Mic Pogo is a multi-instrumentalist, experimental and progressive recording musician BASED in SEATTLE, always cultivating new genres and soundpools for listeners to swim in. 

At 11 years old, I began my journey into recording music via an analog 4-track Tascam recorder, back in 1991.  Growing up in central NJ, throughout the 80’s, I was heavily influenced by rap music from Run DMC, Public Enemy & Beastie Boys. I rode the classic hard rock and alternative/metal train while learning the guitar & drums thru the music of Iron Butterfly, Cream, Nirvana & Metallica during my pre-teenage years in the early 90's. Jazz & prog rock/fusion jumped to the forefront of my listening and musical learning via the music of Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return To Forever, Frank Zappa & King Crimson in the mid-late 90's. After a trip to India in 2000, I started craving anything that had an Indian or Bollywood style flare to it which took to my essence as a human being and started to help develop my original musical style. I became heavily influenced by both the traditional and modern electronica scenes coming out of India and NYC while living in NJ & Vermont in the early ‘00’s. Besides being a musician, I am also an avid music collector, so I began exploring music from South America, Europe, China & Africa putting elements from those styles into my own music. Around the mid 00’s (and still to this day), I started heavily exploring the vast musical world of Japan thru such magnificent and prolific musicians as Cornelius, Buffalo Daughter, Pizzicato 5, Shugo Tokumaru, Yellow Magic Orchestra and countless others. Eventually I worked my way to playing Balkan and Klezmer style music with many friends after moving to Seattle, WA in 2007 after being heavily influenced by the amazing bands, Secret Chiefs 3 and Estradasphere. Although I’ve been influenced by countless forms + genres of music, I always aim to create the purest form of original & creative music. I’d love to eventually make music for visual media such as TV, film & video games although I do have a full-time job in the solar industry that takes up most of my normal time, so music is mainly a hobby for me at this point.  I’ve currently recorded 20+ full albums of music from 1994-present and working on new music every day. Please check out my discography page on Bandcamp as there are 12 available albums there. Thank you so much for listening & reading!!!