Robert Kline
I totally love XL MIDDLETON'S style of funk ! Classic flavor with all the Chilli Sauce you can handle !!!! New Big Fan For Life !!!!!??????!
Favorite track: Show Some Respect.
XL MIDDLETON is one of the most consistently solid nu funk producers on the scene. This album is destined to be a favorite. RECOMMENDED
Favorite track: MoFunk Anthem (feat. Moniquea & Diamond Ortiz).
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Whenever I hear "The Boys Are Back" I have amazing flashbacks of Modern Funk Fest LA and seeing all the boys on stage doin it live
Favorite track: The Boys Are Back (feat. Brian Ellis, Zackey Force Funk, & Diamond Ortiz).
As co-founders of the label MoFunk Records, and the production team behind one of modern funk's signature anthems, "Press Play" (featuring Zackey Force Funk), XL Middleton + Eddy Funkster's album is truly an opus long overdue. In sound, it draws heavily from LA's musical well over the last several generations, bringing forth hard electro funk styles on "Show Some Respect," bouncy lowrider funk on cuts like "Solicitation," and giving a progressive nod to 90's g-funk on the LBC'd out "California Fly," which features Domino of "Getto Jam" fame (even if you're too young or coastally bipartisan to remember the song, heads will recall Biggie's line "here we go, here we go, but I'm not Domino"). Furthermore, XL + EF channel the more modern feel of ambient, pad-heavy funk on songs like "On Our Way To Funkmosphere." In spirit, it's more of a P-Funkesque party, as the entire MoFunk roster plus extended family join in variously on all of the album's 7 songs, contributing everything from vocals to guitar and talkbox. This is kind of party you'll want to join in - an ongoing celebration known as modern funk.