Osymyso
Osymyso (real name Mark Nicholson) is a musician and DJ from the United Kingdom who specialises in the genres of mashup / bastard pop and breakbeat. He has been making music since 1994 and released his first album, Welcome to the Pailindrome, in 1999. Songs which he has created include "Pat n Peg", which turns an argument between two EastEnders characters into a track through the looping of the shouts You bitch! and You cow! and the addition of a hip hop beat, and "Intro-Inspection". In a 2002 front page survey of the genre, The New York Times remarked on "Intro-Inspection" and called Osymyso "one of the most popular bootleg artists".
Career
Osymyso uses Cubase and Wavelab on a PC to make music. In interviews, Osymyso has indicated that it takes him a week to make a track that contains no samples, but that he can compose a bootleg track in a matter of hours.
In 2005, Osymyso set himself the task of releasing one short track every week for 50 weeks, a project he called 05ymy50. However, progress was slower than hoped, and by year's end only 15 tracks had been completed. Despite this, Osymyso felt the project was at least a partial success: some of the tracks have been released on vinyl by Juno Records, and Osymyso has indicated that he may eventually finish the project.
He provided a track called "Spaced Jam" for the 2004 reissue of the complete Spaced TV series with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, which samples dialogue from the show over a dance beat. He also produced the soundtrack album for the pair's 2004 film Shaun of the Dead, and was responsible for a track on the 2007 soundtrack to Hot Fuzz. Osymyso also provided seven "trailer remixes" for Edgar Wright's movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.[1] Pegg also contributed percussion parts for the 05ymy50 project.
Osymyso has remixed Chris Morris' George W. Bush cut-up "Bushwacked 2" and Morris' short film My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, which is available on the DVD release.
He most notably created a "Birthday Mix" of Placebo's hit "Twenty Years" appears on the CD format of the single. 2009 saw Osymyso produce a 60-minute remix for Warp Records for their 20th Anniversary box set.
Osymyso produced a mix for the Mary Ann Hobbs' The Breezeblock BBC Radio One show.
"Intro-Inspection"
"Intro-Inspection" is a bastard pop song by Osymyso. It sets itself apart from other songs of its genre by putting together the intros to one hundred different, well-known songs—all by different artists—into a twelve-minute long song.
"Intro-Inspection" was never officially released, although there was a very limited number of CDs and vinyl copies printed. It therefore never entered any official charts.
List of samples used for Intro-Inspection
- "Rivers of Babylon" – Boney M
 - "Wild Thing" – The Troggs
 - "Hello" – Lionel Richie
 - "Fairground" – Simply Red
 - "Hey Jude" – The Beatles
 - "Vienna" – Ultravox
 - "Unchained Melody" – The Righteous Brothers
 - "Bela Lugosi's Dead" – Bauhaus
 - "I Get Around" – The Beach Boys
 - "Tainted Love" – Soft Cell
 - "Bohemian Rhapsody" – Queen
 - "No Woman, No Cry" – Bob Marley
 - "Hound Dog" – Elvis Presley
 - "Drinking in L.A." – Bran Van 3000
 - "99 Luftballons" – Nena
 - "The Lovecats" – The Cure
 - "...Baby One More Time" – Britney Spears
 - "Walk on the Wild Side" – Lou Reed
 - "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" – Barry White
 - "True" – Spandau Ballet
 - "Leader of the Pack" – The Shangri-Las
 - "The Message" – Grandmaster Flash
 - "Wannabe" – Spice Girls
 - "Pure Shores" – All Saints
 - "Eye of the Tiger" – Survivor
 - "Only You" – Flying Pickets
 - "Need You Tonight" – INXS
 - "Come on Eileen" – Dexys Midnight Runners
 - "Praise You" – Fatboy Slim
 - "Down Under" – Men at Work
 - "Pump up the Volume" – MARRS
 - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" – Marvin Gaye
 - "Relax" – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
 - "3 a.m. Eternal" – The KLF
 - "I Should Be So Lucky" – Kylie Minogue
 - "Don't You Want Me" – The Human League
 - "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston
 - "I Will Survive" – Gloria Gaynor
 - "Theme from Shaft" – Isaac Hayes
 - "The Pink Panther Theme" – Henry Mancini
 - "Is There Something I Should Know?" – Duran Duran
 - "Groove Is in the Heart" – Deee-Lite
 - "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" – Eurythmics
 - "Oh Yeah" – Yello
 - "Song 2" – Blur
 - "Blue Monday" – New Order
 - "Baggy Trousers" – Madness
 - "You Really Got Me" – The Kinks
 - "Sweet Child o' Mine" – Guns N' Roses
 - "Wipe Out" – The Surfaris
 - "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" – The Offspring
 - "Firestarter" – The Prodigy
 - "Barbie Girl" – Aqua
 - "I'm a Believer" – The Monkees
 - "Anarchy in the U.K." – Sex Pistols
 - "I've Never Been to Me" – Charlene Duncan
 - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – The Rolling Stones
 - "Disco 2000" – Pulp
 - "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" – Baz Luhrmann
 - "Disco Inferno" – The Trammps
 - "Like a Prayer" – Madonna
 - "China in Your Hand" – T'Pau
 - "Just Can't Get Enough" – Depeche Mode
 - "Music Sounds Better with You" – Stardust
 - "My Name Is" – Eminem
 - "Shout" – Lulu
 - "I Feel for You" – Chaka Khan
 - "Take a Chance on Me" – ABBA
 - "The Power of Love" – Huey Lewis and the News
 - "Killer" – Adamski
 - "Bad" – Michael Jackson
 - "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" – Eric Idle
 - "Tom's Diner" – Suzanne Vega
 - "West End Girls" – Pet Shop Boys
 - "Oh, Pretty Woman" – Roy Orbison
 - "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Stevie Wonder
 - "Let's Dance" – David Bowie
 - "All Right Now" – Free
 - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" – Nirvana
 - "Stayin' Alive" – Bee Gees
 - "Israelites" – Desmond Dekker
 - "The Power" – Snap!
 - "The Safety Dance" – Men Without Hats
 - "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" – Etta James
 - "Lust for Life" – Iggy Pop
 - "My Generation" – The Who
 - "Take My Breath Away" – Berlin
 - "Red Red Wine" – UB40
 - "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" – Nancy Sinatra
 - "It's Not Unusual" – Tom Jones
 - "Johnny B. Goode" – Chuck Berry
 - "Bring It All Back" – S Club 7
 - "A Whiter Shade of Pale" – Procol Harum
 - "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" – The Hollies
 - "Imagine" – John Lennon
 - "Little Fluffy Clouds" – The Orb
 - "Total Eclipse of the Heart" – Bonnie Tyler
 - "I'm Not in Love" – 10cc
 - "Temptation" – Heaven 17
 - "My Way" – Frank Sinatra
 - "Albatross" – Fleetwood Mac
 - "The End" – The Doors
 
Sources
- Neil Strauss, "Spreading by the Web, Pop's Bootleg Remix", New York Times, 9 May 2002, Pg. A1.
 
References
External links
- Osymyso on SoundCloud
 - An interview with Osymyso at b3ta
 - Profile at Discogs
 - Interview with Osymyso about Intro-Inspection