6 February 2016

Today on What’s This Called? at KPSU.org from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time, let the outer sounds take you to inner space.

Your host Ricardo Wang brings you decoded audio messages from the likes of A Silver Mt. Zion, A Star Too Far, Chrome, Sun Ra, Steven Severin, Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion, Julie Ruin, Ariel Kalma and MORE!

Tune your deep listening devices to hear it go down live!

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Playlist:

So Far: The Julie Ruin – “Apt. #5” from Julie Ruin; Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion – “Ride It ‘Till the End” from Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath; Robert Aiki, Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma – “Wasp Happening” from We Know Each Other Somehow

So then we had: CHROME – “All Data Lost” from Alien Soundtracks, me yakking then A Silver Mt. Zion – :”Movie (Never Made)”‘; A Star Too Far – “Damn Mirage” from Saucers Over Lincoln on Beta-lactam Ring Records

Next: Steven Severin – “Wand of Flame Part Two” from Wand of Flame on EROTOTOX DECODINGS

Going to end with Mecca Normal – “Rigid Man In an Ice Age” from The Eagle & The Poodle.

30 January 2016

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time hear the Return of What’s This Called? on KPSU.org! Your host Ricardo Wang took his elderberry juice and is now healed (mostly…) and ready to bring you the sounds from way out there!

On tap: Jarboe (Happy Birthday today!), Jefferson Airplane (RIP Paul Kantner), Mahler Haze, The Orb, Robert Wyatt, Armchair Migraine Journey and MORE!

Set your controls for the Audio Stream and prepare for a strange and beautiful journey.

Playlist:    Track   Artist   Album

In My Garden   Swans  Children of God

The Soul Continues   Jarboe featuring Attila Csihar   Mahakali

Moon Quake 6   The Orb   Moonbuilding 2703 AD

And Then it Rained   Bing & Ruth   City Lake

Today   Jefferson Airplane   Surrealistic Pillow

Wooden Ships   Jefferson Airplane   Volunteers

Lord of This World   Mahler Haze   Ropey

Rebirth Blood Om (excerpt)  Armchair Migraine Journey   Blood Coupling Magnet

Forest   Robert Wyatt   Cuckooland

Gazing the Blue   Cyclpsycho  single

Blank Page of the Blind   Melt Banana   Bambi’s Dilema

16 January 2016

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time set your listening device for KPSU.org and another LIVE episode of What’s This Called? (perhaps “barely alive” is more accurate as your host Ricardo Wang is fighting something off but refuses to miss the show!)

Certainly not going to ignore that soon after playing a song from David Bowie’s album last week, the artist left the Earth. However, enough people are covering his work all over the world right now that it is more important for WTC to bring new material. We’ll delve into the great recording from new Unexplained Sounds Group compilation including tracks by Zach Zinn, Gregg Skloff, Steve Moshier, Marlo Guida, and Sonologyst, plus some other surprises from elsewhere in the Multiverse!

Join Us, Join Us, Join Us…

9 January 2016

Happy Saturday! Join us from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time at KPSU.org for another live streaming edition of Ricardo Wang‘s two decade exploration of unusual audio What’s This Called?

The RVNG INTL label (pronounced “REVENGE International” apparently) from NYC sent us what amounts to your host’s favorite package received this season. Brace yourself for extreme experimental new sounds from Anna Homler & Steve Moshier, Bing & Ruth, Savant, Ariel Kalma w/ Robet Aiki & Aubrey Lowe, Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper (deconstructing Portugese folk music), and Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl!

Streaming LIVE 12-1 PM PST.

If I have any time left after all that, I’ll play something from the new David Bowie album.

26 December 2015: Boxing Day on What’s This Called?

This year’s White Noizze Xxmaz on What’s This Called? has been cancelled as our annual guest star Noah Mickens has informed us that he can no longer offer his services as he has entered into, shall we say, a much cozier agreement.

However, we digress. The show, somebody must have once said convincingly, must go on. And although we may be feeling boxed in and trapped at this conjuncture, that’s OK because it is in fact BOXING DAY!

So set your listening device at 12 PM Pacific Standard Time to the beautiful KPSU audio stream and let your host Ricardo Wang recover along with you from the holiday explosion. 

The Christmas goats bey one last time as we pack all our decorations and loot away to the likes of The Melvins, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Giant Worm, Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live, Chrome, Edward Ka-Spel, Mecca Normal, A Silver Mt. Zion, Volcano the Bear, and perhaps most exciting, Brand New Cyclopsycho!

Your holiday decompression is our pleasure.

19 December 2015

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time your host Ricardo Wang reveals some of his picks for best experimental music recordings of 2015 on What’s This Called? at KPSU.org!

Your host admits, he didn’t always get to recordings right when they came out and in researching for this show found favorites for the year he hadn’t heard yet. But honestly, that isn’t too far from how the show is put together every week… Tago Mago is still one of the best records I listened to a lot in 2015 even if it came out a few decades before.

Relive (or live for the first time if you’re just getting up…) 2015 while we are still barely in it! Hit the Audio Stream at Noon

Show Playlist:

• Maar   Daniel Menche & Mamiffer   Crater
• CybersKapes (edit)   Edward Ka-Spel   CybersKapes
• Lionsong   Bjork   Vulnicura Strings
• Lunar Caves   The Orb   Moonbuilding 2703 AD
• Huffing Panties for the Emperor   Armchair Migraine Journey  A Brained Hefty Yeti Fry
• f = (2.3)   Carter Tutti Void   f (x)
• World War 4   A Star Too Far   Saucers Over Lincoln
• Kannon 2   Sunn O)))   观世音 Kannon
• Damogen Furies   Squarepusher  Damogen Furies
• Shadow Child  The Pop Group   Citizen Zombie

And Here Is Ricardo’s 2015 10 Favorite Experimental Recordings List!

Daniel Menche & Mammifer – Crater
Sunn O))) – 观世音 Kannon
Edward Ka-Spel – CypersKapes
The Orb – Moonbuilding 2703 AD
Carter Tutti Void – f (x)
Bjork – Vulnicura Strings
A Star Too Far – Saucers Over Lincoln
The Pop Group – Citizen Zombie
Squarepusher – Damogen Furies
Armchair Migraine Journey – Blood Coupling Magnet

5 December 2015

• Space Car Concept Car PRND Soundcloud
• Time and the Diamond Zach Zinn Slow Fall
• Think of One Christian Asplund with Logan Hone (Thelonius Monk) Locust Salon, 9 October 2015
• Distorted Reality Particle Smasher Soundcloud
• Cfutr 0 SunFalls Soundcloud
• With Kind Regards (edit) Year of the Lips Soundcloud
• Frogman Cometh Nital Etch Film Soundtrack
• Threshd Bruce Hamilton Soundcloud
• Bemsha Swing Devilsclub Soundcloud
• Landings Kaapin Soundcloud

Footnotes: https://whatsthiscalled.net/2015/12/05/5-december-2015

Blow the roof off Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time. your host Ricardo Wang brings you experimental and irregular sounds on What’s This Called? from wherever there is electricity.

Dance your synapses to the likes of PRND, frst hwiin chrch of mscln, Christian Asplund, Zach Zinn, Particle Smasher, Bruce Hamilton, Sunfalls, Nital Etch, Year of the Lips, Devilsclub, Kaapin and MORE!

Reattach your clock tower and set it to the Audio Stream!

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28 November 2015

Warm yourself with the beautiful friction of experimental music, drone, noise, an the unexpected today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on What’s This Called? at KPSU.org Your host Ricardo Wang brings you a cozy set of non-holiday themed sounds to toast your chestnuts to. Bastard Noise to Sun Ra and all points in between and outside.

Feel free to post requests in the comments.

Stream It!

• Fire Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
• Her Fires Chill Me Old Time Relijun 2012
• Picnic on a Frozen River Faust So Far
• Blue Is the Frequency Royal Trux Veterans of Disorder
• Dry Bones in the Valley (I Saw the Light Come Shining ‘Round and ‘Round Gastr Del Sol Upgrade and Afterlife
• Instrumental – 2 Guitars (cut) Deanne McAdams demo
• Wash Hands Pro Ex Marauders demo
• Seeing the Same Fate Bastard Noise Skulldozer
• Black Wall Six Organs of Admittance The Sun Awakens
• The Sweaty Hide of Circumstance Chris Knox Yes!!
• Moon Dance Sun Ra Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
• She Took a Long Cold Look Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs
• 99 Bottles of Beer Melvins Tres Cabrones

21 November 2015

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time your host Ricardo Wang brings you another hour of oddness in audio called What’s This Called?

Preview the early mix of a forthcoming track by Mahler Haze, plus lots of other goodies from the likes of Giant Sand, Soriah, Thrones, Young Marble Giants, Jandek, Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live, Chrome, Moodring, Stereolab, and MORE!

HIT IT

• The Aachen March (1st Mix) Mahler Haze Soundcloud
• Mercuric Thrones Alraune
• Chaos Organica in A Minor (edit) Soriah Chaos Organica in A Minor
• Highway Going Home Jandek Portland Thursday
• Blasting Through Nothing Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live I am That Great and Fiery Force
• Colassal Youth Young Marble Giants Colassal Youth & Collected Works
• Rintin Fire Moodring Scared of Ferret
• Lester Lampshade Giant Sand Backyard Barbecue Broadcast
• You Lost It Thrown Ups Sub Pop 200
• Ping Pong Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet
• All Data Lost Chrome Alien Soundtracks
• Bride of Crankenstein Melvins Hold It In

14 November 2015

Escape to the Wood Between the Worlds for a bit today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time as your host Ricardo Wang brings you What’s This Called? Live from the KPSU studios.

Happy Birthday to Wendy Carlos, plus Enoch Light presents Spaced Out, Einsturzende Neubauten, Miles On the Corner, Rebecca Moore, Kronos Quartet/Wu Man, Kraftwerk, Tyranosaurus Rex, and MORE!

Streaming Into Your Head.

• Timesteps (excerpt) Wendy Carlos A Clockwork Orange Soundtrack
• News Kraftwerk Radio-Activity
• Sister Marianne Rebecca Moore Home Wreckordings 1997-1999
• Mr. Freedom X Miles Davis On the Corner
• Bildbeschreibung Einsturzende Neubauten Strategies Against Architecture II
• Carry On, Turn Me On Space Tango in Space
• What the World Needs Now is Love Enoch Light Spaced Out
• Earth Dance Kronos Quartet/Tan Dun Ghost Opera
• Displacement Theory Blowhole Billowing Sheen
• Afghan Woman Tyranosaurus Rex My People Were Fair With Sky in Their Hair.. But Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows
• Our Wonderful Brownskin Man Tyranosaurus Rex Prophets, Seers and Sages, the Angels of the Ages
• Strange Orchestras Tyranosaurus Rex My People Were Fair With Sky in Their Hair.. But Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows

7 November 2015

Leaves wither and die and get shoved around by noisy fume spouting, tube blowing, backpacks of doom. But you, you can still listen to What’s This Called? TODAY at Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time.

Your host Ricardo Wang brings you ear cleansing sounds including brand new Daniel Menche and Mamiffer, Sudden Infant, Meredith Monk, Ariel Kalma, Throbbing Gristle, Festive Jackals, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Michiko Kawagoe, and MORE!

Stream it LIVE.

31 October 2015: Early Witching Hour

Today! Halloween! Start your witching hour early from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time for a listener and recording artist curated Halloween special What’s This Called? live on KPSU!

Listener and artist suggested spooky experimental tracks in the candy bag by the likes of: Fifty Foot Hose, Lydia Lunch, the Shaggs, Doug Theriault (Happy Birthday!), John Fahey, Cathedral Sounds, Diamanda Galas, the Fall, Kid Koala and MORE!

Stream It Like the Trick or Treaters Washing Down the Portland Streets Tonight

24 October 2015

Get your mind together from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time with your host Ricardo Wang and a new live melting of the media known as What’s This Called? Crunchy taste on tap from Instagon, the Hausmanns, Rocket from the Tombs, dvb, FHTAGN, Zach Zinn, Muslimgauze, Expo 70, the Bran Flakes, Sun Ra and MORE! Going down in the KPSU studio and your listening device!

STREAM CITY.

17 October 2015: As The Crow Flies…

On tap a royal blue chip mix of the likes of Teach Me Equals, The Waiters (featuring Matt Love), Fadnu (Sami Joik music w/ experimental influences), Beast (Daniel Menche), Nico (on her 77th birthday), Reg Bloor, Von Helwig and MORE!

As the Crow Flies…

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Playlist

3 October 2015: The October Files

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on KPSU.org, your host Ricardo Wang brings you an all new October edition of What’s This Called? complete with birthday music from Artis the Spoonman, Joey Ramone performing John Cage, Faust, Chrome, Boards of Canada, ARU, Ariel Kalma, Unwound, and MORE!

Streaming Like Leaves at the Mercy of an Unholy Blower: http://stream.kpsu.org:8080/listen

Track   Artist   Album

Occult Vibrations Lungfish Necrophones
Highway Going Home Jandek Portland Thursday
Title Unknown – July 4, 1994 The Boredoms KXLU 88.9 FM, Los Angeles Live Vol.
Leaves of Life Black Happy Day In the Garden of Ghostflowers
Jacquard Causeway Boards of Canada Tomorrow’s Harvest
Timegrinder Ffej Emulation Phase (EP)
Ghosts Won Bugskull Distracted Snowflake
One Three Two Sufian Abdullah Music To Break Out of Jail By

…In the Spirit Faust So Far
October All Over (Live) Unwound Live Leaves
Creature Eternal Chrome Half Machine Lip Moves
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs Joey Ramone (composed by John Cage from text by James Joyce) Caged/Uncaged—A Rock/Experimental Homage to John Cage
Sector Nine Giant Worm Castings
Phototechnique ARU The Golden Strand EP
Live on Night Music Artis the Spoonman You Tube
Bakafrica Ariel Kalma Le Temps Des Moissons
Dark Circles Hammock Departure Songs
Yes I’m Changing Tame Impala Currents
Bad Vibrations Black Angels Phosphene Dream
Saturday Sun Nick Drake Five Leaves Left

15 August 2015: All KPSU CD Library Show

The Wangmobile is going in for an airbag recall in the Couv tomorrow at 7 AM, so my preparations for this week’s What’s This Called? are going to be on the fly.

With this in mind, what a great week to delve into the classic cd library in the KPSU studio. Lets be real, even at KPSU not that many djs ever open the top couple drawers of the cabinet and wax nostalgic all over obscure electronic experimental compilations with Nurse With Wound and Bastard Noise, but you know that your host Ricardo Wang does. And so this week it will be ALL recordings from the first few drawers of the KPSU cd library. What weird indie underground experiments showed up in 1994 when the station began?

8 August 2015: Back from Tanelorn

Your soul is an echo chamber on this week’s What’s This Called? with your host Ricardo Wang fresh returned from his Multiversal travels to bring you pan, verb, and flange from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard TIme on KPSU.org!

Timothy Leary doses Ash Ra Tempel, Bob Bucko Jrcovers David Byrne, Arrington de Dionyso walks into the KAOS studio in 1996 and hands me a cd he just finished in a popcorn bag, iMoodring, ARU, Fejj,The Legendary Pink Dots, Analog Tara, and MORE!

STREAMING LIVE INSIDE YOUR MIND

Actual Playlist

Track * Artist * Album

Space/Time RWang remixes * Ash Ra Tempel * Seven Up
Themselves * Bob Bucko Jr. * BBJR
Manticore/Lion Tamer * Old Time Relijun * Songbook Vol. I
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) * Bob Bucko Jr. * BBJR
Magnus Harmonica * Analog Tara * Women Take Back the Noise
Into the Doom * Moodring * Scared of Ferret
Heat Rage * ARU * Dub Plate Vol 3.5
Pendulum * Legendary Pink Dots * The Gethsemane Option
No Outlet * Fejj * Patterns in the Storm Vol. 1

Twitter Playlist

Earth 1 Ricardo Wang returns from Tanelorn on What’s This Called?
About to go LIVE w/ Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary duel in Space & Time!
Bob Bucko Jr. into Old Time Relijun, but not the BBJR song promised, so he gets 2 this week!
Moodring, ARU, and Leg. Pink Dots to bring it on home.

01 August 2015:  “The Greatest Heel In The Garden” or “Two Tributes At Once”

Today at 12pm, PST on What’s This Called on kpsu.org, your host, Ricardo Wang from Earth Two will be honoring The Greatest Heel that ever wore a kilt.

AND….For the first time ever in radio history, a second tribute will be attempted at the SAME time as the tribute to The Greatest Heel occurs. Ms. Lynn Anderson, who left us as well this week will be remembered today. Two hours of memories, words, and songs lovingly packaged into one hour. Radio history, people, radio history!

Ricardo Wang is at the beach collecting 2 dozen eggs for an omelette. He’ll be back, (i swear), next week!!!

But if you know what’s good for you, you’ll be here in The Pit.

25 July 2015: The Appropriation Before The Appropriation

Don Joyce

(February 9, 1944 – July 22, 2015)

Today at 12pm, PST on KPSU.com, we will be honoring the legacy of Don Joyce. Since I will be transmitting from Earth Two, I was only able to obtain the tip of the iceberg that is the work of Mr. Joyce and an interview with him and Mark Hosler. Ricardo Wang  from your earth will be back next week with his own tribute, which will  be more of everything that I, Ricardo Wang, can not offer you from Earth Two.

18 July 2015 – The Chi Chi Mix

A week ago through the awesome natural force of weedeater juice, the Universe unleashed it’s fury on several of Ricardo’s compact discs. Yet just yesterday the program was gifted by the very same Universe with this mysterious pile of empty jewel cases and the CDR marked only as Chi Chi Mix. All perfectly arranged on the street.

11 July 2015: MIDSUMMER AFTERNOON DREAM

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time, your enduring host Ricardo Wang brings the noise in all 31 flavors for a new Live Stream of What’s This Called?

MIDSUMMER AFTERNOON DREAM

Track * Artist * Album

Frozen Angels * Zoe Keating * One Cello x 16: Natoma
Psykick Dancehall * The Fall * Dragnet
Pipeline to Vertigo * Two Foot Flame * Live on WFMU 1997
Icecream Daydream * Bugskull * Distracted Snowflake
Feelings * The Bran Flakes * I Don’t Have a Friend
Systems * Fejj * Emulation Phase (EP)
Climbing the Mountains of Mars * Noggin * Noggin
My Head Popped * Steve Fisk * 999 Levels of Undo
Decidedly Wooley Balearic * The Silverman * Blank for Your Own Message

27 June 2015: Buddha Bar

As your host Ricardo Wang is away for the Olympia Experimental Music Festival, this week’s edition of What’s This Called? will be in the highly capable hand of KPSU’s own DJ Victrola (AKA Vicky Mazzone)! Ms. Victrola, hostess of the awesome long running Guitar Shop, always brings a fresh and unique perspective to the experimental proceedings and you won’t want to miss her Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time!

Set your controls for the heart of the Live Stream.

Buddha Bar:

Track * Artist * Album

Shaft * Malik Adouane * Buddha Bar Compilation I – Buddha’s Party
Smell of Paradise * Sa Trincha * Buddha Bar Compilation II – Buddha’s Dinner
Secret Love * Nicos * Buddha Bar Compilation III – Dream
Dancing With The Muse * Chris Spheeris * Buddha Bar Compilation IV – Drink
Far Away * Trumpet Thing * Buddha Bar Compilation V – Dinner
Sunrise (DJ Thunda & K20 Allstars Mix) * Afterlife * Buddha Bar Compilation VI – Rejoice
Whatever Lola Wants (Gotan Project Remix) * Sarah Vaughn * Buddha Bar Compilation VI – Rejoice
Magma Mama * Ramasutra * Buddha Bar Compilation VII – Sarod
Once Upon The Sea of Blissful Awareness * Shpongle * Buddha Bar Compilation VIII – Paris
Flight BA0247 * Mystic Diversions * Buddha Bar Compilation XI – Royal Victoria
Love Theme From Ben Hur (Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix) * Czech Philharmonic Orchestra feat Sophie Solomon * Buddha Bar Compilation X – Xiangqi

13 June 2015

Of course we say goodbye to Ornette A. Coleman at the top of the hour today at Noon Pacific Standard Time on What’s This Called?  In addition we visit tracks from Steve Roach, Foxdye, ARU, Amenta Abioto, Barbara Morgenstern, Jandek, Sun Ra, Cabaret Voltaire and MORE! Streaming all over your speakers.

Track  Artist  Album

Space Flight Ornette Coleman Forms & Sounds
Science Fiction Ornette Coleman Science Fiction
Lonely Woman Kronos Quartet White Man Sleeps
Priorities Steve Fisk 448 Deathless Days
Looking Down a Hill Morgenstern Sometimes Silence is an Answer
The Eternal Sphynx Sun Ra Crystal Spears
Whose Mister Is This Jandek Portland Thursday
Heart Stuttering Foxdye ladyz in noyz 3
If You See Me Amenta Abioto SadoDamascus Summer Copulation re 2014
Abraxix Atticus ARU Dub Plate Vol 3.5
Consumed by Sunlight (edit) Steve Roach Possibilities of Circumstance

06 June 2015: Staying The Upstream

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time on What’s This Called? your host Ricardo Wang from Earth Two will be battling the salmon bravely this week with words from Ernie Kovacs and Brother Theodore, songs from leopards feat. Deanne McAdams, Nina Hagen and Princess Chelsea. Les Baxter will showing off his x-ray eyes in 3-D if you get the broadcast directly on Earth Two. There’s only so much bandwidth on Earth One.

1.   Expo 70 – Lysergic Sunrise (7:26)
2.   leopards – middecember (4:30)
3.   Brother Theodore – Introduction and Berenice (8:44)
4.   Les Baxter – Las Vegas Lights from The Man with the X-Ray Eyes soundtrack (With         Sound Effects) (1:04)
5.   Nina Hagen – Iki Maska (5:10)
6.   leopards – red murder grey dawn (3:06)
7.   Ernie Kovacs – Mack The Knife (Theme From “The Three Penny Opera”); Percey             Dovetonsils a) Happy Birthday b) Cowboy(4:35)
8.   The Sons of Amargosa – Dying Diary (2:17)
9.   Mike Vickers – Tomorrow Today (2:19)                                                                           10. John Baker – The Macra Terror ”Musak” from Doctor Who sounddtrack(3:19)
11. Princess Chelsea – Monkey Eats Bananas (3:24)
12. Les Baxter – Outtake Suite from The Man with the X-Ray Eyes soundtrack(2:44)

24 May 2015: Wolves, Monsters and Monsters’ Wives or How I Learned to Hold It In (No Recording)

Today, on What’s This Called?, we will learn. We will learn in both ears. Separately and together, we will hear about monsters, wolves and and the monster’s wife who fear the wolves.

We also will be under the control of Ricardo Wang from Earth Two who brings you lessons, songs and words about experimental things.

We are hoping the satellite dishes that we fashioned from Christmas Trees and Pyrex will help with the signal when the Earths align today.

1. Classic Sesame Street – Monster in the Mirror (original version) (2:26)
2. Luigi Russolo – Macchina Tipografica (3:14)
3. Velimir Khlebnikov – The Radio of The Future (1921) (3:47)
4. Discovering Electronic Music (1983) (21:41)
5. Prof. Christian Wolff lecture- Experimental Music (57:58)
6. Dziga Vertov – From the Rumor of a Sawmill (1916) (1:34)
7. Soul Entertainer — Respect — Pink Elephant 22.026 (1969) (2:07)
8. Experimental Music – Astma & Anton Mobin – Russia, France (22:13)
9. Shoreditch- Experimental Music School 1969 (30:10)

10 May 2014: Ricardo Is Two Places at Once (St. John’s Parade Report) (Retrocast)

Two separate incarnations of your host Ricardo Wang met through the simple philosophy that all times are happening simultaneously.  Ricardo Wang in the KPSU blithely spun Glenn Branca and then took a phone call from Ricardo Wang live at the St. John’s Parade in Portland’s most surreal neighborhood.  Hilarity and a good deal of distortion ensued. Try the place on Lombard.

2 May 2015

Today from noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time your host Ricardo Wang brings you experimental sounds from out there including Mahler Haze, Eric Hausmann, Marissa Magic, Ornette A. Coleman, Jandek, Yellow Swans, Akai Ikuo, Cabaret Voltaire, noisepoetnobody & Vance Galloway and MORE on What’s This Called?

18 April 2015: Never Surrender to a Cucumber

Today, our earth and earth 2 have aligned briefly to allow Ricardo Wang to recover at home while he will also be at Kpsu to bring you today’s show! All at the SAME time!

WOW!

Expect to see the UFO’s that Jimmy Carter has seen, head off to Mars with Sergeant Sawtooth and pulling fingers of your children or future spawn at the ol ballgame.

Make sure to tune in to What’s This Called? from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time.

Playlist:

1.Mission to Mars – Sergeant Sawtooth (4:38)
2.Jimmy Carter Says ‘Yes’ by Gene Marshall (2:23)
3.eX-Girl – Cucumber Surrender (5:27)
4.Lumisokea The Engineerist (7:46)
5.glenn branca solo 1978 (2:00)
6.Pull My Finger – A Short Film (5:09)
7.Bob Mould’s I Don’t Know You Anymore on Fenway Park organ at Red Sox game (6-12-14) (2:30)
8.Half Japanese – Every Hour (2:45)
9.Victorious Onanism – SpitefulWomb (3:00)
10.James Fella – And Timbers (split CDr w- Shivers – Tape Tektoniks, 2007) (2:10)
11.Part 3 – 130 Human Heart- Elias Foley at Abstracted – March 2015 (8:16)

21 March 2015: Tunacan Jones turns 50 LIVE

Saturday, March 21st from noon to 1 PM Pacific Time, we spring into celebration as Tunacan Jones turns 50 LIVE on What’s This Called? That’s right, Portland’s favorite napping guest star is taking on the big 5-0 publicly and with the dignity you’ve come to expect from him.

Yes there will be music! Streaming audio goodness from the likes of They Keep to Themselves, Crank Sturgeon, Akero – Jedi girl, Blonde Redhead, Luigi Russolo, Tuxedomoon, ARU, Remora, Half Japanese,Jandek, and MORE! (well maybe not much more because when Tunacan gets to talking…)

Playlist:

Tuxedomoon “No Tears”
Blonde Redhead “Jetstar”
Remora “Slow Ghost”
1/2 Japanese “Lucky Town”
Fritzi Massary
Number Girl “I Don’t Know”
Sparklehorse
Buck Owens
ARU “Perfect Horizon”
Jandek “Down Clown”
Crank Sturgeon
Akero “Maiden’s Grave”
Burt Bacharach “Raindrops Falling”

Bruce Pavitt

13 December 2014: Bruce Pavitt Interview! (Retrocast)

Your host Ricardo Wang has the pleasure of interviewing the founder of the Sub Pop fanzine and subsequent record label Bruce Pavitt. Bruce has a new book that celebrates the early zine and radio show days of Sub Pop, and we’ll hear some selections from Sub Pop 5 one of his earliest cassette zines.

28 February 2015: Experimental Grab Bag

Tod Dockstader R.I.P., music from Elliott Sharp, Jonathan Newman and MORE!

21 February 2015: R.I.P. Mark Trayle

What’s This Called? begins this week with a tribute to electronic composer/improvisor Mark Trayle who passed away this week with tracks from both Mark’s extensive solo catalog and from his 1980s computer networking collective The Hub. Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on Kpsu Portland.

17 June 2006 (Retrocast)

As a number of factors worked against Big Tom The Lithuanian getting in the KPSU studios, here’s a WTC re-run from 2006 that not only contains one of his songs, but a number of amazing tunes from the recent past.  More eclectic fun in the ear drums.

31 January 2015: The CD Revival NOW!

Because the LA Weekly has declared that the CD Revival is now officially on, your host Ricardo Wang will be “spinning” all compact discs on this week’s What’s This Called?

Edgar Froese

24 January 2015: Yr Dead Yr Alive

Your host Ricardo Wang celebrates the cycle of death and life on a brand new episode of What’s This Called? with tributes to the passing of Negativland’s Ian Allen and Tangerine Dream’s Edgar Froese and brand new vibrant material from Nova Scotia’s Little Current and MORE!

Earth 2

17 January 2015: Earth 2 Bilingual Static

As scientists hone in on a real Planet X, how much longer before they make that next giant leap and “discover” Earth 2? Ricardo Wang has known all along and proves it again on this week’s What’s This Called??, Portland Earth 1 Ricardo Wang handed Earth 2 RW a stack of cds from his garage and said, “Take these brother may they serve you well.” You, the listener, will be transported via inner ear wormhole to an alternate universe of experimental sounds with a host who is hauntingly familiar. MATTRESS, Sun City Girls, Noiseman 433, and Art Ensemble of Chicago spun from across the universe, and MORE! RW2 promises surprises from his Edison cylinder collection as well…

10 January 2015: Open Yr Eye

Brand new Cyclopsycho and crazy old favorites from everyone else.

Bruce Pavitt

13 December 2014: Bruce Pavitt Interview!

Your host Ricardo Wang has the pleasure of interviewing the founder of the Sub Pop fanzine and subsequent record label Bruce Pavitt. Bruce has a new book that celebrates the early zine and radio show days of Sub Pop, and we’ll hear some selections from Sub Pop 5 one of his earliest cassette zines.

In Space, No One Can Hear You Broadcast

29 November 2014: Footspace or Sagan gets it.

Footspace! We’re going to OWN Sagan’s ass, mo-fo scientist. Your host Ricardo Wang is literally NOT HIMSELF and What’s This Called? will fold inside itself and bring the wormhole to your ear. Your listening device may never be the same…

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22 November 2014: Without the Title, the Registration Means NOTHING!

This is an experimental music program.

Take It To Space

15 November 2014: Take It to SPACE

When Ricardo Wang heard the Rosetta comet music this week, What’s This Called? took a sudden turn to outer space.

The Curing for S.A.D.

8 November 2014: The Cure for S.A.D.

Kicking Giant

8 November 2014: Kicking Giant Pregame Show!

Day of The Dead

1 November 2014: Day of the Dead

We mean it man.

Tues. October 28, 9 PM

25 October 2014: Old Fashioned Halloween Spooktackular!

Preparing for my live dj Halloween party at Kelly’s Olympian in downtown Portland next Tuesdau 10/28 9 PM to Midnight!

The Not Found Four

18 October 2014: 404 ‘What’s This Called?’ Not Found

On tap this week, odd sounds and bizarre arrangements from the likes of Floating in Silence, The Blues Magoos, Unwound, Flying Lotus, Brown, Therefore, William Hooker, St. Vincent, MIA, Urthquake, Bob Bucko Jr., Sand Snowman, Black Saturn, Olekranon and MORE!  (Plus: a secret pre-game show with some live performances for you to enjoy.)  

1) Unwound – “October All Over” – Leaves Turn Inside You – Kill Rock Stars
2) Drifting In Silence – “Echo” – Desire – Labile Records
3) William Hooker with DJ OLIVE & Glenn Spearman – “Archetypal Space” – Mindfulness – Knitting Factory Works
4) Flying Lotus – “Time Vampires” – Pattern + Grid World – Warp
5) St. Vincent – “Huey Newton” – S/T – Loma Vista Republic
6) Urthquake – “The Beast” – Discograph – Spooky Tree Records
7) Black Saturn – “The Blessing Tree (Exclusive)” – Alrealon Musique Presents: New Sonic Strategies – Alrealon Musique
8) Brown – “In Haystacks (edit)” – In Haystacks – Infinite Whim
9) Therefore – “Brown” – Khrom – Inlet Recordings
10) Bob Bucko Jr – “In the Wind I Hear Music” – Blast the Past – Personal Archives
11) Olekranon – “Devil Effect” – Tins and Shadows
12) M.I.A. – “Warriors” – Matango – Interscope
13) The Blues Magoos – “Rush Hour” – Kaleidescopic Compendium – Mercury
14) Sand Snowman – “An Evening in the Fall” – Nostalgia Ever After – Beta-lactam Ring Records