3.5

11 May 2013: Beta-lactam Records Showcase

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Austin Rich

11 May 2013: Beta-lactam Records Showcase

It’s always a great show when Chris McBeth arrives with his bag full of goodies from Beta-lactam Ring Records. This label feature program was no exception to that rule! Chris McBeth of Beta-lactam Ring Records spinning his newest releases and giving away a copy of Mythalogue by The Red Masque.

El Asesino Del Sol (Versión I)	Un Festin Sagital	Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum
Looping ’72	Edward Ka-Spel`	One Last Pose Before The Ruin
The Minotaur	The Red Masque	Mythalogue

04 May 2013: Experimental Radio Revival Finale

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Austin Rich

04 May 2013: Experimental Radio Revival Finale

Help KPSU get a low power FM signal! Thrill to the Final Installment of the What’s This Called? Experimental Radio Revival today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time! Lennon reads the call letters as we launch into hits from the likes of Steven Henry Fisk, Autechre, Throbbing Gristle, Sun Ra, Legendary Pink Dots, Freddie Hubbard, Add N to X, Cabaret Voltaire, Bingo Gazingo & My Robot Friend and Melvins!

You’re Out of the Computer	Bingo Gazingo & My Robot Friend	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2
no escape	Cabaret Voltaire	mix-up
Mailman	Legendary Pink Dots	Plutonium Blonde
The Black Regent	Add N to X	On the Wires of Our Nerves
hamburger lady	Throbbing Gristle	d.o.a : the third and final report of throbbing gristle
Spontaneous Simplicity	Sun Ra	Live in Paris at the Gibus
Baby Won’t You Weird Me Out	Melvins Lite	Freak Puke
Foil	Autechre	Amber
Combat	Freddie Hubbard	Sing Me a Song of Songmy
Priorities	Steve Fisk	448 Deathless Days
White River Junction	The Orb	Orbvs Terrarvm

27 April 2013: Experimental Radio Revival

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Austin Rich

27 April 2013: Experimental Radio Revival

KPSU needs a low power FM signal, and you can help!

Close 2 U	Daniel Enoch Tobin	MP3
Shadow of a Doubt	Sonic Youth	EVOL
Empires of Time	Chelsea Light Moving	Chelsea Light Moving
Eight Inch Nun	Rollerball	Real Hair
This Is Combat I Know	Freddie Hubbard	Psychedelic Jazz and Soul from the Atlantic and Warner Vaults
Looking Glass	Eric Hausmann	Invisible Films
Between Eternities	Sand Snowman	Nostalgia Ever After
Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages	Aritomo	Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages
Heat	David Bowie	The Next Day
Track 4	daniel menche	Eye on the Steel
ako	Fela Kuti	the ’69 los angeles sessions

13 April 2013: Holy Filament, Overdose The Katatonic & Death Pact Jazz Ensemble, LIVE!

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Austin Rich

13 April 2013: Holy Filament, Overdose The Katatonic & Death Pact Jazz Ensemble, LIVE!

The Gods of War have amassed. Prepare for annihilation! Your earplugs will not save you!

Cold Dust	Cabbage Patch Kill Dolls	CDR
Track 3	daniel menche	Flaming Tongues
Welcome to the New Killer Bees	Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live	I Am That Great And Fiery Force
II Porno Star	Shellac	At Action Park
You’re Out of the Computer	Bingo Gazingo & My Robot Friend	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2
LIVE	Holy Filament	On What’s This Called?
Heart of the Heartland	Mark Kennis	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2
LIVE	Overdose the Katatonic	on What’s This Called?
Urban Wolves Are Watching	Select Sex	Demo
demolished	Unwound	The Future of What
Attack On Love	Yo La Tengo	Electr-O-Purra
LIVE	Death Pact Jazz Ensemble	on What’s This Called?

30 March 2013

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Austin Rich

30 March 2013

BAZACKWARDS MASKING Secret Playlist do to glitchola…

23 March 2013: Forrest Friends, LIVE!

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Austin Rich

23 March 2013: Forrest Friends, LIVE!

Tribal, colossal, impish, explosive… Seattle’s Forrest Friends kick off their 40 Winks of Dyer tour with two live sets on What’s This Called? https://www.facebook.com/events/500636016649639/

The Village of Terrifying Fright	Windmill Music	Windmill Music
Threnody For Sharon Tate	Freddie Hubbard	The In Sound: Psychedelic Jazz and Soul from the Atlantic Warner Vaults
LIVE	Forrest Friends	on What’s This Called?
Gamelan Haze	Eric Haussmann	Invisible Films
Interview	Forrest Friends	on What’s This Called?
Marine	Francis Dhomont	Storm of Drones
LIVE	Forrest Friends	on What’s This Called?
Track 9	daniel menche	Eye of Steel

16 March 2013: Tres Gone, LIVE!

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Austin Rich

16 March 2013: Tres Gone, LIVE!

Three of the best, most experienced, most innovative improvisors in the Portland metro area lay down the secret formula.

Interprets Charles Ives – Universe Symphony	Mike Mahaffay	Universe Symphony
Underground	Eric Hausmann	Invisible Films
Live	Tres Gone	on What’s This Called?
Moving Malaise	Eric Hausmann	Invisible Films

09 March 2013

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Austin Rich

09 March 2013

Ornette Coleman, John Cale, and Robert Calvert’s Birthday!

7 by 7	Hawkwind	space ritual
Frozen Warnings	Nico	The Marble Index
lady godiva’s operation	The Velvet Underground	white light white heat
Focus on Sanity	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come
Space Flight	Ornette Coleman	Forms & Sounds
Trance #2	Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, John Cale	An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music/ First A-Chronology 1921-2001
The Right Stuff	Robert Calvert	Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
Kommune	Voice of the Seven Thunders	Voice of the Seven Thunders
Philosophy Of The World	The Shaggs	Songs In The Key Of Z
Slip It to the Android	Chrome	Alien Soundtracks
She Said Destroy	Death In June	nada!
Scourge (extract)	daniel menche	Sometime Silence is an Answer
Mind Daze	Psychic Ills	Hazed Dream
Heresy (edit)	Lustmord	Sometimes Silence is an Answer

02 March 2013: Four Dimensional Nightmare, LIVE!

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Austin Rich

02 March 2013: Four Dimensional Nightmare, LIVE!

Guitar, electronicist, noise rocker Tom Nicol reconstructs your mental breakfast. Four Dimensional Nightmare LIVE in the KPSU studio

Icicles	Four Dimensional Nightmare	Icicles
LIVE	Four Dimensional Nightmare	On What’s This Called?
Time Dilations in a Holographic Universe	Four Dimensional Nightmare	Icicles
Interview	Four Dimensional Nightmare	On What’s This Called?
Burned Out Gods	Four Dimensional Nightmare	Icicles

23 February 2013

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Austin Rich

23 February 2013

Tune In and Psych Out!

Sleepwalker	Moon Duo	Circles
Pilgrim	Scott Walker	Bish Bosch
Unwelcome Guest I	Bob Bucko Jr.	The Eternal Song
Flight	Wooden Shjips	West
Maroon	Via	Ladyz in Noyz 3
Wide Eyed	Animal Collective	Centipede HZ
Judged by the Left Eye	Socrates That Practices Music	Further Conclusions Against an Italian Version
British Petroleum Anal Leakage	Party Killer	Party Killer
Spywatching Clouds in the Empty Space of Summer	Alien Parkinson Project	SadoDaMascus Records: Winter Copulation 2013
Mouth Sounds	Stanley Schumacher and the Music Now Ensemble	Experimental Music Lab
Virgin Child of the Universe	Song-poem	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 1
From The Sun	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	II
I Knew (We Shouldn’t)	Loop 2.4.3	American Dreamland
Wotizup?	Sheik Anorak/Weasel Walter/Mario Rechtern	Wiretapper 25
Hand of Man	Django Django	Django Django

09 February 2013

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Austin Rich

09 February 2013

The Day the Conductor Died	Scott Walker	Bish Bosch
In Iron Light	Hood	The Cycle of Days and Seasons
Anatomie 4 (Cuvier)	Translucent Spiders	SadoDaMascus Records: Winter Copulation 2013
Sky Garden Warning Song	Ohimbe	Ladyz in Noyz 3
Too Raging To Cheers (Umberto Remix)	Mogwai	A Wrenched Virile Lore
Is That Enough	Yo La Tengo	Fade
Ineffable Chasm	Bob Bucko Jr.	A Concise Communist Manifesto
Remix by Muddmakr – My Brother’s Guns & Knives	Remora	Tandaan
Weekend in the Dust	David Byrne & St. Vincent	Love This Giant
creature eternal	Chrome	half machine lip moves and alien soundtracks
Downloading the Repertoire	Jack Mudurian	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 1
The Depths of the Transparent Something	Aritomo	Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages
Nostalgia Ever After	Sand Snowman	Nostalgia Ever After
Accident (edit)	Melmac	The Wire Tapper 25

02 February 2013

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Austin Rich

02 February 2013

Back in the USSR	Ramsey Lewis	Plays the Beatles Songbook
Walking on the Moon	Lucia Pamela	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 1`
Skidded	Hypnogogic Orchestra	The Hypnogogic Orchestra
They Told Me I Was a Fool	Jandek	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 1`
Core Anomaly Mix	Submerged	Eternal Ice Melts: Voice Sphere Remixes
Screen of Ominity	Creatureguts	Tandaan
No One is There	Nico	The Marble Index
Walking The Cow	Daniel Johnston	Hi, How Are You?
This Is Sad	Fela Kuti	the ’69 los angeles sessions
The Healing Comes	Ifsh	Spasm Fleet
Standing in a Trash Can	Legendary Stardust Cowboy	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 1
Urania	Pan Sonic	Electricity

19 January 2013

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Austin Rich

19 January 2013

Cold medicine is the opiate of the disc jockey.

Sound of Accelerating Concrete	Add N to X	On the Wires of Our Nerves
Occidental	The Orb	Orbvs Terrarvm
Procession	Troum	Eald-Ge-Streon
Please Don’t Get Me Wrong	Legendary Pink Dots	Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves
Paddle Forward	Yo La Tengo	Fade
Butterfly	Green Milk From the Planet Orange	He’s Crying “Look”
The World of the Invisible	Sun Ra	Cymbals
The Raven	Lou Reed	The Raven
George III	Red Krayola	Fingerpainting
Milking the Dead for Distraction	irr.app.(ext.)	Perekuchenie
Feared and Known	Ghost to Falco	Like This Forever

12 January 2013: Ricardo Wang’s 46th Birthday!

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Austin Rich

12 January 2013: Ricardo Wang’s 46th Birthday!

It’s my birthday and I’ll paint my teeth if I want to! I’m not getting better, I’m getting older! Well maybe better in incredibly tiny increments…

Two Trains	Yo La Tengo	Fade
Placing the Seed (extract)	The Hafler Trio	Sometimes Silence is an Answer
Demons Sing Love Songs	Unwound	Leaves Turn Inside You
Nibby Grimes	Miss Massive Snowflake	Tandan
Inhake 2	Autechre	Peel Session
Painted My Teeth	Jandek	Modern Dances
Priorities	Steve Fisk	448 Deathless Days
Let Me Roll It	Melvins Lite	Freak Puke
I’m Insane (Live)	Sonic Youth	Smart Bar . Chicago 1985
The Good The Bad And The Ugly	John Zorn	Filmworks 1986-1990
Endless Time	Legendary Pink Dots	Seconds Late for the Brighton Line
Eventually	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come

05 January 2013

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Austin Rich

05 January 2013

Back where we belong.

Starved March	Ahleauchatistas	Heads Full of Poison
Trees Are My Friends	Sudden Infant	Psychotic Einzelkind
Uzunisase	LSD March	Uretakumo Nakunarutorika
Colin Wilson	Moodring	Scared of Ferret
Coda Cacciatori	Party Killer	Tandaan
Making the Nature Scene (live)	Sonic Youth	Smart Bar . Chicago 1985
At the Base of the Mountain of Noise	Sun City Girls	Piasa…Devourer of Men
Funeral Music (FoMoFo)	Amy Denio	Tutto Bene – Canzoni sulla Fisa
The Case Continues	Ute Lemper	Punishing Kiss
Ruffled Rivers	L.A. Lungs	Cryptic Snuggling
The Wundering Unmasked	Dual	Pyroclastics
Reflections of Failure	Anakrid	Banishment Rituals of the Disenlightened
Quiuhtonatiuh	nadja	Under the Jaguar Sun
Turkish Speaker	Muslimgauze	Sometimes Silence is an Answer
Track 2	Aural Resuscitaion Unit	Dub Plate Vol. 1

15 December 2012: w/ Noah Mickens!

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Austin Rich

15 December 2012: w/ Noah Mickens!

We do this “White Noise Christmas” thing every year where Noah slowly gifts me his entire noise music recording collection live on the air. Revelry is had by all! White Noise Xmas with special guest Noah Mickens gifting me his noise music collection!

Silent Night	Moodring	Six Feet Below the Snow
Track 2	Kobi	Earplugged
Track 6	Democri$y	Recent Atrocities
Track 2	ENE	Terror Split Terror Rhythm
Urchin Barrens	Number None	Second Annual Retort: Apartment Thunder
Track 7	Ant Brain Worm	Ant Brain Worm
Don’t Fall Victim	Rot	Intense Noise Core
Track 5	Porca Celeb	Untitled
Death Begins in the Colon	Bastard Noise	Rrrevenge Disc 2 (PUMPKINMAN)
Homerun	Marko Cicilliani	untitled
isolationthroughdistortion	Nkondi	fieldofcouches

08 December 2012: Sky Chance, LIVE!

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Austin Rich

08 December 2012: Sky Chance, LIVE!

An absolutely thrilling performance to watch and listen to unfold. Sky Chance takes on Portland for the win. Live in the KPSU studio!

Letter to Metro (Zombi Remix)	Mogwai	A Wrenched Virile Lore
Tornado Warning	Hammock	Departure Songs
Nose Art	Flying Lotus	Cosmogramma
LIVE	Sky CHance	on What’s This Called?
Emerald Fanged Dancer	Expo 70	Black Ohms
Tyken’s Rift	Steve Morse	Light Echoes
The Wolf	Swans	The Seer

01 December 2012: A Three Hour Show

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Austin Rich

01 December 2012: A Three Hour Show

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a show, a show and a fateful trip…

Secret Girl (live)	Sonic Youth	Smart Bar . Chicago 1985
Wild Is the Wind (Backwards Mix!)	Nina Simone	Ultimate Nina Simone
Future Trauma	Ahleauchatistas	Heads Full of Poisons
Don’t Smoke in Bed	Nina Simone	Ultimate Nina Simone
A Piece of the Sky	Swans	The Seer
Roses in the SNow	Nico	The Marble Index
Master of the Universe	Hawkwind	In Search of Space
Dark Circles	Hammock	Departure Songs
Queen	Melvins	Stoner Witch
Magnetic Dwarf Reptile	Chrome	Alien Soundtracks
66 Deadhead Spies	Rollerball	Real Hair
Lyndee England	Moodring	Art Rooster
Beaverstate	EET	Art Rooster
Elvis on a Shoestring	Sun City Girls	Carnival Folklore Ressurection 3: Superculto
Exhumed	Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores	Sister Death
Horn	Nick Drake	Pink Moon
Showroom Dummies	Kraftwerk	Trans Europe Express
Music for 18 Musicians (Coldcut remix)	Steve Reich	Reich Remixed
As If It Were an Accident	Orbit Service	A Calm Note from the West
Der Mussolini	DAF	Electricity
Ancient Lights	Psychic TV	Dreams Less Sweet
Professional	Jandek	Living in a Moon So Blue
Somebody Else’s World	Sun Ra	My Brother the Wind Volume II
Gods Tried; Done	Crank Sturgeon	Crank Sturgeon/RedSK/ Jason “EVIL” Covelli Split cd-r
Arkestry	Flying Lotus	Cosmogramm
Viva Nigeria	Fela	1969 Los Angeles Sessions
IV	Xambuca & RK Faulhaber	Wiping With Pride
FC	Office Products	Business
Grow Lights	Living By Lanterns	New Myth/Old Science
Saxo Forest	Ariel Kalma	Osmose
Consolation	Aillos	Yoikur
Ma’dona Sa’Ye	Anna Homler & Sylvia Hallett	The Many Moods of Bread and Shed
The Puppet Motel	Laurie Anderson	Bright Red
Under the Junction	Edward Ka-Spel	Dream Logick Part Two

24 November 2012

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Austin Rich

24 November 2012

10 November 2012

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Austin Rich

10 November 2012

Drones that do the opposite of kill and terrorize…

Old Science	Living By Lanterns	New Myth/Old Science
Recoiled	Flying Lotus	Cosmogramma
Avatar	Swans	The Seer
In the Nursery	Psychic TV	Dreams Less Sweet
Frozen Warnings	Nico	The Marble Index
A Ruhmn	Paintings for Animals	Kristeater
Gardening	Onnie Art	Ladyz in Noyz 3
Anticipation	Jandek	Living in a Moons So Blue
Storm Sermon	Prophets of Doom	Bogville Exclusive Soundtrack
Back to Nature	Fad Gadget	Electricity

03 November 2012

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Austin Rich

03 November 2012

Pharaoh Chromium	Chrome	Alien Soundtracks
Radio Fish	Anna Homler & Sylvia Hallett	The Many Moods of Bread and Shed
A Trap Has Been Set	Ahleuchatistas	Heads Full of Poison
The Seer Returns	Swans	The Seer
Spine Delay	Rollerball	Real Hair
Do Pok (excerpt)	Captain Miki	The Solar Anus
New Myth	Living By Lanterns	New Myth/Old Science
All the Secrets	Flying Lotus	Until the Quiet Comes
Wings of the Magpie	Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores	Sister Death
Landscape Architecture	Wires Under Tension	replicant
Awakened He Heard Only Silence	Hammock	Departure Songs
Protomorphosis	Steve Moore	Light Echoes

27 October 2012: Halloween Spoooktacular!

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Austin Rich

27 October 2012: Halloween Spoooktacular!

Season of the witch	Donovan	Sunshine Superman
If I Had an Exorcism	Melvins	Bullhead
She Creatures	implog	New York Noise Vol. 3
I Was a Teenage Werewolf	The Cramps	Songs the Lord Taught Us
Welcome Ghosts	Explosions in the Sky	all of a sudden, I miss everyone
Wakened Dead Are Dancing	David and Jad Fair	Halloween Songs
All the World Makes Great Blood	Current 93	Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
Fragment #2	Merzouga	Music for Wax-Cylinders
NYC Ghosts & Flowers	Sonic Youth	NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Distance III	After the Rain	The Night Must Fall
How Ghosts Affect Relationships	His Name Is Alive	Always Stay Sweet
Switched On	Manuella Blackburn	Formes Audibles
no escape	Cabaret Voltaire	mix-up

20 October 2012: Tribute to David S. Ware

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Austin Rich

20 October 2012: Tribute to David S. Ware

Tribute to David S. Ware followed by Music for raking leaves in the rain with zombies!

Flight of I	David S. Ware	Flight of I
Witches Round a Cauldron	David and Jad Fair	Halloween Songs
Tiny Tortures	Flying Lotus	Until the Quiet Comes
Zombie Warfare (Can’t Let You Down)	Chrome	Half Machine Lip Moves
Watusi Zombie	Jan Davis	Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 11
Today’s Supernatural	Animal Collective	Centipede HZ
Dark Knight	Valkyrie Rodeo	Tandaan
Feels Like Dying	Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion	Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath
Dead Dream	Overdose the Katatonic	Creative Evil
In the Garden of Ghostflowers	black happy day	in the garden of ghostflowers
Darkness O	Edward Ka-Spel	Dream Logick Part Two
Starling	Rllrbll	Real Hair
This Is What Living in Portland is Like	The Sexbots	Love Hotel
Nightmare	Cyoakha Grace O’ ManionL	Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath

13 October 2012: Crank Sturgeon, Styrofoam Sanchez & Overdose The Katatonic, Live!

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Austin Rich

13 October 2012: Crank Sturgeon, Styrofoam Sanchez & Overdose The Katatonic, Live!

This line-up speaks for itself! Crank Sturgeon, Styrofoam Sanchez, and Overdose the Katatonic LIVE in the KPSU studio!

Breeze Full o f Spirits	David and Jad Fair	Halloween Songs
Nibby Grimes	Miss Massive Snowflake	Tandan
Live	Crank Sturgeon	on What’s This Called?
Remix by Muddmakr – My Brother’s Guns & Knives	Remora	Tandaan
Live	Styrofoam Sanchez	on What’s This Called?
Zombie King	David and Jad Fair	Halloween Songs
Coda Cacciatori	Party Killer	Tandaan
Live	Overdose the Katatonic w/ Crank Sturgeon & Styrofoam Sanchez	on What’s This Called?

06 October 2012

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Austin Rich

06 October 2012

Goooing Waaay Out!

Space	Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel	Seven Up
Side B	Crank Sturgeon	Crank Sturgeon/Wham-O Split
hot on the heels of love	Throbbing Gristle
1930	Christian Marclay	Records
IV	Xambuca & RK Faulhaber	Wiping With Pride
Things Behind The Sun	Nick Drake	Way To Blue

29 September 2012

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Austin Rich

29 September 2012

Physmod pt 1	Candle Labra	Drinking the Goats Blood
A Psychic Scent	Cotton Ferox (featuring Genesis P-Orridge)	Defragmental
Mir Gehts Genauso	Wolfeseule	Ladyz in Noyz
Gloomy Sunday	Lydia Lunch	Queen of Siam
Space Flight	Ornette Coleman	Forms & Sounds
My Highs on the Fritz	Overdose the Katatonic	CDR
Message	Ariel Kalma	Osmose
An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds	Gold Panda	“An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds
Moon Over a Ruined Castle	Arthur Lyman	Taboo – The Exotic Sounds of Arthur Lyman
Clubs	U-Men	Solid Action
Congawa!	The Zirkons	Jungle Exotica
Teenage Lightning 1	Coil	Loves Secret Domain
Yxes	Com Truise	In Decay
Be Thou My Vision	black happy day	in the garden of ghostflowers

22 September 2012

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Austin Rich

22 September 2012

Equinoxing it on the fist day of Fall!

Look a Ghost	Unwound	Leaves Turn Inside You
There’s a Ghost in My House	The Fall	A-Sides
When Everything Was Dead	Orbit Service	Twilight
Cat Black	Marc Bolan	Cat Black
Green and Cold	nadja	Belles Betes
Female Mechanic Now On Duty (Live)	Sonic Youth	You Tube
Fern	Zoe Keating	One Cello x 16: Natoma
An Evening in the Fall	Sand Snowman	Nostalgia Ever After
Transcendence	Uladat	Portal
Frozen Warnings	Nico	The Marble Index
Cornfield	His Name Is Alive	Always Stay Sweet
She Fell Down	Jandek	Living in a Moon So Blue
Sky Garden Warning Song	Ohimbe	Ladyz in Noyz 3

15 September 2012

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Austin Rich

15 September 2012

Pre-Game Show = selections from Hawkwind 1973 – Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin Show Proper – What I did on my summer vacation…

Eternal Airwaves	Uladat	Portal
He’s a Cyborg	Hollywood Video Game Kill-bot	Hollywood Video Game Kill-bot
Military Jazz	Plug	Plug EP’s 1, 2 & 3
Any Hopeful Thoughts Arrive	Hood	Outside Closer
Same Time Tomorrow	Laurie Anderson	Tightrope
Deep Shadows (Film version – Part 1)	Goblin	Volume II 1975-1980
Giving Up	Windsor for the Derby	Giving Up the Ghost
Fifteen Flies in the Marmalade	Legendary Pink Dots	Stone Circles
Bells	Jessica Lurie Enemble	Megaphone Heart
Too Long for This World	Bob Bucko Jr.	Always With the Don’t Go
Expect Nothing	Cabaret Voltaire	The Mix-Up

1 September 2012: w/ Ilima Considine

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Austin Rich

1 September 2012: w/ Ilima Considine

The queen Sexbot makes an instudio visit. 1st Hour is electronic music Pre-Game Show, 2nd Hour features Ilima Considine interview and preview of Sexbots album Love Hotel!

Expect Nothing	Cabaret Voltaire	The Mix-Up
Smoke Rings	Photek	Electricity
Good Vibrations	Psychic TV	God Star
Urania	Pan Sonic	Electricity
Heartbeat	Big Black	Rich Man’s 8 Track
Metal Fingers In My Body	Add N to X	Electricity
Lorelei	Cocteau Twins	Treasure
Lorry in My Mind	Red Lorry Yellow Lorry	Release Your Mind
Keep Working	Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion	Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath
Spastik	Plastikman	Electricity
Territory (The Epic of the Rage)	Test Dept	Pax Britannica
Song of Paper	Kronos Quartet w/ Tan Dun	Ghost Opera
Set You Up	The Sexbots	Love Hotel
Lisa Lisa	The Sexbots	Love Hotel
Losing My Edge	lcd soundsystem	Electricity
To Whom It May Concern	The Sexbots	Love Hotel
I Married a Vampire	David & Jad Fair	Halloween Songs
Do You Still Want To?	The Sexbots	Love Hotel
Time Dilations in a Holographic Universe	Four Dimensional Nightmare	Icicles
Solar Power	The Sexbots	Love Hotel
Amiss, Abyss, A Kiss (excerpt)	Bruce Friedman & Motoko Honda	Edge Study
Anna Veronica	The Sexbots	Love Hotel

25 August 2012: KPSU 7 Year Anniversary

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Austin Rich

25 August 2012: KPSU 7 Year Anniversary

It seems like only yesterday that it seemed like only yesterday…

Der Mussolini	DAF	Electricity
Time Dilations in a Holographic Universe	Four Dimensional Nightmare	Icicles
Otherness Blue	Sun Ra	My Brother the Wind Volume II
Somebody Else’s World	Sun Ra	My Brother the Wind Volume II
Obe	Fela Kuti	The ’69 LA Sessions
Back to Nature	Fad Gadget	Electricity
Track 8	Abusive Consumer	Concrete Decimation in Dub
The Modest Ambitions of Cedric the Centipede	Edward Ka-Spel	Dream Logik Part Two
Slip It to the Android	Chrome	Alien Soundtracks
Nancy Knows	Jandek	Glad to Get Away

18 August 2012: Overdose The Katatonic, LIVE!

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Austin Rich

18 August 2012: Overdose The Katatonic, LIVE!

All Data Lost	Chrome	Alien Soundtracks
I’m Insane	Sonic Youth	Bad Moon Rising
Track Two	Four Dimensional Nightmare	Icicles
Colour Field v500 (Wire Tapper edit)	Icarus	Wire Tapper 29
Live 7/10	ODTK Trio	CDR
LIVE	Overdose the Katatonic	on What’s This Called?
Scrambled Brains	Overdose the Katatonic	CDR
Ill Valley Prodigies	Liars	WIXIW
Freak Puke	Melvins Lite	Freak Puke
Maniacal Tripidation	Guggenheim Doppelganger	ladyz in noyz 3

11 August 2012: The Tipton Saxophone Quartet!

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Austin Rich

11 August 2012: The Tipton Saxophone Quartet!

An instudio interview with the Tiptons with tracks from their group and solo work interspersed.

Space is the Place	Sun Ra	Space is the Place Soundtrack
Omina Noctis	Anna Homler & Sylvia Hallett	The Many Moods of Bread & Shed
Agora	Tipton Saxophone Quartet	Strange Flower
Luce Azzurra	Tipton Saxophone Quartet	Strange Flower
Sind’	Tipton Saxophone Quartet	Laws of Motion
I Klaxon della Notte	Tipton Saxophone Quartet	Strange Flower
Locking Horns	Tipton Saxophone Quartet	Strange Flower
Slide Over Baby	Tipton Saxophone Quartet	Strange Flower

04 August 2012: Memorial Based Moments.

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Austin Rich

04 August 2012: Memorial Based Moments.

Wolves	Orbit Service	Songs of Eta Carinae
trial by fire (or Jandek’s Vagina)	Leopards	unreleased
Guardian Weekend Remix (excerpt)	Juxtavoices	The Wire Tapper 29
How Can You Drag Your Body Blindly Through?	Hood	The Cycle of Days and Seasons
Personal Monster	Legendary Pink Dots	Poppy Variations
Heart Shuttering	Foxdye	ladyz in noyz 3
Electrocuting An Elephant (1902)	Golden Disko Ship	Prehistoric Ghost Party
Like Foxes Through Fences	American Analog Set	Know By Heart
Banshee Beat	Animal Collective	Feels
Casting a Spell	Motion Sickness of Time Travel	ladyz in noyz 3
Things Behind the Sun	Nick Drake	Pink Moon
Inner Ear Rupture	Melvins Lite	Freak Puke

28 July 2012: ZOMBIES!

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Austin Rich

28 July 2012: ZOMBIES!

Nothing says SUMMERTIME like ZOMBIES!

Zombie King	Jad & David Fair	Halloween Songs
Zombie Warfare (Can’t Let You Down)	Chrome	Half Machine Lip Moves
Boneyard Fear	Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion	Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath
In the Garden of Ghostflowers	black happy day	in the garden of ghostflowers
The World of the Invisible	Sun Ra	Cymbals
Statues Can Bend	Laetitia Sadier	The Trip
Silhouettes Astray	George & Caplin	He Really Got Through to Advertising…
Whose Mister Is This	Jandek	Portland Thursday
Solitude	Expo 70	Black Ohms
Inhuman	Sonic Youth	Confusion Is Sex
girl boy	Blonde Redhead	self titled
Get to Leave	Giant Sand	Backyard Barbecue Broadcast

21 July 2012: w/ Tess

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Austin Rich

21 July 2012: w/ Tess

All female artists this week, with assistance from my friend Tess.

Bad Time	Joan Jett	Sinner
The Puppet Motel	Laurie Anderson	Bright Red
Pariah	Danielle Dax	Jesus Egg That Wept
Altitude	Pylon	Dead Letter Office
Language Is a Virus	Laurie Anderson	Home of the Brave
Painted Bird	siouxsie and the banshees	A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Many Kisses	Krisma	Cathode Mama
One Million Year Trip (acoustic)	Laetitia Sadier	Live Recording
Symmetry (The Way Things Have To Be)	jane siberry	no borders here
You!	The Creatures	Boomerang
Dark Rooms	DA!	Dark Rooms
Music For Evenings	Young Marble Giants	Colossal Youth
Rebel Girl	Bikini Kill	Pussy Whipped

7 July 2012: 3 Hour Show

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Austin Rich

7 July 2012: 3 Hour Show

There’s been a 2 week hiatus for the festival season, and I’m actually going to take next week off two, so today while Miss Rikki is away, I’m doing a SPECIAL 3 HOUR What’s This Called? for you! Set you bliss for the heart of earjack!

Summertime	Laetitia Sadier	The Trip
Tommy Goes Beserk	Melvins	Freak Puke
Female Mechanic Now On Duty (Live)	Sonic Youth	6/12/1997 Sony Music Studios
Tigerstripe	Smoke and Mirrors	Art Rooster
Skylight Spider	L.A. Lungs	Letting It All Bunch Up
Lyndee England	Moodring	Art Rooster
You Get What You Deserve	Spiritualized	Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
Acoustic Barber Pole	Fluorescent Grey	Drinking the Goat’s Blood
A Ring on Every Finger	Liars	WIXIW
Stricken	Hypnogogic Orchestra	The Hypnogogic Orchestra
Painted My Teeth	Jandek	Modern Dances
Voodoo Mash Pt.I/Pt. II	Shalimar & His Friends	Lost Treasures!
Kerosene (Live)	st. vincent	at Bowery NYC 5/22/11
Roads Lead Northwards	Hood	The Cycle of Days and Seasons