P.I.C: Sexy Picnic

P.I.C

Sexy Picnic

© 2003 P.I.C (643157174721)

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A robust blend of hip hop, hardcore punk, Latin rhythms, funk and ska, meant to entertain, offend, charm, and confuse.

tracks

1 Circus
2 Sugar Plan
3 Talk
4 Sexy Picnic
5 Ghoti
6 Timonium
7 Kimba Lang
8 Laboratory
9 Nevermore Stories
10 D.A.R.Y.L. (Love Error)

notes

P.I.C came to life in 1992 in a NYU film school mockumentary about a rap crew with ridiculous and often demented opinions on music and race. To collect the footage necessary to meet the prestigious film school's project requirements, cast members Sulu, Rice and Un-G decided to endorse these absurd views - collectively known as "p.i." - on stage at venerable New York City music venues.
Armed with a home stereo amplifier, turntables, an upright piano, some lo-fi karaoke microphones and songs mostly about "luv for ya' mama," the p.i. crew concocted a show that managed to convince audiences that the band was for real! With their mesmerizing, humorous, enthusiastic and spontaneously naked stage presence, the p.i. crew even garnered a sizable, dedicated following.
The group now known as P.I.C continues to use its trademarked hiphopunkfunkmamboska sound - a robust blend of hip hop, hardcore punk, Latin rhythms, funk and ska - to entertain, offend, charm, and confuse audiences in New York and around the world: their wildly successful debut album hiphopunkfunkmamboska has been added to over 300 radio stations nationwide and has hit #1 on CMJ charts from Canada to Hawaii.
And starting in fall 2002, innocent cable viewers, beware! P.I.C is the house band for Comedy Central's Premium Blend! The funniest show on tv gets a little funnier (and whole lot funnier-looking) as P.I.C plays selections from hiphopunkfunkmamboska and from the upcoming album Sexy Picnic. Premium Blend, hosted by Wanda Sykes (from Inside the NFL, Chris Rock Show, Down to Earth) airs Fridays at 10 pm EST.

The current P.I.C cast - Horny Jeff (saxophone), J-Bomb (mc), Rice (keyboards), Sulu (mc, trumpet), Un-G Wasmabati (mc, dj), Rick Fingers (bass) and Mark Concerto (guitar) - draws from a broad range of musical styles and prides itself on attracting audiences of very different musical tastes. On stage, on tv and on their recordings, P.I.C is original and energetic, chaotic and creative, and always aims to make you happy!

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  • Praise for Hiphopunkfunkmamboska!
    author: Bill Ribas of NY Rock.com

    P.I.C., Hiphopunkfunkmamboska (© 2000 Riding Mower Records) What began as a film project in 1992 is now a full-scale funk assault. Blending a horn section with a DJ has led to the creation of an unusual but successful mix, where Latin rhythms, hip-hop beats, raps, and a slew of other influences blare out of the speakers with an unmistakable enthusiasm. The title cut races, as turntable scratches compete with Chicago-style horns, the title is chanted, eventually giving way to rapping. It is a fresh sound, and stays alive to the end. At times the sameness gets in the way, and you start thinking it's too much, but then, as on "Switch," the boys kick things down a notch for variety. Good sweaty dance music, that's for sure.

  • Kings of Hiphopunkfunkmamboska, Get review from King of Reviewland
    author: Flamin' Waymon Timbsdayle

    Silly cleverness combined with actual awesome, innovative bizarre music. Imagine if Barenaked Ladies were actually funny and understood funk and had a DJ.

  • Infectious and intelligent tracks effortlessly make you smile
    author: Mike SOS, 3:16 Productions

    The PIC crew has returned, fresh off of its Comedy Central stint on PREMIUM BLEND, and drop another set of incredibly soulful and undeniably danceable tunes on SEXY PICNIC. The term hybrid is tossed around so much these days that it has probably lost some luster, but it's the best way to describe PIC. This collective, which goes seven deep, throw jazz, salsa, rock, and hip-hop into a big old gunnysack, and out come Latin flavored jazz hymns like "Ghoti" and Motown-inspired meets modern day R&B jams like "Nevermore Stories". SEXY PICNINC isn't just a cool album title; it also marks another 10 solid tracks in the pocket for the hiphoppunkfunkmamboska masters, whose infectious and intelligent tracks effortlessly make you smile the way Stevie Wonder, Tribe Called Quest, and most nudie bar slow jams only can.

  • If the Dust Brothers ever got their hands on uber-popsters Smash Mouth, reprogra
    author: John Wenzel of Sponiczine.com

    If the Dust Brothers ever got their hands on uber-popsters Smash Mouth, reprogrammed their evil brains with Bone Thugs and Funkadelic albums, then released them back into the wild, they might sound something like P.I.C. Sexy Picnic, besides being a great album title (just picture the lingerie-clad robots cavorting on that checkered blanket) is a genre-blurring triumph of live performances and seamless studio massaging. Apparently P.I.C. are the house band for Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," which I've never seen, but I imagine they rock the fucking crowd old-school. Turn-on-a-dime horns, delicious hip hop breaks, classic (i.e. non-gangsta) flows and sleek samples are so insistent you have no choice but to surrender and boogie. These guys are clearly having a lot of fun, as playful lyrics like, "Who says it's gonna make you go blind? I've got a sexy picnic in mind," attest. The dynamic, richly-layered instrumentation expertly juggles unpredictable changes. Sometimes you wish they'd chill out and let the songs breathe a bit, falling prey to the same malady that afflicted much of Zappa's late '70s output. For the most part though, P.I.C.'s shamelessly catchy distillation of rock, funk, rap and mambo is the perfect party music. These guys' instincts are right on the mark.

  • This stuff is goofy and seriously fun.
    author: Aiding & Abetting

    The first P.I.C album was called Hiphoppunkfunkmaboska, which was a loose way of describing precisely what it was that these folks try to do. Think Urban Dance Squad with soul and horns. And groovier songs, too. The one band that I think of most when I hear these boys is Bootsauce, a brilliant soul-funk-metal combo that released a couple albums almost 15 years ago. No one really tries to make music this funky, this tight with both the bass and the guitar. Which probably explains why the mainstream just can't quite figure these boys out. I know it's not the music. This stuff is goofy and seriously fun. The high time for a paella like this was probably thirty-five years ago when bands like Love and Sly and the Family Stone seamlessly fused guitar and the groove into a heavenly confection. It's about time someone else figured out how to do it. Oh, sure, that whole acid jazz thing touched on the edges of this, but where that movement cheesed out the ideal, P.I.C dives right in and embraces all of the contradictions. That's why the music is so good.

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