Pogo

Guess what, I'm actually back!!! I have a ludicrous amount of spare time this semester with high speed internet available so expect updates to be weekly or bi-weekly for sure. And I have to celebrate my return with an old favorite that I'm sharing here for the first time: Pogo.

I could gush endlessly about this amazingly talented musician but I'll try to keep it reasonable. He's a very hard man to pidgeonhole considering that the closest genre he fits is Dance/Electronica but it doesn't even fit that. In simplest terms, he is sampling audio from any number of great movies and creating a wonderous amalgamation of seemingly abstract clips and fragments. And before that starts getting really confusing, here's an example using clips taken from the old Disney version of "Alice in Wonderland" (his most popular piece)

He can be a bit of a hard sell for those that find his music hard to get behind but the rewards of the music itself far outweigh any complaints that I can comprehend. His tracks have sampled a wide variety of films (mostly "family" films) including classics like Mary Poppins, Hook, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Up, Toy Story, Harry Potter, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Sword in the Stone, and many others that I will never know. The music has a strange way of invoking emotions and memories of the movies while still remaining distinct. The actual music behind the "lyrics" is amazing as well (the bass beat to Alice had me addicted for weeks.) The videos themselves are works of art as well. But the best part of the bargain is that nearly all of his music is free!!! His profile on LastFM contains four free EPs containing most of his music including a album dedicated to Alice in Wonderland. Most of the rest of his music can be found on his website or on the youtube pages for the individual songs. And because I'm just sharing the love, I'll post some of his best tracks below. Enjoy!!!

UPDATE: I realize that I did a poor job at really linking you to the other tracks not on last.fm so here are two real links to "Expialidocious"and "Upular." Some of the other links I've used have dried up but look around and you will find them.

His newest song made from Toy Story, sponsored by Pixar!!

His song from Up, also sponsored by Pixar

His song sampled from Hook, which Sony tried to sue him for...

And finally a real world mix made for he made for his mother on Mother's Day. Sweet...