Pittsburgh native Mark Charles Bisi Jr. has, in his own mind, been a fixture on the fringes of the Pittsburgh underground since early 1998. Growing up in Beechview/Brookline and forming an all-encompassing creative alliance with fellow spitfire sparkplug Matt Stidle at Schiller Classical Academy in 1994, Bisi dabbled in music through middle school and high school under such varying monikers as "Concubinage"/"The Psychotic Adolescence" (1994, no songs written, no recordings made), "The Shaft And Barry White Fan Club" (1995-1996, undisciplined bass/guitar interplay with shouting, no drums), "The Disciples" (1996-1998, tighter, drums/guitar rock combo) and, finally, "The Orgasmic Sound Explosion (OSE)" (1998-Present, layered, kaleidoscopic pop/hip-hop); all the while pulling pranks (broadcasting an instructional harmonica tape via amplifier on East Carson St.), writing scripts for feature films ("Cereal: A Silent Film") and producing VCR-to-VCR-edited video pieces (the incomprehensible short "Cathedral Ave." and various Disciples/OSE music videos).

The revelatory OSE debut, 1999's Don't Bass On My Shoe and Tell Me It's Raining, ostensibly a sonic love letter to themselves (as well as the loop-based software program Acid Pro), briefly caught the attention of the fickle assholes of the Pittsburgh "scene," leading to a string of poorly-attended, vigorously tub-thumping performances at Pittsburgh's hottest fun spots (often nothing more than elaborate performance art and smart-assy fuckery). You have probably seen them at at least one of their three performances at the now defunct Millvale Industrial Theater, or perhaps at the equally defunct Oakland Beehive. Well, what about the mega-defunct Graffiti? Surely you remember their scene-stealing turn at Summer 99's Aural Anatomy 6? Subverting slam poetry at the Hazlett Theatre? Oh, you probably left early, or got there late, depending on the case. Well, they killed. Sorry you missed it.

Follow-up albums The Sugar Daddy Club (2000) and The Slim Prescription (2001) (boasting the tightest and most ambitious recordings in the Bisi/Stidle oeuvre), fell largely on deaf ears (because they rocked the listeners until their eardrums exploded and their skulls flooded with pus).

In 2001, following Stidle's matriculation to Poughkeepsie, NY, OSE went on hiatus. Mark currently records straight-up pop ditties in a solo capacity under the name "The Texas Instrument," and has at least three albums worth of material that he wonders will ever be "complete" enough to be released someday. In the meantime, Mark met up with Andy Beckerman in 2001 while studying film at the University of Pittsburgh, got a job as his student worker in 2002, and started writing comedy with him in Summer 2003. By the winter, after four months of hard labor, in between classes and cataloging government documents, Beckerman and Bisi finally gave birth to a screaming, blood-soaked comedy script.

And, thus, Wrestling Team was born.

The rest (this website) is history.