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 chart.

List of samples used for Intro-Inspection

1. "Rivers of Babylon" – Boney M
2. "Wild Thing" – The Troggs
3. "Hello" – Lionel Richie
4. "Fairground" – Simply Red
5. "Hey Jude" – The Beatles
6. "Vienna" – Ultravox
7. "Unchained Melody" – The Righteous Brothers
8. "Bela Lugosi's Dead" – Bauhaus
9. "I Get Around" – The Beach Boys
10. "Tainted Love" – Soft Cell
11. "Bohemian Rhapsody" – Queen
12. "No Woman, No Cry" – Bob Marley
13. "Hound Dog" – Elvis Presley
14. "Drinking in L.A." – Bran Van 3000
15. "99 Luftballons" – Nena
16. "The Lovecats" – The Cure
17. "...Baby One More Time" – Britney Spears
18. "Walk on the Wild Side" – Lou Reed
19. "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" – Barry White
20. "True" – Spandau Ballet
21. "Leader of the Pack" – The Shangri-Las
22. "The Message" – Grandmaster Flash
23. "Wannabe" – Spice Girls
24. "Pure Shores" – All Saints
25. "Eye of the Tiger" – Survivor
26. "Only You" – Flying Pickets
27. "Need You Tonight" – INXS
28. "Come on Eileen" – Dexys Midnight Runners
29. "Praise You" – Fatboy Slim
30. "Down Under" – Men at Work
31. "Pump up the Volume" – MARRS
32. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" – Marvin Gaye
33. "Relax" – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
34. "3 a.m. Eternal" – The KLF
35. "I Should Be So Lucky" – Kylie Minogue
36. "Don't You Want Me" – The Human League
37. "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston
38. "I Will Survive" – Gloria Gaynor
39. "Theme from Shaft" – Isaac Hayes
40. "The Pink Panther Theme" – Henry Mancini
41. "Is There Something I Should Know?" – Duran Duran
42. "Groove Is in the Heart" – Deee-Lite
43. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" – Eurythmics
44. "Oh Yeah" – Yello
45. "Song 2" – Blur
46. "Blue Monday" – New Order
47. "Baggy Trousers" – Madness
48. "You Really Got Me" – The Kinks
49. "Sweet Child o' Mine" – Guns N' Roses
50. "Wipe Out" – The Surfaris
51. "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" – The Offspring
52. "Firestarter" – The Prodigy
53. "Barbie Girl" – Aqua
54. "I'm a Believer" – The Monkees
55. "Anarchy in the U.K." – Sex Pistols
56. "I've Never Been to Me" – Charlene Duncan
57. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – The Rolling Stones
58. "Disco 2000" – Pulp
59. "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" – Baz Luhrmann
60. "Disco Inferno" – The Trammps
61. "Like a Prayer" – Madonna
62. "China in Your Hand" – T'Pau
63. "Just Can't Get Enough" – Depeche Mode
64. "Music Sounds Better with You" – Stardust
65. "My Name Is" – Eminem
66. "Shout" – Lulu
67. "I Feel for You" – Chaka Khan
68. "Take a Chance on Me" – ABBA
69. "The Power of Love" – Huey Lewis and the News
70. "Killer" – Adamski
71. "Bad" – Michael Jackson
72. "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" – Eric Idle
73. "Tom's Diner" – Suzanne Vega
74. "West End Girls" – Pet Shop Boys
75. "Oh, Pretty Woman" – Roy Orbison
76. "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Stevie Wonder
77. "Let's Dance" – David Bowie
78. "All Right Now" – Free
79. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" – Nirvana
80. "Stayin' Alive" – Bee Gees
81. "Israelites" – Desmond Dekker
82. "The Power" – Snap!
83. "The Safety Dance" – Men Without Hats
84. "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" – Etta James
85. "Lust for Life" – Iggy Pop
86. "My Generation" – The Who
87. "Take My Breath Away" – Berlin
88. "Red Red Wine" – UB40
89. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" – Nancy Sinatra
90. "It's Not Unusual" – Tom Jones
91. "Johnny B. Goode" – Chuck Berry
92. "Bring It All Back" – S Club 7
93. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" – Procol Harum
94. "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" – The Hollies
95. "Imagine" – John Lennon
96. "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" – Freak Power
97. "Little Fluffy Clouds" – The Orb
98. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" – Bonnie Tyler
99. "I'm Not in Love" – 10cc
100. "Temptation" – Heaven 17
101. "My Way" – Frank Sinatra
102. "Albatross" – Fleetwood Mac
103. "The End" – The Doors

Sources

• Neil Strauss, "Spreading by the Web, Pop's Bootleg Remix", New York Times, 9 May 2002, Pg. A1.

References

1. "New Scott Pilgrim Remix: Now Cool +10". Empireonline.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.

External links

• Osymyso on SoundCloud  
• An interview with Osymyso at b3ta
• Profile at Discogs
• Interview with Osymyso about Intro-Inspection