The Listeners’ Choice Today 12-1 PM PST on What’s This Called? @ KPSU.org!

Argentinian Celtic Music, Stockhausen, Orbit Service backwards, A wee bit of Tangerine Dream for the green folk, Is Celtic Frost Irish music??, The Late Severa Wires, Syd Barrett vs. LPD, Tunacan Jones reads the Bridges of Spokane County! “Bill Laswell’s Emerald Aether, though my wife hates it.” and MORE! All picked by YOU! or someone just like you…

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Playlist that’s Almost Live! Artist – “Song/Piece/Track/Sound” – Album/Source

Burning Spear – “The Ghost” – 100th Anniversary;

Karlheinz Stockhausen/Arditti Quartet – “Helicopter String Quartet” – from A film by Frank Scheffer;

SkilTron – “Bagpipes of War” – The Highland Way;

Tunacan Jones – “The Bridges of Spokane County” – LIVE interspersals!;

Tangerine Dream – “Genesis” – Electronic Meditation;

Orbit Service – “A Painless End” – A Calm Note from the West;

The Late Severa Wires – “521.58 Hz R. 610.15 Hz” – The Late Severa Wires;

EMA – “Red Star” – Past Life Martyred Saints;

Celtic Frost – “The Ursurper” – To Mega Therion;

Syd Barrett – “Effervescing Elephant” – Barrett;

The Legendary Pink Dots – “Canta Mientras Puedas” – Canta Mientras Puedas;

Bill Laswell – “Dark Green” – Emerald Aether;

Scott Brazieal – “The Noise of Time” – Songs from the Empire;

Mathematical Impressions – “Change Ringing (edit)” – Simons Foundation

Great ID and intro by Ricardo’s two sons Lennon and Asa, totally fitting with the graphic of them spinning on the merry-go-round.

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Playlist in Almost RealTime tm: Artist/Band/Group/Thang – “Song/Piece/Track/Thang” – Album/Source/Filing System/Thang:

Lungfish – “Necrophones” – Necrophones

Thollem McDonas & Andy Kaufman – “Nervous Nirvana” – Always Put On Your Sinere Face

Muslimgauze – “Turkish Speaker” – Sometimes Silence Is an Answer

Wisteriax – “Lucid Interval” – Women Take Back the Noise

Wett Nurse – “Spook It” – Worships the Devil

Snickers – “See You, Owczerek” – Wiretapper 40

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma – “Strange Dreams” – Sunshine Soup

Crank Sturgeon – “hot in the SAMP(k)” – densiSPit

Cabbage Patch Kill dolls – “From Your Dreams” – Cabbage Patch Kill dolls

Hieroglyphic Being & J.J.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl – “Civilization That Is Dying” – We Are Not the First

Jandek – “The Fantasy (edit)” – New Orleans Monday

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Playlist: Artist/Band/Thang – “Song/Piece/Sound” – Album/Source

The Melvins – “Lovely Butterflies” – Electroretard

Fischkopf Sinfoniker – “Battle Hymn (featuring K. Ketzner)” & “War Drums”- Music for a Revolution

Thurston Moore – “Cease Fire” – single

Mahler Haze – “The Horned Gull Speaks From Afar (1st Mix – Master)” – Soundcloud

Sisto Palombella – “The second subversive trip (excerpt)” – Differences – visions of contemporary composition

Jandek – “The Fantasy (excerpt)” – New Orleans Monday

Marlo Eggplant – “Intimacy vs. Isolation” – Internal External

Sun Ra – “Exotic Forest” – Nothing Is

Featuring experimental songs of innocence and experience.

Whistle With the Goat Footed Balloon Man! (Stream or Download…)

Playlist (Artist – “Song/Track/Piece/Sound” – Album/Source):

Quantic – “Time Is the Enemy” – The 5th Exotic

e. e. cummings – “In Just” – The Voice of the Poet

Grauzone – “Eisbaer” – Die Sunrise Tapes

Noisepoetnobody & Vance Galloway – “The Process of Enlightenment” – Uranium 238

Ashtoreth – “Waní Yetu” – Morana

Eric Muhs – “Fireflies” – Notochord an electronic wonderland

Pauline Oliveros – “Sound Patterns” – Extended Voices

The Birthday Party – “Mutiny in Heaven” – Mutiny

Eric Hausmann & Kamal Sabran – “Penewar” – 16 Degrees

CAN – “Bring Me Coffee or Tea” – Tago-Mago

Blowhole – “When Tom Brokaw Says Lozenge” – Billowing Sheen

Noggin – “Untitled” – Noggin

Sven Grünberg – “Valgusõis” – Hingus

Bad Brains – “The Regulator” – Attitude (The ROIR Sessions)

Featuring an hour of the music of the great Portland experimental improvisational group Tres Gone featuring Mike Mahaffay on acoustic, electronic, and electoacoustic percussion. R.I.P. P. Mike. Rest in Percussive Peace.

Playlist (All songs by Tres Gone)

1) Selection from Tres Gone live at Portland’s NoFest in St. Johns, September 6, 2014
Mike Lastra: theremin, samplers
Eric Hausmann: Roland Handsonic
Fred Chalenor: Bass
Mike Mahaffay: Korg Wavedrum
Scott Steele: Prepared guitar

2) Selection from Tres Gone live on What’s This Called? March 16th 2013, recorded, mixed, and engineered by Austin Rich.

3) Tracks 5 & 6 from Voodoo Too, with Tiffany Lee Brown, Feb 2015.

4) “Maple Blazer Blunts” from Live from Voodoo Doughnut, April 2004

5) “Lint Brush” by Jennifer Robin w/ Tres Gone, VOODOO II Record Release Party, released October 26, 2014

6) Selection 2 from Tres Gone live at Portland’s NoFest in St. Johns, September 6, 2014

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Image provided by Kate Steele.

Before the Tres Gone special, I played a psyched out Pre-Game show using only cds from the KPSU library. Mike was definitely on my mind as I spun the silver platters.

Listen to the Pre-Game Show!

Pre-Game Playlist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – “EXP/Up from the Skies” – Axis: Bold As Love; The 13th Floor Elevators – “Dr. Doom” – Bull o fthe Woods; Bob Dylan – “Girl from North Country” – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan; Chocolate Watch Band – “Lets Talk About Girls” – Best of…;The Velvet Underground – “All Tomorrow’s Parties (mono version)” – Selections from The Velvet Underground; 101 Strings – “Space Odyssey” – Astro Sounds from Beyond the Year 2000; The Beatles – “I’m Looking Through You” – Rubber Soul; Ravi Shankar – “Tabla Solo in Shinkar Tal” – Ravi Shankar in San Francisco; Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians – “My Wife and My Dead Wife” – Gotta Get This Hen Out; Neu! – “Fur Immer ( Forever )” – NEU! 2; John Coltrane _- “A Love Supreme Part 1 – Acknowledgement” – Gold: Television – “Guiding Light” – Marquee Moon

This show is dedicated to Mike Mahaffay of Tres Gone/Gone Orchestra (get well soon!)

Ride the Freaking Stream!

Playlist: Artist – “Song/Piece/Thang” – Album/Source

Mike Mahaffay – “Section Three” – Celestial Nursery: Riders of the Storm: Escape Velocity

Ffej – “Timegrinder” – Emulation Phase (EP)

Amy Denio – “Biopsy” – Bandcamp

Bing & Ruth – “In This Ruined House” – City Lake

Ashtoreth – “Channeling TAUUSK Forest” – Unexplained Sounds 2016 – the 2nd annual recognition test

My Boyfriend the Pilot – “An Excellent Disappointment” – Space Is the Taste

Hypercube – “Owl-eyed spike” – Unexplained Sounds 2016 – the 2nd annual recognition test

Ifsh – “Dirty Pillow” – Serums

Sun Ra – “Angels and Demons at Play” – Angels and Demons at Play

Deaf Society – “Impr#3” – Unexplained Sounds 2016 – the 2nd annual recognition test

Echo and the Bunnymen – “Porcupine” – Porcupine

Noiseman433 – “La Caccia (excerpt)” – Autumn: Four Seasons part 1

Live musical guest Randall Frazier has been performing solo and in various band incarnations as Orbit Service since the 1990s, releasing no less than 5 brilliant moody albums since 2001. With beginnings in dark psych rock tempered by contemporary influences from Slint to Palace Brothers, the Orbit Service sound has increasingly moved outward into experimental realms. His most recent two albums on Beta-lactam Ring Records 2011’s A Calm Note from the West and last year’s Stereo Magic (Portal In 13 Parts) are steeped in musique concrete, electronic drone, and inner ear echoes. Randall’s haunting voice, however, is always floating atop the sonic wave machines, and somehow uses profound alienation to make the music more accessible. His collaboration with the Legendary Pink Dots called A Star Too Far released Saucers Over Lincoln another astounding album on BLR in 2015 that remarkably sounds more like Orbit Service than LPD.

Hear Orbit Service Live Here!

In anticipation of Orbit Service’s performance WTC host played a Pre-Game Show set of psych rock and punk tunes. That Pre-Game Show is also included below for your listening enjoyment.

Hear the Pre-Game Show Here!

Playlist: Artist – “Song/Piece/Jam” – Album or Other Filing System

Meat Puppets – “Plateau” – Meat Puppets II

Syd Barrett – “No Good Trying” – The Madcap Laughs

Redd Kross – “Linda Blair” – Born Innocent

The Rasperies – “Go All the Way” – Greatest Hits

Black Flag – “Rise Above” – Damaged

Nick Drake – “Time Has Told Me” – Five Leaves Left

John Barry – “Dark Rider” – The EMI Years

Beat Happening – “Revolution Come and Gone” – Dreamy

Thurston Moore – “Blues from Beyond the Grave” – Psychic Hearts

Jimi Hendrix Experience – “I Don’t Live Today” – Are You Experienced

Psychic TV – “Message from Thee Temple” – Force the Hand of Chance

Donovan – “Eldorado” – Sutras

Big Star – “You Get What You Deserve” – Radio City

Smart Went Crazy – “I Liked You Better When You Were Sick” – Smart Went Crazy

Kaliedoscope – “Egyptian Gardens” – Egyptian Candy

13th Floor Elevators – “Earthquake” – Easter Everywhere

Sun Ra – “It’s After the End of the World” – Space Is the Place

We’re all looking for signs of hope, and like bottled messages surviving the polluted open sea, a couple packages came to me in the oh so physical mail this week. That’s right, handmade home burned aluminum goodies just like back in the day. I told you the CD revival was coming. I told you all times are happening simultaneously.

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Playlist: Artist – “Musical Experience” – Filing System

Angel-11 – “The Vision of St. Christina”- NachtLicht

My Boyfriend the Pilot – “Cosmonnaise” – Space is the Taste

Mahler Haze – “Extended landfall” – You Tube

Teresa Barrozo – “fl-f_dB_ck” – A Thousand Tones

Icon template – “Unlocked perspectives” – Belgium experimental underground 017 survey

Orbit Service – “Woke Up in the Fire” – Stereo Magic

Remora (remix by Mudd Makr) – “My Bother’s Guns & Knives” – Tandan

Olive In Dreamland – “Melancholic Oscillation” – A Thousand Tones

SPACE GAMBUS EXPERIMENT – “Be Melting Snow and Wash Yourself of Yourself” – ??

Crank Sturgeon – “Your Old Blend, Man” – dens I sPit

Misantronics – “Leta” – Belgium experimental underground 017 survey

ARU – “Building the Ark” – Dub Plate Vol.3.5

Edward Ka-Spel – “cybersKapes (edit)” – cybersKapes

In honor of the national and Portland Women’s Marches this edition of What’s This Called? featured all female artists and female led groups. With only an hour to fill, many, many, many artists I would have loved to fit in are not here. 

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Playlist: Artist – “Song” – Album or Source

Miss Murgatroid – “Dolls Inside the Walls” – Myoclonic Melodies

Pauline Oliveros – “The Fool’s Circle” – Crone Music

Cyclopsycho – “Snatch” – Bandcamp

Emma Tricca – “Winter, My Dear” – The Wire Tapper 42

Mecca Normal – “Strong White Male” – Jarred Up

Teenage Jesus & the Jerks – “Race Mixing” – Everything

Motion Sickness of Time Travel – “Casting a Spell” – Ladyz in Noyz 3

Morgenstern – “Looking Down a Hill” – The Different Faces;

Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion – “Ride It ‘Til the End” – Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath

Hobby Knife – “Mew (Wisconsin)” Ladyz in Noyz 3

The Waiters – “Cast a Shadow in My Direction” – Before Using

Julie Ruin – A Place Called Won’t Be There” – Julie Ruin

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – “Everybody Needs a Hero” – Unvarnished

Angel-11 – “Heartbleeds” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016

Stereolab – “The Stars Our Destination” – Mars Audiac Quintet

Sea Charms – “Shift262” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016

Fearing white death from above (and also fearing our fellow Portlanders on the road as the minimal frosting of snow hit, seriously 1/2 an inch here = 2 feet anywhere else…) we opted to do What’s This Called? an hour early this week. Snowplows were literally pacing up and down the streets in anticipation.

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Longtime What’s This Called? cohost and webhost Austin Rich and his wife Marla suffered a horrible theft on Christmas day while moving and were robbed of several thousand dollars of possessions including computers and all of Austin’s recording equipment. I’ll post the link below to the fundraising site where our community is banding together to try to help recoup some small portion of their losses.

Meanwhile in What’s This Called? land, the show must go on, and I’ve decided to close out the grim reaper year of 2016 with a special tribute to Yet Another Pope Austin Rich called What’s This METAL? 

Stream or Download It Like an Axe Grinder, A Pile Driver…

And every time you bang your head click the link below and give a little: Austin and Marla’s Robbery Rescue Fund!

Playlist As The Hammer Fell: Band – “Song” – Album/Gig

Black Sabbath – “Into the Void” – Master of Reality

Diamond Head – “Helpless” – Lightning to the Nations

The Runaways – “Wasted” – Old Grey Whistle Test 1977

Judas Priest – “Victim of Changes (Live)” – Unleashed in the East

Accept – “Fast As a Shark” – Restless and Wild

Motorhead – “Overkill” – Overkill

Crazy World of Arthur Brown – “Fire” – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Metallica (Cliff Burton) – “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” – Kill ‘Em All

Iron Maiden – “Wrathchild” – Killers

Budgie – “Crash Course in Brain Surgery” – Squawk!

You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest Christmas carols handpicked by YOU the faithful, the experimental, the weirdoes, the real people who are anti-Reality thank you very much!

Rudolph with Your Nose So Bright Won’t You Click These Streams Alright?:

First Hour of Program

Second Hour of Program

Playlist:  Artist – “Song/Piece/Track/Thang” – Album or Whatevs

Joseph Byrd – “Carol of the Bells” – A Christmas Yet to Come; Bonfire Madigan Shive – “Mad Sounds: The Lion in Winter 3-5” – Mad Sounds: The Lion in Winter; Balto! – “Christmas Balls!” – Christmas 5; People Like Us – “Winter Wonderland” – Live at The Tate Modern, 18 December, as part of the Christian Marclay Exhibit – 2004; Tia Blake – “Jane Jane” – Folksongs & Ballads; Big Star – “Jesus Christ” – Sister Lovers; Tom Waits – “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” – Swordfish Trombones; Jimmy Jules & the Nuclear Soul System – “Xmas Done Got Funky” – Classic Spacefunk Radio; (the) Melvins – “Charmicarmicat” – Eggnog; Scanner – “Insulation Mix (after G.F. Handel’s Messiah)” – Messiah Remix; Chris Martinez – “Merry Christmas” – Contagion Original Movie Soundtrack; Attrition – “Dream #9 Recurring” – Winter Wishes; CAN – “Silent Night” – Silent Night – Rollerball – “Carol of the Bells” – Winter Wishes; The OF – “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus/Snow Miser Song” – Green Monkey Records Presents Merry Krampus; Chloedada – “Christmas isn’t Christmas (unless it’s year ’round) [slippery white wrap mix]” – Soundcloud; Peter Aldrich – “Christmas Dub Against Master” – Winter Wishes; U-men – “Blue Christmas” – Christmas ’84; Evolution Control Committe – “Christmas Wrong” – Christmas Wrong; Roland Kirk – “We Free Kings” – We Free Kings; The Tom & Jim Yuletide Contraption- “(All I Want For Christmas Is A) Big Black Eye” – Green Monkey Christmas VII; King Diamond – “No Presents for Christmas” – single; Locust Pudding – “Santa Clause, He’s My Friend” – I Am the Mighty Santa; Fate Signals – “Santa Is Fat” – The Rest of Wolf/Judy/Gug; Sonic Youth – “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out On Dope” – Just Say Noel; ‘All I Want For Cristmas is a Goat’ – “Oh Holy Night (Goat Version)” – All I Want For Cristmas is a Goat.

rIn an on-air interview with your host Ricardo Wang, artist/musician Arrington de Dionyso brings us up to speed on his recent targeting by alt-right trolls at best very confused by his art. Featuring music from his bands Old Time Relijun, Malaikat dan Singa, and Ten Thousand Tigers!

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Songs Included in the Program:

“Witchcraft Rebellion”  Old Tim Relijun  Witchcraft Rebellion

“Cold Water”   Old Tim Relijun  Lost Light

“I Feel the Quickening”  Malaikat dan Singa  Open the Crown

“Ecstatic Abundance” Ten Thousand Tigers (w/ Thollem McDonas)   Ten Thousand Tigers

See Arrington Live in Portland January 12th at Lola’s Room!

A special 2 hour bittersweet What’s This Called?

We say Goodbye to 2016, a year that was itself 365 days full of goodbyes.

Goodbye Joey Casio. Goodbye David Bowie. Alan Vega. Pauline Oliveros. Leonard Cohen. Gilli Smyth (Mother Gong). Bernie Worrell. Richard Lyons (Negativland). Goodbye to more great musicians than we can honor in one show…

Hear the First Hour Here!

Hear the Second Hour Here!

In addition to paying tribute to those that have left us, the show features sounds created and released by artists in 2016. Artists who last checked are still with us, including: Uneasy Chairs, Thollem McDonas, Age Coin, Sea Charms, Nocturnal Habits, Azalia Snail, Zach Zinn, Big Business, Kim Gordon, Fischkopf Sinfoniker, Yoko Ono, Bob Bucko Jr…

Playlist:  Track   Artist   Album

Daybreak   Joey Casio   Daybreak

I Can’t Give It All Away   David Bowie   Blackstar

New Skin   Nocturnal Habits   New Skin for Old Children

It Was Not Meant For Man’s Eyes To See   Fischkopf Sinfoniker   Soundcloud

The Mystery Beyond Matter   Quiet Music Ensemble/Pauline Oliveros   The Mysteries Beyond Matter

Red Sliders   Pauline Oliveros   Blanton Museum of Art

Ghost Rider (Live)   Suicide   London 2005 at the Electric Ballroom

Father’s Day   Big Business   Command Your Weather

Warm Cornish Room   Uneasy Chairs   Bandcamp

Raptor   Age Coin   Performance

10 minutes with Bernie Worrell   Bernie Worrell   MoogFest Pop-Up Shop May 20, 2016

Freedom Hoarders   Thollem McDonas   Machine in the Ghost

Hell Car   Negativland   Over the Edge Vol. 2 Pastor Dick

A Spell to Keep You Warm   Orbit Service   Stereo Magic (Portal in 13 Parts)

You Want It Darker   Leonard Cohen   You Want It Darker

Walking On Thin Ice   Yoko Ono   Yes, I’m a Witch Too

Field Rep   Azalia Snail   for Standing Rock

That Pale Light   Zach Zinn   Unexplained Sounds 2016 – the 2nd annual recognition test

Quantum   Gilli Smyth   Mother

Live at the DAAC Ruix Space (excerpt)   Bob Bucko Jr.   November 2015

Game Show IL   Sea Charms   Midwest Tour (Live) 2016

Murdered Out   Kim Gordon   single, Matador

Chemical Playschool Vol. 18 Side 2 (excerpt)   Legendary Pink Dots   Chemical Playschool Vols. 16 & 18

Join us Saturday, December 3rd 2016 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time for a return engagement of Federal Way’s electronic reconstructor Four Dimensional Nightmare on the What’s This Called? program at KPSU.org

Tom Nicol AKA 4DNM who first performed on What’s This Called? in March of 2013 with a noise-guitar oriented set promises this time to build a wall of modular synthesizers, the kind of wall we LIKE to see built.

Ride The Freaking Stream!

While Four Dimensional Nightmare was soundchecking, your host Ricardo Wang did a special Pre-Game Show featuring music by The Residents and Pere Ubu.

Hear the Pre-Game Show Here!

Damnit 2016, stop already! We weren’t planning on doing a special memorial show on What’s This Called? this week, but how can we fail to note the passing of one of the great experimental musicians of our era? So we’ll expand the show this week and start at 11 AM Pacific Time on KPSU.org and run all the way to 1 PM with an hour of music by the great Pauline Oliveros followed by the mix intended before the sad news.

Download And/Or Stream the 1st Hour Here!

Playlist: Track – Artist – Album

Bye Bye Butterfly   Pauline Oliveros   Bye Bye Butterfly

The Difference Between Hearing and Listening   Pauline Oliveros   TED Talks

Alien Bog   Pauline Oliveros   Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop

A Love Song   Pauline Oliveros   The Well and the Gentle

Download And/Or Stream the 2nd Hour Here!

Playlist: Track – Artist – Album

The Mystery Beyond Matter   Quiet Music Ensemble/Pauline Oliveros   The Mysteries Beyond Matter

Metal Machine Music Pt. 1 (excerpt)   Lou Reed   Metal Machine Music

Diagram 1   Splitter Orchestra  Shine on You Crazy Diagram

Candy Store Approach   Crank Sturgeon   dens I spit

King Subliminal   Unwashed   Unwashed

Blanket (excerpt)   Bedtime for Robots   Meditation Room

Heat Mirage   ARU   DPV3.5

Something Beautiful   Abiodun Oyewole   by Vagabond, with DP Jeff “AK” Akers

Raptor   Age Coin   Performance

I Want to Boogie With You   Lou Reed   The Bells

Somewhere between the extremes lies the perfect alignment of soft and harsh.

LISTEN TO THE SHOW HERE!

Playlist:    Track   Artist   Album

Cry Baby Cry  Ramsey Lewis   Mother Nature’s Son

A Finger to Hackle   Melt-Banana   ScRaTcH or StiTcH

Taboo   Arthur Lyman   Taboo, The Exotic Sounds of Arthur Lyman

See You Are (Recorded Live at the Factory , Manchester in May 1979)   Throbbing Gristle   Tyranny of the Beat

Midnight Cowboy   Ferrante & Teicher   Midnight Cowboy

Dead Dream  Overdose the Katatonic   Create Evil

Wind Parade   Donald Byrd   Look into the Flower (Trip on Psychedelic Grooves with Blue Note)

Midnight Confession #2   Skunk Puppet   Feel the Frequency (Norcal Noisefest 2015)

Gopher Mambo   Yma Sumac   Mambo!

2.1   Martyn Bates   Migraine Inducers / Antagonistic Music

Smiling Faces Sometimes   Bobbi Humphrey   Look into the Flower (Trip on Psychedelic Grooves with Blue Note)

Burned Out Gods   Four Dimensional Nightmare   Icicles

Listening to Music with the Vacuum Cleaner On   Nebel    Out of the Tangled Years

Blank (Intentional)   Crank Sturgeon   dens/i/spit

Sexopolis   Jean Pierre Mirouze   Le Mariage Collectif

Fly Me to the Moon   Astrud Gilberto   The Shadow of Your Smile

Shredder   GM Electronics   demo03 2002

Shooting Star” & Moonscape   Les Baxter   Space Escapade

Gartenmusic 1999 (edit)   Marko Ciciliani   CDR

Chase Scene   ARU/Bbjr   Deadly PA

This Guy’s in Love with You   Frank Chacksfield Orchestra   Redemption

Track 1 (edit)   Kobi   Kobi

R.I.P. Leonard Cohen and other moody songs and sounds from the week of “What Happened?!”

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Playlist:  Track   Artist   Album

Halleluja   Leonard Cohen   Various Positions

You Want It Darker   Leonard Cohen  You Want It Darker

Lazarus   David Bowie   Dark Star

Limerick   Bardo Pond   Amanita

Broken Arrow   The Album Leaf  Into the Blue Again

21 VIII 76 NYC Raga Malkauns (edit)   Pandit Pran Nath   You Tube

Wall of Speed   His Name Is Alive   Stars on E.S.P.

Sorrow Tears and Blood (edit)   Fela Kuti   The Best of the Black President 2

We Don’t Need Freedom   Saccharine Trust   Paganicons

AirOn Ghostradio is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, rendering uniquely enchanting folk and jazz acoustic guitar riffs or electronic ramblings behind haunting vocals, weaving a tapestry of words to wisk you away to other ages and dimensions. Step into the speakeasy or float in inner space, while this femme fatale charms you with the unearthliness of her sultry refrains.

Hear EMF/EVP Streaming Vibrations Here Now!

Playlist:

Track   Artist   Album

Field Rep   Azalia Snail   Standing Rock Support Benefit

No Good Trying   Syd Barrett   The Madcap Laughs

LIVE   AirOn Ghostradio  On What’s This Called?

Time Has Told Me   Nick Drake   Five Leaves Left

Interview   AirOn Ghostradio   On What’s This Called?

Nibelungen   Nico   The Marble Index

LIVE   AirOn Ghostradio   On What’s This Called?

This episode of What’s This Called? was crowdsourced for Halloween themed sounds and songs to create an hour long collage of spookiness. Thanks to Patti Braimes, Austin Rich, Kristina Cox, Jeremy Benton Oliveria, Robert Shepard, Nomy Lamm, Ryan A Ray, Tunacan Jones, Paul Pearson, Josh Baker, Patrick Neill Gundran, Kevin McCabe, Zach Zinn, David Fraser, Joe Mabel, Julián Orduña, Fischkopf Sinfoniker, Kelly Bloom, Gabriele Marras, John A Hodgson, Ashley Shomo, and Mare Turtletaub for their chilling contributions and spooky suggestions!

Ride the Freaking Stream! …If you dare.

This playlist is approximate as most of the tracks were played simultaneously in edited chunks and frequently looped.

Playlist:

There was lots of talk in the news of a historic storm and there was word that the station might be closed if things got bad (especially if power went out of course). We arrived to find that the station had encountered a sewer leak and there were men with headlamps working on it, but they let us stay with the door to the booth closed. Weird, weird, show!

LISTEN TO THE FIRST HOUR HERE!

LISTEN TO THE SECOND HOUR HERE!

Playlist:
Track   Artist   Album

Sailing to Celephais   Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion   Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath

Thinkin’ One Thing and Doin’ Another   Miles Davis   On the Corner

Subterranean   Eric Muhs   Notochord

Volume 18 Part 1   Legendary Pink Dots   Chemical Playschool Vols. 16 & 18

Riverside Art Museum   Portland Bike Ensemble   You Tube

Highest Death Scale On Top   Dead Air Fresheners   Fast Radio Bursts

Still Rain Fell   Hood   Outside Closer

Preparation   Cyclopsycho   As is…

Kingdom Without Weather   Mecca Normal   The Eagle and the Poodle

Oh Yeah!   Can   Tago Mago

Of the Wind and Loneliness   Black Happy Day   In the Garden of Ghostflowers

Machine in The Ghost   Thollem McDonnas   Machine in The Ghost

Cherry Blossom Storm   Blowhole   Billowing Sheen

A Spell to Keep You Warm   Orbit Service   Stereo Magic

Remember I Was Vapour (Live)   Gary Numan   The Pleasure Principal

Slomono (Z’Ev Remix)   Sudden Infant   Psychotic Einzelkind

Way Over the Rainbow   Sun City Girls   Valentines from Matahari

Fugata   Astor Piazzolla   La Camorra

The Sound of The City Seems Not To Disappear   La STPO   Tranches de Temps Jete

My Brother the Wind   Sun Ra   My Brother the Wind Vol. 1

You Are Like a Hurricane   The Walkabouts   New West Motel

Rain in Madison   Jandek   Glad to Get Away

Saturday October 1st from Noon to 1PM Pacific Time, we’re getting the Rawk out on What’s This Called? While there may be some of the experimentation you’ve come to expect during the program, your host Ricardo Wang‘s focus will be on rawking you like a hurricane.

RIDE THE FREAKING STREAM!

Smash things along to the beat!  October is traditionally a month of costumed mayhem and rawking hard.

Playlist:

RIDE THE FREAKING STREAM!

Playlist:   Track  Artis  Album

Coupleskate (edit) L.A. Lungs Secret Limbic Systems

Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive Beat Happening Sub Pop 200

Macho (alternate version) Gabor Szabo Macho

Bacchanale @c Portugal experimental underground 016 survey

Jesus Alone Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree

Chelsea’s Kiss Thurston Moore Blank Editions

In the Mood Soheil Soheili Iran experimental underground 016 survey

Hamblechia Ujjaya The Landing Zone

3 September 2016

Today, Saturday, Noon to 1 PM PST What’s This Called? brings you as Special Investigative Experimental Music Program.

Ride the Special Investigative Stream

Portland’s ever exciting MC of the Wanderlust Circus, Mr. Noah Mickens recently revealed that, “Every day, I find another person on Facebook claiming to have worked for Wanderlust Circus, who definitely did not ever work for Wanderlust Circus. Such a strange thing, to me.” Strange indeed.

What’s more, What’s This Called? host Ricardo Wang reports: “Actually, I have a guy who calls my radio show from Spokane claiming to be you, and I usually just roll with it. He seems lonely…”

So, WHAT would happen if amidst a soundtrack of the likes of Nick Cave, Nequaquam Vacuum, ARU, Delphine Dora, Ute Lemper, Power Circus, Alice Coltrane, Soriah, and more, the impostor Noah Mickens were to call KPSU to report the impostor Wanderlust Circus members to What’s This Called? WHAT, indeed?

“Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality…”
― Julian Assange, Julian Assange – The Unauthorised Autobiography

Listener discretion is advised.

Playlist As It Unravels…Artist/Experience – “Song/Track/Noise/Piece” – Album/Source/Filing System;

Nick Cave – “The Carny” – Your Funeral My Trial; Sikhara and Nequaquam Vacuum – “live at Dung Mummy” – You Tube; Ute Lemper – “September Song” – Nickerbocker Holiday; ARU – “Saturated” – ARU Meets Black Saturn; Delphine Dora & Sophie Cooper – “Les Differences S’unissent” – SoundCloud; Power Circus – “Live at Cafe Racer” – You Tube; Soriah – “Live at the WGT in Leipzig 2013” – You Tube;

Alice Coltrane – “Universal Consciousness” – Universal Consciousness; Sonic Youth – “(She’s in a) Bad Mood” – Confusion Is Sex

20 August 2016

Good Morning! Take a psychic cool down from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time for a new episode of What’s This Called? on KPSU.org

Ride the Freaking Stream!

Ear bending and mind warping sounds from the likes of Ike Yard, (brand new!) Marlo Eggplant, Steven Henry Fisk, Harry Partch, Ffej, Angel-11, The Light, (brand new!) Sonologyst, and if time permits, what the hell, (brand new!) Dead Air Fresheners!

turn your fences into gateways

Playlist As It Goes Down (or thereabouts…)

Artist/Experience/Thang – “Song/Track/Stang” – Album/Source/Bang

Marlo Eggplant – “WMTHBDMM” – Printemps 2016; Ffej– “Timegrinder” – Emulation Phase (EP); Angel-11 – “Otomezuka” – SadoDamascus 2016 Winter Copulation; The Light – “Flickering apparation” – German experimental underground 015 survey; Ike Yard – “Robot Steppes” – Nord

Sonologyst & kshatriy – “Time is the Enemy” – Time is the Enemy; Steven Henry Fisk – “The Backwards Song” – 999 Levels of Undo; Harry Partch – “Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales” – Just West Coast; Dead Air Fresheners– “Time to Say Goodbye” – Fast Radio Bursts

13 August 2016

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time, come hang with us at KPSU.org for a family affair as your host Ricardo Wang and his two young sons bring you a new edition of the experimental music program What’s This Called?.

Ride the Freaking Stream!

This week we bring you brand new brilliance from the Personal Archives release Heavenly Sounds in Lo-Fidelity: Arvo Plays Ferrante & Teicher, followed by the actual Ferrante & Teicher, Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa, Jessica Lurie, Enoch Light, Body Shame, Stereolab, Small Drone Orchestra, and More!

Swing low as normal and avoid panic buying.

Playlist As It Goes Down (or thereabouts give or take you know…)

Artist/Band/Experience – “Song/Track/Piece” – Album/Source

Arvo Zylo – “Six” – Heavenly Sounds in Lo-Fidelity: Arvo Plays Ferrante & Teicher; Ferrante & Teicher – “Out of This World” -Heavenly Sounds in Hi-fi; Enoch Light – “Get Back” – Spaced Out; Small Drone Orchestra – “Whipsnapper” – Feel the Frequency: 2015 NorCal Nosiefest Audio Compilation Document; Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa – “I Feel The Quickening” – Open the Crown

Body Shame – “Black Truck Creeper” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016; Jessica Lurie – “Baba Yaga’s Seven League Boots” – Licorice & Smoke; Stereolab – “The Stars Our Destination” – Mars Audiac Quintet; Bugskull – “Winky’s Wild RIde (The Quest) – Distracted Snowflake; Heiroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U Ahn-Sahm-Buhl – “Root Of” – We Are Not the First; Bobbi Humphrey – “Smiling faces sometimes” – Look Into the Flower: Trip on psychedelic grooves with Blue Note

Closing with… Dog – “Somewhere on Earth” – Feel the Frequency: 2015 NorCal Nosiefest Audio Compilation Document

6 August 2016

Today Noon – 1 PM Pacific Standard Time adjust your inner ear with the live stream of a brand new What’s This Called? episode at KPSU.org with your host Ricardo Wang and a slew of odd audio.

Ride the Freaking Stream!

On Tap: Swell Maps, Phog Masheeen, Von Thronstahl, Expo ’70, Arthur Russell, Donald Byrd, Rebecca Moore, Halfbird, O.S.D’vil, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dead Man’s Lifestyle and MORE!

Playlist As It Goes Downish!

Artist/Experience – “Song/Track/Jolt or Prod” – Album or other Arrangement;

Sun Ra vs. Asa “ID Remix” = What’s This Called? ; Swell Maps – “Helicopter Spies” – Peel Session 1980 Phog Masheeen – “No Solutions Here” – Feel the Frequency Norcal Nosiefest 2015; Einsturzende Neubauten – “Sand” – Strategies Against Architecture II; Von Thronstahl – “Imperium Intertruth” – Imperium Intertruth

Halfbird – “Vice Principal” – SadoDamascus 2016 Winter Copulation; Arthur Russell – “All-Boy All-Girl” – From the Kitchen Archives Amplified: New Music Meets Rock 1981-1986; Dead Man’s Lifestyle – “Cold Hands” – Hinterland; Expo `70 – “Solitude” – Black Ohms

Donald Byrd – “Black Byrd” – Look into the Flower; Rebecca Moore – “Speakerphone” – live at the bowery poetry club 4.18.04; A Silver Mount Zion – “broken chords can sing a little” – He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms

30 July 2016: The 500th(ish) Episode

Visitations from the ghosts of summer future and past today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific standard time on What’s This Called? at KPSU.org

Stream It from the Other Side:

On Tap: Leopards, George & Kaplan, Nico, Thollem McDonas, Curtis Mayfield, Chrome, Venereal Crush, P. Miles Bryson, ABSV, 8 Eyed Spy, and MORE!

This is the 500th episode of What’s This Called? at KPSU since our co-host Austin Rich booked us the noon to 1 pm Saturday slot back in 2005, bringing the program out of it’s 2 year hiatus after moving to Portland. Austin will call in to talk about the history of the show at KPSU.

Playlist Happening NOW!

Artist/Art/Heart “Song/Track/Fart” Album/Source/Stuff

Leopards – “2 Guitars” – Lost Tracks; Thollem McDonas – “Machine In the Ghost” – Machine in the Ghost; .Nico – “Heroes” – Do Or Die!; 8 Eyed Spy – “dead me you b side” – Luncheon; George & Kaplan – “Nebraska Broadcasters” – He Really Got Through to Advertising

Curis Mayfield – “Future Shock” – Back to the World; P. Miles Bryson -“Neo-revivalist-retro-summer-splash” – Meglomanic, Decorator’s Quarterly; Venereal Crush – “Track III” – IV; Chrome – “Future Ghosts” – Alien Soundtracks; ABSV – “Forgotten Railway” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016

23 July 2016

Chase the satellites on What’s This Called? today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on KPSU.org!

On Tap: The Fall, Blue Orchids, Sun City Girls with Ruins, Eaton Flowers, FIASCO!, Rapoon, Giant Sand, Donald Byrd, Kait Moon, Gambus Space Experiment, and MORE!

Ride the Freaking Stream!

Playlist As It Goes Down (or shortly before when I figure out what the f I’m doing…)

Artist/Experience/Source – “Song/Track/Ditty” – Album/Book/Movie/Website/Filing Cabinet…

The Fall – “Frenz” – The Frenz Experiment; The Blue Orchids – “A Year With No Head” – A Darker Bloom; SPACE GAMBUS EXPERIMENT – “I am yours don’t give me back to myself” – NOIS04 SGE/Corvus Coren Split EP; Sun City Girls & Ruins – “October 1st, 1994, Alan Bishop’s House, Seattle, WA (excerpt)” – Mike Ziegler‘s Archives

Poem over the Sun City Girls track and Interview/Happy Birthday/phone distortions; Donald Byrd – “Wind Parade” – Look Into the Flower (Trip on psychedelic grooves with Blue Note); Eaton Flowers – “Fractalife” – SadoDamascus 2016 Winter Copulation; Rapoon – “Blood on the Plains of Persia” – Alien Glyph Morphology; STARS OF THE LID – “A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(Less) Process” – And Their Refinement Of The Decline; Fiasco Free Improvisation – “If Looks Could Kill, I’d Still Be Alive (excerpt)” – Bandcamp; Giant Sand – “Get To Leave” – WFMU Backyard BBQ

16 July 2016

What’s This Called? TODAY Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time at KPSU.org Is your summer halfway upside down?

Ride the Freaking Stream!

On Tap: Brand New Orbit Service, Unexplained Sounds experimental music from Iran compilation, New Legendary Pink Dots, Soiled/Marcus H/Gary Seabrook, Laurie Anderson, Sex Funeral, Jandek and MORE!

Playlist (nearly) As It Goes Down!

Artist/Source – “Song/Track/Experience” – Album/Package/Host

S.S.M.P. – “Engines On” – Iran experimental underground 016 survey; Alphaxone – “Intuition” – Iran experimental underground 016 survey; Soiled/Marcus H./Gary Seabrook – “Drowning in Oxycotin” – Phonic Grafts; Orbit Service – “A Room Within a Room” – Stereo Magic (portal in 13 parts)

Sex Funeral – “Breathe In” – Your Heaven Sucks; The Legendary Pink Dots – “Stitching Time (first version)” – Come out from the Shadows Vol. 1; The Legendary Pink Dots – “Mirror, Mirror” – Pages of Aquarius; Cocteau Twins – “Beatrix” – Treasure; Jandek – “Highway Going Home” – Portland Thursday

9 July 2016

Totem Confluence (inspired by the Oaks Park)

On Tap: King Crimson, Ghost Bitch, ABSV and MORE!

Ride the Freaking Stream.

Playlist (Artist/Source – “Song/Track/Experience” – Album/Package/Aggregator):

King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man (Live @ Filmore West1969)” – YouTube; Edward Ka-Spel – “The Border of Beyond” – The Victoria Dimension; Uneasy Chairs– “Fast Elevator Makes A 90º Angle Into The Thought Forms” – Soundcloud; ABSV – “In LAF” – Soundcloud; Ghost Bitch – “Hello Death, Hello Oblivion” – Ghost Bitch; MadProphet (Kris Nelson) – “Hong Kong Chase” – Soundcloud

Sun Ra – “And Otherness” – Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy; Zetsea – “spooks” – Soundcloud; “laearian” – Ion Banc – Soundcloud; Power Skeleton – “ruosf.wav” – Soundcloud; Boredoms – “title unknown, July 4, 1994” – KXLU eighty-eight point nine fm los angeles Live vol. 1; Wilkamin – “Good Morning America” – Soundcloud

11 June 2016

Experimental, drone, ambient, white noise, harmony, post-punk and beauty are some of the things you will encounter between Noon and 1 PM Pacific Standard Time Today on What’s This Called? at KPSU.org with your host Ricardo Wang!

STREAM IT 12-1 PM PST

Ffej, Eno, Susanna, ARU, Angel-11, MC5, Cyclopsycho, Eric Muhs, Ariel Kalma, Wisteriax, and in honor of Bob Bert‘s birthday Sonic Youth vs. Pussy Galore!

Playlist as it Goes Down!

Artist/Band/Experience – “Track/Song/Piece” – Album or Other Source

Sonic Youth – “Ghost Bitch” – Bad Moon Rising (album); Pussy Galore – “Dick Johnson” – Dial M for Motherfucker; Angel – 11 – “Otomezuka” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016; ARU – “Sky of Distortion” – Dub Plate Vol. 3.5; Ffej – “Into Light & Air” – Patterns in the Storm Vol. 1; Brian Eno – “Patrolling Wire Borders” – Music For Films

Wisteriax – “Lucid Interval” – Women Take Back the Noise; Susanna – “Burning Sea” – Triangle; Eric Muhs – “Gridlock” – Notochord an electronic wonderland; The Dictators – “Master Race Rock” -Go Girl Crazy!; The Residents – “Satisfaction” – The Third Reich ‘n Roll; The Count Bishops – “I Need You’ – The Count Bishops; Psyclopsycho – “Againagain” – As Is…; MC5 – “Sister Anne” – Babes In Arms

Closing with Ariel Kalma – “Fast Road to Nowhere” – Le Temps Des Moissons

4 June 2016

We’re Having a Heat Wave! Tune your air conditioner to the Stream below for this week’s LIVE edition of What’s This Called? at KPSU.org Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time TODAY.

Streaming Through TIme and Space.

Sounds On Tap From: The Library of Babel, The Giant Worm, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, TROUM, Aleorta, Edward Ka-Spel, Mecca Normal, Bowie, Bolan, American Merkin, and MORE!

Playlist As It Goes Down LIVE! Artist/Experience – “Song/Track” – Album or other Source; Troum – “Procession” – EALD-GE STREON; American Merkin – “A Waltz in Berlin” – SadoDamascus 2015 Winter Copulation; David Bowie – “Always Crashing in the Same Car” – Low

The Library of Babel – “Branching” – Blue Nineteen; Mecca Normal – “When You Know” – The Eagle & the Poodle; Edward Ka-Spel – “Alms for Lepers” – Pieces of 8

E.E. Cummings – “MEMORABILIA” – The Voice of the Poet; Edwrd Edward Ka-Spel – “Shanti (cut)” – Pieces of 8; Marc Bolan – “I’m Weird” – Cat Black; Aleorta – “Chapter Twelve: Brideships and Gulls” – Waywards and Meanings: Recreating Finnegans Wake (In Its Whole Wholume); The Giant Worm– “Wormhole” -Murky Depths

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – “Noble Experiment” – Strangers from the Universe; ABSV – “Forgotten Rail” – SadoDamascus 2015 Winter Copulation; Driftmachine – “Dogov Godov (excerpt)” – Colliding Contours.

28 May 2016

Set your clocks and listening devices for Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time TODAY for a brand new foray into the fringes of the audio frontier… What’s This Called? on KPSU.org!

All you have to do is Stream Stream Stream

Consciousness expanding sounds from the likes of: Supersilent, Pere Ubu, Niels Lyhne Lekkegaard, The Orb, Snickers, DJ Stingray, Suzanne Ciani, Boards of Canada vs. Blue Oyster Cult and MORE! 

Ok, so here is thee Playlist as it goes down!

Artist – “Track, Song or Hit Single” – Album or other Experience

BOC vs. BOC – “Then Came the Last Days of May vs. Reach for the Dead” – Blue Oyster Cult/Tomorrow’s Harvest; The Orb – “White River Junction” – Orbus Terrarum; Eet – “Live at Hexasion 2007” – You Tube; Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard – “Descending Piece” – Sound X Sound

Pere Ubu – “A Small Dark Cloud” – New Picnic Time; DJ Stingray 313 – “Lurker” – Communications Systems EP; Suzanne Ciani – “Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)” – Soundcloud; Snickers – “See You, Owczarek” – Wiretapper 40

Closing with: Supersilent – “13.3” – Wiretapper 40

7 May 2016

TODAY Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time Stream the Live brand new as you hear it What’s This Called? on KPSU.org!

Your host Ricardo Wang brings you strange and engaging music from the likes of Cluster, litmus0001, Nadja, Okay Molg, Boards of Canada, sharon, Angel 11, Autechre, Cyclopsycho, Electric Eels, Scratch Acid, Fiasco! and MORE!

Ride the Freaking Stream!

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Atlantis (Sun Ra album) Pre-Game Show on NOW!

Playlist as It Goes Down! Artist – “Track/Song/Experience” – Album or other Source: Sun Ra – “Atlatnis (exceprt)” – Atlantis; Cluster – “Isodea (excerpt)” – Grosses Wasser; Unknown R&B sample – “Here Comes the Sun (cover, excerpt); Cluster – Avanti – Grosses Wasser; Angel 11 – “Heartbleeds” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016; Nadja – “Healing Drone” – Mother Sister Wife Daughter Grandmother Mother-In-Law (benefit compilation)

litmus0001 – “Astra Foramen” – Richland; Electric Eels – “Agitated”- The Eyeball of Hell; Cyclopsycho – “Inchant” – As is…

sharon – “Live @ The Projection Museum 4/30” – Soundcloud; Autechre – “Kalpol Introl” – Incunabula; Fiasco Free Improvisation – “I Considered Jumping” – YouTube; Nolan Ashley – “Far From You” – Okay Molg Apported Baby Farm;Boards Of Canada – “Telepath” – Tomorrow’s Harvest

30 April 2016

Join Us Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time at KPSU.org for a brand new episode of What’s This Called? featuring Odd Audio from All Over!

Ride the Freaking Stream

This Week Inside The Sound Well: Selections from the Legendariske Elleve benefit compilation including David Geest, Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel, and Four Dimensional Nightmare; brand new Brian Eno paying tribute to Lou Reed; Negativland – Dick Is Dead (R.I.P. Richard Lyons); Vulgaricus mixing Curtis Mayfield and F.M. Einheit at Burning Man ’08; Sacred Flute Music from New Guinea – Madang/Windim Mabu; Teenage Jesus & the Jerks

16 April 2016

What’s This Called? presents a special 2 hour netcast in honor of the late avant garde musical pioneer Tony Conrad, Saturday April 16th from 11 AM to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on KPSU.org

Featuring  interview courtesy ofTVMarineretand recordings from the 1960s to the past decade we can expect to barely scratch the surface of the remarkable body of work of this monumental video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. One of the godfathers of drone music (or, as he qualified, “The first non-bagpipe western drone music”), we’ll hear independent work as well as collaborations with Faust, John Cale, Angus MacLise, and Jack Smith.

Stream It Eternally.

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Playlist Live as it unravels… Opening with Tony Conrad – “Live in Austin 1999” – free MP3 from Beta-lactam Ring Records, produced by Chris McBeth, sound wizard and live mixing by Rene Karolinski.

The Theatre of Eternal Music – “B flat dorian blues 19 x 63” – Angus MacLise , John Cale , LaMonte Young , Marion Zazeela , Terry Jennings , Tony Conrad; Interview segment from TVMarineret March 1, 2012.

Tony Conrad w/ Faust – “From the Side of the Machine (1/2)” – Outside the Dream Syndicate; Tony Conrad – “four violins (excerpt)” – Four Gliga Violins Canada; Tony Conrad – “Live at Tate Modern” – TateShots

Angus Maclise/Tony Conrad – “Druid’s Leafy Nest” – Dream Weapon III; Tony Conrad; Interview segment from TVMarineret March 1, 2012; John Cale, Jack Smith & Tony Conrad – “Silent Shadows On Cinemaroc Island” – Stainless Gamelan

Tony Conrad – “Bryant Park Moratorium Rally (1969)(excerpt)”; Closing with Tony Conrad – “Joan of Arc (excerpt)” (Just a little more of the TVMarineret interview mixed in).

9 April 2016

Streaming Live Today Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time it’s a new throw down of strange sounds arranged for your enlightenment and entertainment What’s This Called? on KPSU.org!

This was Ricardo’s two year old son Asa’s live radio debut joining ten year old Lennon for the intro ID and returning later for some additional commentary.

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Playlist:

Playlist: Astor Piazzolla – “La Camorra I” -La Camorra; David Bowie – “I Can’t Give Everything Away” – Blackstar; Zach Zinn – “Luna Pill/Solar Pill” – soundcloud

Bowery Electric – “Next to Nothing” – Bowery Electric; Hood – “End of One Train Working” – Outside Closer; Jessica Lurie – “Up from the Bottom of the Well” – Licorice & Spice

fIREHOSE – “Revolution (Part Two) “- Low Man on the Totem Pole; La STPO – “L’ Intitute’ Creme” -Tranches De Tempes Jete; Lou & Peter Berryman – “If (Dueling Paranoias)” – Double Yodel

Closing with Mahler Haze – “Submergence” psithurism (edited to fit slightly…)

2 April 2016

New What’s This Called? Live Today Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time!

Stream It!

On Tap: Beat Happening, Sea Charms, Sudden Infant, Steven J. Bernstein, American Merkin, Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, ABSV, Rebecca Moore, Chrome, and MORE!

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Playlist:

Ok, the dj on before me is NOT HERE. What’s This Called? is going to start Early this week folks. Like RIGHT NOW!

Out the Gate: Bardo Pond – “Aldrin” – Lapsed

Bombay the Hard Way – “My Guru” – Guns, Cars, and Sitars; Miles Davis – Vote For Miles – On the Corner

Stereolab – “The Stars Our Destination” – Mars Audiac Quntet.

Swans – “Surrogate Drones” – Die Tur Ist Zu; Mecca Normal – “The Orbit” – Who Shot Elvis?; Sudden Infant – “Somniphobia (Thurston Moore remix)” – Psychotic Einzelkind

Rebecca Moore – “Prevention of Blindness” – Home Wreckordings 1997-1999; American Merkin – “A Waltz in Berlin (Cut Up Directors)” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016

Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – “Electrophonic Tonic” – Sonic’s Rendezvous Band; Steven J. Bernstein – “Come Out Tonight” – Sub Pop 200.

Sea Charms – “Shift262” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016; CHROME– “You’ve Been Duplicated” – Half Machine Lip Moves; e.e. cummings – “So shy shy shy (and with a” – The Voice of the Poet

(the) Melvins – “Queen” – Stoner Witch; Beat Happening – “Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive” – Sub Pop 200; ABSV – “Forgotten Railway (Live at the Wazoo)” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016

Shellac – “Song of the Minerals” – At Action Park; The Legendary Pink Dots – “The Region Beyond” – The Whispering Wall

Bonnie Prince Billy – “New Partner” – Sings Greatest Palace Music; Lee “Scratch” Perry– “Drum Song” – Battle of Armagideon

26 March 2016

Spring into this week’s live foray into sounds of otherness from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time, What’s This Called? on KPSU.org

Streaming Live Like a Sun Break.

On Tap: Okay Molg, Terry Riley, Suzanne Ciani, Sea Charms, Holger Czukay, :Eaton Flowers, Stefano Musso, Butthole Surfers and MORE!

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Playlist:

Opening up with: Jandek – “The Distance Is Gone” – Portland Thursday

Eaton Flowers – “Fractalife” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016; Suzanne Ciani – “The Fifth Wave: Water Lullaby” (1982); Terry Riley – “Dream Music / Keyboard Study #2 (excerpt)” (1967)

Sea Charms – “Shift262” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016; Muslimgauze – “Opiate and Mullah” – Gun Aramaic; Butthole Surfers – “Revolution part 2” – Piouhgd

Okay Molg – “Longwalknow” – SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016; Holger Czukay – “Persian Love” (1979); Stefano Musso – “In the Labyrinth Garden (excerpt)”

19 March 2016

Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time is the 484th episode since What’s This Called? moved to KPSU in 2005!

Streaming Live for your pleasure.

On Tap: Dead Moon (goodbye Andrew Loomis), brand new Iggy Pop,
Seattle’s horned collective Fhtagn, New Zealand noise rockers The Biscuits, NZ experimenter Tangent, ’80s Seattle aleatory ensemble Savant, the late great Sun City Girls, dub pioneer Scientist, the legendary Jarboe and (possibly) MORE!

It’s in the trees, it’s coming…

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Playlist:

At the Top: Dead Moon – “Graveyard” – In a Graveyard; “Unknown Passage” – Crack in the System; “40 Miles of Bad Road” – Echoes of the Past

Savant – “The Neo-Realist”- Artificial Dance; The Biscuits – “Trick” – soundcloud; Fhtagn – “Rots (Ryan mix)” – Bandcamp

Iggy Pop – “American Valhalla” – Post-Pop Depression; Tangent – “Twitch” – Sweet Release; Jarboe – “To Forget” – The Men Album

The Berg Sans Nipple – “Mystic Song” – Along the Quai; Sun City Girls – “Cooking with Satan” – Box of Chameleons; Scientist – “Every Dub Shall Scrub” – Scientific Dub

Closing with: Hüsker Dü – “Turn On the News” – Zen Arcade

12 March 2016

Join us Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time TODAY on KPSU.org where your host Ricardo Wang brings What’s This Called? Live and Streaming.

On Tap: Tuxedomoon (goodbye Bruce Geduldig), New Amy Denio, E.E. Cummings, Art Blakey, Zoviet France, Daniel Menche, Pink Fairies, Mahler Haze, Death, and More!

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Playlist:

Out the Gate: Pink Fairies – “Do It” – Pretty Vacant, Mojo Presents 15 Pre-Punk Nuggets; E.E. Cummings – “Spring is like a perhaps hand” – The Voice of the Poet

Tuxedomoon – “Desire” – Desire; “No Tears” – single

Art Blakey – “Feast” – Holiday for Skins; Mahler Haze – “Rock Skimmer” – psithurism

Amy Denio – “Earth Slows Down” – ReverbNation; Death – “Politicians in My Eyes” – Pretty Vacant, Mojo Presents 15 Pre-Punk Nuggets

Daniel Menche – Raw Cello Session (excerpt) – Raw Cello Sessions; :zoviet*france: – A Duck in a Tree (excerpt) – A Duck in a Tree; E.E. Cummings – “My father moved in dooms of love” – Voice of the Poet