Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone

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Adventures in underground and experimental music. A partner to the Freak Zone Playlist.

Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone: Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

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Stuart's featured album is a landmark of German electronica - Tangerine Dream's Phaedra.

Stuart's featured album is a landmark of German electronica - Tangerine Dream's Phaedra, a top ten hit 50 years ago this month.

Welcome to the Freak Zone, the home of the hits … as long by hits you mean 60s Vietnamese pop funk, Norse dark prog metal and film music from the Aussie Morricone - as well as a light sprinkling of Suicide, Pere Ubu and Matching Mole.  

Plus this week a genuine chart bothering hit in Stuart's featured album Tangerine Dream's Phaedra. It's a landmark of abstract electronica from Germany via Oxfordshire and was, remarkably, a top ten album 50 years ago this month.

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