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20th Olympia Experimental Music Fest Preview!

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Austin Rich

20th Olympia Experimental Music Fest Preview!

All artists who will be performing at the 20th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival at the Northern 6/27-6/29.

Solar WindGiant WormVolume 1: Can of WormsOEMF 2011 at the Northern (SSG Music)L.A. LungsOlympia Experimental Music Fest 17Manticore/Lion TamerOld Time RelijunSongbook Vol. 1BootstrappingElliott SharpLive December 17, 2008All Souls DayUnwoundNew Plastic IdeasOEMF 2011 at the NorthernEric OstrowskiOlympia Experimental Music Fest 17Perfect Scrambled EggsNegativlandEscape from NoiseMan With Four Fingers (Live)Negativland1992

26 April 2014: Huaraches Morning

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Austin Rich

26 April 2014: Huaraches Morning

MATANGI	M.I.A.	Matangi
I Told You I Was Crazy	Melvins	Tres Cabrones
Bells of Atlantis (1952)	Bebe and Louis Barron w/ Anaïs Nin	Bells of Antlantis Score
Relief of the Night	Jandek	Living in a Moon So Blue
Hodmandod	Romvelope	Cotomountain
Ashes	Orbit Service	A Calm Note from the West
Yfirbord	Sigur Ros	Kveikur
Extra Terrestrial Tabernacle	Bastard Noise	Rrrevenge Disc 2 (PUMPKINMAN)
LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY (excerpt)	THE GAGMEN	Wire Tapper 32
Ben’s Radio	Sun City Girls	Funeral Mariachi
The Seer Returns	Swans	The Seer

15 April 2006: Special Easter Program! (Retrocast)

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Austin Rich

15 April 2006: Special Easter Program!

Easter	Patti Smith Group	Easter
I’m So Jealous of Jesus	Sebadoh	Weed Forestin
Suprize, It’s Easter	Erase Errata	At Crystal Palace
Equaled in Life	Jandek	I Woke Up
Faith/East Wind	Minute Men	Post Mersh Vol. 1
Christianity is Stupid	Negativland	Escape from Noise
Jesus Christ	Big Star	Big Star’s 3rd
I’m Beginning to See the Light	Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground
Resurrection	Tangerine Dream	Electronic Meditation
God’s Will	Lungfish	The Unanimous Hour
Dance of Death	Calexico	I am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey
Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today	John Fahey	Red Cross
Halos	Orbit Service	Songs of Eta Carinae
Judas Saves	The Residents	Wormwood
Wall of Breath	Peter Gabriel	Passion (soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ)
Hallowed Be Thy Name	Sonic Youth	Love Doll Superstar

19 April 2014: Special AMP KPSU Edition w/ DJ Banjo

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Austin Rich

19 April 2014: Special AMP KPSU Edition w/ DJ Banjo

Hosted by DJ Banjo.

01.) Feral Child * Live In The KPSU Studios
02.) DJ Embryonic Petit Sac * Live In The KPSU Studios

12 April 2014: Scott Nicolay Horror Show!

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Austin Rich

12 April 2014: Scott Nicolay Horror Show!

Life Is Hard and Then…	Legendary Pink Dots	Code Noir
Heaven Is of Honey	Einsturzende Neubauten	Silence is Sexy
Jacquard Causeway	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest
Ka reva nei au	Kio Teao	Compilatorio 2008 Radio Manukena 88.9 FM
Hidden Refuge	Lustmord & Robert Rich	Stalker
Tapati Rapa Nui	Ben Paoa	Compilatorio 2008
Interviews & Readings Over Music	Scott Nicolay	on What’s This Called?
There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)	Sun Ra	Languidity
Two Steps Beyond	Legendary Pink Dots	Code Noir

5 April 2014: Beta-lactam Ring Records Revue!

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Austin Rich

5 April 2014: Beta-lactam Ring Records Revue!

Chris McBeth of Beta-lactam Ring Records joins me in the booth with his bag full of goodies!

Spear (extended edit mix)	Stimulus	Programme Music
Ascension 3	Legendary Pink Dots	Code Noir
Don’t Dig So Deep	The Sevens Collective	A Too Much Divided Heart
El Adios del Sol	The Sevens Collective	A Too Much Divided Heart
Testing 1.2.3. (as background)	Legendary Pink Dots	Code Noir
Bajo un Sol Inclemete	Un Festin Sagital	Kosmodynamos
Amorphous Procession Through Paralyzed Gelatin	Sound	Screaming Zenith
Moon Bird (For Jhonn Balance)	Current 93	Moon Bird
Bad Message	Coil	V/A Closure

29 March 2014: White Noise Xmas… In Spring

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Austin Rich

29 March 2014: White Noise Xmas… In Spring

Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip… On December 28th, recovering noise addict Noah Mickens joined me for his annual relapse on What’s This Called? the White Noise Xmas. Unfortunately due to strange lab experiments in the bowels of Portland State University, the power went off suddenly and portions of the show were not heard by anybody but Mr. Mickens, myself, and a handful of Kpsu Portland staff scrambling to reset the audio stream – the ultimate limited edition noise experience! Mr. Mickens, consummate showman professional that he is, took no pleasure in the unintended scarcity of this listening experience and swore an oath to return sooner than expected and recreate the exact playlist of the forgotten hour of White Noise Xmas 2013. My dear listeners, that day is today.

Floating in the Sea of Bliss	Broken Penis Orchestra	Plays With Itself
track one	Apartment	untitled
Nov. 07 pt. 2	Noise Poet Nobody	You Tube
track 4	Keiji Haino	unreadable
track 1	Mr Natural	I Cooked Your Eggs
track 6	Nezzy Idy	Dead Air
autumn equinox 2001	(r)	Fabrizio’s Breath (for Antonin Artaud)
track 4	Brian H	sampler

22 March 2014: From Out of Silence… (No Recording)

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Austin Rich

22 March 2014: From Out of Silence… (No Recording)

We’re having some Stream issues, so what portion gets heard is somewhat nebulous…

Sonnenbarke	Einsturzende Neubauten	Silence is Sexy
Split Your Infinities	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest
How to Shoot a Deer	Eric Haussman with Marlina Haussmann	16 Degrees
24 Track Loop	This Heat	In the Beginning there was Rhythm
122 Hours of Fear	the screamers	Live at Target
Thank You for the Music	Cornelius	Fantasma
She Is Beyond Good and Evil	The Pop Group	In the Beginning there was Rhythm
Indian Summer	Sonic Boom & Spectrum	What Came Before
Black Mask	Cabaret Voltaire	Peel Session 1981
GroupMeGroup	Liquid Liquid	Liquid Liquid
Submission	ARU and Bob Bucko Jr.	Deadly PA
Magic Fly	Space	Best of
The Robots	Kraftwerk	The Man-Machine

15 March 2014: Street Cart Utopia

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Austin Rich

15 March 2014: Street Cart Utopia

I bought the best chicken burrito right between my parking space and the parking meter!

I Told You I Was Crazy	Melvins	Tres Cabrones
Ticochitlehua	Soriah with Ashkelon Sain	Eztica
The Natural Child	Laetitia Sadier	The Trip
The Hot Breath on Your Neck	Legendary Pink Dots	Poppy Variations
She Fell Down	Jandek	Living in a Moon So Blue
#9	Moodring	Scared of Ferret
Connexion	Goblin	Classic Italian Soundtracks Volume II 1975-1980
Glossolalia	Wasnt Wisnt	Steel Cut
Anatomie 4 (Cuvier)	Translucent Spiders	SadoDaMascus Records: Winter Copulation 2013
Time Vampires	Flying Lotus	Pattern Grid World
Bell Head	Liquid Liquid	Liquid Liquid
Song For A Warrior	Swans	The Seers
Yellow Black and Rectangular	Negativland	Live 3/1/2014

8 March 2014: Cold Yakisoba Breakfast

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Austin Rich

8 March 2014: Cold Yakisoba Breakfast

mmm…

Holy Ground	Sun City Girls	Funeral Mariachi
Don’t Sit There	Fandango For Now	Infamous Polywogs Vol. 1?
Inexplicable urge to… no.	Crank Sturgeon	N/A
Track 2	Thurston Moore	Flipped Out Bride
Var	Sigur Ros	Kveiker
Scorpion Accordian	Old Time Relijun	Song Book Vol. I
Water Under the Burning Bridge	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
Teal	Therefore	Khrom
Film Score #2	Paco Jones	CDR
Gentle Germans	Add N to X	On the Wires of Our Nerves
Mystery Drone	Mortal Engines	Pressure Vessel
Becomes Wing Life (excerpt)	Mike Vernsusky	Becomes Wing Life
Reach for the Dead	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest

1 March 2014: Lennon’s 6th Birthday Special!

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Austin Rich

1 March 2014: Lennon’s 6th Birthday Special!

TRACK TITLE	ARTIST	ALBUM
Any Weather (606) Version	Joan Jett	Unvarnished
Losing My Edge	lcd soundsystem	Electricity
The Burning Spear	Sonic Youth	Sonic Youth
Mic Check	Cornelius	Fantasma
Hamburger Lady	Throbbing Gristle	D.O.A.
Warhead	Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages
Blackmail	The Runaways	Greatest Hits
Gods Will Be Gods	Echo & The Bunnymen	Porcupine
Total War	NON	Electricity
Love Hurts	Roy Orbison	Greatest Hits
You Feel So Lonely You Could Die	David Bowie	The Next Day
Back to Nature	Fad Gadget	Electricity
I Miss You	Bjork vs. Photek	Unknown

22 February 2014: Doug Theriault, LIVE!

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Austin Rich

Doug Theriault

22 February 2014: Doug Theriault, LIVE!

Live performance by one of our favorite live performers, Doug Theriault.

Austin’s Photoset

15 February 2014: Guest DJ Victrola

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Austin Rich

DJ Victrola

15 February 2014: Guest DJ Victrola

Dead Air Fresheners, Free Jazz and more!

Platelet	Elliott Sharp	Techtonics
I Go To Sleep	Ray Davies
I Go To Sleep (live)	dead air fresheners
Abstract “I”	Sun Ra	The magic City
Endless	Ornette Coleman	Tomorrow Is the Question!
Alpha	Ornette Coleman	Something Else!
And Otherness	Sun Ra	Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Ascension-Edition II	John Coltrane	Ascension

01 January 2011: Doug Theriault, LIVE! (Retrocast)

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Austin Rich

Doug Theriault Live At KPSU

01 January 2011: Doug Theriault, LIVE! (Retrocast)

Ricardo Wang is currently snowed in, and will not be able to bring you a new episode of What’s This Called? today. (Probably for the best, as everything surrounding the station is also closed down, too.) To make up for this, we present an New Year’s Day special from 2011, featuring Doug Theriault Live in the KPSU studios, engineered by me and hosted by Ricardo Wang.

Playlist:

1.) Persephone * Cocteau Twins
2.) Liet * Doug Theriault * Interface * Toast & Jam Recordings

3.) Live Performance * Doug Theriault * What’s This Called?

4.) The Mind Is Familiar * Doug Theriault * Haptics * Self-Released

5.) Interview * Doug Theriault * What’s This Called?

6.) Shredded Truths * Duel * Destroy All Improv * Toast & Jam Recordings
7.) O (Live 2/9/98) * Office Products * Business * Pharmacy Record

1 February 2014: Jeremy C. Long & MORE

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Austin Rich

1 February 2014: Jeremy C. Long & MORE

The last half of the show dedicated to a few projects of Portland OR dronist Jeremy C. Long AKA Brown, et al.

i cannot tell you where i am until i love you (edit)	Murmurists	i cannot tell you where i am until i love you (edit)
Afflicted by The Wind Disease	Blue Sausage Infant	Alrealon Musique Presents: New Sonic Strategies
Mile Long Tunnel	Bristol Barnstormers	Bristol Barnstormes
Aheym	Kronos Quartet	Aheym
Interprets Charles Ives – Universe Symphony	Mike Mahaffay	Universe Symphony
Out	Liquid Liquid	Optimo
III	Hive	Hive
(section edit)	Brown	Brown
Yearning	Jeremy Long/Ian Haystacks	Dying of the Light
Traveling Alongside Death	Tecumseh	Tecumseh
That Which Has No Mass Enters Where There Is No Space (edit)	Brown	Brown Rainbow

25 January 2014: Cohost Austin Rich Joins Me!

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Austin Rich

25 January 2014: Cohost Austin Rich Joins Me!

Havoc is Wreaked!

Ritual for Consumption	Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin	Instrumental Tourist
I’m Glad Today Is Monday	Amy Denio	Prodigal Light
Deflowered	Jarboe	Sacrificial Cake
Nancy Reagan’s Head	Mission Of Burma	The Obliterati
My Black Ass	Shellac	At Action Park
The Sound of Raindrops	Tudor Acid	replicant
Track 2 [Excerpt]	Green Milk From the Planet Orange	Live on What’s This Called? 10/14/2006
Placing the Seed (extract)	Hafler Trio	Sometimes Silence Is An Answer
Track 3	Noisepoetnobody	Hallway to Nowhere
i cannot tell you where i am until i love you (edit)	Murmurists	i cannot tell you where i am until i love you (edit)
Beyond Silence	Pas Musique, Ben Link Collins, Shaun Sandor	Of Silence

18 January 2014: Soriah Live Show

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Austin Rich

Soriah & Jonathan Howitt

18 January 2014: Soriah Live Show

Soriah will be giving his last Portland radio performance before moving to Tuva! Special 2 hour show with Jonathan Howitt providing percussion! Due to a tech glitch with the web stream, only the second hour was recorded, which includes this live performance!

And, for those of you who would like to see these performances, they will be posted (as they are rendered) to this very playlist:

Soriah & Jonathan Howitt, Live on What’s This Called?

For Silence	Pas Musique, Ben Link Collins, Shaun Sandor	Of Silence
i cannot tell you where i am until i love you (edit)	Murmurists	i cannot tell you where i am until i love you (edit)
Track 2	The Silverman and Soriah	Live on What’s This Called? 11/2008
Meng Belek	Uger-Khan	Songs of the Masters
Iix	Soriah with Ashkelon Sain	Extica
Track 1	The Silverman and Soriah	Live on What’s This Called? 11/2008
Track 2	noisepoet nobody	Hallway to Nowhere
Live	Soriah	on What’s This Called?

11 January 2014: Happy (almost) Birthday To Me! (No Recording)

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Austin Rich

11 January 2014: Happy (almost) Birthday To Me! (No Recording)

Tomorrow at 11 AM history was made. Due to a glitch in the archive server, today’s show was not recorded. However, we present to you this 20th Anniversary Broadcast from August of 2013. Enjoy!

Re-Run: 20th Anniversary Show!!! (Originally 31 August 2013)

11 January 2014 Playlist:

Psychedelic Haze	Melvins	Tres Cabrones
Uptown Psychedelia	Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin	Instrumental Tourist
newbound	Autechre	L-event
Afflicted by the Wind Disease	Blue Sausage Infant	New Sonic Strategies
Mountains and Valleys	David Richie & Ryan Ray	An Album By
The Cobra Stirred	ARU	Dub Plate Vol. 3.5
Yugo A Go Go	Tiptons Sax Quartet	Laws of Motion
Callarobbie	Eric Hausmann w/ RLLRBLL	16 Degrees
The Daughter Brings the Water	Swans	The Seer
She Comes in Colors	Love	Da Capo
From Silence	Pas Musique/Ben Link Collins/ Shaun Sandor	Silence
Track 1	Ron Anderson/Robert L. Pepper/ David Tamura/ Phillippe Petit	Closed Encounters of the 4 Minds (live @ BC Studio)

4 January 2014: New Dei Rising

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Austin Rich

4 January 2014: New Dei Rising

Dead Moon Night	Dead Moon	Echos of the Past
The Beast	Urthquake	Discograph: 15 Years of Fury
Primitive Blast Wave	The Finer Points of Sadism	Live at the Crux: Improvised and Amplified
Don’t Smoke in Bed	Nina Simone	Ultimate Nina Simone
In the Night	Bauhaus	The Sky’s Gone Out
Ain’t Got No Life	Body/Head	Coming Apart
Casting a Spell	Motion Sickness of Time Travel	ladyz in noyz 3
Waves	Sand Snowman	Nostalgia Ever After
Land of the Day Star	Sun Ra	Cymbals
Communist Eyes	Chelsea Light Moving	Chelsea Light Moving
A Star Is Born	Legendary Pink Dots	The Gethesemane Option
Unwelome Guest III	Bob Bucko Jr.	The Eternal Song
Waves of Fear	Lou Reed	The Blue Masque

28 December 2013: 3rd Annual White Noise Xmas

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Austin Rich

28 December 2013: 3rd Annual White Noise Xmas

Guest star Noah Mickens Grandmaster of Flowers of the Rose City gifts me his noise collection live on the KPSU streamwaves…

(Due to a power outage at KPSU, all but the legal ID is missing of the first hour of this broadcast. The second hour is complete.)

track 4	Nkondi	equatorofabifurcateplanet
Floating in the Sea of Bliss	Broken Penis Orchestra	Plays With Itself
track one	Apartment	untitled
track four	Noisepoetnobody	Hallway to Nowhere
track 4	Keiji Haino	unreadable
track 1	Mr Natural	I Cooked Your Eggs
track 6	Nezzy Idy	Dead Air
Sloth Toes	Komafuzz	The Dock
Under God	Clang Quartet	Separation of Church and Hate
autumn equinox 2001	(r)	Fabrizio’s Breath (for Antonin Artaud)
track 4	Brian H	sampler
track 5	Imbolc	Blades oph thee Holy
studio 88.01	Body of Binky	Blades oph thee Holy
track 7	Scumtron – Merzbow	Remixes and Original Recordings

14 December 2013: Themes Are For Losers

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Austin Rich

14 December 2013: Themes Are For Losers

Heat Mirage Three Way	ARU	Dub Plate Vol. 3.5
Glimmering Endless Possibilities (backwards/forwards WTC remix)	noisepoetnobody & Vance Galloway	Uranium 238
The Process of Enlightnenment	noisepoetnobody & Vance Galloway	Uranium 238
God Only Knows	Cornelius	Fantasma
Mi Yo Mei	The Tipton Sax Quartet	Laws of Motion
Jukebox Capriccio (1985)	Christian Marclay	Records
Love	Aidan Baker	Book of Nods
She Is Beyond Good And Evil	The Pop Group
Blank Frank	Brian Eno	Here Come the Warm Jetz
Child It’s a New World	Suicide	American Supreme
Looping ’72	Edward Ka-Spel`	One Last Pose Before The Ruin
Carefully Through the Fog	Tempered Steel	Tempered Steel

7 December 2013: Breaking the Ice

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Austin Rich

7 December 2013: Breaking the Ice

Happy Birthday Tom Waits! Wind chill is intense!

Cold Cold Ground	Tom Waits	Frank’s Wild Years
Lost Out on the Ice	ARU/Bob Bucko Jr.	Deadly PA
Tracing Vapour Trails	ARU	Dub Plate Vol. 3.5
Nova Feedback	Chrome	Alien Soundtracks
Simple As That	Jandek	Modern Dances
Photomorphosis	Steve Morse	Light Echoes
Gongmo	Ariel Kalma	Osmose
Weekend Review	Steve Fisk	448 Deathless Days
Jazz Laundromat	John Zorn/Thurston Moore	“@”
Dexterity	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Message to Our Folks
Holy Ground	Sun City Girls	Funeral Mariachi
Trapped Under Ice	Metallica	Ride the Lightning

30 November 2013: Cold Turkey

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Austin Rich

30 November 2013: Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey	The Soft Boys	A Can Of Bees
Dark Matter	Tempered Steel	Tempered Steel
Burning Spear (Live)	Sonic Youth	Live Venlo, Holland 12.27.83
Wind Parade	Donald Byrd	Look Into the Flower
Windy as Fuck	Rllrbll	4 Corners
Track 4	Sigur Ros	Sigur 1
Zeitgeist 3.2013	Aural Resuscitation Unit	Live
Anxiety	Kronos Quartet/Astor Piazzolla	Five Tangos
Owls	Ahleuchatistas	of the Body Prone
(edits)	Bernard Herrmann	The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
Track 2 (ending edit)	The Dead C	Armed Courage

23 November 2013: 9/14 Benefit Highlights

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Austin Rich

23 November 2013: 9/14 Benefit Highlights

Relive the live show at Slim’s in St. John’s on 9/14/2013. Remixed by Ricardo Wang and Cohost Austin Rich

Introduction	Jennifer Robin & Jacob Anderson	14 September 2013 Live At Slim’s
Piece 1	Alto!	14 September 2013 Live At Slim’s
Piece 1	Fiasco	14 September 2013 Live At Slim’s
“The In”	Jennifer Robin & Jacob Anderson	14 September 2013 Live At Slim’s
“Charlie Sheen Party”	Jennifer Robin & Jacob Anderson	14 September 2013 Live At Slim’s
Performance	Jeremy C. Long	14 September 2013 Live At Slim’s

16 November 2013: Rotten Leaf Casserole

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Austin Rich

16 November 2013: Rotten Leaf Casserole

With some storm drain gravy!

30 Seconds Over Tokyo	Rocket From the Tombs	Rocket Redux
Starling	Rllrbll	Real Hair
Day Tripper	yellow magic orchestra	Solid State Survivior
Coup	23 Skidoo	In the Beginning There Was Rhythm
Her Sheets	John Zorn/Thurston Moore	@
Black Orchid	Sun City Girls	Funeral Mariachi
24 Track Loop	This Heat	In the Beginning there was Rhythm
Spiritual Fly Jamboree	Alien Parkinson Project	SadoDamascus Records Re 2013 Summer Copulation
Fluid Sand	Laetitia Sadier	The Trip
Who Cares	Unwound	Leaves Turn Inside You
Lunacy	Swans	The Seer
Space is the Place/We Travel the Spaceways	Sun Ra	A Night in East Berlin

9 November 2013: Novermber Drain

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Austin Rich

9 November 2013: Novermber Drain

A mailbag full of new noises including from The Dead C! Veteran’s Day Poppies in Effect

Taps	Bronsense	Bronsense
The Shining of Things	David Sylvian	Dead Bees on a Cake
Ghosts By Japan	Hood	You Show No Emotion At All
Time Vampires	Flying Lotus	Pattern Grid World
Destroyer of Paradise	Noisepoet Nobody & Sisiutl	Flecks of Mica
Mountain of Doom	Richard Youngs	Summer Through My Mind
Sick	His Name Is Alive	Mouth By Mouth
Soiled. Luscious	John Zorn & Thurston Moore	“@”
Deepspacejam	Friends of Don Quixote	SaDoAMascus Reccords 2013 Summer Compilation
Track 2 (edit)	the dead c	Armed Courage
Lab Rats	Lab Rats	SadoAMascus Records 2013 Summer Compilation
Landing Mission	Fetal Pulse	Space
Gun	Lou Reed	The Blue Mask

2 November 2013: Ilima Considine Live on KPSU

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Austin Rich

2 November 2013: Ilima Considine Live on KPSU

The head Sexbot in the flesh.

Track 1 (edit)	the dead c	Armed Courage
Zero Gravity Dance Party	Fetal Pulse	Space
Willy on Willy	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
Sickness	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
Magic Eyes	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
The Only Thing	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
Every Soul	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
My Job is To Make Love to Strangers	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
Petting a Cat	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
Water Under the Burning Bridge	The Sexbots	Junk Sick
You Get a Taste	The Sexbots	Junk Sick

26 October 2013: Halloween Spooktacular

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Austin Rich

26 October 2013

The show disintegrated at the finish, but I laid down some scary seasonal shit.

19 October 2013: Rock It!

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Austin Rich

19 October 2013: Rock It!

New Joan Jett, Sigur Ros, and more rockin’ tunes!

Different	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Unvarnished
Var	Sigur Ros	Kveikur
Earth People	Dr. Octagon	Dr. Octagonacologist
Communist Eyes	Chelsea Light Moving	Chelsea Light Moving
Casting a Spell	Motion Sickness of Time Travel	ladyz in noyz 3
Recession Psychonaut	Sun Foot	Purple & Orange
Elvis on a Shoestring	Sun City Girls	Carnival Folklore Ressurection 3: Superculto
My Life Spins Round Your Every Smile	Sonic Boom & Spectrum	What Came Before
Gentle Germans	Add N to X	On the Wires of Our Nerves
Some Are	Phillip Glass, David Bowie, Brian Eno	Low Symphony
Teal	Therefore	Khrom
Hell Copter	Sufian Abdullah	Music to Break Out of Jail By
Telepath	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest

12 October 2013: This Is a Family Program Dammit!

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Austin Rich

12 October 2013: This Is a Family Program Dammit!

Starts with brand new material from Sufian Abdullah from Music to Break Out of Jail By and then it gets a little intense…

Komodo Fried Chicken Blues	Sufian Abdullah	Music to Break Out of Jail By
The Western Lands	Material	Seven Souls
Can We Have a Little Food	Ark II	TV Soundtrack
Bean	Blonde Redhead	La Mia Vita “Violenta”
Murdress	Body/Head	Coming Apart
Track 2	Derek M. Johnson	aileron-Ist wing
Lost Blues	Palace Music	Lost Blues and Other Songs
Blossom	Dimenticarmi Non!	Dimenticarmi Non!
Attends le feeling	La STPO	Tranches de Temps Jete’
Come Deliver Us	Steven Severin	Visions
At the End of Breath (edit)	The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet	Fleur du Mal

05 October 2013: Baby Watch Round 2!

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Austin Rich

05 October 2013: Baby Watch Round 2!

We continued to wait for Asa to be born, but he did it on a Monday so no shows were missed! A week ago the baby was supposed to be born any minute, and this week the baby still could be born any minute. Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure you’ll get a full episode of What’s This Called? from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time today! Featuring sounds from the likes of Green Milk from the Planet Orange, William Hooker, Swans, Tame Impala, Sun City Girls, Sonic Youth, Autechre, Giant Worm, and MORE!

Ben’s Radio	Sun City Girls	Funeral Mariachi
M62	Autechre	Move of Ten
Archetypal Space	William Hooker/DJ Olive/Glenn Spearman	Mindfulness
Early American (Live)	Sonic Youth	Live Venlo, Holland 12.27.83
Apocolypse Dreams	Tame Impala	Lonerism
Mr. Future	The Giant Worm	Volume 1: Can of Worms
The Wolf	Swans	The Seer
Killmekillmekillme	Green Milk From the Planet Orange	You Show Me the World
October All Over	Unwound	Leaves Turn Inside You
Untitled 4	Bastard Noise	Pumpkin Man

28 September 2013: Special Baby Watch Edition!

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Austin Rich

28 September 2013: Special Baby Watch Edition!

We thought the baby might arrive during this show, but he still hasn’t materialized as of 10/1/2013. Lennon and I are at the station. Asa is sill rehearsing his lines.

The Time Between Eruptions (Wire Tapper Edit)	phog masheeen	The Wire Tapper 32
Carnival Queen	Jandek	Modern Dances
A Stretch in Time	Legendary Pink Dots	The Gethsemane Option
I’ve Decided to Sell You As Slaves!	Ark II	TV Sample
History Died Laughing	Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live	I Am That Great And Fiery Force
Manticore/Lion Tamer	Old Time Relijun	Songbook Vol. 1
Bengali Bergman	Andrew Lilies	Black Widow
Hole in the Sky	Sun Ra	Somewhere Else
No More Sad Refrains	Sandy Denny	Rendezvous
Carpe Diem	Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages
LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY (excerpt)	THE GAGMEN	Wire Tapper 32
Ancient Lights	Psychic TV	Dreams Less Sweet
Hit Me	Add N to X	On the Wires of Our Nerves

21 September 2013: Big Big Love

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Austin Rich

21 September 2013: Big Big Love

Love Big Big

Last Mistress	Body/Head	Coming Apart
Kveikur	Sigur Ros	Kveikur
September Song	Ute Lemper	But one Day
Chemical Playschool	Legendary Pink Dots	Ancient Daze
Love Will Find You in the End	Sonic Boom & Spectrum	What Came Before
Track 5	Bristol Barnstormers	4/18/10
Dove 1 – Noodles & Cheese	Andrew Liles	Black Widow
Sister Morphine	Marianne Faithful	The Millennium Collection
Spirit Duet	Mary Ellen Childs	Wreck
Rocket Number Nine	Sun Ra	My Brothers the Wind & Sun n. 9
Recession Psychonaut	Sun Foot	Purple & Orange
102 Creep	Eric Hausmann	Invisible Films
Palace Posy	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest

14 September 2013: ALTO!, Live.

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Austin Rich

14 September 2013: ALTO!, Live.

Throbbing LIVE double drum and guitar loop madness set, and an interview to remember as well! Alto! from Portland live warming up for their gig at the free KPSU benefit at Slim’s in St. John’s TONIGHT!

Indian Summer	Sonic Boom & Spectrum	What Came Before
Interplanetary Music	Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra	Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth / Interstellar Low Ways
Duck & Cover	The Red Krayola	Hazel
Live!	Alto!	on What’s This Called?
Season of the witch	Donovan	Sunshine Superman
Interview!	Alto!	on What’s This Called?
Whistling Teapot (Rag)	Smog	The Doctor Came At Dawn

07 September 2013: Special Two Hour Show!

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Austin Rich

07 September 2013: Special Two Hour Show!

Not quite the weekly 6 hour show from the mid ’90s, but fun to stretch out again nonetheless!

Syria	Specimen	Batastrophe
Piece 1-3	Alto!	Alto!
God Had Amnesia	The Giant Worm	Can of Worms
The Weeping Demon	Rllrbll	DREAMS
Crystal (Wire Tapper edit)	Kikuchi Yukinori	Wire Tapper 26
Skidded	Hypnogogic Orchestra	The Hypnogogic Orchestra
Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum	Un Festin Sagital	Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum
She Moves Through the Fair	FAIRPORT CONVENTION	What We Did On Our Holidays
Moonstah	Earthmonkey	Pharmacy Fields
Probably a Robbery	Renegade Soundwave	Electricity
Ecstatic Forlorness	Troum	Eald-Ge-Streon
Iron Glove	Psychic TV	Dreams Less Sweet
Sonata II for Pepared Piano	John Cage	Sound Forms for Piano
Solitude	Expo 70	Black Ohms
Ghost Dance	Marianne Faithful	Faithful

31 August 2013: 20th Anniversary Show!!!

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Austin Rich

31 August 2013: 20th Anniversary Show!!!

Somewhere in the Summer of 1993 this program was launched on KAOS FM in Olympia WA. It was not Ricardo Wang’s first radio show, but it is obviously his longest running. What’s This Called began 20 years ago sometime in the summer of 1993 at KAOS 89.3 FM in Olympia WA and it lived there for ten years. In 2005 it came back to life in Portland OR at http://kpsu.org/ Saturday, August 31st, 2013 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time I will be celebrating the 20 years of experimental music, drone, noise, post-punk, and beauty.

Intro/Brave Men Run	Sonic Youth	Bad Moon Rising
On the Wires of Our Nerves	Add N to X	On the Wires of Our Nerves
Heathen Earth	The Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages
The Seer Returns	Swans	The Seer
Back in the USSR	Ramsey Lewis	Plays the Beatles Songbook
Painted My Teeth	Jandek	Modern Dances
Indecent Men	Paco Jones	A Second Chance Again
Iris Was a Pupil	Autechre	Move of Ten
The Shadow World	Sun Ra	A Night in Berlin/My Brothers the Wind & Sun N.
Casting a Spell	Motion Sickness of Time Travel	ladyz in noyz 3
Intergalactic Aliens	Half Japanese	Bone Head
Wear Your Love Like Heaven	Donovan	The Greatest Hits

17 August 2013: onlyyoucanrockmerockme

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Austin Rich

17 August 2013: onlyyoucanrockmerockme

A procession of heavy hitters from LPD to Sun City Girls. Duck!

Esher Everywhere	Legendary Pink Dots	The Gethsemane Option
Piece 5 (H.F.F.L.)	Alto!	Alto!
Pulsar	Earthmonkey	Pharmacy Fields
Space Prophet Dogon	Sun City Girls	torch of the mystics
Song For A Warrior	Swans	The Seer
Emerging Nation	Steve Fisk	448 Deathless Days
Come to Dust	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest
White Nights	Psychic TV	Dreams Less Sweet
Warhead	Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages

03 August 2013: Deanne McAdams Remembered

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Austin Rich

03 August 2013: Deanne McAdams Remembered

Two years after her passing, we play some songs by Deanne McAdams, and some of her favorite artists.

Just Like U Said It Would Be	Nomy Lamm	Effigy
Pinwheels (cut)	Pro Ex Marauders	I’m Sorry, But…
ghost cracked glass	Leopards	Leopards
Greyhound with a Lime	Dead Air Fresheners with Chuck Swaim	Infamous Polywogs
NYC Ghosts & Flowers	Sonic Youth	NYC Ghosts & Flowers
The Killer Wasps of Borneo	Pro Ex Marauders	I’m Sorry, But…
her innocent stock of words	Hood	Silent ’88
trial by fire (or Jandek’s Vagina)	Leopards	unreleased
I See a Darkness	Bonnie “Prince” Billy	I See a Darkness
Three Little Birds	Bob Marley	Legend
New Wave Fuck (cut)	Pro Ex Marauders	I’m Sorry, But…
red murder, gray dawn	Leopards	Leopards
Song to the Siren	This Mortal Coil	It’ll End in Tears
song for Mark	Leopards	unreleased

27 July 2013

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Austin Rich

27 July 2013

Stretch your head!

Cold Earth	Boards of Canada	Tomorrow’s Harvest
Mystic Prophecy	Sun Ra	A Night in Berlin
Bird and Person Dyning (edit)	Alvin Lucier	Bird and Person Dyning
Flexi Head	Earthmonkey	Pharmacy Fields
Slapstick Apocalypse	Lucy Bonk	Ladyz in Noyz 3
rew (1)	Autechre	Move of Ten
Nervios Para Una Condena	Un Festin Sagital	Sic Deus Dilexit Mundun
Personality Crisis	New York Dolls	Self Titled

20 July 2013: Bringing It All Back Home!

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Austin Rich

20 July 2013: Bringing It All Back Home!

Make That Nature Scene!

Monsoon (edit)	William Hooker/Roger Miller/Lee Ranaldo	Monsoon
Archetypal Space	William Hooker/DJ Olive/Glenn Spearman	Mindfulness
Brainstorm (Live 1976)	Hawkwind	Atomhenge 76
Making the Nature Scene (Live 1983)	Sonic Youth	Live Venlo Holland, 12.27.83
Ben’s Radio	Sun City Girls	Funeral Mariachi
Destroyer of Paradise	noisepoetnobody & Sisiutl	Flicks of Mica
Glimmering Endless Possibilities	noisepoetnobody & Vance Galloway	Uranium 238
You Can’t Breathe Memories	Hood	The Lost You
Extra Terrestrial Tabernacle	Bastard Noise	Rrrevenge Disc 2 (PUMPKINMAN)

06 July 2013: Paco Jones, LIVE!

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Austin Rich

06 July 2013: Paco Jones, LIVE!

Paco’s 2nd live appearance on What’s This Called? this time with piano and new ep produced by Steve Fisk in tow! Paco Jones Live on What’s This Called? with Austin Rich engineering.

Film Score #1	Paco Jones	CDR
Live	Paco Jones	on What’s This Called?
Film Score #2	Paco Jones	CDR
Interview	Paco Jones	on What’s This Called?
Nothing Time	Paco Jones	Lost in the Supermarket
Interview	Paco Jones	on What’s This Called?
Y	Paco Jones	CDR

22 June 2013: 19th Oly Experimental Music Fest Preview!

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Austin Rich

22 June 2013: 19th Oly Experimental Music Fest Preview!

This year’s fest was a blast, and the artists represented here all bring the goods! 19th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Fest Preview!

No Cry	Tone Dogs	Ankety Low Day
Live at the Chapel	Noisepoetnobody	Video
Behold the Man	Thinking Plague	In Extremis
ARUBBJr 11-9-12	ARU & Bob Bucko JR.	CDR
Track One	Aural Resuscitation Unit	Dub Plate Vol. 1
@ PDX Pop Now	Soup Purse	video
Track One	Derek M. Johnson	aileron-Ist wing
Live @ 16th Oly Experimental Music Fest	KnotPineBox	video
To Grieve the Heart	dead air fresheners	video

15 June 2013: Summer Freeze

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Austin Rich

15 June 2013: Summer Freeze

Audio slurpees melted in an hour. Lets rock kids!

Sonic Reducer RFTT	Rocket From the Tombs	Rocket Redux
The Departed	Iggy & the Stooges	Ready to Die
Station to Station	The Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages
Streets of Calcutta	Anada Shankar Experience & the State of Bengal	Look into the Flower
Avatar	Swans	The Seer
Summer Freeze	Unwound	Leaves Turn Inside Your
Excuse Me, Let’s Make Love	Ennio Morricone	High – The Trippier Side of the Morricone Genius
Reptilizin on Us	Pepe Wismeer	Un-
Take Two	Spring Heel Jack	68 Million Shades
Heathen Earth	The Melvins	Everybody Loves Sausages
Howling for Judy	Jeremy Steig	Look into the Flower

08 June 2013: Andrea Glauer and Bert Wilson Retrospectives

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Austin Rich

08 June 2013: Andrea Glauer and Bert Wilson Retrospectives

Guest dj Ryan A. Ray brings in some incredible music and help memoralize one forgotten artist and one classic great improvisor, both of which were friends and inspirations.

untitled	Andrea Glauert and Paul Rubenstein
Phenominal Dinosaur Prophets	Andrea Glauert with Ryan Ray
Daydream	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
Gypsy	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
In A Land	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
Mother Night	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
Da Doot Doot Doo	Andrea Glauert	The Last Golden Apple
Ashes to Ashes	Jill Baber	For All Time
Oliver James	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes
All the Tall Buildings	Neon Fear
You’ve Got To Be In Tune With The Universe	Bert Wilson, Nancy Curtis, Jeffery Morgon	Interdimensional Interface
Do We Want to Go On?	Bert Wilson, Nancy Curtis, Jeffery Morgon	Interdimensional Interface
ghost cracked glass	Leopards	Leopards
song for Mark	Leopards	unreleased
trial by fire (or Jandek’s Vagina)	Leopards	unreleased

01 June 2013: Summer’s Here and the Time is Right

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Austin Rich

01 June 2013: Summer’s Here and the Time is Right

For experimental music in the street.

Faust	Blood Thirsty Butchers	Live 2003
Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America)	John Zorn	The Big Gundown – John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone
Focus on Sanity	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come
Embassy of the Living God	Sun Ra	The Great Lost Albums
Pharoah Chromium	Chrome	Alien Soundtracks
Mining a Dead Moon	Edward Ka-Spel	One Last Pose Before the Ruin
Light Echoes I	Steve Moore	Light Echoes
BeatSurgeryDisasters	Aural Resuscitation Unit	Tour 2012 CD-R
Planet-Air	Ariel Kalma	Osmose

25 May 2013: Fresh and Tasty

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Austin Rich

25 May 2013: Fresh and Tasty

ARU, Autechre, Flying Lotus, heavy hitters! Scads of newness!

Phototechnique	Aural Resuscitation Unit	The Golden Strand ep
In Spring	Paco Jones	A Second Chance Again
rew (1)	Autechre	Move of Ten
Table Tennis (ft. Laura Darlington)	Flying Lotus	Cosmogramma
Friends of the Earth	Edward Ka-Spel	One Last Pose Before the Ruin
Mother of the World	Swans	The Seer (Disc 1)
Event Horizon	Orbit Service	A Calm Note from the West
Emerald Fanged Dancer	Expo 70	Black Ohms
Summertime	Laetitia Sadier	The Trip
Sanity Belt	Pepe Wismeer	Un-
Madmen and Spiders	Paco Jones	A Second Chance Again
Monk’s Soundcheck (edit)	Aural Resuscitation Unit	DP V3.5

11 May 2013: Beta-lactam Records Showcase

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Austin Rich

11 May 2013: Beta-lactam Records Showcase

It’s always a great show when Chris McBeth arrives with his bag full of goodies from Beta-lactam Ring Records. This label feature program was no exception to that rule! Chris McBeth of Beta-lactam Ring Records spinning his newest releases and giving away a copy of Mythalogue by The Red Masque.

El Asesino Del Sol (Versión I)	Un Festin Sagital	Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum
Looping ’72	Edward Ka-Spel`	One Last Pose Before The Ruin
The Minotaur	The Red Masque	Mythalogue

04 May 2013: Experimental Radio Revival Finale

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Austin Rich

04 May 2013: Experimental Radio Revival Finale

Help KPSU get a low power FM signal! Thrill to the Final Installment of the What’s This Called? Experimental Radio Revival today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time! Lennon reads the call letters as we launch into hits from the likes of Steven Henry Fisk, Autechre, Throbbing Gristle, Sun Ra, Legendary Pink Dots, Freddie Hubbard, Add N to X, Cabaret Voltaire, Bingo Gazingo & My Robot Friend and Melvins!

You’re Out of the Computer	Bingo Gazingo & My Robot Friend	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2
no escape	Cabaret Voltaire	mix-up
Mailman	Legendary Pink Dots	Plutonium Blonde
The Black Regent	Add N to X	On the Wires of Our Nerves
hamburger lady	Throbbing Gristle	d.o.a : the third and final report of throbbing gristle
Spontaneous Simplicity	Sun Ra	Live in Paris at the Gibus
Baby Won’t You Weird Me Out	Melvins Lite	Freak Puke
Foil	Autechre	Amber
Combat	Freddie Hubbard	Sing Me a Song of Songmy
Priorities	Steve Fisk	448 Deathless Days
White River Junction	The Orb	Orbvs Terrarvm

27 April 2013: Experimental Radio Revival

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Austin Rich

27 April 2013: Experimental Radio Revival

KPSU needs a low power FM signal, and you can help!

Close 2 U	Daniel Enoch Tobin	MP3
Shadow of a Doubt	Sonic Youth	EVOL
Empires of Time	Chelsea Light Moving	Chelsea Light Moving
Eight Inch Nun	Rollerball	Real Hair
This Is Combat I Know	Freddie Hubbard	Psychedelic Jazz and Soul from the Atlantic and Warner Vaults
Looking Glass	Eric Hausmann	Invisible Films
Between Eternities	Sand Snowman	Nostalgia Ever After
Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages	Aritomo	Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages
Heat	David Bowie	The Next Day
Track 4	daniel menche	Eye on the Steel
ako	Fela Kuti	the ’69 los angeles sessions

13 April 2013: Holy Filament, Overdose The Katatonic & Death Pact Jazz Ensemble, LIVE!

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Austin Rich

13 April 2013: Holy Filament, Overdose The Katatonic & Death Pact Jazz Ensemble, LIVE!

The Gods of War have amassed. Prepare for annihilation! Your earplugs will not save you!

Cold Dust	Cabbage Patch Kill Dolls	CDR
Track 3	daniel menche	Flaming Tongues
Welcome to the New Killer Bees	Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live	I Am That Great And Fiery Force
II Porno Star	Shellac	At Action Park
You’re Out of the Computer	Bingo Gazingo & My Robot Friend	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2
LIVE	Holy Filament	On What’s This Called?
Heart of the Heartland	Mark Kennis	Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2
LIVE	Overdose the Katatonic	on What’s This Called?
Urban Wolves Are Watching	Select Sex	Demo
demolished	Unwound	The Future of What
Attack On Love	Yo La Tengo	Electr-O-Purra
LIVE	Death Pact Jazz Ensemble	on What’s This Called?