remix

I find the documentary we're watching really interesting. I already listened to Girl Talk quite a bit, and  actually wondered about what the deal was with the copyright. I've had conversations with my friends about how insanely expensive it must be to make his music. His music, as is pointed out in the documentary, would be super expensive if he was paying for all of those samples. The range of music he uses is incredible, nearly all of the songs used are easily recognizable, sampling from all genres, over a large time span. He samples from artists like Jackson 5, Electric Light Orchestra, Fugazi, Lil Wayne, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Black Sabbath, Ramones, N.W.A, The Doors, Ludacris, just to name a few. And by a few I mean thats probably about as many names are in a single song, if not less. I find his music really interesting, and I especially did the first time I heard it. I'd recognize parts of songs that I would never expect to hear in a mash up and get really excited about it, and then he'd introduce another, and another, mixing together artists that you would probably never even consider in the same thought otherwise. The dudes super smart.

One part of the documentary, the part about Disney, reminded me of another artist. He calls himself Pogo, and he started as a youtube sensation. He remixes sounds that he finds in Disney movies into new songs, and new videos. I have no idea what his deal is, I heard he works for Disney, but I can't seem to find anything on it. He must have some affiliation with them, because obviously they would otherwise be preventing him from making this music. Also, on his wikipage, one of the two "controversies" listed was that Disney hadn't yet allowed his Pirates of the Caribbean remix to be released, suggesting that Disney had allowed the rest of his music to be released. Curious. I actually enjoy what music I've heard from him, as well as the videos that he makes by remixing the clips from the movies which he sampled.

Here are links to three of his songs: Alice, Bloom, Expialidocious as well as his website: pogomix.net

Pretty neat.