Music: Hear This: Pogo’s “Alice” is the Internet’s nostalgia fixation at its most enchanting

Music: Hear This: Pogo’s “Alice” is the Internet’s nostalgia fixation at its most enchanting:







In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. This week, we asked, “What’s your favorite song that originated on the Internet?”
Born in 1988, Australian producer Nick Bertke is a member of the first generation to grow up in a culture of on-demand video—albeit of an analog nature. That makes him well suited to the YouTube stardom he’s achieved under the pseudonym Pogo, with millions of views and subscriptions accrued via kaleidoscopic remixes of vintage Disney features, 1990s kiddie fare, and other objects of VHS-era fetish. By far Bertke’s most popular upload, “Alice,” is a hypnotic distillation of 1951’s animated Alice In Wonderland, a woozy rhythmic confection wound around a pair of orchestral hits digitally stretched into atmospheric gossamer.
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