Episodes
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24 October 2026
boo. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Robyn Hitchcock My Wife and My Dead Wife Fegmania! 1985 Midnight Music Suicide Ghost Rider CBGB & OMFUG – A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 2026 Cherry Red The Incredible String Band Witches … Continue reading →
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Floating Show for Freeform Portland
a show that will air whenever it is needed at Freeform Portland, but you can listen NOW. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Scott Walker Funeral Tango Scott 3 1969 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Dead Moon Destination X Strange Pray … Continue reading →
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10 October 2026
October happens. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Yama Uba Multitudes Horizon 2026 Ratskin Records Anthea Pentatonic Orbitones Spoon Harps & Bellowphones experimental musical instruments 1998 Ellipsis Arts Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola Goddess of Impermanence Sonando Gravedad 2026 Notice...
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26 September 2026
we fall. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label The Fall Frightened Live at the Witch Trials 1978 Cherry Red Records Dead Sea Apes Psychic Tension Psychic Tension 2026 Feeding Tube Records Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater I Can Hear the … Continue reading →
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12 September 2026
the chariot reversed. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Anika Kunst Mental Chaos The Power of Presence – EP 2026 Unterwegs Tara Jane O’Neil Famous Yellow Belly You Sound, Reflect 2004 Quarterstick Records Rat At Rat R Assassin CBGB & … Continue reading →
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29 August 2026
global like a virus. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Kamal Sabran & Jun Ong Titik IMAGINARIUM II BATIK: THE IMPRINT OF TIME 2026 Self Released Cause 4 Concern Strange Nature GOLDIE.CO.UK 2001 Moonshine Digital Waterhouse Dub GOLDIE.CO.UK 2001 Moonshine … Continue reading →
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Guest Host of Guitar Shop Radio 16 August 2026
bringing the noise. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Cairiss The Guide Wilderness 2026 Cairiss Free Mr Big Fire and Water 1970 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Alice Cooper Halo of Flies Killer 1971 Rhino Papangu Fechamento de Corpo Celestial 2026 … Continue reading →
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15 August 2026
eyes get in yr smoke. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Rhys Chatham Drastic Classicism (edit) CBGB & OMFUG A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 2026 Cherry Red Records Negativland Babac D’babc Points 1981 Seeland All Them Witches Saturn Song … Continue reading →
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1 August 2026
here comes the hot. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label All Them Witches Aethernet House Of Mirrors 2026 BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Black Sabbath Behind the Wall of Sleep (Live on John Peel Sessions) The Broadcast Collection 1970-1975 1970 … Continue reading →
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18 July 2026
please support the expunkimental music that What’s This Called? brings to Freeform Portland. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Black Sabbath War Pigs (Live at L’Olympia Bruno Conquatrix, Paris France, 1970) Black Sabbath the Broadcast Collection 1970 Cult Legends Negativland … Continue...
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4 July 2026
250 years and I want my money back. PLAYLIST (all “american” artists): Artist Song Release Released Label Sonic Youth Intro Bad Moon Rising 1985 Squeaky Squawk Sonic Youth Brave Men Run (In My Family) Bad Moon Rising 1985 Squeaky Squawk … Continue reading →
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Guest Host of Guitar Shop Radio 28 June 2026
like totally heavy. SLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Free Oh I Wept Fire and Water 1970 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Bardo Pond Blue (feat. Guru Guru & Acid Mothers Temple) Acid Guru Pond (feat. Acid Mothers Temple & Guru … Continue reading →
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Guest Host for Snaq Attack 20 June 2026
a mere two hours after What’s This Called? host Ricardo Wang sits in as a substitute for Lazer Bacon’s Snaq Attack! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Bob Marley & The Wailers War / No More Trouble (Live at The … Continue reading →
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20 June 2026
the solstice with the molstice. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Anne Briggs Summer’s In Sing a Song for You 1996 Fledg’ling Dead Moon Going South Strange Pray Tell 1992 Tombstone Records Guru Bobol linthre Music for Ancient Catacombs 2026 … Continue reading →
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6 June 2026
sounds of existential expansion. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Point Line Plane Deep C Point Line Plane 2026 SKiN GRAFT Records Matmos Reconstruction The Civil War 2003 Matador AMATERASU Durga Puja III 2020 Alone in the Hollow Garden Telepath … Continue reading →
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Early Summer Evergreen
A show for Freeform Portland to sub when there is a need. No idea when it will air! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label David Maranha Circunscrita Anthology of Electroacoustic Music From Portugal 2026 Unexplained Sounds Group David Torn bones … Continue reading →
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23 May 2026
dads, grads, and global annihilation. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Skylar Spence Prom King Prom King 2015 Carpark Croz Boyce Eternal Dream Drone Croz Boyce 2026 Domino Recording Co Bauhaus Hollow Hills Mask 1981 Beggars Banquet Dreckig DIE NACHT … Continue reading →
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9 May 2026
post-beltane depression. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label New Risen Throne Entering the Stone Circle Music for Ancient Catacombs 2026 Eighth Tower Records Sound Secretion Sound Secretion in the City Classics Selection 2002 BSI Records Mouse On Mars Detected Beats … Continue reading →
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Hot & Heavy Evergreen
the great weight of temperature increase. special show for Freeform Portland to use as needed. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Neurosis Untethered An Undying Love for a Burning World 2026 Neurot Recordings Brad Anderson Construction no 1 in c … Continue reading →
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25 April 2026
songs for late stage capitalism. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Minor Threat Cashing In Out of Step 1983 Dischord Don Haugen Voices of Time Last Light 2025 Self Released Time Rival Chaircrusher – MG (Time Rival Remix) SKETCHBOOK 26 … Continue reading →
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Spring Floating Show
let the green flow. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Ken Nordine Green Colors 1965 Snail Records Neo Geodesia Semifinal Fantasies Oknha Stamina 2026 CHINABOT The Re-Stoned Faces of Earth Plasma 2017 Qiasum Music Fuchsia Me and My Kite Fuchsia … Continue reading →
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11 April 2026
unprinted multiple exposures. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Kurt Gottschalk & Tamara Yadao rahrahree! – Schrodinger’s Assassin The Cat That Wouldn’t Die 2026 C.I.A. Records The Fall Rebellious Jukebox Live at the Witch Trials 1978 Cherry Red Records Ken … Continue reading →
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28 March 2026
a momentary respite. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Bill Orcutt And warm to the touch Music in Continuous Motion 2026 Palilalia Jad Fair and Kramer Our Cause To Worry The Sound Of Music 1989 Shimmy Disc Warren Baker Caper … Continue reading →
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23 March 2026 (guest DJing Guitar Shop Radio!)
what’s this guitar shop radio called? PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Kim Gordon NOT TODAY PLAY ME 2026 Matador Free Kitten Falling Backwards Kitten Straight Up 1992 Pearl Necklace Godflesh Almost Heaven (Closer Mix) Songs of Love and Hate … Continue reading →
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14 March 2026
shock of escalation. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label uncle weed x winterkeep Remnants & Artefacts EP // thinking about nothing yet so much *life* 2026 Self Released Praise Space Electric Cybernetic Experiment X Dave Brock Presents… This Was Your … Continue reading →
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11 March 2021 MIDNIGHT – 2 AM
Ricardo Wang guest hosts Downcast on Freeform Portland! #SadSongs PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Elliott Smith Needle in the Hay Elliott Smith 1995 P-VINE Bauhaus Burning from the Inside Burning from the Inside 1983 Beggars Banquet This Mortal Coil … Continue reading →
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28 February 2026
tariff free listening. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Insectarium The child’s laugh Electric Dead Speak. Music Inspired by the Electronic Voice Phenomenon 2026 Eighth Tower Records Malfunkshun The Malfunkshun Freedom 2007 Wammybox Records Kevin Ayers & The Whole Wide … Continue...
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14 February 2026
for lovers only PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Raub Roy Jan 31 (Jamuary’d) January Mixtape 2026 Self Released Adolph Deutsch and His Orchestra Lonely Room (From “The Apartment”) Jazz Noir 2014 NOT NOW MUSIC Jandek It’s Only You The … Continue reading →
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Cold Wet Evergreen
an extra bonus extra show for freeform portland to air at an unknown time. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Nels Cline & Elliott Sharp Five Tastes of Sour Open The Door 24-bit Remastered 2026 Zoar Records Autechre Rew(1) Move … Continue reading →
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31 January 2026
don’t blow your cool. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Mark Hjorthoy Ghost of My Life The Future That Never Existed 2026 Unexplained Sounds Group Godflesh Almost Heaven (Helldub) Love and Hate In Dub 1997 Earache Records Ashtoreth & Grey … Continue reading →
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17 January 2026
sounds surviving PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Circuit des Yeux Truth Halo On The Inside 2025 Matador CAN Mother Upduff Unlimited Edition 1975 Mute The Seeds Out of the Question (Version 1, Take 1) Pushin’ Too Hard – American … Continue reading →
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3 January 2026
first show of the new year! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Arc Numbers Where Do We Begin Please Be My Radio 2025 Personal Archives Frijid Pink Pain In My Heart Defrosted 1970 Repertoire Records LTD Outback Fern and Henbane … Continue reading →
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20 December 2025
every solstice is an equinox on some other planet. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label SpaceWalker Light of the Night Musical Mantras 2025 Interstellar Beats Soft Machine All White Fifth (Remastered) 2007 SONY BMG Catalog Folknoize 2. 6 No Fuax … Continue reading →
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Heavy Evergreen
a heavy evergreen for Freeform Portland to air whenever the call is given. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Come & Buy The Crazy World of Arthur Brown 1967 Esoteric Samuel Prody Who Will … Continue reading →
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6 December 2025
Please support Freeform Portland! DJ Lennon joins Ricardo Wang this episode. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Storm & Stress It Takes a Million Years to Become Diamonds So Lets Just Burn Like Coal Until the Sky’s Black Under Thunder … Continue reading →
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22 November 2025
save your thanks for the giving. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Elliott Sharp & Rainer Jancis Crash Mob Uhhuu 2025 U-DUUR / zOaR music-BMI Roland Kirk Black Root Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata 1971 Rhino Atlantic The Standells Rari … Continue reading →
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8 November 2025
watching the watchers. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label A su ladera Valle Acústico 02 2025 Furia Cul de Sac Roses in the Wallpaper I Don’t Want to Go to Bed 1994 Thirsty Ear Recordings Leafcutter John Maria In the … Continue reading →
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Further Adventures in the Lost & Found
another bonus show for Freeform Portland to fill emergency schedule vacancies. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Steve Roach / SoRIAH Stars of Darkness Curandero 2025 Projekt Records Lyra Pramuk Babel Hymnal 2025 7K! Roedelius South Of Aquarello 2006 All … Continue reading →
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A Show That Time Forgot
a floating show for Freeform Porltand for when a spot needs to be filled. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Annette Vande Gorne Figures d’espace Tutti Frutti 2025 Persistence of Sound Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Santa … Continue reading →
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25 October 2025
the only thing to fear PLAYLIST: Joanne Robertson Ghost Blurrr 2025 AD 93 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Interstellar Overdrive Live in Valencia 2025 2025 Max Hazard Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Enough To Make … Continue reading →
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11 October 2025
here comes the chill. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Boreal Path :Trembling Upon the Void: Boreal Covenant 2025 Personal Archives Deep Feeling Welcome for a Soldier Deep Feeling 1971 Grapefruit Records Orbit Service Hold You Down Spirit Guide 2025 … Continue reading →
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27 September 2025
every ghost has it’s dub. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label KK Null Ghost Dub Awakening _11 Ghost Dub Awakening 2025 No Rent Burning Spear The Ghost (Marcus Garvey) Garvey’s Ghost 2016 Mercury Records Steve Fisk Break On Thru 448 … Continue reading →
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13 September 2025
And the days grow short when you reach September… Folknoize 11 Transparent 2025 Self-Released Joan Tower Petroushkates The Composer-Performer Forty Years of Discovery 1954-1994 1980 CRI Muscle Mass A Hundred Faces in Crowds City Shadows 2025 Silber Records Cocteau Twins … Continue reading →
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30 August 2025
eternity candle on hold. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label alice does computer music The candle of eternity burns for all Bliss 2025 Jolt Music and Prolonged Ah Pierre Henry Dracula (Episode 7) Pierre Henry: Dracula 2003 Universal Music Division … Continue reading →
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16 August 2025
it is easier to transmute gold to lead. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label McCoy Tyner Pursuit Atlantis 1973 Milestone Tinn Parrow & Co & Laurence Bond Miller Time Piece My Gymnasium Museum 2025 Cuneiform Attrition Dream Sleep The Elephant … Continue reading →
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Wang Family Evergreen Show
A couple pieces chosen by Lennon, a couple picked by Asa, within 2 hours of Expunkimental Music. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Birigwa Okusosola Mukule Birigwa 1971 Porter Records Iran Take It Through Me Iran tUMULt Einstürzende Neubauten Sonnenbarke … Continue reading →
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2 August 2025
PLAYLIST: Artist ” Song” Album Date Released LabelHarry Partch “Castor & Pollux – A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini I:” Castor The Music of Harry Partch 1953 CRIU.F.O. “Treacle People” New Moon’s in the Sky – The Brittsh … Continue reading →
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Summer Special Electro Jazz
a bonus show for Freeform Portland Playlist: Artist Song Release Released Label McCoy Tyner Atlantis Atlantis 1973 Milestone Tomek Reminder Fairlight and Funk 2023 Sundazed Music / Modern Harmonic Sun Ra & His Arkestra The House of Eternal Being Live … Continue reading →
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19 July 2025
it burns. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Beyond the Ghost Embers to Ashes Echoes of the Hollow Earth 2025 Cryo Chamber Bill Orcutt Crackup The Old Miami 2025 Palilalia anacapa Kchung Kchung 2023 anacapa An Id Signal Parachuting Rain … Continue reading →
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Ricardo Wang’s Summer JAMZ!
Cruise in your ride to these summer JAMZ! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Pux/NNDL` part 4 Terrains [HTX144] Heterodox Records Iron Maiden To Tame a Land (2015 Remaster) Piece of Mind (2015 Remaster) 1983 Sanctuary Records Ashtoreth & Penumbral … Continue reading →
About this show
Alternate Saturdays 6-8 PM PST on https://freeformportland.org/