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14 June 2014: Rockford on Nitrus
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...
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21 June 2014: Do not start with # and no special characters.
21 June 2014: Do not start with # and no special characters. Some people playing the 20th Olympia Experimental Music Fest next week, and some people not as well. Afflicted by The Wind Disease Blue...
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28 June 2014: GUEST DJ Victrola
28 June 2014: GUEST DJ Victrola What’s she going to play next? Sun Goddess Ramsey Lewis (featuring Earth, Wind & Fire) Shalom Anima Sound System Budda Bar – Dinner You Can’t Get What You Want (Til...
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05 July 2014: 20th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival Revue/Review
05 July 2014: 20th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival Revue/Review (Playlist Pending.) Filed under: Ricardo Wang, The Archive, What's This Called?
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12 July 2014: Goodbye Tommy Ramone
12 July 2014: Goodbye Tommy Ramone The original Ramones have all left the building. Rock ‘n Roll Radio Ramones End of the Century Blitzkreig Bop Ramones Live CBGBs 1977 Sheena Is a Punk Rocker Ramones...
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19 July 2014: How To’s of Detuned 78 RPMs
19 July 2014: How To’s of Detuned 78 RPMs Through the magic of guest producer Tunacan Jones’sss secret technology on What’s This Called? your host Ricardo Wang will once again be in two places at once....
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26 July 2014: LoveyDove Interview & More!
26 July 2014: LoveyDove Interview & More! After some new tracks from ALTO! and Here & Here & Here we get down to the brass tacks interview of Azalia Snail and Dan West of LoveyDove who will...
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2 August 2014: Deanne McAdams Remembered
2 August 2014: Deanne McAdams Remembered 3 years ago Deanne McAdams left us. Today we play some of her music and also some things that others created after she left, that we think she would have loved...
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9 August 2014: Some Summer Sums
9 August 2014: Some Summer Sums The Cutter Solex Draw Me a Riot 24 Track Loop This Heat In the Beginning there was Rhythm Disequilibrium Meredith Monk Impermanance Your Voicemail The Sexbots Songs for...
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16 August 2014: Divine Circles & Elisa Faires, LIVE!
16 August 2014: Divine Circles & Elisa Faires, LIVE! Songs of the Oregon Trees Part III Elisa Faires Amaryllis (partial track) Elisa Faires Improv Pieces Elisa Faires & Divine Circles Live...
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23 August 2014: 9 Years at KPSU
23 August 2014: 9 Years at KPSU Surprise Dead Air Fresheners set on the 9th anniversary of What’s This Called? at KPSU! This recording contains their entire 80 minute performance. Jesus, the In, and...
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30 August 2014: James Fella – World Premiere New Piece
30 August 2014: James Fella – World Premiere New Piece Arizone-ah ah-dio fringist James Fella of Gilgongo Records premieres his anthropological document of his stay in Portland (rumor has it he tried...
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09 June 2012: J.d. Helwig, No.Fest Organizer (Retrocast)
09 June 2012: J.d. Helwig, No.Fest Organizer (Retrocast) There was no new episode of WTC? this week due to NoFest, so here’s a re-run of an episode from 2012 which features an interview with J.d....
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13 September 2014: Pre-Game Show
13 September 2014: Pre-Game Show This pre-game show was kicked-off by Austin Rich, and then taken over by Ricardo when he arrived. With a live guest, it’s always nice to have extra time before the...
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13 September 2014: Ilima Considine & the Sexbots Live!
13 September 2014: Ilima Considine & the Sexbots Live! Ilima and her gold jumpsuit have landed in the sub-basement again. Austin’s Photos Organica Juxtaposition Jed Skenandore video Live Ilima...
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20 September 2014: Ricardo Wang Up Close & Personal
20 September 2014: Ricardo Wang Up Close & Personal No holds barred live dj action! Dead Refresher Mahler Haze Counterfactual C F (Jandek) Bob Bucko Jr. Bob Bucko Jr. Immediate Release Alan Licht...
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27 September 2014: Fischkopf Sinfoniker Live!
Fischkopf Sinfoniker was kind enough to drop by "What's This Called?" for a live performance and candid interview with Ricardo Wang.
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What’s This Called?: 4 October 2014: Halloween Special (2005 Retrocast)
What’s This Called?: 4 October 2014: Halloween Special (2005 Retrocast) (When this episode was originally broadcast, the recording was not only truncated, but in mono. In this recreation, I have...
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What’s This Called?: 11 October 2014: Cleaning Out the Experimental Music Desk
What’s This Called?: 11 October 2014: Cleaning Out the Experimental Music Desk Lost Gems Galore from the Experimental Music Desk on Lombard! The Herald comus first utterance Spectral Tim Hecker radio...
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18 October 2014: What’s This Called? Pre-Game Show
18 October 2014: What’s This Called? Pre-Game Show Unwound – December The Dead Air Fresheners, LIVE from Hollow Earth Radio and from No.Fest 7!Filed under: Ricardo Wang, The Archive, What's This Called?
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18 October 2014: 404 ‘What’s This Called?’ Not Found
18 October 2014: 404 ‘What’s This Called?’ Not Found On tap this week, odd sounds and bizarre arrangements from the likes of Floating in Silence, The Blues Magoos, Unwound, Flying Lotus, Brown,...
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What’s This Called?: 25 October 2014: Old Fashioned Halloween Spooktackular!
What’s This Called?: 25 October 2014: Old Fashioned Halloween Spooktackular! Preparing for my live dj Halloween party at Kelly’s Olympian in downtown Portland next Tuesdau 10/28 9 PM to Midnight!...
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What’s This Called?: 1 November 2014: Day of the Dead
What’s This Called?: 1 November 2014: Day of the Dead We mean it man. Consumed ARU Consumed Walking Dead Alex Chilton Alex Chilton’s Lost Decade The Best Day Thurston Moore The Best Day Traveling...
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What’s This Called?: 8 November 2014: Kicking Giant Pregame Show!
What’s This Called?: 8 November 2014: Kicking Giant Pregame Show! Filed under: Ricardo Wang, The Archive, What's This Called?
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What’s This Called?: 8 November 2014: The Cure for S.A.D.
What’s This Called?: 8 November 2014: The Cure for S.A.D. Expect Nothing Cabaret Voltaire Live at the YMCA 1979 Early Fall ARU Consumed Open Your Eyes Hollywoood Video Game Killbot vs. Digital By Birth...
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What’s This Called?: 15 November 2014: Take It to SPACE
What’s This Called?: 15 November 2014: Take It to SPACE When Ricardo Wang heard the Rosetta comet music this week, What’s This Called? took a sudden turn to outer space. Golden Record Loop Voyager...
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The Daily NewsBlas 17 November 2014: Fischkopf Sinfoniker, LIVE VIDEO!
The Daily NewsBlas 17 November 2014: Fischkopf Sinfoniker, LIVE VIDEO! Blasphuphmus Radio is proud to present: Fischkopf Sinfoniker, performing LIVE on “What’s This Called?” on 27 September 2014. I...
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The Daily NewsBlas 18 November 2014: Ilima Considine & The Sexbots, LIVE VIDEO!
The Daily NewsBlas 18 November 2014: Ilima Considine & The Sexbots, LIVE VIDEO! Blasphuphmus Radio is proud to present: Ilima Considine & The Sexbots, performing LIVE on “What’s This Called?”...
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What’s This Called?: 22 November 2014: Without the Title, the Registration...
What’s This Called?: 22 November 2014: Without the Title, the Registration Means NOTHING! This is an experimental music program. notlosingtorain Akero Sound Cloud Fetish Scott Walker & Sunn O)))...
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What’s This Called? 29 November 2014: Footspace or Sagan gets it.
What’s This Called? 29 November 2014: Footspace or Sagan gets it. Footspace! We’re going to OWN Sagan’s ass, mo-fo scientist. Your host Ricardo Wang is literally NOT HIMSELF and What’s This Called?...
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What’s This Called? 17 December 2005 (Retrocast)
What’s This Called? 17 December 2005 (Retrocast) As Ricardo Wang is unavailable for broadcasting purposes this week, here is a retrocast from the early days of his involvement with KPSU. Appropriately...
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What’s This Called?: 13 December 2014: Bruce Pavitt Interview!
What’s This Called?: 13 December 2014: Bruce Pavitt Interview! Your host Ricardo Wang has the pleasure of interviewing the founder of the Sub Pop fanzine and subsequent record label Bruce Pavitt. Bruce...
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What’s This Called?: 20 December 2014: Kait Moon Live
What’s This Called?: 20 December 2014: Kait Moon Live Ricardo Wang’s old friend and former KAOS dj from the Olympia, Washington days is in town from Milwaukee WI. I’m thrilled to bring Kait Moon (AKA...
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What’s This Called? 27 December 2014: Abduction By Sadness No 9
What’s This Called? 27 December 2014: Abduction By Sadness No 9 Norovirus has not yet reached Earth Two, therefore Ricardo Wang is here to bring you a heaping helping of gorgeous sounds and music. We...
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Try The Place On Lombard (VideoZine #5)
Try The Place On Lombard (VideoZine #5) (A “What’s This Called?” Film) Directed by Austin Rich Including shorts by Ricardo Wang, Ryan A. Ray, & Lennon You’ve tried the rest, now, with us as your...
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What’s This Called?: 3 January 2015: WHITE NOISE XM@S
What’s This Called?: 3 January 2015: WHITE NOISE XM@S January 3rd is the 9th day of Xmas and the day we celebrate the 4th or 5th annual (depending on which calendar you use) WHITE NOISE XM@S with...
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What’s This Called?: 10 January 2015: Open Yr Eye
What’s This Called?: 10 January 2015: Open Yr Eye Brand new Cyclopsycho and crazy old favorites from everyone else. Bring It Cyclopsycho 2014 Mt. Pleasant Tonehenge Oregone Looking down a hill...
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What’s This Called?: 17 January 2015: Earth 2 Bilingual Static
What’s This Called?: 17 January 2015: Earth 2 Bilingual Static As scientists hone in on a real Planet X, how much longer before they make that next giant leap and “discover” Earth 2? Ricardo Wang has...
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What’s This Called?: 24 January 2015: Yr Dead Yr Alive
What’s This Called?: 24 January 2015: Yr Dead Yr Alive Your host Ricardo Wang celebrates the cycle of death and life on a brand new episode of What’s This Called? with tributes to the passing of...
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What’s This Called?: 31 January 2015: The CD Revival NOW!
What’s This Called?: 31 January 2015: The CD Revival NOW! Because the LA Weekly has declared that the CD Revival is now officially on, your host Ricardo Wang will be “spinning” all compact discs on...
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What’s This Called?: 17 June 2006 (Retrocast)
What’s This Called?: 17 June 2006 (Retrocast) As a number of factors worked against Big Tom The Lithuanian getting in the KPSU studios, here’s a WTC re-run from 2006 that not only contains one of his...
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What’s This Called?: 7 February 2015: Big Tom the Lithuanian with the Dead...
What’s This Called?: 7 February 2015: Big Tom the Lithuanian with the Dead Air Fresheners Legendary Olympia WA performer Big Tom the Lithuanian was slated to bring his music to the live broadcast of...
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What’s This Called?: 14 February 2015: For Lovers Only
What’s This Called?: 14 February 2015: For Lovers Only It’s Valentine’s Day and LUV is in the AIR. What Love Is Rocket From the Tombs Rocket Redux Swing the Heartache Bauhaus The Sky’s Gone Out Crush...
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What’s This Called?: 21 February 2015: R.I.P. Mark Trayle
What’s This Called?: 21 February 2015: R.I.P. Mark Trayle What’s This Called? begins this week with a tribute to electronic composer/improvisor Mark Trayle who passed away this week with tracks from...
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What’s This Called?: 28 February 2015: Experimental Grab Bag
What’s This Called?: 28 February 2015: Experimental Grab Bag Tod Dockstader R.I.P., music from Elliott Sharp, Jonathan Newman and MORE! Water Music Part 3 Tod Dockstader Organized Sound Myst Tod...
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What’s This Called?: 13 December 2014: Bruce Pavitt Interview! (Retrocast)
What’s This Called?: 13 December 2014: Bruce Pavitt Interview! (Retrocast) Your host Ricardo Wang has the pleasure of interviewing the founder of the Sub Pop fanzine and subsequent record label Bruce...
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What’s This Called?: 14 March 2015: Soriah, LIVE!
What’s This Called?: 14 March 2015: Soriah, LIVE! (Note: This is a heavily trunkated version of the broadcast, which has been lost, unfortunately. This recording contains both performances by Soriah,...
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What’s This Called?: 28 March 2015: Crank Sturgeon, LIVE!
What’s This Called?: 28 March 2015: Crank Sturgeon, LIVE! MyFacester+ Twinstiristaphoto Set Filed under: In-Studio, Photosets, Ricardo Wang, The Archive, What's This Called?
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What’s This Called?: 4 April 2015: Bob Bucko Jr., LIVE!
What’s This Called?: 4 April 2015: Bob Bucko Jr., LIVE! Hear the fantastical droneamericana psych guitar and pedal explorations of Iowa’s second proudest export after corn ethanol Bob Bucko Jr! Your...
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What’s This Guitar Shop Called?: 27 June 2015: Buddha Bar
What’s This Guitar Shop Called?: 27 June 2015: Buddha Bar As your host Ricardo Wang is away for the Olympia Experimental Music Festival, this week’s edition of What’s This Called? will be in the highly...
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