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Ever heard of POGO?

Posted on 8/7/19 at 7:32 am
Posted by LSUFreek
Greater New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
15556 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 7:32 am
I just came across a youtube DJ/remix-musician, POGO, with a growing audience, who belongs to an obscure electronic genre of Plunderphonics, that has been around infrequently since, at least, the 80's.

The genre is known for using existing audio file or video file samples to create new melodies/compositions, but unlike hip-hop samplers or familiar remix artists, their defining feature is micro-sampling, where words/phrases/sentences could be cut-off mid-syllable and combined with other half-words/phrases/sentences to form new notes into a unintelligible but melodic composition.

POGO seems to be the most palatable of the (few) artists in the genre because he genuinely creates what I think are fascinating melodies with the newly-combined gibberish lyrics, then lays his own fresh bass-lines/percussion/strings,etc over them. He's got an ear for picking up micro-notes in the human voice. Some videos have over 20M views.

Here's a few (short) examples (anywhere from 1 to 3 mins long):

Absoblume (My Fair Lady micro-sample remix)

Wizard of Meh (Wizard of OZ micro-sample remix)

The Trouble (Disney animation micro-sample remix)

Bloom (Another Disney micro-sample remix)

Nothing high-brow, as is the case with any electronic remixer I've personally come across, but I'm curious if anybody else finds this as fairly interesting as I do.
Posted by Pilot Tiger
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2005
73515 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 7:34 am to
I listen to a lot of Pogo. Dude is a bit of a nutcase but I really like his music

Favorites are Forget, No Worries, Boy & Bear.

No Worries might be my fav track of his
Posted by LSUFreek
Greater New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
15556 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 7:45 am to
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check them out.
Posted by ShootingsBricks4Life
Member since May 2017
2601 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 7:45 am to
His Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Song is how I found him.

His video editing skills are impressive. He only had one color shirt but edited to make it change. Also did the Data eyes pretty perfectly.
Posted by LSUFreek
Greater New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
15556 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 7:55 am to
Good one.

I see a lot of comments on this Trumpular one that a lot of conservatives found him from Steven Crowder's channel.

I didn't find it as interesting only because it is a traditional remix, with no mid-word cut-offs/combinations. But it fairly even handed, and has a feel-good vibe that makes Trump, HRC and Obama all look like they could one day get along, in theory.
Posted by ShootingsBricks4Life
Member since May 2017
2601 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 8:00 am to
I feel like I read somewhere that POGO isn't allowed in the US anymore haha. His music played at Disney which is pretty cool.
Posted by Pilot Tiger
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2005
73515 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 8:04 am to
quote:

His music played at Disney which is pretty cool.
it's not played anymore

quote:

POGO isn't allowed in the US anymore
yea visa mess up.
Posted by LSUFreek
Greater New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
15556 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 8:05 am to
Wow. Didn't know either tidbits.

I read some comments talking about some controversial/homophobic comments he made before.

I also can see why Disney might be interested in his Disney remixes. He does do a lot of them. EDIT: maybe Disney caught wind of his comments and stop playing his tunes.
This post was edited on 8/7/19 at 8:08 am
Posted by LSUFreek
Greater New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
15556 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 8:09 am to
I really enjoyed "Forget". Probably his most unintelligible one I've heard yet.
Posted by Pilot Tiger
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2005
73515 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 8:19 am to
If you haven't already heard/watched it, Alice is sorta the song that put him on the map.

It was one of the first youtube videos I remember watching
Posted by LSUFreek
Greater New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
15556 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 8:45 am to
Yes. Enjoyed that one as well. There's actually hardly any that I've come across so far that aren't melodically pleasing.
Posted by Pilot Tiger
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2005
73515 posts
Posted on 8/7/19 at 8:48 am to


Def a unique artist. I've really enjoyed his stuff over the years. It puts me in a really good mood and I picture like all the different animation dream worlds and stuff. Very trippy
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