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...)
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.
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.
@@MarshallRedmon01 Yes. This was the second track featured on the Animusic 2 DVD, being the spiritual successor to "Stick Figures" also the second track from the first Animusic DVD.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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 CZcams. 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!
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.
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."
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.
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.
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
It ends with them going behind the first stage. Could it be that they're just going to come out again and keep performing the song over and over for eternity? (Possibly there's a secret shortcut the xylophone and vibraphone can take to get back to the third.)
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.
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i love the awkward stance whenever one of them isnt playing they look like theyre just going "uhm... so hows your weekend"
“Focus…focus…don’t miss your cue…”
Just like in Elementary, Junior High, and Senior High (and maybe summer camp and such) music classes!
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.
I know right.
@@scottvandegenachte4120 They did a good job getting all of those stick instruments balanced.
Notice how they also have bigger wheels to hold the additional weight
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...)
My elementary school music teacher showed us this over a decade ago, and this is so nostalgic. It feels like a fond fever dream from my childhood
Agreed
Same
That's exactly what my elementary school music teacher did
Lucky. Wish my music teachers played these in class. I stumbled upon Animusic when PBS used to occasionally air it.
SAME AAAAAA :(
I think its my life goal to be able to vibe as much as these guys
same
I concur
FRL!
@@no-eh9ox Agreed
@@JimXOfficialChannel You concur what?
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.
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
ye its pretty neat
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.
Of all the location designs in this series, this one might be one of my favorites. The liminal vibe it has going for it just sits well with me
The best location design would have to be Heavy Light
Every Animusic set is a liminal space
@@Gage_Brumley 😳
@@Gage_Brumley which is why I'm glad the liminal space trend reminded people of this series' existence.
@@maxtherealmtc3421 a.
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.
aww that's so cute
This was on a DVD?
@@MarshallRedmon01 Yes. This was the second track featured on the Animusic 2 DVD, being the spiritual successor to "Stick Figures" also the second track from the first Animusic DVD.
I love that they go under a bridge during the bridge
Even though they’re machines, you can tell they’re having a blast.
yeah
As a kid when I watched this in 4th grade, I don't know why but something about the way they looked so alive scared me.
Because of the movements they make
Yeah, they’re going on a ride or a adventure!
@@no-eh9ox 😮
I like to think that they are just going for an infinite amount of time and are always jamming
I know right.
lovely idea.. would love to see them roll through town
They're always on tour!
electricity is temporary
JAMMIN' IS ETERNAL
Legends say they are still rocking and rolling.
This song is brilliantly composed and I can't get enough of the technical details and physics of the instruments. Just flawless
I wanna see an actual band practice and play this as accurate as possible tbh.
So true!
Here ya go czcams.com/video/b_NfK3N1TGg/video.html
And a serious one
czcams.com/video/097osav6kOg/video.html
Same.
I see this as like some RHCP type thing.
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!
czcams.com/video/097osav6kOg/video.html
This is ridiculously creative!! Quite a few disciplines mastered here.
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.
Man, these guys are jammin in such a profound way. Just incredible.
Still holds up to this day. Amazing remaster.
FRL!
Thoe
To this day, they're still going and vibing.
Love the effect of the green going in and out of the dark areas! Very cool. This Music is very fun!
they play a musical bridge when going under the bridges
I always wanted to see the full layout from a sky-high viewpoint.
love the bass line at 1:59 , been learning it by ear and can get it pretty good
I love it too. I have been trying to learn it myself on my keyboard
I’ve been learning this by ear on the drums. That bass line really adds to the groove
nice!
@@thunderhorse64 nice!
@@ianmintz12806 No way!
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.
Oh my gosh I literally did the same thing with my brothers
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!
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
sometimes I still see something that gives me that sense of wonder
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!
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 CZcams. 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!
they play a musical bridge (transition) when they go under a bridge
That bass guitar part was so good.
You're really doing the whole series, aren't you?
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.
R 8
Yep.
@@maxtherealmtc3421 Bruh
@@danjapeter1315 Huh
The boys are killing it on this track
I used to watch this when they played it on TV as a kid I love how the instruments dance while playing themselves
Every time that I watch these, I smile. They always bring me joy and I am looking online to see if I can buy a dvd or Blu-ray of these
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."
Whenever there's a fight scene they're in the background supplying music lmao
This song is painfully short, I love it so much I need MORE
I thought 720p fit Animusic pretty well. BOY WAS I WRONG! Holy instruments, Batman! This is incredible.
I wonder if they're still touring?
I hope so, they're mint.
out of all of the animusic songs/videos this one is probably my favorite
Its already a Godlike song, no matter how many times you hear, its beautiful, A Song Mounstrosity.
Me and the boys on our way to McDonald’s.
I have absolutely no idea how this ended up in my feed but, l'm glad it did. Loved it.
One of my favorites, along with resonant chamber and drum machine
Me: *out bowling with my friends, gets a spare.*
The scoreboard screen:
this should be sent out to space. I'm happy to be part of the human race when it comes to things like this
After having gotten many recommendations for your channel and animusic videos in general I decided to click on. I must say I'm very glad I did
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
This is something my dad shared with me as a kid. Its neat to see it being updated, thanks.
This is one of the most oddly charming things I have ever seen. Good Job.
That was the most awesome music video I've ever seen. THANK YOU !
I wasn't expecting to love it so much, but that was perfect.
This is awesome! I get so energized from this!
OOH THE CLOUDS ARE SO PRETTY!
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.
uhh that's just called a bridge in musical terms. it's pretty common in rock and pop music
Absolute awesome ... I watch the DVDs more than 10 times ... I love it ❤❤❤❤
Loved It! Amazing Music and Visions. Fun to watch and listen.
Amazing work u do ! Love this 😃
Coolest song I've ever heard.
That beat drop at 0:29 goes so hard
(BTW best Animusic song change my mind)
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.
...Very Nice! 🤣
Look at these little guys go yippee
Hard to believe I just found the DVD's to this!
I miss watching Animusic with my little nephews and niece; they are youngsters now!
Words cannot describe the level of FUNKY these pogo boys are radiating 🤣
Me and the boys on our way to commit several acts of tomfoolery
Bravo! for this music and animation wonder. I love this stuff... What a lot of effort went in to this amazing piece.
Loved it!
Congratulations 🎊 keep it up 👏 very eagerly waiting for you next album 🙌
I would like to see someone research, create and post an overhead view of the tracks and how they all relate inside the wall!
Hadn't seen this one before. Cool!
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
Now you can see the strings on the Guitars & Bass Vibrating when the Robotic Mallets hit them against the fingerboard.
Wow, this is GRAND!
It ends with them going behind the first stage. Could it be that they're just going to come out again and keep performing the song over and over for eternity? (Possibly there's a secret shortcut the xylophone and vibraphone can take to get back to the third.)
Very cool!!
Fun and I love the "Base:" TY 4sharing
Tem pessoas neste mundo que realmente estão fora da curva. Fantástico este vídeo.
I enjoyed this very much.
All of those stick instruments seem to be made out of Cherry & have a good Cherry Wood Finish.
I like how the music slows down when they go into the tunnels.
This is fun. Thank you.
LOVE IT!!!!😊
I remember seeing this as a kid. I forgot about them until now. Man it has been years
I have 1 and 2 on DVD... I wish they hadn't taken the money and ran on 3. 😢
Pretty cool!
man you gotta love this music awesome
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.
2:44 When your teacher is coming with lots of homework.
👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏ME ENCANTA!!!!
Very cool!
Best video ever made!
Love it.
Amazing job sr.😊
Love the videos!
Who agrees?
One of the most amazing things that the world has seen and will never see again
Fascinating❤
These boys go hard
Absolutely grrreat!!! 🌟🌝
Awesome Video And Song.
So darn cool!!!!
i wonder if Blender has a plugin for Midi motion lol