The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold)
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July 7, 1993 - summer 1995 |
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| Label (s) | NPG Records / Warner Bros. Records | |||
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15th |
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32:50 |
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| occupation | All songs were produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince. The following people completed the recordings:
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Paisley Park Studio ( Chanhassen ) |
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The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) ( English for The Versace Experience (prelude to gold) ) is an originally only on compact cassette published Promo - Sampler of the US musician Prince . The compact cassette was released on July 8, 1995 by the music label NPG Records / Warner Bros. Records and was distributed exclusively to participants in the Versace collection at Paris Fashion Week from July 8 to July 10, 1995. The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) released Prince under his pseudonym of the unpronounceable symbol; due to differences with Warner Bros. Records, he had dropped his stage name from 1993 to 2000.
Guest musicians include Clare Fischer , Eric Leeds, Mayte Garcia and The New Power Generation , the music belongs to the genres of funk , house , jazz , pop , R&B and rock music . In the international charts the compact cassette was not performed and reception of music critics do not exist. The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) served as the music promotion for Prince's album The Gold Experience , which was released in September 1995.
In April 2019 The Prince Estate brought (dt .: The Princeton discount ) the compact cassette posthumously officially re-release in a limited edition of 4,000 copies worldwide out. This time mass media showed little interest in the republication, but receptions were again not to be found.
On September 13, 2019, The Prince Estate released The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) for the first time on compact disc and on vinyl record , which is available in purple vinyl. The album was then able to place itself in the international charts for the first time and music critics rated it mostly positive.
Emergence
In October 1994 Prince finished his album The Gold Experience , but was initially not allowed to publish it due to differences of opinion with the music label Warner Bros. Records. The dispute was mainly carried out in public in 1994 and 1995 in part via the mass media .
Prince recorded all of The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) songs in his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen , Minnesota. He recorded the instrumental piece Rootie Kazootie on July 7, 1993 and placed it on the third studio album 24 of the instrumental jazz radio band Madhouse; this was a side project of Prince at the time, but album 24 is still unreleased today (as of 2020). Prince recorded the four songs 319 , Billy Jack Bitch , Gold and Shy in October 1993 and brought them out on his album The Gold Experience , released in September 1995 . He played the two pieces Segue and Sonny T. in late 1993 or early 1994, later renaming Segue NPG Operator and also placing it on The Gold Experience .
In early 1994, Prince Eye recorded Hate U , and he also reworked the piece Shhh , which he originally recorded for Tevin Campbell in mid-June 1992 . The recording date of Eye Hate U (Remix) is not known to the public. On May 15, 1994 Prince recorded the song Get Wild and placed it on the March 1995 released second studio album Exodus by The New Power Generation . The exact recording date of the remix ' Get Wild in the House is also unknown to the public. On July 25, 1994 Prince recorded the track Pussy Control , which he later renamed P Control and placed on The Gold Experience . When he produced the three remix versions Chatounette Controle , Pussy Control (Club Mix) (Edit) and Pussy Control (Control Tempo) (Edit) is not publicly known. It is similar with the piece Free the Music ; the exact date of the recording is not known. Prince placed the song on the June 1995 maxi single of The Good Life by The New Power Generation. In May 1995, Prince played Kamasutra Overture # 5 a studio in his Paisley Park, but the orchestra - overdubs are from Clare Fischer , who this in the summer of 1995 in the studio Ocean Way Recording in the district of Hollywood picked up from Los Angeles in California. Later named Prince Kamasutra Overture # 5 in serotonin to and published in February 1997 on the album Kamasutra by The NPG Orchestra.
When the Paris Fashion Week took place from July 8 to July 10, 1995 , the fashion designer Gianni Versace presented his collection. During this fashion event some songs from the then unreleased album The Gold Experience as well as unreleased remixes by Pussy Control were played. The music compiled especially for this event was named Prince The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) (German: The Versace Experience (Prelude to Gold)) ; it was only available on a compact cassette that was distributed to Fashion Week viewers such as Madonna .
Design of the cover
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The company logo at Versace consists of the head of Medusa , in the form of a woman's head with snake hair. This logo can be seen on the cover of The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) , but the face of Medusa is covered by Prince's unpronounceable symbol in a transparent black shade and is therefore hardly recognizable.
The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) was originally only released on a conventional compact cassette . The booklet, which can be described as an accompanying booklet, is in the case of the cassette, and the liner notes contain additional information, some of which later turned out to be incorrect; The two songs Chatounette Controle and Pussy Control (Control Tempo) (Edit) are stated to be found on the EP The Hate Experience , which is not the case - the EP released in September 1995 only contains remix versions of Eye Hate U present. In addition, the two songs Sonny T. (X-cerpt) and Rootie Kazootie (Edit) say “taken from Madhouse 24”, but Madhouse's album 24 has not yet been released (as of 2020).
In addition, the booklet states that the album The Gold Experience will be "Will be freed on September 12" (German: "Will be released on September 12 [1995]"). The single Eye Hate U was released on that day , but The Gold Experience was released in the US two weeks later on September 26, 1995. In September 2019, The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) was also released on CD and record, but both editions do not have a booklet. All information can be read on the front and back cover.
music
The music of The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) belongs to the genres Contemporary R&B , Funk , House , Jazz , Pop Music , Rock Music and Soul . The five songs Shhh (X-cerpt) , 319 (X-cerpt) , Shy (X-cerpt) , Billy Jack Bitch and Gold (X-cerpt) can be found in uncut versions on the album The Gold Experience . The album version of the two tracks Pussy Control and Eye Hate U can also be heard on The Gold Experience .
The first song Pussy Control (Club Mix) (Edit) is similar to the album version of The Gold Experience and comes from the genres funk and contemporary R&B, paired with elements from dance pop . Shhh (X-cerpt) and Eye Hate U (Remix) are R&B ballads , whereby Eye Hate U consists of a compilation of the later published “Quiet Night Mix” and the “Album Version”. Get Wild in the House belongs to the house music genre and 319 (X-cerpt) is from the blues rock genre . The piece Shy (X-cerpt) comes from the funk genre with elements from folk rock .
Billy Jack Bitch is from the genre of pop and soul. Sonny T. (X-cerpt) is a 28-second long instrumental piece with distorted bass guitar improvisation by Sonny Thompson, after whom the title is named. The song title by Rootie Kazootie (Edit) is named after the main character of the US children's television show The Rootie Kazootie Club from the 1950s. The piece is a relaxed instrumental number and has a striking motif from playing saxophone, the rhythmic groove is created by integrating a rhythm guitar lick with a bass line . Chatounette Controle is again a remix version of Pussy Control and is similar to Pussy Control (Club Mix) (Edit) . The remix version Pussy Control (Control Tempo) (Edit) comes from the House genre and Kamasutra Overture # 5 is an instrumental piece that is only 44 seconds long. Free the Music has a simple beat to which Mayte Garcia speaks the words “Exodus” and “Free the music”. The song contains samples of the seven songs Get Wild , Count the Days , Cherry, Cherry , Return of the Bump Squad , Big Fun , The Exodus Has Begun and The Good Life , all from The New Power Generation on the Exodus album in March 1995 were published. Segue can be heard as the NPG Operator on The Gold Experience and contains the voice of Rain Ivana. The last song is called Gold (X-cerpt) and is a pop music ballad.
List of titles and publications
| No. | song | author | length |
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| A-1 | Pussy Control (Club Mix) (Edit) | Prince | 3:02 |
| A-2 | Shhh (X-cerpt) | Prince | 3:54 |
| A-3 | Get wild in the house | Prince, Sonny T. | 2:14 |
| A-4 | Eye Hate U (Remix) | Prince | 3:28 |
| A-5 | 319 (X-cerpt) | Prince | 1:28 |
| A-6 | Shy (X-cerpt) | Prince | 2:22 |
| B-1 | Billy Jack Bitch | Prince | 2:31 |
| B-2 | Sonny T. (X-cerpt) | Prince | 0:28 |
| B-3 | Rootie Kazootie (Edit) | Prince, Eric Leeds, Michael B., Sonny T., Levi Seacer Jr. | 2:37 |
| B-4 | Chatounette Controle | Prince | 2:24 |
| B-5 | Pussy Control (Control Tempo) (Edit) | Prince | 1:23 |
| B-6 | Kamasutra Overture # 5 | Prince | 0:43 |
| B-7 | Free the Music | Prince | 1:44 |
| B-8 | Segue | Prince | 0:49 |
| B-9 | Gold (X-cerpt) | Prince | 3:36 |
On July 8, 1995 The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) was released exclusively on compact cassette . Apart from the five pieces Sonny T. (X-cerpt) , Rootie Kazootie (Edit) , Chatounette Controle , Kamasutra Overture # 5 and Segue , all songs were also released in longer versions and can be found on the following recordings :
- April 3, 1995: Get Wild in the House (6:14) on the maxi-single of Get Wild by The New Power Generation .
- June 13, 1995: Free the Music (1:47) on the maxi single The Good Life by The New Power Generation. In addition, is Free the Music on the published in summer 1995 promo cassette The Good Life Experience Exodus Sampler heard in a length of 3:24 minutes, also published by The New Power Generation.
- September 19, 1995: Eye Hate U (Remix) (6:17) on the EP The Hate Experience
- September 26, 1995: Shhh (7:17), 319 (3:05), Shy (5:03), Billy Jack Bitch (5:31), Segue (0:44), Gold (7:22) on the Album The Gold Experience
- December 3, 1995: Pussy Control (House Mix) (5:42), previously known as Pussy Control (Control Tempo) , and Pussy Control (Club Mix) (6:02) on promo tape
- February 14, 1997: Prince later renamed Kamasutra Overture # 5 Serotonin and released the piece on The NPG Orchestra's album Kamasutra .
When the annual on April 13, 2019 Record Store Day was held in the US, The Prince Estate brought (dt .: The Princeton discount ) The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 gold) in its original edition with a limited edition of 4,000 worldwide edition out again . On September 13, 2019, The Prince Estate released the compact cassette both on compact disc in digipak and on record in exclusively purple vinyl.
Single releases
On November 30, 1995, Gold was released as a single in a radio edit version with a length of 4:43 minutes. At this point, Prince's album The Gold Experience had already been released. When he performed on December 3, 1995 in New York City on Lexington Avenue Armory at the VH-1's Fashion and Music Awards, he presented the song Pussy Control (Club Mix) in the playback . Subsequently, models presented the Song Pussy Control (Control Tempo) collections from various fashion designers , such as Calvin Klein , Chanel , DKNY , Dolce & Gabbana , Gianni Versace , Gucci , Jean Paul Gaultier and Vivienne Westwood . Prince did not appear on Pussy Control (Control Tempo) . At the VH-1 event, promo compact cassettes with the two songs P. Control (House Mix) , identical to Pussy Control (Control Tempo) , and P. Control (Club Mix) were distributed to the VIPs present .
On September 12, 2019, Shhh (Xcerpt) was released as the B-side of the single My Computer , which can only be purchased as a vinyl single via the October 2019 edition of the German music magazine Musikexpress . Shhh (Xcerpt) is identical to the album version and My Computer was decoupled from the album Emancipation (1996).
Music videos
Prince produced a total of four music videos for songs from The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) ; the music video for Shhh dates back to February 1994 and to gold from October 1995. In addition, he produced in February 1995 to Pussy Control and October 1995 Eye Hate U Music Videos, however, to the respective album version of The Gold Experience rotated were.
In 2019, The Prince Estate released two music videos that can be listened to free of charge as audio tracks via their user account on YouTube ; since July 31st this is Pussy Control (Club Mix) (Edit) and since September 6th Rootie Kazootie (Edit) . Both videos show the cover of The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) as a still image.
reception
Press
In 1995 there was no mass media interest in The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) because the compact cassette did not go on sale; Reviews from music critics cannot be found. The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) is also rarely discussed in books about Prince . Although the re-publication was mentioned by a few media in April 2019, receptions still did not exist. It was not until The Prince Estate released it on CD in October 2019 that it was rated by music critics, who mostly rated it positively.
Philipp Kause from the German-language online magazine laut.de was enthusiastic and awarded four out of five stars. Similar to his album in 1999 (1982), Prince is "completely in his element" on The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) . The album is "very heterogeneous" and the track Rootie Kazootie contains a "wonderful jazz interlude with P-funk bass and wonderful brass and keyboard sequences". Pussy Control (Club Mix) shows Prince “a really good rapper” and the song “Free the Music” “could have been longer”. The “emotional climax” is “the touching soft soul number” Eye Hate U (remix) . Kause described the album as a "roller coaster ride of different tempos and styles"; the "unclean cuts between the tracks" and the "voice snippets that lead to the next number like jingles " were "took some getting used to". Since the “sound focus” is on jazz and rap, The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) is “one of the atmospheric and cool works by Prince”. In closing, Kause wrote that "the energy" of the album outshone "a lot of Prince's other work" from the 1990s, even though it did not contain any single hits.
Wolfgang Giese from the Muswikwebsite Musikansich.de also praised the album, calling it 17 out of 20 points "Very recommendable" as. Both the lyrics and the music are "not for prudish minds". Musically, Prince offers a “mix of funk, house, jazz, pop, R&B and rock music”, with contemporary R&B and funk being the “main components”; Dance floor elements, "fine ballads " like Eye Hate U and Shhh "rounded off the varied picture". Overall, the music provides “pure entertainment”, with Giese particularly praising the song Billy Jack Bitch . He described Rootie Kazootie as a “relaxed instrumental number with saxophone use”, which enriches the “spectrum pleasantly”; the guitar solo played "emotionally" by Prince even reminds one of Johnny Guitar Watson . Ultimately, The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) is an "important release by Prince, which shines with its variety and passionate expression".
Thoralf Koß from the website Musikreview.de , which specializes in music publications , did not distribute a grade, but rated The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) positively. The album features "real rarities as well as rare, unreleased material" by The NPG Orchestra and The New Power Generation . The piece Rootie Kazootie " knocks off your socks"; Prince had “believed a lot”, but this song was very surprising and “really great”. The cover design and the running time of around 32 minutes, however, were "among the weakest new releases" by The Prince Estate. Overall, however, the album was "part of the spectacular Prince re-release project," wrote Koß as a conclusion.
Matthias Reichel from the German-language online magazine CDStarts.de was more reserved with praise and rated the album as “average”; he gave 5.5 out of 10 points. The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) has “a clear mixtape character ” and therefore “does not come close to a round sounding album”. The songs contained as “(X-cerpt)” looked “like arbitrary fragments” and were “really only of value” for hardcore Prince fans.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic was also disappointed and gave two out of five stars. He described The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) as "one of the rarer and stranger" albums in Prince's discography. Although the album contains three "exclusive remixes" with Eye Hate U , Gold and Pussy Control , "the real hit" The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1994) does not exist. You only hear "excerpts from album titles, snippets of songs" and "semi-formed instrumental pieces". 24 years after its actual release, the album degrades "to little more than a curiosity," said Erlewine.
In August 2016, four months after Prince's death, an original copy of the compact cassette The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) was sold via the online database Discogs for 4,087 US dollars (3,649 euros at the time), which to this day (as of 2020) the most expensive compact cassette in Discogs history .
Charts
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 Germany (GfK)
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59 (1 week) | 1 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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50 (1 week) | 1 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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30th (1 week) | 1 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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83 (1 week) | 1 |
 United States (Billboard)
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170 (1 week) | 1 |
In 1995 The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) was not listed in the international music charts and the re-release in April 2019, which was limited to 4,000 units, did not make it into the charts. It was only when the album was released on CD in September 2019 that it made it into the international charts.
literature
- Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X , OCLC 186521364 .
Web links
- Princevault.com , Information on The Versace Experience Compact Cassette (Prelude 2 Gold)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Booklet of the CD The Gold Experience by O (+>, Warner Bros. Records / NPG Records, 1995
- ↑ a b Uptown (2004), p. 549.
- ↑ a b Uptown (2004), p. 183.
- ↑ Super-Gianni: Story of the illustrious fashion designer Versace. In: magazin.design4u.org. 2016, accessed August 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Booklet of the compact cassette The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) by O (+>, NPG Records / Warner Bros. Records, 1995
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 479.
- ↑ a b Uptown (2004), p. 477.
- ↑ Get Wild. In: Princevault.com. November 24, 2017, accessed August 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 187.
- ^ Uptown (2004), p. 188.
- ↑ a b Uptown (2004), p. 190.
- ^ Pussy Control / P. Control. In: Princevault.com. September 3, 2018, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 203.
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 479.
- ^ Prince - The Versace Experience: (Prelude 2 Gold). In: recordstoreday.com. April 13, 2019, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Philipp Kause: Prince - The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold). In: musikansich.de. September 13, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Giese: Prince (Symbol) - The Versace Experience Prelude 2 Gold. In: musikansich.de. September 13, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Thoralf Koß: Prince: The Versace Experience - Prelude 2 Gold (First Time on LP - Limited Edition on Purple Vinyl) (Review). In: musikreviews.de. September 9, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ^ Matthias Reichel: Prince - The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold). In: cdstarts.de. September 13, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Prince - The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold. In: allmusic.com. 2019, accessed on January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Grippo: Most Expensive Items Sold In Discogs Marketplace For August 2016. In: Discogs.com. 2016, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Prince. officialcharts.de, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Prince. austriancharts.at, accessed on September 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Prince. hitparade.ch, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Prince. officialcharts.com, accessed September 20, 2019 .
- ^ Prince - Chart History. billboard.com, accessed September 20, 2019 .