Pogo: The Coolest DJ Ever

Published on July 1st, 2010 by Seamus.

Pogo is Australian. Pogo is a DJ. Pogo is the coolest DJ ever. I mean the guy takes random sound clips and chords from movies and throws them together to somehow make astonishingly catchy songs with equally impressive videos. One of these songs would legitimately take me years to make, but Pogo just keeps pumping them out. Ultra genius. Check out his songs from Up! and Hook and then be sure to hit the jump to see the ones from Toy Story and Willy Wonka. What I’m really interested in knowing is Pogo’s thought process throughout the whole thing. I mean, when watching a movie, how can you tell that it’s sound effects would make a good song?

From Up!:

From Hook:

http://www.pogomix.net

http://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron

Here’s what he has to say about this one, a mashup of Toy Story sound clips:

“What do you get when you mix vocals and chords recorded from ‘Toy Story’, some extra cymbals and a sine wave bass? ‘Toyz Noize’, my second remix of a Pixar film. Enjoy!”

Video for my track ‘Scrumdiddlyumptious’. The track is composed of a sine wave bass, original percussion, and sounds recorded from the candy man scene in ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’.



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  • Robert

    Well, all I have to say is my 4 year old LOVED them and got up dancing. Good, bad whatever, if he liked them then they are good enough for me. Good job Pogo.

  • Lou BOY!

    his alice in wonderland mix is fucking nastyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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  • http://www.newmusictransmission.com Stephen Hunter

    This guy was our first ever featured artist on the New Music Transmission Podcast, he is a great guy as well as a movie-remix king!

  • http://www.akhorus.deviantrart.com Matthew

    stumbleupon knows what I like! Pogo is the biggest bit of music I listen to right now.

  • Eric

    First off, taking sounds from movies and turning them into catchy songs is nothing new. Secondly, this guy is good, but you should check out “swedemason” on YouTube, especially the Jeremy Clarkson beatbox. DJ Steve Porter also has a couple of catchy tunes under his belt such as Rap Chop and JamWow.

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  • Johnny2Fingers

    I was impressed at first. I did notice however, that all of the songs have the same structure and formula. Still pretty good though. It’s different, I’ll give him that.

  • Henry

    These songs are no good. I’m not trying to say that they’re not original, but who where would Pogo get such crappy loops besides the movies? He’s not stealing, he just chose the wrong thing to make music from. Pogo obviously knows how to dj well, he simply needs something better than FUCKING movie loops.

  • smaiti

    Yeah, these actually really suck. I couldn’t even watch the videos all the way through

  • ricky

    check out Kutiman….. he is frim Tel Aviv, Israel and does the same thing only with just youtube videos (you can find his songs on youtube). this is great but Kutiman’s songs are MUCH more brilliant

  • Jason

    Amazing. This would be a great addition to the advertisement business… It makes you want to watch the movies again. This DJ will be a millionaire someday.

  • sweetestsadist

    You missed my favorite Pogo work, “Alice”.

  • mackenzie

    Been a fan of pogo for a while, love what he did with alice in wonderland “im very fond of tea” this just gives credibility to stumble for me

  • andrea

    well, i think this is amazing. if any of you tried doing this i am sure it would turn out to be a piece of lard images tagged along with some frail background music.
    good job pogo.

  • Caleb

    Lame, i watched the first one and i have to say it was honestly just obnoxous.
    it was just a bunch of iiits and uuuhhhs. try next time stumble.

  • Steve

    bloody amazing, another one for us aussies ;)

  • Jubaba

    some epic pimp shit
    quite soothing too
    i love it
    fuck all you trolls

  • Stef

    Best DJ ever is pushing it. If I were to be on drugs I might agree at the time that he was really cool tho.

  • Mike

    I don’t know what it is about all of his tunes, but they all make me sea-sick. I would love to hear the words actually come together to make some sense. Instead, you get this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD-hRfHRHQM&feature=related

    As opposed to a cohesive remix, like this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QAqJAfBjN8&feature=related

    Or a well-thought mix of samples such as… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo&feature=related

    Either way, if you take the music for what it is, without the images, it sucks balls(technically speaking).

  • Bob Slefty

    These are clearly works of love and whether or not you like the result, it’s clear how much effort and skill has gone into them. Personally, I think they’re fun but the music is ultimately a little too saccharine for my tastes. For a similar project and with a result that IMHO has much more value musically, look no further than Kutiman’s Thru-You : http://thru-you.com/

  • http://blog.kacperos.pl Kacper Wierzbicki

    Wow! It’s really cool! :)

  • Travis

    I want to make something imminently clear to those who think that this sort of thing is easy or cheapened by the fact that samples are being used. Musically, there is ALWAYS something that was borrowed or alluded to in a new work. If you don’t think these are original, reference anything – ANYTHING – that sounds like what you heard on this page.

    The creative process is never limited to originality. Have you ever seen a movie based on a book? The subject matter of the movie is not original, but if you liked the movie that doesn’t bother you, does it? In fact, many people who go to see movies that are based on a book, but there are creative liberties taken complain that things aren’t exactly like the book! What a double standard! What, just because it’s music, the composer is obligated to never steal or allude to music?

    Admittedly, there is a fine line between sampling and stealing music, but I’m talking about on the level of a neat chord progression or a rhythmic figure that one composer hears and likes and uses. As long as there is some thought put into the process and the content around it becomes original (in one way or another) it is legit.

    Pogo is legit. I loved the movie “Up” and was a huge fan of the score and sound design. Every element of “Upular” was recognizable as one aspect or another of the original soundscape of the movie. I only heard a couple of instants where the musical flow was a little choppy, which considering how many samples were taken and cut together is astounding. Aside from samples, the only thing that was “stolen” from the original soundtrack is the tonality of the overall score. Every other melodic, harmonic and rhythmic idea was Pogo’s own.

    While it is my hope that Dan and AtomBomb read this and receive their respective smack-downs, I realize that they probably wont and I will probably be trolled for this post anyway. It’s ok. I understand that you can’t use logic and real knowledge to argue with someone that doesn’t possess those things. I guess I just needed to get that off my chest.

  • spongekill

    “Alice” is the first Pogo piece I saw and still my favorite, too bad it’s not up here… although the Hook one is pretty great too (just saw for the first time).

    As for trolls they will be trolls.. Atom Bomb presumably has the ears of a 13 year old and the production knowledge of Lil Jon, based on his/her comments.

  • thew

    Totally avalances vibe

  • Roaring Thunder

    I hadn’t seen any other pogo videos before other than Upular, which I think is spectacular. I don’t know if I like any of the other ones posted as much, except maybe Toy Story (yipe yipe yipe!), but I think the people who are calling it crap are just being idiots. Obviously the worse ones are probably the first ones pogo tried, so they will be bad! But has anyone else ever been as much of a visionary to try something like that? Nope. So even if people don’t like HOW they sound or they think it’s not as hard as it seems, they need to respect the creativity and hard work that went into producing such revoulutionary and at times hypnotic videos.

  • Megaman

    @Atom

    You talk a lot but I don’t hear anything. Prove your talk, then maybe I will respect you.

  • Dan

    These are all horrible. Putting random sounds together to a background music does not make you talented, it makes you dumb for thinking this is original.

  • http://www.jondavis.net/ Jon Davis

    This article is incomplete without Alice. *sobz*

  • Cantseetheforest

    None of these videos really represent Pogo’s best work in my opinion, but that doesn’t make people who really enjoy the music retards. I also think it’s pretty well evident that, even with advanced software, the editing process required to put together a track like these requires a great deal of artistic discretion and a lot of time. I think it is art in the best and freshest sense of the word, regardless of whether it meets the superlatively enlightened standards of anonymous critics.

    But I do think the work has gotten a bit weaker as time has progressed. Where are “Alice,” “Anna,” and “Splurgenshitter”?

  • http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/ Jody

    I love comments like @Atom Bomb’s “which btw isn’t that hard to do” – if it’s so easy, why haven’t you or anyone else popularised it before?

    And you’re saying you’d be more impressed if he didn’t restrict himself to only using sounds from the films? But then he’d just be making tracks like any other – what’s unique about that?

    Dur.

  • TripIsh

    @ Atom Bomb

    This is trip-hop, not techno. According to his website, the music IS entirely composed of samples. And if it “isn’t that hard to do” then please enlighten us with your pro skills.

  • Atom Bomb

    I’d have been way more impressed if the music was entirely composed of samples from the original subject matter (which btw isn’t that hard to do), instead we have a weak techno music producer sampling in stupid sound bytes from kids movies and a bunch of retards praising it as art. Pro tip you can download some old shitty programs like ACID or Fruity loops and be making music just like this within a week.

  • Leesiee

    These are great! But the best one is missing!! Alice
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQuqeLBTetA

  • http://www.ruelicke.net Marco R.

    Discovered Pogo about a year ago. I love his music, “Alice” being one of my favs.

    @Auntie Hosebag:
    Interesting how people claim something is plagiarism without even understanding what it actually means, resulting in a false claim of plagiarism.

    Pogo does not claim he created the parts of the videos shown, same for most of the sounds used. However, he used the videos and sounds under Fair Use to create unique pieces of art. Also, he contacted Disney/Pixar prior releasing “Toyz Noize”.

  • ETB

    I guess it goes to show that every sound has a pitch. This is excellent.

  • Auntie Hosebag

    Beats learning to play an instrument. I love how plagiarism on a massive scale has achieved the status of “art”. Psssshh…

  • not quite

    He’s not a DJ. He’s an electronic musician. There is a difference.

  • Audrey

    He really is the coolest DJ ever :3

  • James

    These all sound way to similar to be good, the first one i ever heard was the Alice one, and it made me trip massive balltisars. yet i listen to each of these all the way through, and guess what, they all sound JUST like the alice one, hell if you play the UP and Alice songs together, they sync.

  • itemforty

    Yeah, totally need some love for his Alice in Wonderland one from the cartoon. Gives me chills.

  • suckityeah?!

    i like the T2 one. but the hook remix brings back a bunch of memories!

  • Anonymous

    If you want to download this, go to Dirpy.com. Paste in the YouTube Link and you’re good to go!

  • BSDEMON

    Lets see Chitty chitty bang bang!!!

  • PoeticChaos

    H8r, you’re the only lame thing on this page

  • Chris

    where can we download upular?

  • H8r

    LAME.

  • DJJMar

    love the Up one. candyman guy always creeped me out. “I’ve got a gumball in my pocket.”

  • tar

    His Alice in Wonderland remix (the original animated one from the 50s, not Tim Burton’s sequel) is also hypnotic.

  • Colton

    totally rad! “UP” is my favorite.

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