Pogo (electronic musician)

Pogo
Birth name	Christopher Nicholas Bertke^[1]
Born	(1988-07-26) 26 July 1988^[2] Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa^[3]
Origin	Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Genres	Big beat electronica trip hop house plunderphonics
Occupation(s)	Musician
Years active	2007–present
Website	www.pogomix.net

Christopher Nicholas "Nick" Bertke (born 26 July 1988), better known by his stage name Pogo, is an Australian electronic music artist. His work consists of recording small sounds, quotes, and melodies from a film or TV programme, and sequencing the sounds together to form a new piece of music. In most of his works, the newly created piece of music consists solely of the sounds he samples from those films or scenes, without additional, 'external' music or sound effects.

Music

Bertke's track "Alice" is a composition of sounds from the Disney film Alice in Wonderland.^[4] He took part in a project hosted by Disney/Pixar to produce a track based on their film, Up, titled "UPular".^[5] Bertke has since produced many more mixes, including "Toyz Noize" and "Buzzwing" based on the film Toy Story.^[6]

Bertke has produced tracks using samples from films and TV shows such as Mary Poppins, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Sword in the Stone, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, H.R. Pufnstuf, The Secret Garden, The King and I,^[7] Hook, Toy Story, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, Terminator 2: Judgment Day,^[8] The Lord of the Rings, and Pulp Fiction.^[9] A number of tracks featured during live shows, but commissioned and owned by Disney remain unreleased.

On 29 September 2016, Pogo had released a song called "Trumpular" on SoundCloud which consisted of quotes from republican nominee Donald Trump. An unusual release, Pogo's said that “Trump is such a crazy fucker that I couldn’t resist mixing him up,”.^[10] Pogo later released the music video for the song on 2 October 2016.

Personal life

Bertke is from Perth, Western Australia.

On his September 2011 US tour, Bertke was arrested and taken into custody for three weeks due to the lack of a proper work visa.^[11] He is now prohibited from re-entering the United States until 2021.^[1]^[12]

In March 2014, Bertke abruptly deactivated most of his social media presence. In a blog post, he stated that social media has "become an unhealthy part of my life and a danger to the personal relationship I have with my work." Bertke explained that he was withdrawing from the public eye and would be selling his work "through digital stores."^[13]

Discography

Albums

Texturebox (30 December 2010)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Standing Before the Earth"	1:19
2.	"Beautiful Moments with Ms. Imaginary"	3:20
3.	"Moon in Her Eyes"	1:53
4.	"Interlude of Wanting"	1:22
5.	"U Me & Summer"	4:01
6.	"A.D.D. is Only the Beginning"	1:34
7.	"Excerpts of Whatever the Hell"	1:53
8.	"Interlude of the Disfigured Robot Children"	1:01
9.	"Back to My Shack in the Rain Clouds"	2:42
10.	"Pay with Blood"	4:39
11.	"I Hate You, Dear"	1:17
12.	"Joanna Helps Me Through"	3:44
13.	"Drunken Moonlight Chase"	2:09
Total length:		30:59

Wonderpuff (27 June 2011)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Cryface"	2:23
2.	"Go Out and Love Someone"	3:49
3.	"Crumbling Around Me and Myself"	2:39
4.	"Finding Her Not"	3:14
5.	"My Letters Ignored"	2:06
6.	"Precious Things"	1:52
7.	"Sex in Wonderland"	4:12
8.	"Fairytales"	1:52
9.	"Spiritus"	3:26
10.	"Emotion Dump"	2:11
11.	"Lightspeeder"	2:48
12.	"Soulmate Stuff"	3:32
Total length:		34:08

Forgotten Fudge (22 November 2013)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stuff 58"	2:03
2.	"Ghost Stories"	2:44
3.	"God Is Tipsy"	3:07
4.	"Hero"	2:42
5.	"His Life Fulfilled"	3:41
6.	"Insert Life Here"	2:48
7.	"mY 1st Set"	8:27
8.	"I Hopoe"	3:50
9.	"Losing Her"	6:35
Total length:		35:53

Star Charts (22 December 2014)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"One Day With You"	2:57
2.	"Simagism"	3:06
3.	"Cosgrove"	2:47
4.	"Bang Monkey"	1:59
5.	"Featherfunk"	2:19
6.	"Into The Ark"	2:22
7.	"Hermoine Mix"	3:13
8.	"Freedom Flavoured"	2:33
9.	"Do Something Rhythmic"	2:17
10.	"The Climb"	2:18
11.	"One Mushroom Too Many (Club Mix)"	3:44
Total length:		29:

Kindred Shadow (11 June 2015)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sky Heart"	2:48
2.	"Forget"	2:44
3.	"No Worries"	3:28
4.	"The Trouble"	3:10
5.	"Ode For Lovers"	3:25
6.	"Pinocchionic"	2:44
7.	"Where Is Ethan?"	2:38
8.	"Rise & Glide"	3:34
9.	"Yore"	2:34
10.	"Her Perfume"	1:08
11.	"Here Now"	2:49
12.	"Truly"	3:14
13.	"What Is I?"	2:12
Total length:		36:36

EPs

Wonderland (28 May 2007)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Alice"	2:44
2.	"Bread and Butterflies"	3:44
3.	"Lost"	3:39
4.	"UnBirthday"	2:42
Total length:		12:50

Broken Beats (2008)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Glitch"	2:11
2.	"White Dresses"	2:31
3.	"Symphony #69"	4:09
4.	"Hate from Love"	1:47
5.	"Get Out..."	2:24
6.	"Come In..."	3:36
7.	"SlowMo Rain"	3:08
8.	"Drunk in the Mat Mobile!"	3:10
Total length:		22:59

Table Scraps (2008)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sing 2 Self"	3:03
2.	"Go Out and Love Someone"	3:49
3.	"Tunnels"	2:40
4.	"Anna"	3:52
5.	"Dot's Vinyl Gone Bad"	4:44
Total length:		18:09

Weave and Wish (22 March 2009)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mending"	3:36
2.	"Alohamora"	3:13
3.	"SplurgenShitter"	4:23
4.	"Under a Spell"	2:52
5.	"White Magic"	2:49
Total length:		16:55

Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole (30 November 2010)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Alice (Extended)"	3:26
2.	"One Mushroom Too Many"	2:43
3.	"Raining in Wonderland"	2:36
4.	"Oyster Dreamland"	3:23
Total length:		12:09

Fluctuate (5 January 2014)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"All U Eva Need"	2:07
2.	"Skyrim Symphony"	5:15
3.	"Things Will Get Better"	2:45
4.	"Oh Good, I Found Some Lint"	2:20
5.	"Cigars, Curves & Pizza"	4:31
Total length:		16:58

Perfect Chaos (21 May 2014)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Shoot Me Shoot U"	2:44
2.	"Precious Pills"	1:52
3.	"Her Perfume"	1:09
4.	"I C Us C Us C Us"	2:49
5.	"The Climb"	2:18
Total length:		10:52

Younghood (8 June 2014)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Kermit Clouds"	2:10
2.	"Time Machine"	2:28
3.	"I Want..."	3:01
4.	"Nicey Nicey"	3:17
5.	"Mix-E"	3:02
Total length:		13:58

Select videography

Title	Release Date	Source
Alice	18 July 2007	Alice in Wonderland
Anna	14 November 2007	The King and I
SplurgenShitter	2 May 2008
Alohamora	21 March 2009	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
White Magic	22 March 2009	The Sword in the Stone
Expialidocious	24 May 2009	Mary Poppins
Mary's Magic	11 June 2009	The Secret Garden
Scrumdiddlyumptious	30 June 2009	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Bangarang	30 August 2009	Hook
Upular	25 December 2009	Up
Skynet Symphonic	10 January 2010	Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Gardyn	8 May 2010
Toyz Noize	5 June 2010	Toy Story
Buzzwing	17 June 2010	Toy Story
Crimson	14 October 2010	Dexter
Wishery	4 November 2010	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Whisperlude	4 December 2010	A Little Princess
Joburg Jam	1 January 2011
Murmurs of Middle-earth	19 March 2011	The Lord of the Rings
Living Island	21 April 2011	H.R. Pufnstuf
Bloom	22 June 2011	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin
Mellow Brick Road	26 June 2011	The Wizard of Oz
Zoo Zoo	3 October 2011	The Mighty Boosh
Davyd	10 November 2011	A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Kadinchey	5 December 2011
Perthection	12 December 2011
Jaaam	13 January 2012	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Eleven	25 February 2012
Sugarella	3 April 2012	Cinderella
Boo Bass	3 April 2012	Monsters, Inc.
Lead Breakfast	20 June 2012	Pulp Fiction
Vasna	11 August 2012
Wizard of Meh	11 August 2012	The Wizard of Oz
Scoobystep	8 September 2012	Big Top Scooby-Doo!
The Ghan	6 March 2013
Indian Pacific	6 March 2013
iCarly	10 March 2013	iCarly
Kenya Chords	13 March 2013
Roarcraft	18 April 2013	World of Warcraft
SquareBob SpongeMix	1 May 2013	SpongeBob SquarePants
What I Likes	25 July 2013	Mary Poppins
Catchatronic	16 September 2013	Pokémon
Aye Aye	20 September 2013	K-On!
LG Home Appliances Mashup - featuring Jeesh	23 September 2013
Muppet Mash	26 September 2013	Sesame Street
J'adore Juin	5 October 2013	The Apartment
Just Blue Fairy	23 October 2013	A.I. Artificial Intelligence
I Want...	10 February 2014	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Nicey Nicey	17 February 2014	The Mighty Boosh
Perth Milks It	18 May 2014
Time Machine – featuring Skye	18 May 2014	Back to the Future
Vision – featuring John Sean	26 June 2014
G'Day G'Day (Whatslively in Sydney)	17 July 2014
The Trouble – featuring Jeesh	18 September 2014	Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin
Hermione Mix – featuring Jeesh	29 September 2014	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Psycho Soup	17 October 2014	Borderlands
One Day With You	26 February 2015	The King and I, The Party, Fiddler on the Roof, Marathon Man, Rocky, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, A Little Princess, and Billy Elliot
Forget	20 May 2015	Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Casablanca, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Oliver!, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, A Little Princess, Pocahontas, James and the Giant Peach, Mulan, and Fantasia 2000
Hoo Ba Ba Kanda	9 October 2015	Success-N-Life/The Farting Preacher
Smooth Cream	18 October 2015
Bite Size Candies	1 May 2016	Various Advertisements from M&M's
Trumpular^[14]	2 October 2016	Various speeches from Donald Trump
Data & Picard^[15]	17 October 2016	A remix of Star Trek: The Next Generation

References

1 2 Bertke, Nick (15 November 2011). "Banned From The USA". Pogo's blog. Archived from the original on 17 November 2011.
↑ Pogo interview on ComfortComes.com, retrieved 11 May 2010
↑ Pogo Interview on BrainsQuestionmark.com, archived from the original on 13 February 2012, retrieved 11 May 2010
↑ "Alice", on YouTube.
↑ "UPular Remix, on Disney/Pixar YouTube channel". Retrieved 21 November 2011.
↑ "Toyz Noize, on Disney/Pixar YouTube channel". Retrieved 21 November 2011.
↑ "Anna". Retrieved 7 March 2012.
↑ "Skynet Symphonic". Retrieved 21 November 2011.
↑ "Pogo's 'Pulp Fiction' Remix". Retrieved 18 June 2015.
↑ Wilson, Zanda (29 September 2016). "Aussie Producer Pogo Drops A+ Banger Made Entirely Of Donald Trump Quotes - Music Feeds". musicfeeds.com.au. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
↑ "Back On The Horse". Archived from the original on 14 December 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
↑ "Australian Producer Pogo Arrested". Archived from the original on 30 November 2011.
↑ "Where'd ya go?". Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ "Trumpular" on YouTube
↑ "Data & Picard" on YouTube

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