The cobweb covered walls begin to shake, there is a clanging of chains, a murmuring of voices from the other side, you hear a call between the screams of terror, you go to the old half forgotten phone in the wall, but the line is DEAD.
SLAYLIST:
Psionic Asylum “The Hall” [Music For Haunted Asylums]
The Incredible String Band “October Song – 2010 Remaster” [The Incredible String Band]
Curlew “Agitar / The Victim” [CBGB 1987 / Taktios Festival 196]
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]
Another free floating show for Freeform Portland that could air anytime the need exists with Lennon joining Ricardo in the Elusive Hangar to spin the Expunkimental Hits! Engineered with love by Ryan A. Ray.
PLAYLIST:
Cat Power “Colors And The Kids” [Moon Pix]
Blue Öyster Cult “Flaming Telepaths” [Secret Treaties]
Hoover “Electrolux” [The Lurid Traversal of Route 7]
The Thrones “Ursa Minor” [Alraune]
Bruno Pernadas “Spaceway 70” [Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them]
Brian Eno “Dead Finks Don’t Talk – 2004 Digital Remaster” [Here Come The Warm Jets]
Leo Alves Vieira “Darkroom” [Anthology Of Experimental Music From Latin American Artists]
Luciano Cilio “Primo quadro “della conoscenza”” [Dialoghi del presente]
Swans “Blind” [White Light from the Mouth of Infinity]
The Hypnogogic Orchestra “Phrustration” [The Hypnogogic Orchestra]
Ziyo “Graffiti” [Ziyo]
Modest Mouse “Bankrupt On Selling” [The Lonesome Crowded West]
Richard Begin “Détermination des masses atomiques” [Phase 5]
From the fog of Instanbul to the frogs of Wisconsin, this show has got it all!
(Please note the third piece by Daniel Menche contains long passages of extreme low frequency sound that may lead some to think stereo equipment is not functioning properly).
PLAYLIST:
lhan Mimaroğlu “Prelude No.17 – Istanbul Fog” [An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music]
Good Night & Good Morning “Median II” [Narrowing Type]
Daniel Menche “Vent Part 7” [Vent]
Simon Finn “Jerusalem” [Pass the Distance]
Reg Bloor “The Wreckage of Your Presence” [Viewer Discretion Is Not Advised]
Lync “B” [These Are Not Fall Colors]
Telesterion “Land of the Lost” [Hall of the Mysteries]
Grouper “Headache” [Paradise Valley]
Pole “Heim (Four Tet Remix)” [Four Tet v Pole]
Frog Concert “A Dive in the Current” [Slumbering Sounds of the Frog Fellowship]
Laurie Anderson “Sweaters” [Live in New York]
Nico “No One Is There – Copenhagen” [In Europe Do or Die Diary 1982]
Julius Eastman “The Moon’s Silent Modulation” [Julius Eastman Vol. 3: If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?]
Sun City Girls “Amethyst Nightgown” [Box Of Chameleons]
Clock DVA “Exercise in Magnetic Tape No. 4” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia of British Experimental and Avant-Garde Music 1976-1984]
The Velvet Illusions “Acid Head” [Acid Head]
Actual Music “Gravitational” [Gravitational]
Blancmange “Overspreading Art Genius” [Irene & Mavis]
John Zorn & Spy Vs. Spy “Space Church ” [Spy Vs. Spy (The Music of Ornette Coleman)]
Farzan Salsabili & Vesal Javaheri “The Mock for fixed media” [8th Annual Report ]
F.J. Pangolin “As they flattened the tides” [This Beach Knows Aasarco]
Rapoon “The Fall of the House of Usher” [Mysterium, Incubus et Terror Music Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe stories]
Miles Davis “Feio (feat. Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul & Dave Holland)” [Bitches Brew Boxed Set]
Weyes Blood “Movies” [Titanic Rising]
nil. “0622.4” [01]
전자양 “Full moon” [Day Is Far Too Long]
Nigel Simpkins “Scattered Strategies / Oblique References” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia Of British Experimental And Avant-Garde Music 1976 – 1984]
Number Girl “SAPPUKEI – 2001/8/29 渋谷 AX「騒やかな群像」” [OMOIDE IN MY HEAD 2 ~記録シリーズ1~]
Nels Cline “Grow Closer” [Initiate]
The Damned “Plan 9 Channel 7” [Machine Gun Etiquette]
Sonic Youth “Au Café” [Simon Werner a Disparu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)]
Tom Verlaine “Ore” [Warm and Cool]
Patife Band “Corredor Polonês” [Corredor Polonês]
Lowercase “She Takes Me” [Kill The Lights]
Espi Kvlt “Lady Macbeth” [Denies My Tongue To Tell]
Soul Coughing “Pensacola” [El Oso]
Pö “Over The Clouds” [Cociage]
Les Rallizes Dénudés “Enter the Mirror – 2022 Remastered” [’77 LIVE (2022 Remastered)]
Lia Kohl “or things maybe dropping” [The Ceiling Reposes]
Joy Division “Decades – 2007 Remaster” [Closer (Collector’s Edition)]
Ricardo & Lennon tag team Expunkimental Music gusts.
PLAYLIST:
Ulver “The Future Sound of Music” [Perdition City]
Dark Day “The Metal Benders” [Window]
Chris & Cosey “The Giant’s Feet” [Trance]
Gustavo Cerati “Alma” [Bocanada]
Black To Comm “Laccifer Lacca” [Rückwärts Backwards]
Mr. Bungle “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare” [California]
Besvärjelsen “In The Dark” [Frost]
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]
Experimental Audio Research “As the Night Starts Closing In” [Phenomena 256]
Jorge Ben Jor “Errare Humanum Est” [A Tabua De Esmeralda]
Natural Snow Buildings “Dance of the Moon & Sun” [Dance of the Moon & Sun]
All Them Witches “41” [Nothing as the Ideal]
Songs: Ohia “John Henry Split My Heart” [Magnolia Electric Co. (Deluxe Edition)]
Eyeless In Gaza “Invisibility” [Sixth Sense]
The Stone Roses “Made of Stone – Remastered” [The Stone Roses]
The What’s This Called? #HolidaySpecial on Freeform Portland! 6-8 PM Pacific Standard Time, Christmas Eve 2022.
PLAYLIST:
Greg Skloff “Commencing” [8th Annual Report ]
Joseph Achron “Hebrew Melody, Op. 33 (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)]
Green River “Away in a Manger” [Another Pyrrhic Victory]
Delphine Dora “opus divinum” [Hymnes Apophatiques]
John Fahey “Red Cross, Disciple Of Christ Today” [Red Cross]
Rush Coil “Joy to the World” [8-bit Christmas]
Ginger Baker’s Air Force “We Free Kings” [Airforce 2]
Unto Ashes “Krampusnacht (For Krampus the Christmas Demon)” [Spellbound in Winter]
Yellow6 “Old Roads” [Old Roads New Paths (Merry Xmas 2021)]
Foxygen “Rise Up” [Hang]
Nonconnah ” The Valley Of The Cupped Hand Of God” [Winter EP]
Four Dimensional Nightmare “Icicles” [Icicles]
Galaxie 500 “Listen, The Snow Is Falling” [This is Our Music]
Yoko Ono “Walking On Thin Ice” [Yes, I’m A Witch]
Sigur Rós “Varúð” [Valtari]
The Legendary Pink Dots “A Star Is Born” [The Gethsemane Option]
Sonic Youth “Hoarfrost” [A Thousand Leaves]
Philip Polk Palmer “Silent Night” [Silent Night]
Kronos Quartet “Winter Was Hard” [Winter Was Hard]
Zach Zinn “As We Fell from Our Radiant Palaces” [8th Annual Report ]
The Money Show. It’s the Fall/Winter Fundraiser at Freeform Portland and so this show is themed around the struggle to get by in a world run by credits and debits.
PLAYLIST:
Negativland “Gimme the Mermaid” [No Business]
Black Flag “Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie” [Damaged]
Spinal Tap “Gimme Some Money” [This Is Spinal Tap]
Alien Sex Fiend “I Am a Product” [Who’s Been Sleeping in My Brain]
Sandman “Everything Is Free” [Roll Out Cowboy]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum “The Creature” [Of Natural History]
Kim Gordon “Get Yr Life Back” [No Home Record]
The Pop Group “Rob A Bank” [For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?]
The Legendary Pink Dots “Pennies for Heaven” [Maria Dimension]
Orbit Service “Minutes, Dollars, Days” [Twilight]
The Bran Flakes “Turn The Channel It’s Another Commercial” [I Don’t Have A Friend]
Unknown “Ban Deoderant #2” [1960s Psychedelic Radio Commercials]
Ben LaMar Gay “Muhal” [Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun]
Steinski “The Payoff Mix” [What Does It All Mean? – 1983-2006 Retrospective]
Laurie Anderson “Puppet Motel” [Live in New York]
Eric B. & Rakim “Paid In Full” [Paid In Full]
23 Skidoo “Coup – 12″ 45 Version” [Urban Gamelan]
The Upsetters “Dollar In the Teeth” [Ska & Reggae Classics]
Lindsay Cooper “General Strike” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia of British Experimental and Avant-Garde Music 1976-1984]
Have A Nice Life “There Is No Food” [Deathconsciousness]
The Incredible String Band “Empty Pocket Blues – 2010 Remaster” [The Incredible String Band]
Woody Guthrie “The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)” [Dust Bowl Ballads]
Fleetwood Mac “The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) – 2013 Remaster” [Then Play On (2013 Remaster; Expanded Edition)]
The best genres are based upon the denial of genre. Experimenting does not exist in a single palette and improvising even less so. The file labels are needed to figure out where to find more of the good stuff, but don’t let them convince you of anything more. What this is called may be jazz or ambient or noise or drone or all and none of the above. The music invites you to be free with it.
PLAYLIST:
Steinski “Jazz” [What Does It All Mean? – 1983-2006 Retrospective]
Charlie Parker “All The Things You Are” [Bird After Dark]
Sun Ra “Somewhere Else – Pt. 1” [Somewhere Else]
Sun Ra “Somewhere Else – Pt. 2” [Somewhere Else]
Spring Heel Jack “With Out Words” [Songs And Themes]
Jessica Lurie “Up From The Bottom Of The Well” [Licorice & Smoke]
David Bowie “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)” [Nothing Has Changed]
DJ Krush “Le Temps” [Milight]
Ben LaMar Gay “Oh No…Not Again!” [Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun]
Duke Ellington “Upper and Outest” [Anatomy of a Murder]
Ghidra “Floating Butterfly WIngs On Fire” [The Sound of Speed]
Rashan Roland Kirk “The Ragman and the Junkman Ran from the Businessman They Laughed and He Cried” [Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata]
Tom Waits “Frank’s Song” [The Early Years Vol. 1]
Ornette Coleman “Focus on Sanity” [The Shape Of Jazz To Come]
The Lounge Lizards “The Magic Of Palermo” [No Pain For Cakes]
Astrud Gilberto “Windy” [Windy]
Flying Lotus “Kill Your Co-Workers” [Pattern+Grid World]
Sia “Breathe Me – Four Tet Remix” [Colour The Small One (Deluxe Edition)]
We visited the new Freeform Portland studio by Zoom. Soon we will set foot inside and not too far in the future, What’s This Called? Will move back out of the Elusive Hangar and into the new REAL radio station. Ryan Ray will get a huge break from podcast engineering when that happens! But we don’t even have dates yet, so here we have Lennon joining Ricardo again from the Elusive Hangar to prove once again that Expunkimental Music begins at home.
PLAYLIST:
The Beach Boys “Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)” [The Smile Sessions]
Chrome “Armageddon” [3rd From The Sun (Bonus Tracks)]
This Heat “Health and Efficiency” [Health and Efficiency]
Yo La Tengo “Autumn Sweater” [I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One]
Susumu Hirasawa “Town-0 Phase-5” [救済の技法 (Kyuusai no gihou)]
Kasumi Trio “summer is over” [Oh! Gimme You]
jealousy mountain duo “leaf kickers” [jealousy mountain duo no2]
Burial “Homeless” [Untrue]
Dexorcist “Dark Times” [Electroklash]
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma “Love’s Refrain” [In Summer]
The Lounge Lizards “No Pain For Cakes” [No Pain For Cakes]
Coil “Fire of the Mind” [The Ape Of Naples]
Hunting Lodge “Simulation/Stimulation” [Third Noise Principle: formative north american electronica 1975-1984]
Gustavo Cerati “Tabu” [Bocanada]
hAshtAgblAck.n.o.i.s.e “Forked” [ Anthology Of Contemporary Music From South Africa]
Pescado Rabioso “Cantata de Puentes Amarillos” [Artaud]
Horse Lords “Mess Mend” [Mess Mend]
Drive Like Jehu “Here Come the Rome Plows” [Yank Crime]
The Grail Carol “Dead Space Chamber Music” [Hauntology in UK]
Art Bears “Rats And Monkeys” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia Of British Experimental And Avant-Garde Music 1976 – 1984]
While WTC has never been a stranger to the melodic or catchy song, obviously the nature of the show more often veers into longer and musically challenging territories. So with Freeform Portland putting out a call for more unscheduled “evergreen” shows, your host Ricardo Wang decided to put together two full hours of ear candy. Admittedly the show could have been called What’s This Oldies? as nothing on the playlist is at all contemporary. But it was the psychedelic pop of the late ’60s and the often overlooked catchier “prog pop” of the early ’70s that inspired this show. A few post-punk pop tunes also found their way in of course. Very few hits to be heard overall, though Ricardo will jump at any excuse to play a Carpenters smash, and well, ELO’s finest moment may be a disco song.
PLAYLIST:
Harry Nilsson “Mr. Richland’s Favorite Song” [Aerial Ballet]
To supply Freeform Portland with an extra WTC for when they need an emergency substitute DJ, we have produced this special “Evergreen mix” of crooked beats and hot fish. DJ Ricardo Wang joined in the booth by Asa with engineering assistance by Ryan Ray.
PLAYLIST:
Mouse On Mars “Glim” [Cache Coeur Naif]
Fussible “Casino Soul” [Nortec Collective: The Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 1]
Radioactive Man “Do The Radioactive” [Radioactive Man]
Steinski “Lesson 3 – History Of Hip Hop” [What Does It All Mean? – 1983-2006 Retrospective]
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]