Stuart Maconie's Dystopian Playlist
Stuart’s chosen tracks:
1. Smog Fog And Sunset by Seventh Wave
'From an album based on H.G. Wells' Things to Come'
Listen on BBC Playlister
2. East Hastings by Godspeed! You Black Emperor
‘Doomy, Canadian, apocalyptic’
Listen on Last FM
3. 1984 by David Bowie
‘Orwellian rock ‘n’ roll’
4. Symphony No. 8, First Movement by Glenn Branca
‘Cataclysmic, guitars orchestra’
5. Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmare by Tangerine Dream
‘At the strand of nightmare’
Listen on AllMusic
6. Patterns by Noah Howard
‘Abstract, scary, free jazz’
Listen on AllMusic
7. In The Year 2525 by Zager and Evans
‘…will man still be alive?’
Watch on YouTube
8. Excavation (Part 1) by The Haxan Cloak
Discover more on BBC Playlister
9. The Delian Mode by Delia Derbyshire/ The Radiophonic Workshop
‘Classic Radiophonic Workshop’
10. Kirkbymoorside by The Stranger
‘A nuclear winter on the Pennine moors’
Watch on YouTube
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
Strange and surprising music.
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Listeners' Dystopian Playlist
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Tattoo Tales
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dramatisation of Philip K Dick's cult novel, which inspired the film Blade Runner. Starring James Purefoy and Jessica Raine.
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Dark Minds
A dangerous obsession with immersive virtual reality games has deadly consequences. Sex, violence and virtual reality combine in this futuristic thriller.
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The Martian Chronicles
Derek Jacobi and Hayley Atwell lead an all-star cast in a thrilling new dramatisation, re-imagining Ray Bradbury's timeless fable of doomed Martian colonisation.
