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The Slaughterhouse (Trax from the NPG Music Club Volume 2) (2004)

Where the lyrics of The Slaughterhouse (Trax from the NPG Music Club Volume 2) take you, and where it was really made.

This 2004 Prince album was released as MP3 downloads from his own website and has never come out as an official CD.

Key places

Paisley Park Studios, the recording place (2004)

Recording site Paisley Park Studios — This album is linked to Paisley Park Studios as its recording place. The point marks the wider location, not a confirmed studio room. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• The Slaughterhouse (Trax from the NPG Music Club Volume 2) is the thirtieth studio album by Prince
• Released on March 29, 2004 by NPG Records
• Issued as MP3 files through Prince's website, NPG Music Club
• The album title comes from the song "Silicon"
• The album has never been officially released as a CD

Background

• The tracks were previously available on the same website back in 2001
• Some tracks may have new arrangements of music and/or lyrics compared with the 2001 versions
• "2045: Radical Man" was released on the soundtrack of Spike Lee's Bamboozled in 2001
• "Peace" and "The Daisy Chain" were released as limited edition CD singles during Prince's 2001 Hit n Run Tour

Recording

• Recording is linked to Paisley Park Studios
• Paisley Park is also linked as the place of engineering work
• No recording dates are given in the source text

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Prince Rogers Nelson, born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; died April 21, 2016 at Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
• Signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1977 at age 18; first album For You released April 7, 1978.
• Career spanned funk, rock, R&B and pop, with estimated sales over 100 million records.

Career

• Breakthrough with Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981) and 1999 (1982).
• Purple Rain (1984) made him the first singer to hold the number-one film, album and single in the US at the same time.
• Sign o' the Times (1987) is widely considered his greatest work.
• Changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993, becoming known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince; reverted to Prince in 2000.
• Won seven Grammy Awards and an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released on March 29, 2004 by NPG Records
• Issued as MP3 downloads through NPG Music Club, Prince's own website
• The tracks had already been offered on that same website back in 2001
• Some tracks may have rearranged music and/or lyrics compared with the earlier versions
• Presented as Trax from the NPG Music Club, Volume 2, a continuation of the website releases
• Released outside the usual label and physical format route, so the album reached listeners directly through the artist's site

Reappraisal

• In 2015 the album was released on the Tidal music service
• In 2018 it became available on Spotify and the iTunes Store
• Its availability moved from the artist's own website to major streaming and download services
• Two songs had appeared earlier in other forms: "2045: Radical Man" on the Bamboozled soundtrack in 2001
• "Peace" and "The Daisy Chain" were released as limited edition CD singles during the 2001 Hit n Run Tour

Records

• The album has never been officially released as a CD
• Bootleg copies of the album are available
• It is Prince's thirtieth studio album
• Its release history is split between the 2001 website and the 2004 MP3 release

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album title comes from the song "Silicon", one of the tracks on the record
• "2045: Radical Man" was part of the soundtrack for Spike Lee's film Bamboozled in 2001
• "Peace" and "The Daisy Chain" came out as limited edition CD singles during the 2001 Hit n Run Tour
• The album has never been officially released as a CD, although bootlegs exist
• The album was available on Tidal from 2015 and on Spotify and the iTunes Store from 2018

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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