Let It Roll EXTRA

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 m…

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 …

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.

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."

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."

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.

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.

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…

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 and Primal Scream attempted to fuse rave and ro…