{"id":2447055,"date":"2019-08-01T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=866186"},"modified":"2019-08-01T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:25:19","slug":"prince-estate-reissuing-three-mid-nineties-lps-with-rare-out-of-print-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/prince-estate-reissuing-three-mid-nineties-lps-with-rare-out-of-print-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Estate Reissuing Three Mid-Nineties LPs With Rare, Out-of-Print Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GettyImages-116673131w.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/prince\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prince\" data-tag=\"prince\">Prince<\/a> estate is reissuing three mid-Nineties Prince albums \u2014 <em>The VERSACE Experience (PRELUDE 2 GOLD)<\/em>, <em>Chaos and Disorder<\/em> and <em>Emancipation<\/em> \u2014 on September 13th via Sony\u2019s Legacy Recordings. The three titles will be available individually and in bundled CD+LP formats via the late artist\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Chaos and Disorder<\/em> and three-hour triple-album <em>Emancipation<\/em>, his out-of-print 18th and 19th records from 1996, will be available on CD for the first time in two decades. Both will also make their vinyl debut, with <em>Chaos and Disorder<\/em> pressed on&nbsp;a single disc and <em>Emancipation<\/em>&nbsp;as a 6-LP package. All three of the reissued albums will also be issued on limited-edition purple vinyl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prince originally released <em>The VERSACE Experience (PRELUDE 2 GOLD)<\/em> in July 1995 as a limited-edition promo-only cassette of previously unheard material, gifted to attendees of the Versace runway at Paris Fashion Week. The rare item previewed his 17th album, <em>The Gold Experience<\/em>, including remixed versions of the songs \u201cP. Control,\u201d \u201cGold\u201d and \u201cEye Hate U,\u201d along with unreleased cuts from the New Power Generation, the NPG Orchestra and his jazz-fusion act Madhouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While the Prince estate released a limited-edition reproduction of the cassette for Record Store Day 2019, the reissue will now be available on CD, vinyl and digital formats.<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">The Prince estate previewed the <em>VERSACE<\/em> reissue with a \u201cClub Mix\u201d of \u201cPussy Control\u201d (later retitled \u201cP. Control\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The latest reissue wave follows the June release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-originals-gathers-blueprints-of-princes-handed-off-hits-844393\/\"><em>Originals<\/em><\/a>, a posthumous Prince LP featuring 14 previously unreleased recordings of songs he wrote for other artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/prince-nineties-album-reissues-866186\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince estate is reissuing three mid-Nineties Prince albums \u2014 The VERSACE Experience (PRELUDE 2 GOLD), Chaos and Disorder and Emancipation \u2014 on September 13th via Sony\u2019s Legacy Recordings. The three titles will be available individually and in bundled CD+LP formats via the late artist\u2019s website. Chaos and Disorder and three-hour triple-album Emancipation, his out-of-print [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 15:06:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}