Prince – The Versace Experience Prelude 2 Gold (Cassette tape, Japanese edition)
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Prince - vocals, guitar
The New Power Generaion (A3, B7)
Madhouse (B2-3)
Clare Fisher (The NPG Orchestra) (B6)
1 cassette tape
Limited to 4,000 copies
Stereo
Studio
Cassette color : white
Label : Sony
Original label : Legacy
Produced by Prince
Originally issued in July1995 as a promotional-only cassette tape to be given away to attendees of the Versace collection at the 1995 Paris Fashion Week
Reissued in 2019 (as a cassette tape, a CD and vinyl) for Record Store Day 2019
Tracks :
Side A:
- Pussy Control (Club Mix Edit)
- Shhh (X-cerpt)
- Get Wild In The House
- I Hate U (Remix)
- 319 (X-cerpt)
- Shy (X-cerpt)
Side B:
- Billy Jack Bitch
- Sonny T. (X-cerpt)
- Rootie Kazootie (Edit)
- Chatounette Controle
- Pussy Control (Control Tempo Edit)
- Kamasutra Overture #5
- Free The Music
- Segue
- Gold (X-cerpt)
Reviews :
“One of the more rare and odder items in the Prince discography, The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold was intended as a promotional cassette to be distributed at the Versace runway show at Paris Fashion Week in July 1995. The event was held a mere two months before the September release of The Gold Experience, and the cassette was designed to promote the new record without undercutting it. The album has exclusive remixes of three of the four singles from The Gold Experience -- "Eye Hate U," "Gold," and "P Control," with the actual hit "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" left off, likely because it was over a year old at that point -- and they ground an album that runs swiftly through excerpts of album tracks, snippets of songs from both the New Power Generation and Madhouse, half-formed instrumentals, and Prince gravely intoning "Versace" at random moments. With its Public Enemy samples, fashion fetishism, loopy funk, and smooth soul, The Versace Experience is very much an artifact of its time, and while the period flair makes it interesting, it's only mildly interesting. At its core, The Versace Experience is a promo tape, designed to hype an album that had yet to hit stores. Listening to it decades after the promotional cycle came to a close relegates it to little more than a curiosity.” AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Ratings :
AllMusic : 2 / 5 , Discogs : 4.35 / 5