the vibration of infinitesimal breaths. PLAYLIST: Amenra “Song to the Siren” [Skunk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)] Eyeless in Gaza “Antipathy Whisper” [Summer Salt & Subway Sun] Windsor for the Derby “exposito,” [Windsor for the Derby] Violet “HARD” [HEART/BREAK HARD/CORE] Mouse On Mars “Pinwheel Herman” [Niun Niggung] Sangwon Lee “Torturing…

An extra show for Freeform Portland that will air when there is an opening that needs coverage. PLAYLIST: Viv Corringham “June (Havens Beach, NY)” [Soundwalkscapes] The Sun Also Rises “Death” [The Sun Also Rises] SLIFT “Confluence” [ILION] Kim Hiorthey “The Woods” [Dogs] Kim Krans “Dead Stars” [MIRRORMIRROR] Comus “The Bite” [First Utterance] Cayos…

Spring sprung. PLAYLIST: BRYZ “Purple Spring” [Purple Spring] Scott Walker “Come Next Spring” [Scott 2] Al Wootton “Callers Spring” [Forest Trilogy] Gil Evans “The Pan Piper” [Sketches of Spain] Tara Clerkin Trio “In Spring” [In Spring] Sonic Youth “Making the Nature Scene” [Confusion Is Sex (Plus Kill Yr. Idols)] Omer “Spring” [Spring] David Åhlén…

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: Mythological Horses “Sky King” [Sky King] Year of the Lips “Unlucky Coin” [Year of the Lips] Splitter Orchestra “Diagram 1” [Shine On You Crazy Diagram] Domenica Diovaleria “a fen insignia” [a f…

An “evergreen show” for Freeform Portland that may air at any time as needed, but YOU can listen RIGHT NOW: PLAYLIST: Sun Ra “Blithe Spirit Dance” [God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (Remastered)] Driftmachine “Dogov Godov” [Colliding Contours] Najma Akhtar “Ghoom Charakhana – Talvin Singh ‘Future Sound Of India’ mix” [It’s A Triple Earth] Paul McCa…

The hot coals of selection. PLAYLIST: Soft Machine “Other Doors” [Other Doors] Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Slip Away ” [Broken Arrow] Yirinda “Galangoor Baya (Welcome)” [Yirinda] The Orb “Tin Kan” [Okie Dokie It’s The Orb On Kompakt] Sonic Youth “Making the Nature Scene” [Confusion Is Sex (Plus Kill Yr. Idols)] Orbit Service “A Calm Note” [A Calm Not…

Bullet train to tranquility. PLAYLIST: Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore “Running The Risk” [YOKOKIMTHURSTON] Sonic Youth “Expressway to Yr. Skull” [Walls Have Ears] Sun City Girls “Spook” [Mister Lonely – Music from a Film by Harmony Korine] Okapi “The Ferryman” [Carousel, Pt. II] Leo Okagawa “cleanup of fallen leaves” [just another day] Johnny…

Sounds of illumination. PLAYLIST: Slowfoam “Soft Montage of Hypotactic Logic” [Worlding With Earth] Sun Ra & His Arkestra “Lights on a Satellite” [Live at Montreux] Ruins “Infect” [Symphonica] Dominique “Aquarium” [European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987)] Nihiloxica “Source of Denial” [Source of Denial] The Need “Mona Tinsley” [The Need Is Dead] GUHT…

Asa joins Ricardo on a mission to unleash the Epicness. To air on Freeform Portland when you least expect it… PLAYLIST: Toby Fox “Battle Against a True Hero” [Undertale Soundtrack] DJ Shadow “The Mountain Will Fall” [The Mountain Will Fall] Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “From Her to Eternity” [From Her to Eternity (2009 – Remaster)] Toby Fox “Hopes and…

Lets melt together. PLAYLIST: Les Phones “La Dance des Fourmis excerpt and Megalithe” [Orbitones Spoon Harps & Bellowphones, Experimental Musical Instruments] Kingsuk Biswas “Currents” [The Center of the World] David Kauffman “One More Day (You’ll Fly Again)” [Songs from Suicide Bridge] Soft Machine “Kayoo” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An En…

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: Lucia Dlugoszewski “Angels of the Inmost Heaven – For Brass Quintet” [Lucia Dlugoszewski: Abyss and Caress] The Orb “Komplikation” [Okie Dokie It´s The Orb On Kompakt] Cheb i Sabbah “…

phantom soundtracks amidst cautionary reverb PLAYLIST: Uger-Khan (Enrique Ugalde) “Meng Belek” [Songs of the Masters] Melt “On the Prowl” [Pure Melt] Emily Robb “Rolling Electric Ball” [If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection] Muslimgauze “Nommos’ Ghosts” [Classic Selection] Mong Tong “Ghost Island” [Tao Fire 道火] Steve Fisk “She Walks” [448 Deathless…

The most expunkimental music of last year goes head to head with songs from 50 years ago! PLAYLIST: Feist “Calling All The Gods” [Multitudes] Black Sabbath “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – 2014 Remaster” [Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (2014 Remaster)] Lila Tirando a Violeta “Talking Trees” [Accela] Lou Reed “How Do You Think It Feels” [Berlin] Angel Bat Dawid “T…

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: Iron Butterfly “Iron Butterfly Theme” [Heavy] VÉHÉMENCE “Par le glaive” [Ordalies] Red Fang “Every Little Twist” [Whales and Leeches (Deluxe Version)] The Who “Shakin’ All Over – Live” [Live At…

As the year winds down WTC provides an annual refuge from “holiday music”. PLAYLIST: André 3000 “Ninety Three ‘Til Infinity And Beyoncé” [New Blue Sun] Sun Ra Arkestra “Infinity / I’ll Wait for You” [Swirling] Killing Joke “We Have Joy – 2005 Digital Remaster” [Revelations] Dizzy Gillespie “Confirmation” [The Complete Live Performances On Savoy] Th…

Travelling through space and rain. PLAYLIST: Bill Laswell “Outland Exploration – Outland Five” [Outland] Ornette Coleman “Change of the Century” [Change Of The Century] Hanging Freud “Falling tooth” [Falling Tooth] Van Der Graaf Generator “Man-Erg – 2005 Digital Remaster” [Pawn Hearts] Rose Mercie “Raindrops” [Rose Mercie] B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Ke…

The cobweb covered walls begin to shake, there is a clanging of chains, a murmuring of voices from the other side, you hear a call between the screams of terror, you go to the old half forgotten phone in the wall, but the line is DEAD. SLAYLIST: Psionic Asylum “The Hall” [Music For Haunted Asylums] The Incredible String Band “October Song – 2010 Re…

The stars are inside out. PLAYLIST: Smegma “World of My Own” [Mirage] Pere Ubu “Modern Dance (Live)” [June 1977 – PERE UBU IN The Shadow Of The Aeronautical Shot Peening Co.] Chrome “All Data Lost” [Chrome Box (Collector’s Edition) [Bonus Track Version]] Inigo Vontier, Thomas Jackson “It’s Right Here Man!” [Limbo Tracks III ] Fennesz “A Year In A M…

As the Autumn Moon leads us… The new Pere Ubu and new Explosions in the Sky, the instrumental Negativland, and so much more! PLAYLIST: Pere Ubu “Crocodile Smile” [Trouble On Big Beat Street] Pauline Oliveros “The Beauty Of Sorrow (Excerpt)” [The Harmonic Series: A Compilation of Musical Works in Just Intonation] Explosions In The Sky “It’s Never Go…

A special Friday Night 10 PM to Midnight What’s This Called? covers for The Tape Escape on Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST: Fenn O’ Berg “Part VI” [In Stereo] Lungfish “Shapes In Space” [Necrophones] The Dream Syndicate “Straight Lines” [Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions] The Orb “Close Encounters” [U.F.Orb] Hidden Orchestra “to dream is to…

Words vs. walls. PLAYLIST: The Legendary Pink Dots “Postcards From Home” [The Museum of Human Happiness] Mecca Normal “When I Build a House Without Doors” [The Eagle & the Poodle] Portland Vows “Pink Noise” [The Witches of Hopwas Woods (circa 1984)] Material “Deliver” [Seven Souls] Lalalar “Serüven 101” [En Kötü İyi Olur] The For Carnation “Get and…

An undated show for Freeform Portland that will broadcast when the need arises. Like a chill in the air. PLAYLIST: Virus2020 “Sufi” [Khushue] The Drood “Flies” [The Drood] Remora “Built to Destroy ” [Built to Destroy] Soft Machine “D.I.S.” [Seven] Au “Satellite (Live)” [AU and the Camas High School Choir: Live at Yale Union] Alien Sex Fiend “E.S.T.…

Never was a cloudy day… PLAYLIST: Big Star “September Gurls” [Live on WLIR] Mission Of Burma “Nancy Reagan’s Head” [The Obliterati] Left Hand Cuts off the Right “Struggle Against Boredom” [Free Time/Dead Time] The Comet Is Coming “The Universe Wakes Up” [Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery] Kashimir “Camouflaged” [Camouflaged] Nadja “Green &…

After the heatwave. PLAYLIST: Andrea Parker “The Swamp” [Here’s One I Made Earlier!] Forbes Graham “Conversations in an Ancient Forest” [I Continue] Earthmonkey “Ten of Your Earth Minutes” [Pharmacy Fields] Kasra Faridi & Aida Hormozian “The Fall Mov. II” [9th Annual Report (Mid Year Edition)] The Fall “Tempo House” [Perverted By Language (Expanded…

Another free floating show for Freeform Portland that could air anytime the need exists with Lennon joining Ricardo in the Elusive Hangar to spin the Expunkimental Hits! Engineered with love by Ryan A. Ray. PLAYLIST: Cat Power “Colors And The Kids” [Moon Pix] Blue Öyster Cult “Flaming Telepaths” [Secret Treaties] Hoover “Electrolux” [The Lurid Trav…

Pattern recognition may be fatal in rare cases. PLAYLIST: El Kontessa “Ghaltet Meen” [Nos Habet Caramel] Reg Bloor “Devil Without a God” [Viewer Discretion Is Not Advised] Arvo Zylo “Plasthma” [333] Melvins “Hammering” [Bad Mood Rising (Standard)] Far Corner “Creature Council” [Endangered] Mecca Normal “Man Thinks Woman / Strong White Male / I Walk…

A bi-weekly escape from time and space. PLAYLIST: Mark Hilliard Wilson “Out of Time Tango” [Pilgrimages] Domenica Diovaleria “Scalloped Vallance” [Forever Your Salesgirl] Deep Purple “Into the Fire” [Deep Purple in Rock] Elliott Sharp “Tundra” [Steppe] Bruce Friedman & Motoko Honda “Bits and Pieces” [Edge Study] The Tara Experiment “Resistance of T…

An “evergreen show” of sizzling summer tunes for Freeform Portland that could air at anytime based upon station need. Or listen #RightNow! PLAYLIST: Sonic Youth “Death Valley ’69 (Live in Brooklyn, Ny)” [Death Valley ’69 (Live in Brooklyn, Ny)] Sifir “I Want to Be a Suicide Bomber” [An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music] Brad Anderson “Torque”…

Be free. PLAYLIST: Desire Marea “Be Free” [On the Romance of Being] Tuna Pase “Nefes” [An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music] Small Life Form “Dome Override” [Dome Override] Second Hand “Death May Be Your Santa Claus” [Lullabies For Catatonics: A Journey Through The British Avant-Pop/Art Rock Scene 1967-74] Christian Bouchard “UHF-Complex” [IV…

Bang that head that doesn’t bang and stuff. THEE PLAYLIST: Rainbow “Man On The Silver Mountain” [Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow] Slough Feg “Coming of Age in the Milky Way” [New Organon] Godflesh “LAND LORD” [PURGE] Metallica “The Thing That Should Not Be (Remastered)” [Master of Puppets (Remastered Deluxe Box Set)] Motörhead “Enter Sandman” [Enter Sa…

From the fog of Instanbul to the frogs of Wisconsin, this show has got it all! (Please note the third piece by Daniel Menche contains long passages of extreme low frequency sound that may lead some to think stereo equipment is not functioning properly). PLAYLIST: lhan Mimaroğlu “Prelude No.17 – Istanbul Fog” [An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Mu…

PLAYLIST: Jonathan Horne & Joshua Thomson “Lost Beacon ” [Clandestine Flower] Brad Anderson “Triptych” [GL1TCHKR13G] Slough Feg “Uncanny” [New Organon] K7SS “Hands Across the Sea (Pt 2)” [Third Noise Principle: formative north american electronica 1975-1984] Aarniseppa “The Swan Cult” [Anthology of Electroacoustic Music from Finland] Mick Karn “Ash…

An extra show for Freeform Portland that might land at any moment. Or you may listen right now! PLAYLIST: Daniel Johnston “Happy Time” [Fun] Nadja “SUN2windstorm” [Under the Jaguar Sun] The KG “Untitled 3” [Nature Morte] Nash The Slash “Womble (45 RPM) – 2017 Remaster” [Decomposing (2017 Remaster)] The Pop Group “Amnesty International Report” [We A…

It’s said the West is nice this time of year, that’s what they say PLAYLIST: Blue Öyster Cult “Then Came the Last Days of May” [Blue Oyster Cult] Boards of Canada “The Devil Is In The Details” [Geogaddi] Tone Set “The Devil Makes the Loudest Noise” [Third Noise Principle: formative north american electronica 1975-1984] Nonconnah “Heaven Becomes Ape…

Space is eep. PLAYLIST: Xynn “Lost in Space” [Space Rock: an Interstellar Traveler’s Guide] Ellen Fullman “Blue Tunnel Fields” [The Harmonic Series: A Compilation of Musical Works in Just Intonation] Daniel Menche & Mamiffer “Calyx” [Crater] Brainticket “To Another Universe” [Celestial Ocean] Kloob “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” [Mysterium, Incubu…

Like totally heavy. PLAYLIST: Melvins “Mr. Dog is Totally Right” [Bad Mood Rising (Standard)] Kadavar “Reich Der Träume” [Berlin] Bob Bucko Jr. “Three Reeds ” [Geet Death With Love] The Deviants “Slum Lord” [I’m A Freak Baby 3: A Further Journey Through The British Heavy Psych And Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1973] Pink Fairies “Teenage Rebel” …

Psychogenic atavism through the lens of expunkimental music. Tax free. PLAYLIST: Stray “All In Your Mind” [Time Machine – Anthology 1970-1977 (Expanded Edition)] Messyl & Wolf City “Tramway” [Trip] Zos Kia “Baptism of Fire” [Transparent] nil. “0622.6” [01] Rok Zalokar “Nymphs” [Spaces VIII: Rok Zalokar, Pipe organ] Tim Buckley “Carnival Song” [Good…

We didn’t RickRoll you so feel relieved. PLAYLIST: Black Sabbath “E5150 – 2021 Remaster” [Mob Rules (Deluxe Edition)] Black Sabbath “The Mob Rules – 2021 Remaster” [Mob Rules (Deluxe Edition)] The Satans “Makin’ Deals” [Heroes And Villains: The Sound Of Los Angeles 1965-68] Arketh “The Fool Who Persists in His Folly” [12 Winter Moons Comes Witches …

A floating show that will air on Freeform Portland sometime when it is needed. PLAYLIST: Tim Buckley “Lorca” [Lorca] Pretenders “The Phone Call – 2006 Remaster” [Pretenders] Sadness “every tuesday, tuesday is green” [april sunset] Sonic Youth “Out & In” [In/Out/In] Nyokabi Kariuki “feeling body” [FEELING BODY] Eet “Colony Collapse” [Danger Barn] Sh…

Lennon joins Ricardo in the elusive hangar booth. PLAYLIST: Miles Davis “Feio (feat. Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul & Dave Holland)” [Bitches Brew Boxed Set] Weyes Blood “Movies” [Titanic Rising] nil. “0622.4” [01] 전자양 “Full moon” [Day Is Far Too Long] Nigel Simpkins “Scattered Strategies / Oblique References” [Further Per…

The Ice turns to Ides… PLAYLIST: Time Rival “Ice Storm + Kalimba Improv (PHeasant Ridge)” [Outside] Soft Machine “Down The Road – Remastered 2006” [Seven] Soft Machine “The German Lesson – Remastered 2006” [Seven] Soft Machine “The French Lesson – Remastered 2006” [Seven] Scott Walker “Amsterdam” [Scott] Hypno5e “Bone Dust” [Sheol] L.A. Lungs “My L…

Embers at a precipice. PLAYLIST: Nacht Plank & Futuregrapher “Music For Kettle – Mint Deluxe Mix” [Music For Kettle (Grandma’s Edition)] National Diet “The Map is the Territory” [The Map is the Territory] Rainbow Face “Purgatory” [Stars’ Blood] The Hand to Man Band “Voice Thrower” [You are Always on Our Minds] The Fall “Tempo House” [Perverted By L…

Asa and Lennon kind of took over the garage studio, which was cool. Then word hit that Tom Verlaine had left the world and we ended in tribute. PLAYLIST: The Melvins “Lovely Butterflies” [Electroretard] Red House Painters “Strawberry Hill” [Red House Painters I] Aural Resuscitation Unit “Ripples in Your Scotch” [Gauzed Methodz] Chico Buarque “Const…

Waiting for the light to return. PLAYLIST: The Pretty Things “Defecting Grey” [S.F. Sorrow] RedStars Over Tokyo “Slow Signal” [8th Annual Report ] Fennesz “Endless Summer” [Endless Summer] Yotzeret Sheydim “Any Table An Altar” [Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation) ] N. Hertzberg “Jazz Hands 4” [Jazz Hands] Nels Cline Singers “King Queen” [Initiate…

Ricardo & Lennon tag team Expunkimental Music gusts. PLAYLIST: Ulver “The Future Sound of Music” [Perdition City] Dark Day “The Metal Benders” [Window] Chris & Cosey “The Giant’s Feet” [Trance] Gustavo Cerati “Alma” [Bocanada] Black To Comm “Laccifer Lacca” [Rückwärts Backwards] Mr. Bungle “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare” [California] Besvärjelsen “…

New Year! New Show! Lennon co-hosts. PLAYLIST: Tegh “Bad`a بدع” [Ima ایما] Ground-Zero “Paraiso 1” [革命京劇 (Revolutionary Pekinese Opera) Ver.1.28] Derek Johnson Love “Ending the Year on a Low Note” [Single] Camberwell Now “Wheat Futures” [The Ghost Trade] Kraftwerk “Neon Lights – 2009 Remaster” [The Man-Machine (2009 Remaster)] Massive Attack “Teard…

The What’s This Called? #HolidaySpecial on Freeform Portland! 6-8 PM Pacific Standard Time, Christmas Eve 2022. PLAYLIST: Greg Skloff “Commencing” [8th Annual Report ] Joseph Achron “Hebrew Melody, Op. 33 (Arr. For theremin and piano)” [Rachmaninov, S.: Vocalise / Saint-Saens, C.: Le Cygne / Falla, M.: El Amor Brujo / Achron, J.: Hebrew Melody (The…

The Money Show. It’s the Fall/Winter Fundraiser at Freeform Portland and so this show is themed around the struggle to get by in a world run by credits and debits. PLAYLIST: Negativland “Gimme the Mermaid” [No Business] Black Flag “Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie” [Damaged] Spinal Tap “Gimme Some Money” [This Is Spinal Tap] Alien Sex Fiend “I Am a Product” [W…

The best genres are based upon the denial of genre. Experimenting does not exist in a single palette and improvising even less so. The file labels are needed to figure out where to find more of the good stuff, but don’t let them convince you of anything more. What this is called may be jazz or ambient or noise or drone or all and none of the above.…

We visited the new Freeform Portland studio by Zoom. Soon we will set foot inside and not too far in the future, What’s This Called? Will move back out of the Elusive Hangar and into the new REAL radio station. Ryan Ray will get a huge break from podcast engineering when that happens! But we don’t even have dates yet, so here we have Lennon joining…