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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone Episodes

  1. Experimental Explorations with Supersilent

    Featuring music from the avant-garde improvisational electroacoustic band's 2013 album, 6.

  2. Experimental Explorations with Fela Kuti

    Stuart revisits the king of afrobeat's joyous and influential album from 1973, Afrodisiac.

  3. Experimental Explorations with 蜜芽传媒 Drama Workshop

    Stuart celebrates the 蜜芽传媒's centenary with the bizarre and unsettling 1969 album, Seasons

  4. Hauntology Halloween Special

    Two hours of experimental music haunted by cultural memory and aesthetics of the past

  5. Experimental Explorations with Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana

    Featuring music from the pair's blissful collaborative album from 1974, Illuminations.

  6. Experimental Explorations with Pharoah Sanders

    We pay tribute to legendary free jazz saxophonist with tracks from his 1971 album Thembi.

  7. Slow Sunday: A Freak Zone Aquatic Special

    Two hours of hypnotic and soothing experimental music featuring water themes and sounds.

  8. Way With Words Special

    Two hours of spoken word-infused experimental music for 6 Music's poetry mini season.

  9. Experimental Explorations with Unsound Festival

    We meet the co-directors of Unsound Festival in Krak贸w.

  10. Experimental Explorations with Elodie Lauten

    Featuring music from the composer's haunting 1985 pop opera album, The Death of Don Juan.

  11. Experimental Explorations with Faust

    Stuart celebrates the kosmiche band's bizarre sonic collage album from 1973, Faust Tapes.

  12. Experimental Explorations with Max Tundra

    Stuart revisits the pioneering producer's album from 2008, Parallax Error Beheads You.

  13. Experimental Explorations with Linda Perhacs

    Featuring the sounds of the psychedelic folk singer's album from 1970, Parallelograms.

  14. Experimental Explorations with Scott Walker and Sunn O)))

    Stuart celebrates the dramatic vocal-led drone metal album from 2014, Soused.

  15. Experimental Explorations with Mahmoud Ahmed

    Stuart revisits the legendary artist's groovy Ethio jazz album from 1975, Er茅 m猫la m猫la'.

  16. Experimental Explorations with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

    Stuart features the American composer and modular synth exponent's 2017 album 'The Kid'.

  17. Supersonic Festival Special

    Highlights from Freak Zone's time at the Birmingham experimental music & arts festival.

  18. Experimental Explorations with Bengt Berger

    Stuart revisits the Swedish musician's ethno jazz album from 1981, Bitter Funeral Beer.

  19. Experimental Explorations with Robert Fripp

    Featuring the music of the British guitarist and composer's 1979 album Exposure.

  20. Experimental Explorations Loud & Proud Special

    Stuart celebrates the most exciting experimental and underground LGBTQ+ artists.

  21. Experimental Explorations with Quiet Sun

    Featuring the music of the progressive rock jazz fusion band's 1975 album Mainstream.

  22. Experimental Explorations with Vangelis

    Stuart revisits the late influential electronic producer's Blade Runner soundtrack album.

  23. Experimental Explorations with Herbie Hancock

    Stuart explores Herbie Hancock鈥檚 free jazz group Mwandishi's self titled album from 1971.

  24. Experimental Explorations with Oval

    Featuring the sounds of the German group's influential 1994 glitch techno album Systemich.

  25. Slow Sunday: Nature Special

    Two hours of immersive and relaxing music inspired by and featuring the natural world.

  26. Experimental Explorations with Ivor Cutler

    Stuart revisits the eccentric cult artist's bizarre and beautiful 1974 album Dandruff.

  27. Intense & Heavy Special

    A two-hour multi-genre freak out to warm up for 6 Music's All Day Rage.

  28. Experimental Explorations with Charles Mingus

    Stuart explores the jazz titan's 1972 album Let My Children Hear Music.

  29. Experimental Explorations with Nico

    Featuring the sounds of the German singer songwriter's 1969 album The Marble Index.

  30. Experimental Explorations with Vashti Bunyan

    Stuart chats to the iconic artist about her new memoir Wayward: Just Another Life to Live.

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