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Radio 6 Music,04 Jan 2026,120 mins

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone

Available for 25 days

Start your new year with a journey into a world of weird and wonderful music. Stuart's got accordion and drums avant pop from Newcastle, ambient sounds from Oslo, progressive metal from north Carolina and the Beatles performed on moog synthesiser. Plus Donovan, Frank Zappa and Laura Cannell. And if that wasn't enough featured album is Tangerine Dream's Rubycon. The sixth album by the fabled German electronic band, it has just been given a deluxe reissue to mark its 50th anniversary.

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