"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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TechnoRoll 3.15: The DEA Cracks Down on Disco Donnie & the NOLA Rave Scene
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Disco Donnie, the DEA and the rave bust that brought the first era of rave to an end. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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Ben Collier: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
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Ben Collier, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, joins Plutopia to discuss his MIT Press book Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. The book argues that media overstates Tor’s ties to crime. Originally developed at the U.S. Naval Research Lab as “onion routing,” Tor …
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TechnoRoll 3.14 Carl Craig Brought the Detroit Electronic Music Festival Roaring to Life
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the 2000 Detroit Electronic Music Festival which finally brought the Techno pioneers a measure of popular acclaim in their home city. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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TechnoRoll 3.13: Moby and Fatboy Slim Rocked Woodstock '99
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the US music industry's continuing efforts to make "electronica" the next big thing, culminating in Moby and Fatboy Slim's appearances at the rave tent of Woodstock '99, an infamous debacle that epitomized the worst of …
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TechnoRoll 3.12: Underworld & Chemical Brothers Headlined Organic '96
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the continuing efforts of the American music business to promote the genre they now called "electronica" via live events and CD releases. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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In this episode of the Plutopia News Network Podcast, hosts Jon Lebkowsky, Scoop Sweeney, and Wendy Grossman talk with mathematician and juggler Colin Wright, who holds a PhD in pure mathematics from Cambridge and is known for his engaging talks on how math appears everywhere in life. Wright explains that math is not about numbers or formulas but a…
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TechnoRoll 3.11: Daft Punk Make Their US Debut at Even Furthur in Wisconsin
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the Even Further event and Daft Punk's American debut. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE -- The final 15 mi…
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TechnoRoll 3.10: Richie Hawtin's Rise and Fall as a US Rave Promoter
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Richie Hawtin's transition to minimal techno and his boom and bust as a US rave promoter. Other Detroit area producer/DJs like Carl Craig and Robert Hood are discussed as is the relationship between Berlin and Detroit. …
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TechnoRoll 3.9: Moby, The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Orbital & Cybersonik Led Big Tours of the US in 1993
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Rave America and the rise and fall of indie rave in Los Angeles in 1991 and 1992. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE -- The …
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The Plutopia podcast welcomes Sumner Erickson, who discovered the tuba in sixth grade by chance and, at 18, won a job with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra after studies at the Curtis Institute. He recalls globe-spanning tours (Europe, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil), collaborations under André Previn, and contrasts between orchestral and other tour…
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TechnoRoll 3.8: Rave Crested & Crashed In Southern California in the Early 90s
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Rave America and the rise and fall of indie rave in Los Angeles in 1991 and 1992. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE -- The fina…
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TechnoRoll 3.7: Rave Rose & Fell on the East Coast in 1992
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Storm Raves and their various downtown rivals, club kids and others involved in the first wave of rave on the US East coast. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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TechnoRoll 3.6: Tribal House Emerged on the Circuit in the 1990s and Went to the Top of the Pop Charts
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness take a break from "The Underground is Massive" to discuss the emergence of Tribal House on the international gay party circuit and its rise to the top of the charts. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE -- T…
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On this Plutopia episode, Mike Aaron — once a renewable-energy policy aide, now a “digital lifeguard” — explains how fast-evolving tech and social engineering are fueling scams and identity theft, citing FBI Internet Crime Center figures of $6.5B in reported 2024 losses (likely ~10× higher) and ~$160B across all cybercrimes, with average losses esp…
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TechnoRoll 3.5: The Second Wave of Detroit Techno Soundtracked Midwest Raves in the Early 90s
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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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