TechnoRoll 2.3: DJs Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway and Danny Rampling Break Acid House Big in the UK

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Gareth Murphy set out to write an obituary for the record man. A French label boss had told him over lunch that the record producer was a dying breed, and in the 2010s, with the industry shrinking every y ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com In 1917 a white New Orleans band that was not the original anything and could not spell its own genre put out a record that sounded, in Peter Doggett’s words, like “a gang of crazed instrumentalists fight ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com The same man wrote “It’s Tight Like That” and “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.” As Georgia Tom, Thomas A. Dorsey cut it with Tampa Red in 1928 - one of the dirtiest hits of the decade, and the record that se ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Gary Giddins agreed to write a 300-page Bing Crosby book in three years so he could get back to Duke Ellington. That was more than twenty-five years ago. He started out half-believing the hatchet jobs and ...