Let It Roll EXTRA

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠ " with a look at the electro revival that began in the early 90s, got a lot of attention as electroclash when it moved to Brooklyn around the turn of the millen...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Ryan Harkness and Nate Wilcox continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠ " with a look at Speed Garage and 2Step, the sounds that pushed jungle aside and briefly ruled the English charts, airwaves and dance floors at the turn of the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com On this episode, hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness discuss the evolution of trance in the second half of the 1990s: psy-trance, progressive trance, and Euro or uplifting trance.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of dance music in the 1990s with a look at how House evolved down multiple paths in the 1990s as producers and DJs from Chicago to New York to London gave it their own personal twist.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of UK dance music in the 1990s with a look at Big Beat. For many Americans Big Beat was the first style of electronic dance music that they saw in concert, purchased on CD or heard in TV ads and movie soundtracks. We discuss this briefly popular ge...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠ " with a look at the avant-garde of late 90's post-rave, post-rap, post-rock artists who abandoned the dance floors and strived to advance the boundaries of the f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture " with a look at what happened when Jungle rose to prominence and the scene fragmented into competing subgenres.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of UK rave in the 1990s with a mental trip to Bristol and chat about how the 1990s Bristol sound emerged from a city not much known for innovative music until the 1980s. This episode draws heavily from Phil Johnson’s book “ Straight Outa Bristol: M...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture ⁠⁠ " with a look at the chapter on "America The Rave: US Rave Culture 1990-1997" an era when rave became a significant underground youth music in the US but never r...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " ⁠⁠⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠⁠⁠ " with a look at the chapter "Marching Into Madness: Gabba and Happy Hardcore." It was a time when the sounds in Holland and Scotland got more martial and e...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " ⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠ " with a look at how hardcore breakbeat evolved into Jungle in London in the early 1990s, changing the sound and bringing more Black dancers into the scene.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness discuss Pirate Radio in the UK in the 1990s. The discussion is based on Simon Reynolds' chapter "This Sound Is For the Underground" from " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠ ."

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness talk about the second wave of Detroit Techno -- artists like Underground Resistance, Richie Hawtin’s +8 label and Carl Craig. Based on Simon Reynolds' " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠ ."

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com As Ecstasy lost its charm for many in the UK dance scene, some producers and DJs led an evolution that saw the music's themes get grimmer and the sounds get stranger. Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' ⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠ " with a focus on chapter called “Feed Your Head: Intelligent Techno, Ambient and Trance” and the attempt by some producers and DJs to push the music into a serious album-oriente...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠ " with a talk about The Spiral Tribe, the 1992 Castlemorton Common Festival and the crusty-raver alliance that saw the last gasp of mass illegal raves in Britai...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their conversation about Simon Reynolds' " ⁠⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠⁠ " with a look at the chapter titled "'Ardkore, You Know the Score: The Second Wave of Rave 1990-92." Nate and Ryan talk about the Northern bleep and bass sou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of ⁠Simon Reynolds' A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠ with a look at the second summer of love hit particularly hard in Manchester and the North of England where bands like the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, the Shamen...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of ⁠Simon Reynolds' "Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Culture⁠ " with a look at the chapter title "Living A Dream: Acid House and UK Rave 1988-1989."

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Simon Reynolds' " ⁠Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture⁠ " with a look at the Techno scene in Detroit, the House scene in Chicago and the garage scene in New York and New Jersey and how African-Americans in those three...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com In this episode hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness introduce the new series, discuss author Simon Reynolds' background and perspective and why his book “ Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture “ is a definitive take on the UK dance scene of the 1990s.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com After discussing “ Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey ” for 21 weeks, hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness get the opportunity to ask some questions of the authors. Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton describe their motivation for writing the book, how they worked together and how they d...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com In this week’s episode hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness debate the questions raised in the final chapter of " ⁠Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey⁠ " about the values of clubbing and whether or not the current mass success of superstar DJs represents a betrayal of those values.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of “ Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey” by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton . This week’s episode focuses on the wave of superstar DJs that emerged in the 21st Century like DJ Tiesto and Fatboy Slim.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of “ Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey” by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton . This week’s episode focuses on the attempts to criminalize rave culture in the UK and US.