Legendary Percussive-electronic-prepared guitar Portland duo Office Products and Salem OR’s secret plunderphonic atmospheric weapon Mini-Mutations each performed live in the Freeform Portland studio before their early evening performances for Record Store Day at Speck’s Records and Tapes in Kenton! Global experimental sounds and a long stretch from the Faust Tapes surround them,
HEAR the 1st Hour HERE:
HEAR the 2nd Hour HERE:
Playlist:
Owls Are Not “Broadcast from Nowhere” [Radio Tree]
Faust “Tracks 1-5” [The Faust Tapes]
Green Milk from the Planet Orange “Butterfly” [He’s Crying “Look”]
Mini-Mutations “Live on What’s This Called?” [Freeform Portland]
Nur “Mediterranean” [Sound Mapping Package]
Tonga Boys “Buranda” [Vindodo]
Harry Nilsson “Down” [Nilsson Schmilsson]
Thomas (Tad) Andrew Doyle “Outside of Reality” [Experiments of the Specral Order Vol. 1]
Office Products “Live on What’s This Called?” [Freeform Portland]
Senyawa “Gerhana” [Acaraki]
Lee Hazlewood “Won’t You Tell Your Dreams” [Requiem for an Almost Lady]
Black Sabbath “Into the Void – Remastered Version” [Master of Reality (Remastered Edition)]
An eagle flew over Freeform as we entered the station, and we started with a tribute to Scott Walker. But then a Cyokha Grace song died in the player and later John Cage reading Finnegan’s Wake looped itself and stole the show. We ended with more tribute to Scott.
Hear the 1st Hour HERE:
Hear the 2nd Hour HERE:
Playlist:
Scott Walker “Fetish” [Soused]
Varese Sarabande “The Dating Game Theme” [TV Game Show Themes]
Sun Ra “Priest” [Somewhere Else]
Cyoakha Grace O’Manion “And If I Fall” [Unknown Music from Dream Quest of Kadath]
Zilmrah “0003” [Hippocampus Obscura]
CloudWatchers “Piece 1” [CloudWatchers]
John Cage “Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake, Pt. 4” [Cage: Roaratorio]
Chester Hawkins “No Body” [apostasy suite]
Two or The Dragon “Prelude for the Triumphant Man” [Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music]
Ben LaMar Gay “Oh no…not again!” [Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun]
Mecca Normal “Armchairs Fit Through Doorways – Live” [Brave New Waves Session]
Paper Dollhouse “Glass Tower” [Empty Rave]
Stress Distress “The Jetty” [Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music]
Bastard Squid Implant “Burning House Collapsing” [District of Noise Vol. 3]
Replikants “Centuries of Presecution Won’t Stop Us” [This Is Our Message]
Dan West “Hear It (Creeping Down the Alley)” [d’Animal l’Ogic]
Hans Castrup “Re-Finition of Formal Construction (feat. Carla Worgull)” [Heterogeneous Cell Information]
Rev Magnetic “Sunny Windy Winter Morning (Rainbows Spanning the Valley)” [Versus Universe]
Two entire separate two hour shows make up this week’s streaming and/or downloading offerings! First there’s the bi-weekly edition of What’s This Called? at Freeform Portland, and it’s an episode chock full of 90% brand new experimental musics! Then later that day Ricardo Wang returned to the Freeform studio to lay down What’s This Country? substituting for the High Steppers in Sin City program. Tune in and feel free to cry in your beer.
March 1, 2008 my oldest son Lennon was born. He first came to the sub-basement studio at KPSU as an infant and read his first legal ID on the air at 4 years old. Now, 7 years later, he got to celebrate his new tweeness at a new station and be this week’s lead dj for What’s This Called? He rocked it.
HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:
HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:
PLAYLIST: (Note due to traffic issues, Lennon got in to do the ID ahead of me! So the first song and a half are actually overtime from the excellent Music of Folk show).
Cheap Trick “Heaven Tonight” [Heaven Tonight]
David Bowie “I Can’t Give Everything Away” [Blackstar]
Nirvana “Son Of A Gun – BBC John Peel Session 1990” [Incesticide]
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts “Different” [Unvarnished (Expanded Edition)]
Judas Priest “Riding on the Wind” [Screaming For Vengeance]
Melvins “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” [Everybody Loves Sausages]
Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” [The Bends]
The Beatles “Doctor Robert – Remastered 2009” [Revolver (Remastered)]
The Beatles “Nowhere Man – Remastered 2009” [Rubber Soul (Remastered)]
What’s This Called? happened Saturday 2/16 in it’s usual time at Freeform Portland from 2-4 PM Pacific Standard Time. However, we are also substituted for Unclaimed Baggage on Sunday 2/17 4-6 PM PST. 4 hours of strange, noisy, droney, plunderphonic, psychedelic, post-punk, outsider music! And the national emergency has declared a national emergency!
It’s time to declare the What’$ Thi$ Called? 3 Day Pre$ident$ Day $ale! Imagine a sale where you don’t have to buy anything, where the sounds are Free, and the drinks are on the house (because you are probably at home!)
HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:
HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:
HEAR THE THIRD HOUR HERE:
HEAR THE FOURTH HOUR HERE:
PLAYLIST:
Ken Nordine “The Sound Museum” [You’re Getting Better: The Word Jazz – Dot Masters]
Peter Brotzmann & Bill Laswell “Death Rattle” [Low Life]
Blonde Redhead “Harmony” [La Mia Vita Violenta]
Healer Oran “TaP{-“ [Anthology of contemporary music from Africa continent]
The Beach Boys “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) – Remastered” [Pet Sounds (Original Mono & Stereo Mix Versions)]
The Late Severa Wires “Live at the Olympia Experimental Music Festival” [My Space single]
Beat Happening “I Spy” [Beat Happening]
Sonic Youth “Madonna, Sean, and Me” [Evol]
Chester Hawkins “Magnetisk Nord (edit)” [Magnetisk Nord]
FRKTL “Hverfa at himni heioar stjornur” [Anthology of contemporary music from Africa continent]
Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” [Selected Favorites]
Yo La Tengo “Dreaming” [Freedom Of Choice: Yesterday’s New Wave Hits As Performed By Today’s Stars]
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