Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone Episodes Episode guide
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The Modern Jazz Quartet - Third Stream Music
Stuart's featured album is the Modern Jazz Quartet's classic Third Stream Music.
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The Albion Band - Rise Up Like The Sun
Stuart's featured album is a landmark of modern folk rock by the Albion Band.
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Sheila Chandra - Abonecronedrone
Stuart's featured album is Abonecronedrone by mesmerising vocalist Sheila Chandra
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Supersonic Special
Stuart presents a special show recorded at the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham.
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Happy (belated) Birthday Gavin Bryars
Stuart presents a special show marking composer Gavin Bryars' 80th year .
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Holger Czukay - Movies
Stuart's featured album is Can's bass maestro Holger Czugay's solo album Movies.
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Plone - For Beginner Piano
Stuart's featured album is For Player Piano the 1999 debut album by Plone.
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Phew - Phew
Stuart shares a featured album by Japanese electronic musician Phew.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Records Special
Stuart celebrates the wonders of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Records with author Tim Worthington.
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Momus - Tender Pervert
Stuart's featured album is Tender Pervert by intellectual art pop maestro Momus.
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Dusk Special
Take the show out doors to soundtrack the journey from daylight into nighttime.
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Fresh Maggots go Supersonic
Stuart's featured album is psychedelic folk classic Fresh Maggots by Fresh Maggots.
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Britpop - A Bizarre Collection Of Antiques And Curios
Stuart celebrates Britpop with some very British musical mavericks and eccentrics.
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Anna Meredith and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Stuart talks to Anna Meredith ahead of the Manchester International Festival.
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The Groundhogs - Hogwash
Stuart's featured album is the Groundhogs' 1972 album Hogwash in tribute to Tony McPhee.
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B.E.F. - Music for Stowaways
Stuart's featured album is "lost" electronic classic Music for Stowaways by B.E.F.
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Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Stuart's featured album is Stereolab's Dots and Loops.
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La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf
Tonight's featured album is German kosmische musik classic La Dusseldorf by La Dusseldorf.
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Sweetness & Light
Two hours of sweet & radiant music curated to obverse the recent Heavy & Intense program.
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Pole
Featuring music from the German electronic producer's dub influenced 1999 album, 2
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King Crimson
Stuart celebrates the band's 'Larks' Tongues in Aspic' album on its 50th anniversary.
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Heavy & Intense
Two hours dark and intoxicating music to throw ahead to 6 Music's All Day Rage.
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Rare Vinyl
Two hours of the most coveted experimental albums in light of 6 Music’s Vinyl Weekender.
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The Caretaker
Featuring music from the artist's 2011 ambient album, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World.
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Miles Davis
Stuart revisits the trumpeter's controversial 1972 jazz fusion record, ‘On The Corner’.
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Grouper
Featuring music from Grouper's 2008 record, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.
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Experimental Manchester
Celebrating experimental and underground music from Greater Manchester and its environs.
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George & Yoko
Stuart celebrates the weirder side of the two great artists from the Beatles family.
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Experimental Explorations with Madlib
Featuring music from ‘Shades of Blue’, the 2013 remix album of Blue Note Records’ archives
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Experimental Explorations with Pauline Oliveros
Two hours of experimental and avant-garde music.