"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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Nate WIlcox Podcasts
We talk to interesting people via podcast and weekly livestream.
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Nate Wilcox: The State of the Union
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Nate Wilcox joins Plutopia News Network with a wide-ranging critique of U.S. politics, media, technology, and foreign policy. He argues the political center has collapsed, institutions lack credibility, and executive power dominates, while both parties fail in different ways: Democrats with performative resistance and hollow policy, Republicans wit…
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TechnoRoll 3.4: Rave & Early Internet Culture Rose Together in the Bay Area in the Early 90s
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Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their conversations about Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America" with a look at the early days of Rave culture in Northern California in the early 1990s. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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TechnoRoll 3.3: Madchester & Hip-House Don't Quite Make It In the States, But Rave Took Root in Southern California
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Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their conversations about Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America." This episode focuses on the domestic failure of Madchester and HipHouse and the slow build of rave culture in the USA in the 1990s. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE …
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In this Plutopia News Network episode, political historian Dr. Roy Casagranda joins Jon and Scoop for a wide-ranging conversation on leadership, U.S. presidents from Eisenhower to Trump, and the fragility of democratic institutions. Casagranda contrasts strong domestic achievements (e.g., LBJ, Eisenhower) with consistently troubling U.S. foreign po…
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TechnoRoll 3.2: Detroit Techno or, George Clinton, & Kraftwerk Stuck in an Elevator With a Sequencer
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Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness mull the second chapter of "The Underground Is Massive" by Michaelangelo Matos which tells of the emergence of the first wave of Detroit Techno, led by the Belleville Three: Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. As May said, "The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton an…
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TechnoRoll 3.1: Chicago House Kicks Off a New Era in Dance Music
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness kick off their discussion of Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America" with a look at the role of radio, dance clubs, DJs like Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy and the Hot Mix 5 in the first outbreak of modern electronic dance music in the USA. GO TO THE LET I…
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TechnoRoll 2.24: Simon Reynolds On Rave Music, Dance Culture and the Hardcore to Jungle to Drum & Bass to Dubstep to EDM Continuum
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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. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE -- The final 15 minutes of this episode are exclusivel…
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TechnoRoll 2.23: Skrillex Leads EDM's Take Over of America
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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. GO TO T…
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TechnoRoll 2.22: First Wave Dubstep, Grime and Breakcore Dominate a Downbeat Half Decade
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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 developments in dance music in the first decade of the 21st century including the beginnings of dubstep, grime, and breakcore. GO TO T…
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TechnoRoll 2.21: Electroclash Was the 'It' Sound from Brooklyn to Berlin at the Turn of the Millennium
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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 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 influe…
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Paulina Borsook and Brian Maggi: In Formation Magazine
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On this Plutopia News Network episode, hosts talk with In Formation magazine’s humor editor Brian Maggi and writer/contributing editor Paulina Borsook about their newly released Issue #3 — an intentionally high-quality, print-first, “anti-Wired” cult mag skewering tech culture with smart, insider humor. They trace the evolution from early-2000s iss…
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TechnoRoll 2.20 Speed Garage & 2Step Evolved Out of the UK Garage Scene
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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. GO TO THE …
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TechnoRoll 2.19 Paul Van Dyk, DJ Tiesto, and Ferry Corsten Take Trance to the Top as the PsyTrance Underground Goes Global
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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. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE -- The final 15 …
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TechnoRoll 2.18: Leftfield, Moby, Green Velvet & Underworld Pushed the Boundaries of House in the 1990s
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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. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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The Plutopia podcast talks with Dr. Jeremy Faludi, a Delft University sustainable design researcher and lead author of Sustainable Design: From Vision to Action, about practical, systems-level strategies for lower-impact products and services. Faludi stresses life-cycle assessment (LCA) to “run the numbers” and focus effort where it matters—durabil…
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TechnoRoll 2.17: The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers & Fatboy Slim Brought Big Beat to Massive International Success
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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…
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TechnoRoll 2.16: DJ Spooky, Atari Teenage Riot, Mouse on Mars and Drill & Bass Producers Got Arty Post-Rave
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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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TechnoRoll 2.15: Drum & Bass Fought to Differentiate Itself from Ragga Jungle & Techstep
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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 what happened when Jungle rose to prominence and the scene fragmented into competing subgenres. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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Hugh Forrest, former President and longtime programming lead for Austin’s famed South by Southwest Festival, joins the Plutopia podcast to discuss shifting from running massive events to consulting on smaller community-focused experiences. Hugh argues that size is the enemy of community — people attend events to form a few meaningful connections — …
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TechnoRoll 2.14: Tricky, Portishead, & Massive Attack Took Trip-Hop Straight Out of Bristol
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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. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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