Osymyso
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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
- "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
- "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" – Freak Power
- "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
- ^ "New Scott Pilgrim Remix: Now Cool +10". Empireonline.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.