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"Way back in 1992, a NYU pseudo-documentary film school project was undertaken. Whether this documentary was as bad as the Blair Witch Project (and I sincerely doubt that anything could be) is a moot point. It is the music that had its nascency as the soundtrack to> this artistic venture with which we are interested in today. "Hiphopunkfunkmamboska" not only serves as nomenclature for P.I.C.'s debut album but is also the name they've adopted to describe their sound (and apparently trademarked).

Hiphopunkfunkmamboska encompasses hip-hop, hardcore punk, 70's funk, Latin rhythms and Ska (only the very perceptive readers would have been able to suss that out from the word itself). You know what i- I think I like this new fangled Hiphopunkfunkmamboska, although Hippofunkmamboskapunk would have been easier to pronounce.

Today P.I.C. features Horny Jeff on sax, Rice on keyboards, Rick Fingers on bass, Sulu with mixed duties of MC/trumpet, Un-G Wasmabati doing MC/DJ stuff and J-Bomb as MC. I would have chuckled if they also had a guy just called "Paul" on the accordion.

Musically, I can't rap this stuff enough. It's top-notch! Sulu, Un-G and J-Bomb are all great rappers, layin down their simple truths with one eye on witty word-play and the other on their rap-rhythms. The bass lines are suave and demure, with Mr Fingers dipping his lid to the funk masters of the seventies. Extended jams and melodic foundations are the realms in which the horn section comes into its own. With a couple of the songs being quite lengthy, owing to some well-gelled grooves, P.I.C.'s bent for the "lock-in and go" completely hits the spot when you just want to sit down and re-calibrate for a while. Special mention should be made of "PB&J". I do not think that I would like this peanut-butter and jelly sandwich idea (I'm more of a vegemite man), but the tune is a rattler and gets my whole flat bouncing every time.

With the ground-swell following P.I.C. has been attracting, it seems they are ready for bigger and better things. But is the world ready for Hiphopunkfunkmamboska? It may very well lead to some catastrophic funk overload whereby upwardly mobile, blinkered, swanky bar haunt, lingering twats actually develop a swagger in their step and a loosening on the stranglehold which they have on their worldly perceptions. I don't know people, this could crash world markets. We need those twats to continue being the twats they are. P.I.C. -- more power to ya, but you are a danger to society. In any case, if Hiphopunkfunkmamboska was born from a documentary project, I wonder what, pray-tell, would happen if they set out to make a major motion picture. David Rogers ."
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