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Released ahead of 1995's The Gold Experience, the first album credited to Prince's infamously unpronounceable symbol, The VERSACE Experience (PRELUDE 2 GOLD) was a gift to attendees of the designer's collection at Fashion Week in Paris. Produced at the time as only a very limited edition promotional cassette, it featured remixed versions of future favorites "Pussy Control," "Gold" and "Eye Hate U" as well as rare and commercially unreleased selections by The New Power Generation and Prince's jazz-fusion project Madhouse. The rare promotional cassette went on to be incredibly sought after, with one copy setting a record as the highest priced cassette ever sold, fetching over $4,000.

Released in July 1996, Chaos and Disorder came with a rare disclaimed penned by Prince (then known as the unpronounceable love symbol): Originally intended 4 private use only, this compilation serves as the last original material recorded by [The Artist] 4 Warner Bros. Records. Prince's contentious relationship with the label was at its lowest point, and this record's taut 39 minutes of dexterous guitar and simple but addictive pop melodies was a crucial final link in the chains that kept him from releasing the music the way he wanted. Any internal turmoil was not represented in tracks like "Dinner With Delores" (a minor U.K. hit) and the rollicking title track, a staple of his live shows. "Someone told me that Van Halen did their first record in a week," Prince told the Los Angeles Times of the album's quick creation. "That's what we were going for - spontaneity, seeing how fast and hard we could thrash it out."

Emancipation was as expansive an album as anything Prince had ever release. A triple album constituting exactly three hours of music, Emancipation found Prince celebrating the release of music solely on his terms. "This is my most important record," he proclaimed upon its release. "I'm free, and my music is free." Much like Paisley Park, the recording complex in which Prince created Emancipation, the album represents the incredible variety of his influences and moods. Romance and family are key themes ("Somebody's Somebody," "The Holy River," "The Love We Make"), reflecting his recent marriage to back-up dancer and muse Mayte Garcia that year. Elsewhere, Prince reflects on technology ("My Computer") and sex ("In This Bed <0> Scream"), and offers new, upbeat grooves ("Face Down," "Jam Of The Year") as well as four unique covers (Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me," the Philly soul classics "Betcha By Golly Wow" and "La, La, La Means I Love U," Joan Osborne's then-recent rock hit "One Of Us").

The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold (1CD)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VP72NND/?tag=imwan-20

Chaos And Disorder (1CD)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VP6V8HB/?tag=imwan-20

Emancipation (3CD)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VRFM9YJ/?tag=imwan-20

Don't click yet because there's nothing there yet (but they're coming soon). Early word from Sony is that these will be straight reissues on CD with no bonus tracks. Will this be the first appearance of The Versace Experience on CD, though?

Yes. Only available on cassette before this. There are a couple of bootleg CDs, but this will be the first official release.

Chaos is a very under rated album imo. Until 3rd eye girl, it was the last Prince album I liked.

All three are now available for pre-order:

The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold (1CD)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VP72NND/?tag=imwan-20

Chaos And Disorder (1CD)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VP6V8HB/?tag=imwan-20

Emancipation (3CD)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VRFM9YJ/?tag=imwan-20

And here's a sample from The Versace Experience disc:

'versace' ordered.

the other 2 - no bonus tracks - no need.

i don't think there ever was a bad sounding prince CD.

Ordered Chaos and Versace. I already have Emancipation - there's some great stuff on there, but it's a 3-CD set, and there's some stuff that slides more towards filler. Among the highlights (for me) - "Face Down", "Holy River", "Jam Of The Year", "My Computer" (with Kate Bush), and "One Of Us".

i really like all the covers prince does on 'emancipation'.

The pre-order price for the Emancipation 3CD set has dropped by nearly $3, down to $17.14:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VRFM9YJ/?tag=imwan-20

There's enough good music on there to make that a bargain.

I have Emancipation as one of Prince's five best albums. Big fan of that one.

People should read up on The Versace Experience before deciding to buy.

http://princevault.com/index.php?title= ... ude_2_Gold)

Where is The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse?

You posted a broken link for Versace. Fixed here:
http://princevault.com/index.php?title=Sampler:_The_Versace_Experience_(Prelude_2_Gold)

And I think the Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse will be coming. This program just seems to randomly re-issue titles without regard for chronology.

That link doesn't work either.

-Go to princevault.com
-Click Discography on left navigation toolbar (4th one down)
-In the Released column, scroll down to Promotional Releases and click Promo Only Samplers
-Click on The Versace Experience link located just about in the middle of the page

I fixed it in my post. For some reason the original link was dropping the closed bracket ).

got 'versace'.........nice very nice.musically

but..............bare bones packaging, bare bones.....no booklet whatsoever, very little info, no credits.

I was a little bummed about this too, but assumed it was a bare bones release to begin with