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About Ricardo Wang

I began doing Public/Community/College radio at KUGS FM in Bellingham, WA in 1985 and was there until 1987. I spent 10 years at KAOS FM in Olympia, WA from 1993-2003 including a one year stint as Music Director. During that entire time, I did the What's This Called? program, at times for as long as 6 hours in a single night! The show ran at KPSU in Portland, from 2005 to 2018. I've been happily at Freeform Portland since October of 2018 and loving every second at this exciting freeform station! I started the Olympia Experimental Music Festival in 1995 and have been playing music off and on in the Dead Air Fresheners since 1997.

1 October 2016 (What’s This Rawk?)

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Saturday October 1st from Noon to 1PM Pacific Time, we’re getting the Rawk out on What’s This Called? While there may be some of the experimentation you’ve come to expect during the program, your host Ricardo Wang‘s focus will be on rawking you like a hurricane.

RIDE THE FREAKING STREAM!

Smash things along to the beat!  October is traditionally a month of costumed mayhem and rawking hard.

Playlist:

Track   Artist   Album
Teenage Werewolf   The Cramps   Gravest Hits
Set It On Fire   The Melvins   Everybody Loves Sausages
Good Grief   Nocturnal Habits   New Skin for Old Children
Hard to Grow Up   Joan Jett and the Blackhearts   Unvarnished
Gonna Find a Cave   Girl Trouble   Sub Pop 200
Lights Out   UFO   Lights Out
Death Machine   Motorhead   Aftershock
Track 3   Marissa Magic   Homemade CDR
Burning Rubber   Teenage Jesus & the Jerks   Everything
I Wanna Be Your Dog   The Stooges   The Stooges
Swallow My Pride   Fastbacks   Sub Pop 200
Johnny Thunder   The Kinks   Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Born to Lose   Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers   LAMF
Part of My Plan   Half Japanese   Hot
Murdered Out   Kim Gordon   ??
Pattern Recognition   Sonic Youth   Sonic Nurse
Sex God Missy   TAD   Sub Pop 200

 

24 September 2016

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RIDE THE FREAKING STREAM!

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Playlist:   Track  Artis  Album

Coupleskate (edit) L.A. Lungs Secret Limbic Systems

Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive Beat Happening Sub Pop 200

Macho (alternate version) Gabor Szabo Macho

Bacchanale @c Portugal experimental underground 016 survey

Jesus Alone Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree

Chelsea’s Kiss Thurston Moore Blank Editions

In the Mood Soheil Soheili Iran experimental underground 016 survey

Hamblechia Ujjaya The Landing Zone

 

29 August 2015: Big City Orchestra, Live

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11949514_1075295742511327_4555724034935784959_n29 August 2015: Big City Orchestra, Live

Hard to believe it’s been nearly 5 years since the long running Bay Area experimental pioneers Big City Orchestra played on What’s This Called? but it really has!

BCO ended up enlisting some unmasked members of Dead Air Fresheners to help them play the KPSU studio with contact mics and processors.

Big City Orchestra, Live:

Track * Artist * Album

First Dream * Big City Orchestra * Daydreams of Night
Live on What’s This Called? * Big City Orchestra * KPSU
Interview * Big City Orchestra * KPSU
Church of the Sub Species (edit) * Big City Orchestra * Church of the Sub Species
Live on What’s This Called? * Big City Orchestra * KPSU

24 May 2014: Sun Ra stravaganza!

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24 May 2014: Sun Ra stravaganza!

In celebration of Sun Ra’s 100th birthday just two days before the show, Ricardo Wang was not himself.  Another incarnation of the Wang was in the KPSU studio playing recordings of the Ra.

From the Other Side:

1.Sun Ra Interview Excerpt (explains first trip to Egypt) (4:16) 2.Spacemen 3 – Starship (11:28) 3.Elephant 6 Orchestra – Enlightenment (Sun Ra Cover) (11:14) 4.Yo La Tengo @ The Trocadero – 12011 – Someone’s In Love (Sun Ra cover) (2:05) 5.NRBQ Rocket #9 (3:14) 6.Wynonie Harris with Sun Ra- Dig This Boogie (Bullet 78 rpm) (2:49) 7.Sun Ra – Best Answer on Music (2:21) 8.Sun Ra – Nidhamu (13:12)