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Pogo Shares His Sampling Techniques for Creating Movie Mashups

08.15.12 @ 11:35AM Tags : mashups, pogo, tutorial, watch

The focus here on NFS may mostly be on the creation of original pieces of work, but that doesn’t mean that we hold the art of the remixer or mash up artist in any lesser regard; it clearly takes skill to be able strip an existing piece of work down to its component parts and reassemble it as something brand new. One of the leading practitioners in this space is Australian electronic music artist Nick Bertke, better known as Pogo. Individually, and previously as a member of creative agency Reverse Enginears, Pogo has reworked films such as Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Terminator 2 and The Lord of the Rings, but personally I’d point to Lead Breakfast a Pulp Fiction remix as one of his best (unless you’re wearing headphones, I’d save this till you’re out of the office): More »