Prince & The Revolution -Purple Rain (Expanded Deluxe Edition) (1984/2017/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:18:30 minutes | 6,62 GB | Genre: Funk, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records
– Billboard 200 – #1 (1984)
– Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – #1 (1984)
“The spirit of Jimi Hendrix must surely smile down on Prince Rogers Nelson. Like Hendrix, Prince seems to have tapped into some extraterrestrial musical dimension where black and white styles are merely different aspects of the same funky thing. Prince’s rock & roll is as authentic and compelling as his soul and his extremism is endearing in a era of play-it-safe record production and formulaic hit mongering.”
– Rolling Stone
Prince – Prince and The Revolution: Live (2022 Remaster) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:54:44 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
James Brown had the Apollo. Jimi Hendrix had Monterey Pop. And Prince had Syracuse, New York’s Carrier Dome—the Purple Rain Tour performance that was beamed to millions live via satellite and captured for posterity in the Grammy Award-nominated concert film Prince and The Revolution: Live, and has since gone down in history as one of the most iconic live recordings in pop and rock history. For the first time, this powerful performance by Prince and The Revolution has been entirely remixed from the original 2” multitrack master reels, the picture has been newly restored onto Blu-ray video with selectable stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos sound and the audio will be made available for the first time physically. The new version of Prince and The Revolution: Live will be available on 2CDs plus the Blu-ray with a 24-page book with never-before-seen photos of the Purple Rain Tour and new liner notes.
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Prince – The Vault – Old Friends 4 Sale (1999/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:18 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records
Upon leaving Warner Brothers in 1996, Prince agreed to let the label release a collection of unreleased recordings from his legendary prodigious vaults at some point in the future. Warner unveiled that collection, unimaginatively titled The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale, in the summer of 1999. Instead of an official release for several of Prince’s legendary songs though, The Vault is a brief collection (under 40 minutes) of ten songs, recorded between 1985 and 1994 according to the liner notes — though they all feel like Graffiti Bridge (or maybe Symbol) outtakes. That’s not a complaint, actually. There’s a wonderful carefree feeling to the record, heavy on jazz and light funk, constantly swinging, and nearly always engaging. Only the title track has the necessary weight to announce itself as a major addition to his official catalog, but that doesn’t matter since the songs are all enjoyable. After all, it’s hard not to be impressed with Prince’s songcraft or the casually sophisticated flair to the musicianship throughout the album. That might not be what most observers expected from The Vault, but consider this — of these ten songs, eight tracks have never been heavily bootlegged before. That means that even some hardcore followers may not have heard all of this material, which is noteworthy in itself. But the nicest thing about the compilation is that even though it’s a minor addition to his catalog, it holds together as an album better than Come or Chaos & Disorder, the two other Warner-era odds-and-ends collections, or even the tossed-off New Power Soul. It’s an unassuming, jazzy little record that’s damn near irresistible. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Read moreTitle: Prince – Sign “O” The Times 1987
Release Date: 2019
Genre: Pop, Funk, Soul, Documentary
Production/Label: Turbine Medien
Duration: 01:24:47 + 01:45:50
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: H.264
Audio codec: AC3, LPCM, DTS
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29105 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 7911 kbps / 576i / 25 fps / 4:3
Audio#1: English / Dolby TrueHD/Atmos Audio / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 4657 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps / DN -31dB)
Audio#2: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4884 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#3: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#4: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -27dB
Size: 42.72 GB
The legendary 1987 concert film from and with Prince – remastered with sound in Dolby ATMOS® and Auro-3D 11.1! incl. 100-minutes interview documentary “Prince – The Peach & Black Times” / exclusive audio commentary by The Peach And Black Podcast / three hours extra interviews / large-format booklet / DIN A1 cinema poster / 5 b/w photos]
Read morePrince & The New Power Generation – Live At Glam Slam (Live at Glam Slam, Minneapolis, MN, 1/11/1992) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:41:33 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Disco, Funk, Pop, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NPG Records
Today, NPG Records and Paisley Park Enterprises, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Records, have released Live At Glam Slam, a previously unreleased live recording in immersive Dolby ATMOS and Sony 360 Reality Audio that documents a historic performance at Prince’s Minneapolis nightclub Glam Slam from January 11th, 1992.
Read morePrince & The New Power Generation – Diamonds and Pearls (Super Deluxe Edition) (1991/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 07:06:08 minutes | 4,87 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
“Diamonds And Pearls” is Prince’s thirteenth studio album – and it was also the first with his new backing band The New Power Generation. How much the chemistry between the musicians was right can be seen not only in the glowing reviews but also in the numbers: Six massive international singles spawned the 1991 album – including the hits “Gett Off,” “Cream” and the iconic title track – and was a worldwide chart success, including #3 and double platinum in the U.S., #8 and platinum in Germany, and #2 and triple platinum in the U.K., where “Diamonds And Pearls” remains Prince’s best-selling album to this day.
Now Paisley Park Enterprises, in collaboration with Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Records, will reissue “Diamonds And Pearls” in physical, digital and streaming formats. The classic album will be heard for the first time in remastered quality and will feature no less than 47 previously unreleased tracks as well as over 2 hours of unreleased concert performances from Prince’s legendary archive.
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