Special 2 Hr What's This Called? 1/23/2010
 

This week a Special Two Hour What's This Called? for Saturday, January 23rd with your host Ricardo Wang from Noon to 2 PM Pacific Time (that's 10-Midnight in rainy Cairo, Egypt!) on KPSU...

STREAMING AUDIO HERE!

Or in PDX, on the that ancient device known as "Radio":

1450 AM in the Portland OR/Vancouver WA metro area
98.1 FM on the Portland State University campus

On Tap: Aural Resuscitation Unit, Faust, The Dead C, Philippe Petit, Laurie Anderson, Golden Death Music, Jandek, Sonic Youth, Expo 70, Anakrid, Sun Ra, Soriah with Ashkelon Sain, Sun City Girls, New Red Sun, and More!

 

Playlist for What's This Called? with your host Ricardo Wang for Saturday, January 23rd, 2010, from Noon to 2 PM Pacific Time on KPSU.

Special two hour edition!

DOWNLOAD PROGRAM as MP3s or PLAY STREAM HERE!

1450 AM in the Portland OR/Vancouver WA metro area
98.1 FM on the Portland State University campus


Artist - Song/Track - Album - Recording Label

Laurie Anderson - "Muddy River" - Bright Red - WB
Aritomo - "White Daytime" - Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages - Beta-lactam Ring Records
Blitzen Trapper - "Black River Killer" - Furr - Lidkercow
Sonic Youth - "In the Kingdom #19" - Evol - SST
Edward Ka-Spel - "Zone 1" - Dream LoopsBeta-lactam Ring Records
Radiohead - "Exit Music (For A Film)" - OK Computer - Parlophone
Stereolab - "Contact" - Switched On - Slumberland
Sun City Girls - "Ruins of an Old Casino" - Superculto 3: Carnival Folklore Resurrection - Abduction
Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Part 2)" - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - WB
Aural Resusication Unit - Tracks "18"-"21" - Dub Plate Vol. 1 - Nail in the Coffin
The Dead C - "Envelopment" - Eusa Kills - Flying Nun
MGMT - "Pieces Of What" - Oracular Spectacular - Columbia
Jandek - "You Can Stop Now" - Living in a Moon So Blue - Corwood Industries
Animal Collective - "The Bees" - Feels - Fat Cat
Syd Barrett - "She Took A Long Cold Look" - The Madcap Laughs - Harvest
Soriah with Ashkelon Sain - "Tonacayotica" - Projekt - Projekt Records
Portugal. The Man - "Sapphire Music" - Its Complicated Being A Wizard - Approaching Airballoons / Reincarnate Music
Faust - "Meadow Music" - Faust - Universal
Nick Drake - "Chime of a City Clock" - Bryter Later - Island
Golden Death Music - "Self Help" - Ephemera Blues - Helmet Room
Pink Floyd - "See Emily Play" - Relics - Capitol
Ghost to Falco - "Hopeless or Not" - Like This Forever - Below PDX
Philippe Petit - "In Tokyo Henry Spencer is Fine" - Henry: The Iron Man - Beta-lactam Ring Records
Electric Light Orchestra - "Fire on High" - Face the Music - United Artists
Paintings for Animals - "The Chasmal Sea" - Sleep's Keeper Ov Thee Sea - Painted Records

ELO!? WTF?!

Ha ha. I knew that was coming.

I had an "apprentice" (dj in training with the station) who was this sweet 18 year old girl who thought Radiohead were "experimental music". I did stop her from playing a song off of Dark Side of the Moon, but the MGMT slipped by before I could prevent it, and the fact my wife used to strip to them made it somehow ironically o.k. for me.

As for the ELO, she said that something I was playing, I think actually the Phillipe Petit right before it, reminded her of that track, and when it started, I could actually see it. Not their typical song, though it did melt into their sound, and we faded it then.

I kind of enjoyed having my show pushed one notch closer to commercial for a week and it will probably be the same next week as I have another session with her. I don't usually play stuff like The Flaming Lips and Radiohead much at all, but I do believe that there can be "gateway drug" music for some people, and I'm always up for the opportunity to be a corrupting influence. Keeps my show fresh to not even know myself what's going to happen for sure, too.

I think that's a fine way to run a radio show, if only chris evans would take note, ha.

I think we all know that playing Nurse With Wound or Harry Pussy in the prescence of a girl = no sex. Anything goes in the pursuit of the ultimate goal, i think