What's This Called? w/ Ricardo Wang

#planetonfire PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Watt For 4 clarinets (Karl Naegelen) WATT 2025 Montagne Noir Jurassic 5 This Is Power In Numbers 2002 [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue Jurassic 5 Freedom Power In Numbers 2002 [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue The Nels … Continue reading →

Survival preparations. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Domenica Diavoleria If We Don’t Burn How Will the Night Be Lit? A City of Ladies 2025 Self Released Yellow Magic Orchestra Wild Ambitions Naughty Boys & Instrumental 1983 Sony Music Direct … Continue reading →

Making contact. Please support Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Cyoakha Grace Forever The End of Before 2024 Self Released The Faces Tug of War Nigeria 70 – Lagos Jump 2008 Strut If Writ Edda Fanfare Edda Fanfare … Continue reading →

Send in the clones. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label insectarium observation of ceremonial or ritual occurrence Music For Alien Temples 2025 Eighth Tower Records Scientist Clean Hands and Pure Heart High Priest of Dub 2013 Tamoki-Wambesi-Dove Jad Atoui Ghost … Continue reading →

#Resist #CyberneticTurkeys PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Phog Masheeen Both Ends Against the Middle The Eternal Battle of Heat and Cold. Act 1 2012 Love Earth Music The Giant Worm Cybernetic Turkeys Ask The Mice 2017 Self Released Natalia … Continue reading →

everything disappears. PLAYLIST: Ifsh Coercion and control through the manipulation of appetites Twilight Languages of a Stone on Fire (Quellish pt 5) 2025 Self Released John Oswald Brown Death of Vinyl 1990 DOVentertainment Inc. Ilitch White Light White Light 2011 … Continue reading →

Lennon and Asa co-host this diverse all over the map collection of sound art. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Townes Van Zandt None But The Rain Townes Van Zandt 1969 Charly Tomato Sun Kil Moon Carissa Benji 2014 Caldo … Continue reading →

looking for the light to return. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Xin Lie LIMPEUR XIN LIE 2025 Dance Data phoanogramma The Washing Plank – your consciousness is being cut by random factors Cut Up – Deconstruction W.S. Burroughs 2024 … Continue reading →

long wet el niño. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label KMRU Natur (extract) Natur 2024 Touch Earth The Mandrake’s Hymn Full upon Her Burning Lips 2019 Sargent House PBK The Dreaming Cut Up – Deconstructing W.S. Burroughs 2024 Unexplained Sounds … Continue reading →

SOME of the best Expunkimental music of 2024. PLAYLIST: ARTIST SONG ALBUM YEAR Label Yellow Swans Side B Out of Practice II 2024 Collective Jyrk Bill Horist The Acrobats of Katabasis Substratum 2024 Right Brain Records Lisa Kohl Ice Cream … Continue reading →

once upon an eternity. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Barbara De Dominicis Hands (feat. Marco Bonini, Giulio Maschio & Erica Scherl) Body Maps 2022 Folderol Moonilena Förlåt Minnet 2024 Moloton Autechre All Tomorrow’s Linoleum All Tomorrow’s Parties 1.0 2001 … Continue reading →

what we learned from ’80s rock radio, done WTC style. will air on Freeform Portland when you least expect it. we don’t know either. Playlist:

in the grand tradition of mainstream radio WTC presents for Freeform Portland a program of two-fer-one songs! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label UFO Reasons Love No Heavy Petting (Deluxe Edition) 2023 Chrysalis Records Limited UFO Lookin’ Out for No. … Continue reading →

stuffing vs. thanks PLAYLIST: Artist Song Album  Year Dylan Nyokis  Part 1  Peasant Swill  2024 Chocolate Monk    Anthony Brown & group therAPy  Arty-Fact  Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984 2021 Cherry Red Records    Alice … Continue reading →

anxiety circuit. november drain. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Body Metta Goodbye Prayer in Dub 2024 Hansu Mountain Records Cocteau Twins When Mama Was Moth Head Over Heels 1983 4AD Bill Horist Urschleim Hecklers Substratum 2024 Right Brain Records … Continue reading →

must be the season of the witch. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Bob Bucko, Jr. Vampire in the Hall of Mirrors What If My Water 2024 Personal Archives Alien Sex Fiend I’m Her Frankenstein Who’s Been Sleeping In My … Continue reading →

Homecoming. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Unwound October All Over Leaves Turn Inside You 2013 Numero Group The Body & Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven Orchards of a Futile Heaven 2024 Thrill Jockey JP Jenkins Mt. Pleasant … Continue reading →

a special mix for Freeform Portland to air when needed. PLAYLIST: Jandek No One Around Seattle Friday 2011 Corwood Industries Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Arash Yazdani & Talvi Hunt Instruction Manual of How to Learn Stop Worrying and Love … Continue reading →

the autumn moon lights my way. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label I.S. Mathur Shadows of the Show (feat. I.S. Mathur) The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972 2023 The state51 Conspiracy Shirley Collins & Davy Graham Nottamum Town … Continue reading →

and now we go underwater. PLAYLIST: Chandra Shukla Meghawati  Akash 2024 Ash International Kim Gordon The Believers The Collective 2024 Matador Jean-Michel Jarre Zero Gravity Electronica 1: The Time Machine 2014 Ultra Records, LLC Lemon Demon Touch-Tone Telephone Spirit Phone … Continue reading →

Posthumous Wally Shoup brilliance, new Bill Horist, new RLLRBLL, classic This Heat and so much more expunkimental music for Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST: Wally Shoup Re-Viewing Influences 2X4tet 2024 Right Brain Records Ko Shin Moon Gasba 78 Fragments 2019 Total Totem … Continue reading →

Psyching out from inner space. New RLLRBLL, New Bob Bucko Jr., New Tape Hiss, and a whole lot MORE! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Ravi Shankar Dhun Kafi (Spring Season) Into the Sixties Towards a Cosmic Music 2024 Cherry … Continue reading →

The great DJ Victrola needed a last minute substitute for Guitar Shop Radio on Freeform Portland and Team What’s This Called? jumped up to help! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Label Thurston Moore The Great Translator Luminous Mind (Four for Naropa) … Continue reading →

13 #ExpunkimentalMusic Leopards to Nektar PLAYLIST: Leopards  Ghost Cracked Glass Leopards 2002 Kill Pop Tarts Tim Buckley I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain Goodbye and Hello 1967 Rhino/Elektra Brandee Younger Soul Awakening Soul Awakening 2019 Brandee Younger Sun City … Continue reading →

DJ Victrola is out and graciously asked Ricardo Wang to fill in for Guitar Shop Radio on Freeform Portland! Heaviness ensued. Slaylist:

Season of the Shark… PLAYLIST:

Calm descends into chaos. PLAYLIST:

Asa, Lennon, and Ricardo all chime in with a plea to help support Freeform Porltand! If you are able, please consider becoming a Friend of Freeform. PLAYLIST:

Lennon takes the lead on this extra show for Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST:

emergent radio for Freeform Portland. PLAYLIST:

The last flowers of May are blooming. PLAYLIST:

Step out in the sunshine for the swinging sounds of expunkimental music on Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST:

Ricardo Wang sits in as guest host for Guitar Shop Radio on Freeform Portland Saturday May the Fourth from 4-6 PM Pacific Standard Time. Space rock ensues. PLAYLIST:

16 year old Lennon tag teams with your host for two of the free-est hours of freeform music! PLAYLIST:

DJ Victrola is off on a field trip for the Holiday, so she called in Ricardo Wang to fly the 420 Guitar Flag for this week’s Guitar Shop Radio program. Saturday, 4-6 PM PDT on Freeform Portland! Shop as normal, … Continue reading →

the vibration of infinitesimal breaths. PLAYLIST:

An extra show for Freeform Portland that will air when there is an opening that needs coverage. PLAYLIST:

Spring sprung. PLAYLIST:

From the newest Mythological Horses to the oldest from Matmos and relics from Bugskull and Blowhole and Year of the Lips… …and More. Always More. PLAYLIST:

An “evergreen show” for Freeform Portland that may air at any time as needed, but YOU can listen RIGHT NOW: PLAYLIST:

The hot coals of selection. PLAYLIST:

Bullet train to tranquility. PLAYLIST:

Sounds of illumination. PLAYLIST:

Asa joins Ricardo on a mission to unleash the Epicness. To air on Freeform Portland when you least expect it… PLAYLIST:

Lets melt together. PLAYLIST:

An orbital transmission that will pass through Freeform Portland as needed but in the meantime can help make you cozier in defense of the Arctic front. COZY PLAYLIST:

phantom soundtracks amidst cautionary reverb PLAYLIST:

The most expunkimental music of last year goes head to head with songs from 50 years ago! PLAYLIST:

Anti-Seasonal Proto-Metal, Heavy Psych, Blackened Doom and Kings of Speed and Post Drone Hesh. If you haven’t heard it by now, you’re already def. SLAYLIST:

As the year winds down WTC provides an annual refuge from “holiday music”. PLAYLIST:

Travelling through space and rain. PLAYLIST: