Osymyso
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Osymyso (real name Mark Nicholson) is a musician and DJ from the United Kingdom who specializes in the genres bastard pop and breakbeat. He has been making music since 1994, but he released his first, album, Welcome to the Pailindrome, in 1999. His songs include "Pat n Peg", which managed to turn an argument between two Eastenders characters into a beat through the looping of the shouts You bitch! and You cow!, and "Intro-Inspection", which brought the genre 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".
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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
- Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon
- The Troggs - Wild Thing
- Lionel Richie - Hello
- Simply Red - Fairground
- The Beatles - Hey Jude
- Ultravox - Vienna
- Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
- Beach Boys - I Get Around
- Soft Cell - Tainted Love
- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
- Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
- Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A.
- Nena - 99 Luftballoons
- The Cure - The Lovecats
- Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
- Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
- Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe
- Spandau Ballet - True
- The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack
- Grandmaster Flash - The Message
- Spice Girls - Wannabe
- All Saints - Pure Shores
- Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
- Flying Pickets - Only You
- INXS - Need You Tonight
- Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
- Fatboy Slim - Praise You
- Men At Work - Down Under
- MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
- Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
- KLF - 3 a.m. Eternal
- Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky
- Human League - Don't You Want Me
- Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
- Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
- Isaac Hayes - Shaft
- Henry Mancini - Pink Panther Theme
- Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
- Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
- Yello - Oh Yeah
- Blur - Song 2
- New Order - Blue Monday
- Madness - Baggy Trousers
- The Kinks - You Really Got Me
- Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
- The Surfaris - Wipe Out
- The Offspring - Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
- The Prodigy - Firestarter
- Aqua - Barbie Girl
- The Monkees - I'm a Believer
- Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
- Charlene Duncan - I've Never Been To Me
- Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- Pulp - Disco 2000
- Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
- The Trammps - Disco Inferno
- Madonna - Like A Prayer
- T'Pau (band) - China In Your Hand
- Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
- Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
- Eminem - My Name Is
- Lulu - Shout!
- Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
- ABBA - Take A Chance On Me
- Huey Lewis & the News - The Power Of Love
- Adamski - Killer
- Michael Jackson - Bad
- Eric Idle - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
- Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
- Pet Shop Boys - West End girls
- Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
- Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
- David Bowie - Let's Dance
- Free - All Right Now
- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
- Desmond Dekker - Israelites
- Snap! - The Power
- Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
- Etta James - I Just Wanna Make Love To You
- Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
- The Who - My Generation
- Berlin - Take My Breath Away
- UB40 - Red Red Wine
- Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
- Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
- Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
- S Club 7 - Bring It All Back
- Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
- Hollies - He Ain't Heavy
- John Lennon - Imagine
- The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
- Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
- 10CC - I'm Not In Love
- Heaven 17 - Temptation
- Frank Sinatra - My Way
- Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
- The Doors - The End
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.References
- Neil Strauss, "Spreading by the Web, Pop's Bootleg Remix", New York Times, May 9, 2002, Pg. A1.
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]
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