I love the small details like how the percussion bots are slightly tilted back to keep balance and how the drums recoil differently depending on how hard they’re hit.
The reflection off of each other when they glow under the bridge, how they dip with the curves of the wood road they follow, the slight swaying to one side as they round a corner, personality with idle stances, the grouping based on their parts, the organized spacial awareness as they move...
Everything high school orchestras and bands lack... (Okay, I know "it's animated robots, and high-schoolers are all over the place", you're missing the joke...)
I love that the drummers, which lack strings, still have metal beams bordering their necks that sort of look like strings so they match with the others
And the in-universe reason is probably to help with counterbalancing the weight of the drums and cymbals on the front by adding more weight to the stick so they don't have to lean back as far to maintain their center of gravity.
I remember watching this on DVD with my older brother and we would pick out our favorite pogo guys and call them our own. we'd just be sitting there like "that ones mine" and point at the screen. good times.
Out of all the Animusic pieces, this one is by far my favorite. It's got such a distinct sound to it, and you can really tell just how alive the instruments are.
Here ya go ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b_NfK3N1TGg.html And a serious one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-097osav6kOg.html
When I was in my college's percussion ensemble, we played an arrangement of this tune and had the video footage playing on a screen that matched the timing of the music. We even used in-ear click tracks for every single player to ensure we stayed in time with the video. It was a hit!
These guys and animusic reminded me the feeling and the amazing life I had being a kid and wishing i could be one just for one day. But i know you cant control time, just live the life you have before it runs out
I very much enjoy all the Animusic videos, but I'm far more impressed with the creative intelligence behind it. All those neurons and synapses firing away would be a most impressive display if they could be seen!
When my sister and I were younger, we thought of the pogo sticks as the members of our family. The one with cymbals was like our grandmother while the one with drums was like out grandfather. The tall one was like our dad because it has the lower notes, the first short was like our mom because it has higher notes, and the second short one is like our aunt because it came later so obviously the first short one and the tall one were paired together. The one with a marimba was like my sister because it was red and the one with a vibraphone was like me because it was blue (these match up with our favorite colors, plus she came first because she's my older sister). The story we imagined was that our family members had arrived at our house and were going to get us from school and bring us home to start the holiday break. Also, at the time we were really into Animusic, we had a common problem where when my mom picked us up after school, my sister would get in the car first and talk way too fast so my mom would have to ask her to slow down, then I would get in the car and talk more slowly (we both talk too fast but after school I would be too tired to talk fast). This matches up with the music pattern of the marimba stick going really fast, slowing down, and then the vibraphone stick keeps going slowly.
Aww! I love that! 🥰 When I was a child, I used to hate hearing cars being repaired in a garage because (in my head) it sounded to me like they were being hurt! Took a car to the scrapyard when I had my own son (at 6yo) and he saw it being crushed ... and the experience utterly traumatised him - he had tears pouring down his face. I felt so awful letting him see it! The worst thing ever was when he saw WALL-E and the bit at the end where WALL-E gets squashed saving the ship - he was beating his fists on the floor and crying his eyes out! Saw Superman vs Batman: Dawn of Justice at the cinema and had 12yo boys behind us crying openly when Superman died!
Just an addendum to my comment. I cried when I read your story 😭 (happy tears)! Children are so wonderful and imaginative, seeing things no adult could come up with. I used to anthroporphize many things - including spaceships as families. Much later I read "The Ship Who Sang" by Anne McCaffrey and it brought everything back. I was crying and didn't know why but it was because I recalled a moment of that magic. I bet this song does the same for you. I am currently writing a SciFi/Fantasy set of stories for children/teens. They grow up like the Pervensie children in Narnia or the Harry Potter children). There are few serious SciFi stories I have come across which feature 10+ children (Year 6 in the UK) as the main characters. Exceptions - "Ender's Game" (Orson Scott Card - horrific story for children!) and "Ulysses 31" with Telemachus and Yumi (I wanted to be Yumi!) + Annekin Skywalker in the first film. I wanted to have a group of children together who could tease each other, laugh together, cry together, fight together and have stories which kept you on the edge of your seat. Written two stories (as four books split on cliffhangers) so far - working to get them published!
This is my favorite video out of the whole Animusic series ! Seen this wAAAAAAAAAyyyy back on PBS. Then found the DVD's later.Thank you for this memory !
Though i remembered seeing it on tv. Been so long my brother had me thinking i saw it 1st on RU-vid. Got the dvds around '08. Wish they had made the 3rd one.
Great upscaling. This is one of my favorite pieces from Animusic. The glow in the dark effect is so nostalgic as well. Thank you for putting this together.
How many times have I seen this and ONLY JUST NOW realized they take these sort of musical breathers every time they go under a bridge and flip on the glow green!
Thanks for re-mastering this. I always thought Animusic was ahead of it's time and your high quality version confirms what an impressive creation it still is.
Is it weird I'd like to see the pogos in an anime or cartoon or something? Not as main characters, but a sort of background thing/running gag where they just stroll along jamming all the while. Just, breeze on through a scene, and most people are like, "there they go."
Yes. Animusic has 2 albums. Animusic 1 (1st album) has 7 songs, and Animusic 2 (2nd album) has 8. Thats a total of 15. I went through JL's channel, and found 15 videos of remastered Animusic. So Yes.
It's almost uncanny how much this sounds like something Yasuo Yamate/Tate Norio would make for a SNK game, his stuff on KOF 2003 and Neo Geo Battle Coliseum especially sounds similar. 0:48 even sounds like part of NGBC's opening theme
God its been so long since I watched animusic. This one is cool because, well especially, you can tell they were inspired by StarCraft when they go under the bridges into the smoother / slower portions of the song. Like its almost eerie how starcrafty it sounds, terran songs specifically.
I remember in preschool and kindergarten they would show this to us and it was always a great day when this was playing. That was probably around 08-09
Ok, in forcing myself to watch this on loop, I've been able to mostly overcome the uneasiness of the uncanny valley with these guys. I can appreciate their bopping, but the tunnel bits still weird me out a tad. I also established in my mind that reality is too bound by boring science for these guys to just start coming out from the dark to start chasing me.
hey yo- watching makes fun- i dont want to imagine how hard it is to make a sound video sync track like this-my respect yo- i enyoy your styles -thumbs up
I have a small story for me and a friend's characters matching up to each instrument. A bird on the drums (combined cymbals/drums), a bug and a cat playing the guitar, an opossum playing the bass and a spider playing both the vibraphone and marimba. All members of this group have skin/fur/feather/exoskeleton safe glow paint that match up when the song slows down, even their instruments have the same paints as their bodies. They're all jamming to the music, accentuated by the drummer's head bopping and vibing of most of the other band members. By the way, if anyone has played Doodle World, the members in here are a Humbiscus, Zapoeira, Spiraryu, Henchum. The other member is an oc not from DW.
