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This week on What's This Called? with your host Ricardo Wang for Saturday, May 10th 2008 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time (that's 3-4 PM for listeners in New Yawk Sitty!) on KPSU our ever benevolent experimental/psychedelic underwriter Beta-lactam Ring Records has set us up with more jaw droppingly good new releases than we can begin to fit into a one hour show (let alone with music from other labels too, which there will be as well!)

STREAMING AUDIO BRAINMELT RIGHT HERE!

Or for those closer by who crave the static that only real radio can bring:

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

Most specifically in the mix:

Le temps des moissons by Ariel Kalma - BLR's limited edition rerelease of the incredibly rare first album from 1975 featuring Kalma playing incredibly haunting Indian Raga influenced pieces using saxophone, ethnic instruments, electronic effects and filters. Truly a perfect blend of ambient, Jazz, and Musique Concrete like electronic experimentalism.

Images/Zero Mix by Nurse With Wound - the cd/book box set featuring music by Stephen Stapleton and Colin Potter sent to Jim O' Rourke, Cyclobe, adn irr.app. (ext.) for remixing and deconstruction!

and the newest solo release from Legendary Pink Dots keyboard genius The Silverman - Bland For Your Own Message: A Zen Opera in Seven Parts which while consistent with much of his collage drone work sound of course like nothing we've ever heard before.

All that and if there's time, tracks from Autechre, Akai Ikuo, Uw Hypotheekadvies, Childhood Friends, Sonic Youth, Un Festin Sagital, Kronos Quartet, and (possibly...) More!