Osymyso

Osymyso (real name Mark Nicholson) is a musician and DJ from the United Kingdom who specializes in the genres of bastard pop and breakbeat. He has been making music since 1994, but he released his first album, Welcome to the Pailindrome, in 1999. Songs which he has created include "Pat n Peg", which manages to turn 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", which brought the genre of bastard pop to its logical extreme. 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".

Music making technique

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.

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, no less—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. Some MP3s in circulation are tagged "Intro-Introspection", repeating the first two syllables, but this is an error.

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

05ymy50

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, no matter how long it takes.

Work With Chris Morris

Osymyso has remixed Chris Morris' work a number of times. A remix of Morris' George W. Bush cut-up Bushwacked 2 can be found on Morris' website www.thesmokehammer.com and a remix of Morris' short film My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 can be found on the DVD release.

Work With Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright

Osymyso provided a track called "Spaced Jam" for the 2004 reissue of the complete Spaced TV series, which samples of 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 is also providing seven "trailer remixes" for Edgar Wright's upcoming movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the first of which was released on July 14th on EmpireOnline.com^[1]

Pegg also contributed percussion parts for the 05ymy50 project.

As a remixer

Osymyso has also remixed several artists, mostly notably Placebo – his "Birthday Mix" [made by Osymyso apparently on his own Birthday] of their 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.

References

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

1. ^ New Scott Pilgrim Remix: Now Cool +10

External links

• Official site - features free downloads of many of his songs, including the ones mentioned in this article
• An interview with Osymyso at b3ta
• Profile at Discogs
• Interview with Osymyso about Intro-Inspection