SPLASH! Mini-Mutations vs. The Shat; b-Aluria from Brazil, Jandek, Lydia Lunch, Italian Post-Industrial Music, Patti Smith, William Hooker, everything that is stretched & saturated…
PLAYLIST:
Mini-Mutations “A Visible Spectrum” [The Study of the Universe]
Mini-Mutations “Mercury, Venus, Earth & The Moon” [The Study of the Universe]
Mini-Mutations “All Bound By Gravity” [The Study of the Universe]
b-Aluria “mapas” [Monstera ]
b-Aluria ” feiticeira vermelha (vermillion)” [caos com nome]
Jandek “Carnival Queen” [Modern Dances]
Low “Carnival Queen” [A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities]
The Dead C “Alien to Be” [Eusa Kills]
William Hooker w/ DJ Olive & Glenn Spearman “Flow – Rt. 1 (Awake)” [Mindfulness]
Patti Smith “Radio Ethiopia” [Radio Ethiopia]
Giant Sand “Saturated Beyond Repair” [Provisions]
BAD SECTOR “EGO VIRGO Prologo 2 (Sweeps)” [Anthology of Post Industrial and Experimental Music from Italy]
8 Eyed Spy “Swamp” [Luncheon]
8 Eyed Spy “Run Through the Jungle” [Luncheon]
Dead Hawk “System Failure” [Split C22]
Green Milk from the Planet Orange “When Every Color Turns Black” [He’s crying “Look”]
Tiptons Sax Quartet “Laws of Motion” [Laws of Motion]
Doom is in the news to such a huge degree that the best your host could do was echo it. We will return to experimental music across genres next week and instead focus on the heavy stuff this show. Classic Metal, NWOBHM, Doom, Proto-Metal, Proto-Black Metal, Japanese Punk Metal, and LOTS OF SABBATH. Thanks to Ryan A. Ray for his help engineering and making sure the WTC speakers didn’t blow.
PLAYLIST:
Venom “Witching Hour” [Welcome to Hell]
Iron Maiden “2 Minutes to Midnight – 2015 Remaster” [Powerslave (2015 – Remaster)]
In light of current events bringing reproductive rights into the national conversation this episode of What’s This Called? is a presentation of all female artists and female led groups.
PLAYLIST:
Linda Hoyle “Pieces Of Me” [Pieces Of Me / The Fetch]
Moor Mother “Clock Fight” [Black Encyclopedia of the Air]
Laurie Anderson “Statue of Liberty” [Live in New York]
Ghost Bitch “Ridin’ (for Kathy Acker)” [Blood and Honey]
M.I.A. “TELL ME WHY” [/\/\ /\ Y /\ (Deluxe Edition)]
Dolphin Midwives “Break” [Body Of Water]
The Shaggs “Philosophy of the World” [Philosophy of the World]
Bikini Kill “Reject All American” [Reject All American]
Kim Gordon “Get Yr Life Back” [No Home Record]
Lydia Lunch “Summer of My Disconnect” [The War Is Never Over]
Jane Weaver “Modern Kosmology” [Modern Kosmology]
Bongwater “Birth” [The 20th Anniversary Of The Summer Of Love]
Marlo De Lara “Feeding the Crocodile” [Women Take Back the Drone]
Amy Denio “Lousy Wanker” [Tongues]
Elise Baldwin “Heliograph” [Women Take Back the Noise]
Myra Melford “Some Kind of Blues” [Live at the Knitting Factor Volume Two]
Les Calamités “The Kids Are All right” [Encore ! 1983-1987]
Buffy Sainte-Marie “The Vampire” [Illuminations]
Siouxsie and the Banshees “Pure” [The Scream]
Siouxsie and the Banshees “Jigsaw Feeling” [The Scream]
Yoko Ono “She Gets Down On Her Knees (feat. Penguin Prison)” [Yes, I’m A Witch Too]
The Slits “Trapped Animal” [Trapped Animal]
Laurie Spiegel “Drums” [The Expanding Universe]
Cyoakha Grace O’Manion “Feels Like Dying” [Unknown Music from Dream Quest of Kadath]
Jennifer Robin w/ Spirit Duplicator “KITTENS (Live)” [Death Confetti]
Cibo Matto “We Love Our Lawyers” [At Home With a Groovebox]
Sarah Neufeld “Tumble Down The Undecided” [Detritus]
Young Scientist “Ice Floe” [Third Noise Principle: formative north american electronica 1975-1984]
Ben Vida + Lea Bertucci “Permanent Singularity” [Murmurations ]
Tim Buckley “I Must Have Been Blind” [Blue Afternoon]
Resina “Manic” [Speechless]
The Electric Chairs “So Many Ways” [So Many Ways – Single]
Explosions In The Sky “Human History” [Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television)]
Laurie Anderson “Love Among the Sailors” [Live in New York]
Echoflex “Memoria” [Echoflex VII: Mythos]
Bit Shifter “• •” [Closed System Blues]
Sonic Youth “Campfire” [At Home With The Groovebox]
Mechanical Bull “Signal Unearthed” [Reach Out & Touch It ]
Cobra Killer “High Is The Pine” [76/77]
Astrid Sonne “Strong, Calm, Slow” [Cliodynamics]
Lisa Cameron & claire rousay “Spurn” [Vertices]
No Sound “Tomb” [“Hippie”]
Jad Fair “The Sound Of Music” [The Sound Of Music – An Unfinished Symphony In 12 Parts]
Argumentix “Gus Van Sant’s Last Days” [Boss of Goth]
The God in Hackney “Holt, Jarmara” [Cave Moderne]
Clock DVA “Exercise in Magnetic Tape No 4” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia of British Experimental and Avant-Garde Music 1976-1984]
The 012 “Asbestos Lead Asbestos” [Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984]
It’s been a busy and frantic time on a personal level for your host Ricardo Wang this weekend, so we are just getting to sharing the recording of Saturday’s radio show on Freeform Portland! It’s the first time in years that What’s This Called? hasn’t run a show preview, but if you missed the live stream you can still listen below! Thanks once again to Ryan Ray for engineering assistance while we wait to see when the Freeform Portland studio might reopen.
PLAYLIST:
Mouse “Ashen Besher” [Lady Killer]
Bill Nace “Boil First” [A-1238]
Plug “3.41” [Plug EP 1]
Helena Celle ” Real Time (Five Track Pentangle Edgelord Mix)” [ If You Can’t Handle You At Your Worst, Then I Don’t Deserve Me At My Best,]
Dawn of Midi “Tale of Two Worlds” [First]
Children of Osiris “Breathing” [Collective Discord]
FJ Pangolin “Stalagmites were once support” [Damage to the Field]
Mario Lino Stancati “Recall in the vacuum” [Vairagya]
Sonic Youth “Dans Les Bois / M. Rabier” [Simon Werner a Disparu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)]
Hypersurface “Scribbles in the Sky at Night” [Hypersurface]
Golden Death Music “Lost in Violence” [Ephemera Blues]
Sun City Girls “Elvis On a Shoestring” [Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol 3: Superculto]
Martina Testen “Afternoon: Panovec” [Biodukt]
Fennesz “Happy Audio” [Endless Summer]
Daniel Menche “From Here to Electricity (Granual Mix)” [From Here to Electricity]
Owls Are Not “Broadcast from Nowhere” [Radio Tree]
Sun Ra “Exotic Forest” [Nothing Is…]
Bit Shifter “The Diving Bell” [Closed System Blues]
The Legendary Pink Dots “Nirvana For Zeroes” [The Museum of Human Happiness]
In honor of Freeform Portland‘s 6th Anniversary! WTC proudly presents the following 1/2 hour audio birthday card. Other Freeform DJs are sharing theirs too all weekend long, so tune in!
PLAYLIST:
E-Roc “Horrorgoll” [Damaged Brains 2 (The Best Of Krautrock)]
Bauhaus “Paranoia, Paranoia” [Singles]
Tone Set “The Devil Makes the Loudest Noise” [Third Noise Principle: formative north american electronica 1975-1984]
Lee “Scratch” Perry “Disco Devil” [Lee “Scratch” Perry Presents The Full Experience]
The Fall “Eat Y’Self Fitter” [Perverted By Language (Expanded Edition)]
Soft Machine “Chloe And The Pirates – Remastered 2006” [Six]
Lee “Scratch” Perry “Free Up the Prisoners – 12″ Mix” [The Best of Lee Perry]
Buffy Sainte-Marie “God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot” [Illuminations]
Mosquito “AMB-01 Saturn” [Anthology Of Experimental Music From Japan ]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “18 morceaux, Op. 72, No. 2. Berceuse. 18 morceaux, Op. 72: No. 2, Berceuse (Arr. For theremin and piano)” [Rachmaninov, S.: Vocalise / Saint-Saens, C.: Le Cygne / Falla, M.: El Amor Brujo / Achron, J.: Hebrew Melody (The Art of the Theremin)]
Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 “Entoloma” [Hangin’ from the Devil’s Tree]
Mortal Engines “Sugar Skull, part 4” [Sugar Skull]
Scanner “My Lost Love Hunting Your Lost Face” [Delivery]
Rapoon & Sonologyst “Ghosts of My Life” [Hauntology in UK]
Witchy Poo “Bad Circulation” [Everybody Looks Good In a Helmet]
Luna “Ides of March of the Trolls” [A Place of Greater Safety]
SLW cc Watt “Lies Broken By The Truth” [Real Manic Time]
Pye Corner Audio “Ganzfeld Effect” [Stasis]
Hawklords “Free Fall” [25 Years On]
Sun Foot “Recession Psychonaut” [Purple & Orange Memorial Record]
Noggin “…and in the Spring of 1930” [North of Nowhere]
Sun City Girls “Ruins of an Old Casino” [Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol 3: Superculto]
Robert Fripp “Miniature” [The Cherry Red Records Singles Collection – Part 8]
Fred Frith “The Boy Beats The Rams (Kluk Tluce Berany)” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia of British Experimental and Avant-Garde Music 1976-1984]
The Raincoats “Fairytale in the Supermarket” [The Raincoats]
Nurse With Wound “I Was No Longer His Dominant (Alternate Version)” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia of British Experimental and Avant-Garde Music 1976-1984]
A long time ago (well 2020 anyway) in an undisclosed location far, far out of low power FM range, your host Ricardo Wang deviated from his normal non-genre oriented experimental music program to produce a series of specials for Freeform Portland during this age of Pandemic that feature a little something for the heshers. Because heshers gotta Pandemic too, dammit. But we digress.
What’s This Called? will return in two weeks with the usual unusual mix of drones, noise, ambiance, plunderphonics, musique concrete, post-punk, psych, and general weirdness. But right now, put your head between the speakers and use the Force!
PLAYLIST:
Dark “Zero Time” [I’m A Freak, Baby… A Journey Through The British Heavy Psych And Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-72]
Stargazer “Of the Sun” [The Scream That Tore the Sky]
The real life mother of your host Ricardo Wang, Sandy McAdams, was found deceased on December 28, 2021. Her last contact with the family was at Christmas. Lennon and I picked music to honor her in this program. It would be a lie to say that she was a fan of experimental music, yet she was very supportive of our endeavors (the boys’ and mine as well). We believe she would appreciate the statement. If you did not know her, we hope the great pieces of music we’ve chosen at least express the intensity of our love for and thanks to Sandy.
“ashes of a fallen moon”
PLAYLIST:
Spring Heel Jack “Church Music” [Songs And Themes]
Tortoise “Dear Grandma and Grandpa” [Millions Now Living Will Never Die]
Tim Buckley “Goodbye and Hello” [Goodbye And Hello]
The Microphones “You’ll Be in the Air” [The Glow, Pt. 2]
Bardo Pond “Tommy Gun Angel” [Lapsed]
Duster “Stars Will Fall” [Transmission, Flux]
Laurie Anderson “Slip Away” [Life on a String]
my bloody valentine “To Here Knows When” [Loveless]
Scott Walker “The Seventh Seal” [Scott 4]
black midi “Diamond Stuff” [Cavalcade]
Leaves of Autumn “Memento Mori” [7th Annual Report]
Instead of our regularly scheduled two hour What’s This Called? we are participating in the weekend long Freeform Winter Solstice DJ Challenge! Our half hour mix of experimental, psych, and post-punk flurries should chill your shortest day and longest night. The show airs three times this weekend on Freeform Portland interspersed between other amazing Solstice DJ sets from Freeform all-stars. You may listen below at any time to the WTC contribution.
PLAYLIST:
The Membranes “Ice Age” [To The Outside Of Everything: A Story Of UK Post Punk 1977-1981]
Tea & Symphony “Winter” [An Asylum for The Musically Insane]
Nico “Frozen Warnings” [The Marble Index]
Bauhaus “Exquisite Corpse” [The Sky’s Gone Out]
Yoko Ono “Listen the Snow Is Falling ” [Wedding Album]
Soft Machine “All White – Remastered 2006” [Fifth]
The Flying Lizards “Summertime Blues” [The Flying Lizards]
Freeform Portland is in this year’s Willamete Week Give!Guide and this What’s This Called? show kicks off our participation in spreading the word. Sonicaly of course.
This will be the closest What’s This Called? air date to Halloween this year so in traditional Spooktacular mode the following musical selections will hopefully send chills up our spine.
IF YOU DARE:
PLAYLIST:
Lustmord featuring Soriah “Grigori” [The Word as Power]
Alien Sex Fiend “Dead And Buried” [The Best Of Alien Sex Fiend]
Taphephobia & IDFT “Owl” [Kandu]
Mind Beams “Ambitious Corpse” [Crone]
Blue Öyster Cult “Subhuman” [Secret Treaties]
Bauhaus “In Fear of Fear” [Mask]
The Caretaker “An Autumnal Equinox” [Everywhere at The End of Time]
Alice Cooper “Hallowed Be My Name” [Love It to Death]
William Hooker “Ghost Dance” [Armageddon]
Mary Ellen Childs “Wreck: Spirit Duet (after Kolokol)” [Mary Ellen Childs: Wreck]
Four Dimensional Nightmare “Grave of Lillian” [Icicles]
400 Blows “Beat the Devil” [The Elephant Table Album]
The Incredible String Band “Witches Hat” [Acid Folk]
Sun City Girls “Ruins of an Old Casino” [Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol 3: Superculto]
Domotic “Le Demon (Theme)” [Le Demon Des Hautes Plaines]
Unwound “Demons Sing Love Songs” [Leaves Turn Inside You]
After 16 years of Saturday daytime programming, What’s This Called? is moving to the evening hours again, albeit Early Evening. The program will now be heard alternate Saturdays on Freeform Portland from 6-8 PM Pacific Standard Time. We’ll still be on all three Freeform terrestrial low power FM radio signals around Portland Oregon 90.3 FM, 98.3 FM, and 101.5 FM as well as streaming from: http://listen.freeformportland.org:8000/stream with the shows archived just prior to air each week right here at the Listening Center.
And Now 6 PM!:
PLAYLIST:
Hood “How Can You Drag Your Body Blindly Through” [The Cycle Of Days & Seasons]
Teach Me Equals “Dictionary of Imaginary Places” [Knives in the Hope Chest]
Sound Animal “Fountain of Artificial Dreams” [Soundcloud]
Istvan Marta “Doom. A Sigh” [Black Angels]
The Hafler Trio “A Thirsty Fish/The Dirty Fire” [Tyranny of the Beat]
Tonga Boys w/ Doctor Kanuska Group “Maji Ndimoyo (Water Is Life)” [Umoyo Wa Muthempire (Live in the Temple)]
Bill Horist “Hakurankai: Omatsuri Yarou” [Mutei – Music for Davida Monk’s Dream Pavilion]
Glaxo Babies “Shake (The Foundations)” [Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984]
Tortoise “Glass Museum” [Millions Now Living Will Never Die]
Duke Ellington “Anatomy of a Murder – Stereo Single Version” [Anatomy of a Murder]
Bad Girl “City of Dead” [The Beyond – Music Inspired by the Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy]
Thrones “Googander” [Alraune]
Chris & Cosey “Raining Tears of Blood” [Songs of Love & Lust]
Blectum From Blechdom “Mummy Secret Storage” [Haus de Snaus]
Wendy Carlos “Timesteps (excerpt)” [A Clockwork Orange Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Jackie O Motherfucker “Something On Your Mind” [Liberation (Reissue)]
A Special set of Classic Metal and Proto-Metal with just a touch of PNW Punk-Metal and Progressive Thrash for Freeform Portland. No telling when this one will air as it’s a fill in show for substitutions, but you can sway your head to it at any time via the link below!
PLAYLIST:
Iron Maiden “Phantom of the Opera – 2015 Remaster” [Iron Maiden (2015 – Remaster)]
Third World War “Hammersmith Guerilla – 1999 Remaster” [Third World War II (2001 remaster)]
Green River “Your Own Best Friend – Deep Six” [Dry as a Bone (Deluxe Edition)]
TRUST “Prefabricated – Soundtrack Version” [Heavy Metal Soundtrack]
Black Sabbath “Megalomania – 2013 Remaster” [Sabotage (2014 Remaster)]
Voivod “Tribal Convictions” [Dimension Hatröss]
Krokus “School’s Out” [Stayed Awake All Night]
Alice Cooper “Killer” [Killer]
The Melvins “Leech” [Singles 1-12]
The Gun “Race with the Devil” [Gun]
Judas Priest “Sinner” [Sin After Sin]
Metallica “Eye of the Beholder (Remastered)” […And Justice for All (Remastered Deluxe Box Set)]
Diamond Head “No Remorse” [Lightning To The Nations 2020]
After three full years in the 2-4 PM PST time slot on alternate Saturdays on Freeform Portland, What’sThis Called? is moving to 6-8 PM PST on the same day! We were as surprised by this move as anybody, but as we’re currently still making shows from an undisclosed location during the Covid-19 Pandemic, it doesn’t change our bi-weekly routine. You’ll just be able to sleep later on Saturdays and still hear us live on Freeform at 6 o-clock!
This will be the last show to air in the 2 PM spot, but be back next week as we kick off the new season at Freeform Portland with our first bi-weekly 6 PM PST show broadcasting live at KFFP-LP 90.3 FM, KFFD-LP 98.3 FM & KYQT 101.5 FM in the Portland metropolitan area and #StreamingLive at http://listen.freeformportland.org:8000/stream
HEAR THE LAST 2 PM SHOW HERE:
PLAYLIST:
Hood “How Can You Drag Your Body Blindly Through” [The Cycle Of Days & Seasons]
Teach Me Equals “Dictionary of Imaginary Places” [Knives in the Hope Chest]
Sound Animal “Fountain of Artificial Dreams” [Soundcloud]
Istvan Marta “Doom. A Sigh” [Black Angels]
The Hafler Trio “A Thirsty Fish/The Dirty Fire” [Tyranny of the Beat]
Tonga Boys w/ Doctor Kanuska Group “Maji Ndimoyo (Water Is Life)” [Umoyo Wa Muthempire (Live in the Temple)]
Bill Horist “Hakurankai: Omatsuri Yarou” [Mutei – Music for Davida Monk’s Dream Pavilion]
Glaxo Babies “Shake (The Foundations)” [Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984]
Tortoise “Glass Museum” [Millions Now Living Will Never Die]
Duke Ellington “Anatomy of a Murder – Stereo Single Version” [Anatomy of a Murder]
Bad Girl “City of Dead” [The Beyond – Music Inspired by the Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy]
Thrones “Googander” [Alraune]
Chris & Cosey “Raining Tears of Blood” [Songs of Love & Lust]
Blectum From Blechdom “Mummy Secret Storage” [Haus de Snaus]
Wendy Carlos “Timesteps (excerpt)” [A Clockwork Orange Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Jackie O Motherfucker “Something On Your Mind” [Liberation (Reissue)]
Robyn Hitchcock “Blues in A” [Invisible Hitchcock]
“In Quarantine” long became an unnecessary qualifier. We are still at an undisclosed location making expunkimental music radio programs for Freeform Portland and the world. Your host Ricardo Wang would like to thank Ryan A. Ray for his massive technical assistance in this ongoing new garage radio environment. Last show the host’s son Lennon co-hosted, and this show his younger son Asa hung out in the secret studio. Goodbyes to Lee Scratch Perry and Charlie Watts followed by sonic experiments across genres and locations at the end of summer.
PLAYLIST:
Lee “Scratch” Perry “Here Come The Warm Dreads” [Heavy Rain]
The Orb “Ball Of Fire” [THE ORBSERVER in the star house (feat. Lee Scratch Perry)]
Mad Professor “Power to Mr Perry” [Black Ark Classics in Dub]
The Rolling Stones “Fingerprint File – Remastered” [It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (2009 Re-Mastered)]
The Rolling Stones “Jigsaw Puzzle – 50th Anniversary Edition” [Beggars Banquet (50th Anniversary Edition)]
The Comet Is Coming “Astral Flying” [Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery]
The Pop Group “Rob A Bank” [For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?]
This show was a lot of fun as Ricardo Wang’s 13 year old son Lennon tag team DJed with him to a very shoegaze rocking result.
PLAYLIST:
Silzedrek “Gwen’s Pen” [I Stumble And Then I Fall]
Swallows “From the Bottom Up” [Me With Trees Towering]
Silver Mt. Zion “13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round The Side Of Your Bed” [He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms]
my bloody valentine “Sometimes” [Loveless]
They Are Gutting a Body of Water “moerenuma park” [Destiny XL]
Sly & The Family Stone “Spaced Cowboy” [There’s A Riot Goin’ On (Expanded Edition)]
Thin Lizzy “Return Of The Farmer’s Son” [Thin Lizzy]
Built To Spill “Twin Falls” [There’s Nothing Wrong With Love]
Duster “Earth Moon Transit” [Stratosphere]
Scott Walker “30 Century Man” [Scott 3]
Be Bop Deluxe “Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape” [Axe Victim]
Sweet Trip “Milk – 2021 Remaster” [You Will Never Know Why (2021 Remaster)]
Wire “Spent” [Send]
Comus “The Bite” [First Utterance]
Calm “Moonraker” [Moonraker]
Have A Nice Life “Earthmover” [Deathconsciousness]
Unwound “Off This Century” [Leaves Turn Inside You]
Sun “Reach For The Sky (Pluramon Remix)” [Wire Tapper 9]
David Bowie “Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me – 2016 Remaster” [Diamond Dogs (2016 Remaster)]
Krobak “It’s Snowing Like It’s the End of the World” [Little Victories]
Boards of Canada “I Saw Drones” [Geogaddi]
Autechre “Flutter” [Anti]
The Bran Flakes “Tic Tac Rhythm” [I Don’t Have A Friend]
It’s theFreeform Portland Summer Fundrasierso if you are able, please SUPPORTFreeform and What’s This Called? The legendary DJ Victrola of Guitar Shop Radio joined your host Ricardo Wang for two hours of enthusiastic musings and music that shows what Free Sound is all about.
PLAYLIST:
Midwinter “Sanctuary Stone” [Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966-75]
Fairport Convention “The Lobster” [Fairport Convention (Bonus Track Edition)]
Loo(p)cy “Time Machine” [7th Annual Report]
Mia Zabelka “Prelude to Shock” [Aftershock]
Ennio Morricone “1970” [Il Gatto A Nove Code – Le Chat À Neuf Queues]
Blue Sausage Infant “The Devil Himself” [Supple Supple]
Curved Air “Vivaldi – Remastered” [Lullabies For Catatonics: A Journey Through The British Avant-Pop/Art Rock Scene 1967-74]
Pas Musique “Elderly Women On Black (Wire Cut)” [The Wire Tapper 56]
Four Dimensional Nightmare “Bugs” [The Raven Stands Tall With It’s Wings Spread]
Sun Ra “At First There Was Nothing/The Universe Has More To Offer You/Wake Up Angels” [Outer Space Employment Agency ]
Big Scenic Nowhere “Towards the Sun” [Dying On The Mountain]
The forecast for Portland OR is that when What’s This Called? airs Saturday from 2-4 PM PST on Freeform Portland the temperature will rise from 100 degrees Fahrenheit to 104 degrees. While this is not the hottest things are supposed to get, it should kick off the unbearable, and the sounds of the show are intended to bouy listeners through the intense heat. Listen below:
Playlist:
Pussy Galore “Revolution Summer” [Historia De La Musica Rock]
Sun City Girls “Suncitivity” [Box Of Chameleons]
Amy Denio “Detroit (13,692 / 1119)” [Pandemonium]
Sly & The Family Stone “Sex Machine” [Stand]
RhaD “Tesla. Sound documentary 1” [METAMUSIC]
Soft Machine “Moon In June – Remastered 2006” [Third]
The Orb “More Gills Less Fishcakes” [Pomme Fritz]
Sun Ra “Discipline 99 (Live)” [Outer Space Employment Agency ]
Parliament “Liquid Sunshine” [Motor-Booty Affair]
Ben LaMar Gay “Galveston” [Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun]
Rahsaan Roland Kirk “I Wished on the Moon – Live in Atlantic Studios” [Here Comes The Whistleman [Live]]
Tortoise “Along the Banks of Rivers” [Millions Now Living Will Never Die]
Seven That Spells “Black Om Rising” [Black Om Rising]
The Misunderstood “I Unseen” [Brokenroad]
Autechre “Draun Quarter” [Envane]
Kronos Quartet/Kevin Vollans “White Man Sleeps #1” [White Man Sleeps]
What’s This Called? is honored to have been renewed for another season at the most creative radio station in the Multiverse Freeform Portland! It’s the 5th Anniversary of the station, and DJs were asked to create a 29 minute #PartyMusic set. What follows is our birthday card to the radio station of our dreams!
PRESS PLAY TO PARTY:
PLAYLIST:
Thollem and Andy Kaufman “Zero Bottles of Beer on the Wall” [Always Put on Your Sincere Space]
Redd Kross “Annette’s Got the Hits” [Red Cross]
Trade Martin “We’ll Be Dancin’ On the Moon” [Destination Moon (50 Years On the Moon)]
Soiled/Marcus H/Gary Seabrook “Drowning in Oxytocin” [Blue Nineteen]
Afrika Bambaataa “Planet Rock” [Planet Rock]
Brian Eno “King’s Lead Hat – 2004 Digital Remaster” [Before And After Science]
David Bowie “I Dig Everything” [I Dig Everything: The 1966 Pye Singles]
Lucy Bonk “Slapstick Apocalypse” [Ladyz in Noyz 3]
Thelma Houston “Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon” [Sunshower (Expanded Edition)
Gong: Acid Mothers Gong “Crazy Invisible She – Live” [Live In Tokyo]
Muslimgauze “Narcotic” [Narcotic]
Ivanka Cotrina “Yachag” [Anthology of Contemportary Music from Peru]
The Move “Disturbance” [A Slight Disturbance in My Mind (The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of 1966)]
Boards of Canada “1969” [Geogaddi]
Carmen “TALES OF SPAIN” [Fandangos In Space / Dancing On A Cold Wind]
Nun Gun “Under the Throne” [Mondo Decay]
Victor Peraino “Time Captives” [Journey in Time (feat. Kingdom Come, Arthur Brown)]
The Kinks “Brainwashed – Stereo / 2019 – Remaster” [Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (2019 Deluxe)]
Yo La Tengo “Drug Test” [Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 PLUS A Smattering of Outtakes and Rarities 1986-2002]
Richard Barbieri “Solar Sea” [Introducing… Richard Barbieri]
Kid606 “Hold It Together” [Resilience]
Hawkwind “Lost in Science” [The Machine Stops]
The Bee Gees “Play Down” [A Slight Disturbance in My Mind (The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of 1966)]
Gentle Fire “Live At ICES 72 (excerpt)” [Explorations (1970-1973)]
Tycho “Epoch” [Epoch]
Babani Soundsystem “Dan Bwa” [Dan Bwa]
Agitation Free “Khan El Khalili” [Malesch]
Mariel Roberts “Hoard” [Armament]
Orchestra Of Spheres “Cluster” [Brothers and Sisters of the Black Lagoon]
Genesis “Firth of Fifth – New Stereo Mix” [Selling England by the Pound]
Chico Hamilton Quintet “Night Beat” [Sweet Smell of Success (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)]
On March 1, 2021, Lennon turned 13. As this is the first What’s This Called? since then, it is also his birthday show! He ran the entire two hours and picked all the songs!
PLAYLIST:
Lovesliescrushing “babysbreath” [bloweyelashwish]
The Microphones “The Glow, Pt. 2” [The Glow, Pt. 2]
Duster “Echo, Bravo” [Stratosphere]
Elliott Smith “Bottle Up And Explode!” [XO]
Nirvana “Dumb” [In Utero – 20th Anniversary Remaster]
Red House Painters “Katy Song” [Red House Painters I]
Grouper “Living Room” [The Man Who Died in His Boat]
Cocteau Twins “Lazy Calm” [Victorialand]
Slowdive “Souvlaki Space Station” [Souvlaki]
LSD and the Search for God “This Time” [LSD and the Search for God]
Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” [The Bends]
Built To Spill “Carry the Zero” [Keep It like a Secret]
Boris “Farewell” [Pink (Deluxe Edition)]
Rumskib “Springtime” [Rumskib]
Astrobrite “Crasher” [Crush]
Ringo Deathstarr “Gazin” [Ringo Deathstarr]
Drop Nineteens “Winona” [Delaware]
black midi “Near DT, MI” [Schlagenheim]
Neutral Milk Hotel “Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2” [In the Aeroplane Over the Sea]
Horse Jumper of Love “Spaceman” [Horse Jumper of Love]
Lovesliescrushing “Xarella Almandyne” [xuvetyn]
Neutral Milk Hotel “Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye” [On Avery Island]
Some songs about the Yuletide (“No Presents for Christmas”; “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope”…) Some songs from 2020 (“Pandemic Abberation”; “self”…) and some songs that just feel like 2020 (“Psychic Mumbles”, “Spent”…)
PLAYLIST:
Pink Fairies “Uncle Harry’s Last Freakout” [Never Never Land]
Manna / Mirage “Alchemist in the Parlor” [Rest of the World]
King Diamond “No Presents for Christmas” [The Dark Sides]
Teth Sin “Pandemic Abberation” [6th Annual Report]
Space Afrika “self” [hybtwibt?]
Myako “Walnut” [Shape Platform 2019]
The Damned “There Ain’t No Sanity Clause” [The Chiswick Singles and Another Thing]
Sigur Ros “Untitled” [Wire Tapper 9]
John Fahey “Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today” [The Hired Hands: a Tribute to Bruce Langhorne]
SHD “Black Winter Sun” [6th Annual Report]
Tame Impala “Alter Ego” [InnerSpeaker]
Jordan Reyes “Drifter” [Sand Like Stardust]
Einstürzende Neubauten “Vanadium-I-Ching” [Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.]
The actual challenge for the Freeform Portland Pre-Winter Fundraiser was the theme: Future Fun. But we weren’t listening very well. So What’s This Called? presents: FUTURE/NOW!
PLAYLIST:
Hawkwind “Welcome to the Future – Complete Version” [Space Ritual]
Edward Ka-Spel “The Border Of Beyond” [The Victoria Dimension]
E.E. Cummings “Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind, Not” [Pleasure Dome: Audible Modern Poetry Read by its Creators]