BC039 - Five Mixes: Old Sets Anew, 2023

From 1989 to 1996, snapshots from classic house—and an indebted outlier’s—history.

Mario “Smokin’” Diaz

I recently discussed my most recently published book, Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year, with hosts Nathan Wilcox and Ed Legge of the Let It Roll podcast, which is highly recommended—it’s deep-dive discussions of music history books, sometimes with the authors and sometimes not. (Here’s a list of the CSD episodes, under the rubric ’80s Roll.) I had done the same a year back, when they read through The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America and had me on at the end to discuss the whole thing, this time with Wilcox and Ryan Harkness. This was their third Techno Roll series, after Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton’s Last Night a DJ Saved My Life and Simon Reynolds’ Energy Flash. (All of these, including mine, are listed here.)