I-5: Pogo (Revisited)

I'm loving these themes right now and I thought I'd revisit a topic that I mentioned previously about my I-5. These five artists host most of their material online and depend on their online communities to stay afloat but also continue to provide quality material time and time again. The best example of these is Pogo. I know I've already featured this artist and showered plenty of praise here, but thankfully there is new material and a wealth of tracks that I had not found before.

To start, there have been new additions to this artist since I posted in August. The new videos include a mix made from the TV show Dexter and a track made from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The track for Dexter I found to be quite dry (maybe because I don't watch the show) but the Snow White track has me once again addicted to his infectious beats. I never would have thought that Snow White's voice would make an awesome melody to a techno-like song...



The Snow White track named "Wishery" is available on his site on this page with almost of his tracks available. Two problems though: all Disney tracks have been removed (due to copyright and a mutual contract) and the files are in a weird format that will not open in iTunes. Both of these problems can be solved with a little extra work. For the missing tracks, most of them are available on his last.fm page and his tracks for "Up" and "Mary Poppins" can be found on albinoblacksheep.com. Couldn't find the Toy Story tracks though... As for the iTunes compatibility, my old Garageband trick works fine (import, trim, export, rename, resize) but it should work with nearly any audio editing software. EDIT: The tracks have changed format and now work fine with iTunes.

As with the rest of my "I-5," the well of music never seems to run dry. New music is a guarantee and new tracks for Pirates of the Caribbean, Wizard of Oz, Winnie the Pooh, and The Little Mermaid have been confirmed to be on the way. I would also like to mention that Pogo was one of the 25 selected youtube artists to be featured at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for the video "Gardyn." The presentation video is absolutely amazing, seeing his work on display with some amazing accompanying visuals. Seeing creative talent like his receive the attention it deserves literally brings me to tears.



He has also started work on a new project in which he plans to travel the world creating videos and music similar to the style of "Gardyn" but representative of each culture depicted. Each track will be individually funded based on sales with a DVD and CD to round out the collection once complete. It sounds to be a beautiful project that I cannot wait to endorse further!