New Picnic Women: How Do U Like It? EP

Part of the thrill of listening to Japanese juke producer Picnic Women’s music is the moment you realize, “holy shit, it’s that song!” Yet this isn’t like when you listened to Girl Talk as a freshman in your dorm, freaking out because Neutral Milk Hotel and Juelz Santana finally came together on a song. Nope, Picnic Women blows your mind with how he takes familiar moments and transforms them into something new. “MORE,” opening his new EP How Do U Like It?, starts off with Andre 3000 from “Ms. Jackson” before zipping into a sample from “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” Yet the real joy is how he constructs a lightspeed juker out of these familiar elements, the song zipping along and sounding nothing like the source material. Even more bonkers is the title track, which grabs vocals from Mario’s “How Do I Breathe?” and lightspeeds it up into one of his most frantic (and catchy) tracks yet. “Slow Motion” actually slows down the vocals, but the beat still drives, although it is simply the most interesting song here, rather than the most fun. Listen below, or get it here.