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Pogo is the pseudonym for the emerging 21-year old electronic music artist Nick Bertke in Perth, Western Australia. He is known for his work recording small sounds from single films or scenes, and sequencing them to form new pieces of music. Often described as ‘Dream Pop’, and ‘Trip House’, Pogo’s music and videos have attracted a large and devoted following that continues to grow every day.
His most notable track, Alice, a composition of sounds from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’, was received with much success gaining 4 million views on YouTube as of December 2010. Pogo has since produced tracks using films like ‘Up’, ‘Mary Poppins’,, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘The Sword In The Stone’, ‘Hook’, and ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’.

Bertke grew up in Invercargill, New Zealand. As a child, he was denied lessons in drumming under his tutor’s belief that he didn’t need them, and later received practical lessons in piano playing and MIDI arrangement from his music teacher in school. At the age of 10, Bertke found success with his friends as a rock band in which he drummed, winning several competitions and earning a position in the Pepsi Smoke-Free Rock Quest of 1999. He later discovered his passion for producing electronic music with the game ‘Music 2000′ for Playstation, electing this  as a hobby for several years to come. Today, Pogo continues to produce music and videos that draw tens of thousands of viewers to his websites every day, and is dedicated to changing the way we view copyright infringement in today’s remix culture.