Let It Roll
"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness wrap up their discussion of "Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture" with an interview of the author, Simon Reynolds.
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September 22, 2025 • 44 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness discuss the final chapter of the last edition of Simon Reynolds' "Energy Flash" which covers the back-from-the-dead bigger-than-ever re-emergence of EDM in North America in the 2010. We talk dubstep, brostep, ghettotech, and a little bit of Daft Punk.
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September 19, 2025 • 42 mins
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 developments in dance music in the first decade of the 21st century including the beginnings of dubstep, grime, and breakcore.
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September 17, 2025 • 41 mins
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 millennium and has had a surprising amount of influence on 21st century music.
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September 15, 2025 • 46 mins
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 the sounds that pushed jungle aside and briefly ruled the English charts, airwaves and dance floors at the turn of the millennium.
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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.
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September 10, 2025 • 45 mins
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.
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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 genre, how it evolved alongside other genres of EDM in England and it's surprisingly lasting impact.
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September 5, 2025 • 42 mins
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 form.
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September 3, 2025 • 41 mins
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.
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September 1, 2025 • 41 mins
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.
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August 29, 2025 • 43 mins
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 reached the mainstream nor did American EDM make much of an impact internationally.
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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 extreme while a backlash against Jungle sent many UK dancers into the arms of Happy Hardcore.
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August 25, 2025 • 43 mins
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.
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August 22, 2025 • 43 mins
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."
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This week 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."
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August 18, 2025 • 41 mins
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.
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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-oriented music made for listening rather than dancing.
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August 13, 2025 • 40 mins
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 Britain.
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August 11, 2025 • 41 mins
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 sound of Warp and Unique 3, the hip-house and ragga sound of Shut Up and Dance, the anthemic pop of N-Joi and Belgian & German brutal...
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