what the festival

What The Festival, Oregon’s premiere electronic dance music festival, is taking the year off from what would otherwise be What The Festival weekend. Learning to Grow with DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) has fond memories of What The Festival and the associated featured episodes with WTF artists and curators. In tribute and celebration, KPSU presents the […]

What The Festival, held on Wolf Run Ranch on the East slopes of Mt. Hood, is a real-life dreamland filled with blissful wonderment that really leaves you saying, “WTF.” From the sparkly splash stage to the illuminated forest and of course the world’s largest shimmering disco ball, to the core team that runs this festival […]

Post What The Festival vibes are growing strong here in Portland. Tune in to hear a decompression mix brought to you by DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) fresh off the ranch with the freshest of harvests to share with our community. Download or stream the Podcast here at KPSU, Soundcloud, Mixcloud! Watch out for the conclusion […]

Last night, Mienne joined Learning to Grow with DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) leading up to What The Festival 2017! We talked about Mienne’s experience as a performing artist and how she has blended her skills into the musical realms. Mienne prides herself in being an unforgivingly multi-genre and multi-love DJ – listen in to hear […]

Last night Electric Mantis joined Learning to Grow with DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) for our next installment of What The Festival 2017 featured artist interviews! Electric Mantis was super generous to share some unreleased content and discuss the realms of his artistic aesthetic! Download or stream the Podcast here at KPSU, Soundcloud or Mixcloud! Alaskan […]

Last night Mr. Moo joined Learning to Grow with DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) for the next installment of What The Festival 2017 featured artist interviews! We had a chance to focus on the transformational and societal aspects of immersive interactive music and arts festivals such as What The Festival! Mr. Moo got deep in to […]

Chris Bower joined Learning to Grow with DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) last night for our next edition of 2017 What The Festival featured artist interviews! We had a chance to discuss his musical inspirations and musical experiences leading up to #WTfest’17! Download or stream the Podcast here at KPSU, Soundcloud, or Mixcloud! Chris Bower is […]

PRSN, Portland local DJ and event curator, joined Learning to Grow with DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) last night for a chance to listen to some of his selections and get to know what this PRSN is all about! Download or stream the Podcast here at KPSU, Soundcloud or Mixcloud! We had a chance to discuss PRSN’s […]

One year ago the founders of What The Festival, Tiffany and Glen Boyd and Peter Clark, joined Learning to Grow with DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) on KPSU to talk about the roots of what has become one of The West Coast’s most popular boutique music festivals. Guest DJ Nico Troi of KPSU’s Nico at Nights also […]

Fine Animal Portland local elctro synth shoegaze indie duo joined Learning to Grow with DJ Mkulima (The Farmer) last night in anticipation for the up and coming What The Festival 2017! Download or stream the Podcast here at KPSU, Soundcloud, or Mixcloud!   We had a chance to sit down and discuss their roots and exactly […]


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