Sean Kirkpatrick
This EP is all about that 80s electro-funk. XL's mod-wheel riding Moog bass lines are seriously the funkiest thing you’ll hear all year. Favorite track: 1990 Brougham d'Elegance.
45 RPM purple vinyl pressing with cover art by Foniks. Super limited pressing of 100 copies, available only through the MoFunk website!
Includes unlimited streaming of Rose Bowl Motel
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Vinyl EP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
45 RPM black vinyl pressing with cover art by Foniks. Limited pressing of 300 copies.
Includes unlimited streaming of Rose Bowl Motel
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Rose Bowl Motel + Moniquea "Los Robles & Washington" Color Vinyl Combo Pack
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
The Rose Bowl Motel purple vinyl EP plus another MoFunk release, Moniquea's "Los Robles & Washington" clear vinyl LP, sold as a combo for one discounted price! Please email us after purchase if you would also like a download code for the Moniquea album.
Includes unlimited streaming of Rose Bowl Motel
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
The Rose Bowl Motel vinyl EP plus another MoFunk release, Moniquea's "Los Robles & Washington" vinyl LP, sold as a combo for one discounted price! Please email us after purchase if you would also like a download code for the Moniquea album.
Includes unlimited streaming of Rose Bowl Motel
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Rose Bowl Motel + I, Ced "Interpretations" Color Vinyl Combo Pack
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
The Rose Bowl Motel purple vinyl EP plus another MoFunk release, I, Ced's "Interpretations" red vinyl LP, sold as a combo for one discounted price! Please email us after purchase if you would also like a download code for the I, Ced album.
Includes unlimited streaming of Rose Bowl Motel
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Rose Bowl Motel + I, Ced "Interpretations" Vinyl Combo Pack
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
The Rose Bowl Motel vinyl EP plus another MoFunk release, I, Ced's "Interpretations" vinyl LP, sold as a combo for one discounted price! Please email us after purchase if you would also like a download code for the I, Ced album.
Includes unlimited streaming of Rose Bowl Motel
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Just as clubs and music venues worldwide have shuttered, victims of a pandemic and overall dystopian experience that most living human beings have never been through, XL Middleton unexpectedly brings us the soundtrack for the dance floor in our minds with Rose Bowl Motel. It’s a four-track EP crafted with XL’s signature synth sound - modern funk music turned sideways, into something that house/electronic DJ’s can easily work into their sets as well. The songs on Rose Bowl Motel run long and expansively, evolving slowly and giving any turntablist plenty of time to weave in and out of a mix. Moods are set via dexterous analog bass lines and shimmering keys. In fact, the entirety of RBM is instrumental, save for the EP’s thunderous opener, “Shotgun Lover,” featuring a slinky vocal from Zackey Force Funk plus vocoder work from XL himself. “Crown Royal Bags” centers around airy keys and boogie bass syncopations, while “Swervin’ On The 210” alternates between jazzy rhodes chords and sharp synth leads reminiscent of D-Train classics. The album’s closer, “1990 Brougham d’Elegance,” was the first song Middleton cut for the project, several years back between sessions working on his Tap Water album, and sounds like a sharp turn from anything he released in that period. Warm chords, housey organ stabs, and DX7 jazz guitar solos are the recipe here, proving XL is, and always has been, an artist/ producer capable of working effectively in many different modes. The club may have been shut down for now, but there’s always an after hours going down in a smoky room at Rose Bowl Motel.
credits
released September 4, 2020
All songs written, produced, & performed by XL Middleton, except for "Shotgun Lover" written & performed by XL Middleton & Zackey Force Funk.
XL Middleton Publishing (ASCAP)
Mastered by Ivan Makvel
Cover illustration by Foniks
