14 June 2014: Rockford on Nitrus
Don’t try this at home kids!
| Side A | Malaise | S/T |
| That Which Has No Mass Enters Where There Is No Space (edit) | Brown | Brown Rainbow |
| Side B | Azalia Snail | Teenage Bedroom |
| Indian Summer | iBeat Happening | Jeff Fuccillo’s Album |
| Chomomiasma | Nommo Ogo | Drinking the Devil’s Blood |
| Meadow Sweeper | Earth Monkey | Pharmacy Fields |
| LIVE | Crank Sturgeon & Soup Purse | on What’s This Called? |
7 June 2014: Jouney to the Shadow World
Includes phone interview with Greek Shadow Poet Leonidas Kassapides!
| Piece 8 (RBTSX) | Alto! | Alto! |
| The Shadow World | Sun Ra | The Magic City |
| All Data Lost | Chrome | Alien Soundtracks |
| The Process of Enlightnenment | noisepoetnobody & Vance Galloway | Uranium 238 |
| Traveling Alongside Death | Tecumseh | Tecumseh |
| Clock Museum Jam | Bristol Barnstormers | Bristol Barnstormers |
| Part 2 | Willam Hooker, Christian Marclay, Lee Ranaldo | Bouquet live @ Knitting Factory 4.24.99 |
| Radio | KnotPineBox | You Tube |
| Track 6 | Ron Anderson/Robert L. Pepper/David Tamura/Philippe Petit | Closed Encounters of the 4 Minds (live @ BC Studio) |
| these days | Nico | Chelsea Girl |
| Track 10 (excerpt) | Alto! | Alto! |
31 May 2014: I’ll Show You Mine…
| Subliminal | Mahler Haze | Sweat Saves Blood |
| Sand Dance | Temples | Sun Structures |
| The Iman | Sun City Girls | Funeral Mariachi |
| Double Bubble Trouble | M.I.A. | Matangi |
| Momentum Anomally Live Electric (excerpt) | Elliott Sharp | You Tube |
| Black | Therefore | Chrome |
| Ineffable Chasm | Bob Bucko Jr. | Blast the Past |
| Seraphim (excerpt) | Claroscent Dray | Drinking the Goat’s Blood |
| Two Steps Beyond | Legendary Pink Dots | Code Noir |
| Psychopath | st. vincent | St. Vincent |
| Physmod pt 1 | Candle Labra | Drinking the Goats Blood |
24 May 2014: Sun Ra stravaganza!
In celebration of Sun Ra’s 100th birthday just two days before the show, Ricardo Wang was not himself. Another incarnation of the Wang was in the KPSU studio playing recordings of the Ra.
From the Other Side:
1.Sun Ra Interview Excerpt (explains first trip to Egypt) (4:16) 2.Spacemen 3 – Starship (11:28) 3.Elephant 6 Orchestra – Enlightenment (Sun Ra Cover) (11:14) 4.Yo La Tengo @ The Trocadero – 12011 – Someone’s In Love (Sun Ra cover) (2:05) 5.NRBQ Rocket #9 (3:14) 6.Wynonie Harris with Sun Ra- Dig This Boogie (Bullet 78 rpm) (2:49) 7.Sun Ra – Best Answer on Music (2:21) 8.Sun Ra – Nidhamu (13:12)
17 May 2014: Tamale Season Is Upon Us!
From beneath the Farmer’s Market at PSU we bring you the bubbles in the bubble wrap!
| LIVE | Offset Needle Radius | On What’s This Called? |
| Equilibrium Suckerpunch | ARU & Bob Bucko JR. | Deadly PA |
| The Time Between Eruptions (Wire Tapper Edit) | phog masheeen | The Wire Tapper 32 |
| No One is There | Nico | The Marble Index |
| The Antigravitational Sense Of Nothingness | my cat is an alien | Wiretapper 25 |
| I Can’t Speak | Wobly | Drinking the Goat’s Blood |
| Telstar (demo version) | joe meek | Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 1 |
| Star Fruits Surf Rider | Cornelius | Fantasma |
| The Poppy Variations Part 1 | Legendary Pink Dots | Poppy Variations |
| Bon Tempi | Rllrbll | You Tube |
10 May 2014, St. John’s Parade Report:
Two separate incarnations of your host Ricardo Wang met through the simple philosophy that all times are happening simultaneously. Ricardo Wang in the KPSU dj booth 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.
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
| 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!
| 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
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!
| 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!
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
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)
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
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
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!
| 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 |
Doug Theriault
22 February 2014: Doug Theriault, LIVE!
Live performance by one of our favorite live performers, Doug Theriault.
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 |
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
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!
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 |
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)
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
| 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
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
| 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
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 |
| 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
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
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
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
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 |
The show disintegrated at the finish, but I laid down some scary seasonal shit.
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!
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!
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!
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
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.
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!
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!!!
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
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
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 |
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!
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!
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!
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 |
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
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 |
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