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TechnoRoll 2.24: Simon Reynolds On Rave Music, ...
Simon Reynolds chats with hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness to wrap up our 24 part history of rave music.
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The A Team Created The Nashville Sound Behind S...
An interview with Travis Stimeling, author of " Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music City"
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TechnoRoll 2.23: Skrillex Leads EDM's Take Over...
Nate and Ryan discuss the final chapter of the last edition of "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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The Dixie Cups Were the Girl Group That Brought...
An interview with Steve Bergsman, author of "Chapel of Love: The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups"
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TechnoRoll 2.22: First Wave Dubstep, Grime and ...
Nate and Ryan discuss 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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The Cultural Blend That Made New Orleans Music ...
An interview with Ned Sublette author of "The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square"
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The Let It Roll Mission Statement - The Insanel...
A brief and belated introduction to the Let It Roll podcast. Five years and twelve seasons in and we've finally figured out what we're doing.
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TechnoRoll 2.21: Electroclash Was the 'It' Soun...
Nate and Ryan discuss 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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Chula Fronteras Documented Tejano Legends Like ...
Nate and Justin take it back to Tejas for the final installment of the first series of "We Dig Rock Docs."
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TechnoRoll 2.20 Speed Garage and 2Step Evolved ...
Ryan and Nate discuss 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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Grunge Bands Like Nirvana Drew All Eyes to the ...
Nate and Justin discuss the masterful telling of what happened when Seattle's happy little underground scene became an international pop culture sensation, attracting thousands of wannabes and hundreds of reporters to the city.Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter.Follow us on Facebook.Part of Pantheon Podcasts
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TechnoRoll 2.19 Paul Van Dyk, DJ Tiesto, & Ferr...
On this episode, Nate and Ryan 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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The Time Nirvana Opened For Sonic Youth and Mad...
Just before the release of Nevermind and "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Nirvana toured Europe opening up for mentors Sonic Youth. Nate and Justin look back on this iconic moment from their youth.
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TechnoRoll 2.18: Leftfield, Moby, Green Velvet ...
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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The Sex Pistols Launched Punk Rock in London & ...
Nate and Justin discuss two very different takes on the Sex Pistols story, both films directed by Julien Temple.
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TechnoRoll 2.17: The Prodigy, The Chemical Brot...
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.
We also drew on Rory Hoy's "The Little Big Beat Book" for extra information.
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The New York Dolls' Punky Glam Was Too Much, To...
New York Dolls bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane was the focus of Greg Whiteley's 2005 documentary which told the story of his final months in Los Angeles and an unexpected Dolls reunion in London. Nate and Justin also discuss the meteoric rise and tragic fall of the Dolls in New York and London in the 1970s.
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TechnoRoll 2.16: DJ Spooky, Atari Teenage Riot,...
This week the conversation turns toward 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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ZZ Top Took Marshall Amps and Remade Boogie-Blu...
The alchemy of ZZ Top is studied and analyzed in this episode.
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TechnoRoll 2.15: Drum & Bass Fought to Differie...
As Jungle rose to prominence the scene fragmented into competing subgenres
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The MC5's Combination of Hard Rock and Radical ...
The MC5 pioneered punk, heavy metal and high energy mid-western rock in late 1960's Detroit and paid a heavy price.
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TechnoRoll 2.14: Tricky, Portishead and Massive...
This week Nate & Ryan talk trip-hop and how the 1990s Bristol sound emerged from a city not much known for innovative music until the 1980s.
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Leon Russell Spotlighted in Les Blank's "A Poem...
We're launching a new mini-series this week featuring the return of SXSW CTO Justin Bankston to join Nate in discussing some of their favorite music documentaries. The series debut looks at filmmaker Les Blank and his documentary treatment of Leon Russell at work on an album in Nashville, playing live in LA and NOLA and at home in his studio complex in Oklahoma.
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TechnoRoll 2.13: American Rave Stayed Undergrou...
This week Nate & Ryan discuss "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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Host Nate Wilcox talks to Doug about how "four flamboyant bands that reveled in revved-up anthems and flaunted a novel theatricality" got major-label backing to try something a little different than the serious denim & leather stuff that dominated the early 70s.
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