One trend that’s totally captured my attention on youtube has been movie remix videos. This is basically like taking a film clip, looping it, looping the sound and creating a song out of the actions going on in the movie. There are some truly groovy Inception remixes on youtube at the moment. One artist in particular seems to have an incredible talent at this making beats out of essentially nothing but sound effects in films and looping tiny shreds of dialogue. Meet the Australian DJ Pogo.
Pogo is the remix artist behind a series of animated Disney and Pixar remixes, a Hook remix, Pirates of the Caribbean, Wizard of Oz and other “surreal” films we may remember from our childhood. These have been affectionately dubbed "Pogo Remixes" by music fans in the know. Due to the extremely repetitive nature of these remixes and the general trance like state they might put someone in if they watched enough of them, you could say the target audience of these videos is people who are high. From the standpoint of a film aficionado, it’s fun to listen really closely to the ones from some films that you’re extremely familiar with and try to recognize the exact moments in the movies that he’s pulling the sound effects from, as the exact moment is almost always shown IN the video.
Pogo shows some videos which offer some insight into how he does it using a touch screen software program called Lemur, but I’d still be totally lost as to creating something original as he has here. It’s one thing to create a soundtrack remix or remix a song from a movie, but to create a song from a movie feels like a whole new genre of music to me. It looks like an absolutely tedious process. I’ve remixed and looped a few movie clips myself but I don’t have the kind of patience it must take to put something like one of these together, nor the musical ear.
I find that I’m able to listen to these remixes not just on a novelty level of something I see that’s weird on youtube, but I’ve actually downloaded several of them. While the Alice in Wonderland stands out to me as a masterpiece, the Up one, the Toy Story one and the Harry Potter one are all exceptional. They make for uplifting driving music, as all of them are pretty pleasant and light sounding and make the best of the movie they’re editing. If Pogo cut an actual studio album (which I feel like he wouldn’t need to seeing the level of perfection in his work already) I would be downloading or buying it on Day 1. I hope that his enormous youtube success inspires others to try the same thing. Then again I might never get work done if movie remixes become a huge Youtube trend.
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