# 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. 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.