On the Rave DVD theres a peep this option that shoews u sample CDs to buy on the 1800 New Funk website for $700

Did anyone but these at the time?

I could of done with them if I knew they were around lol!

Like every other Prince project, it was aborted and never came out. Not sure if there just wasn't enough interest, a WB problem, or Prince just decided he wanted to do something else. Those samples on the Rave DVD are all you're gonna get.

ernestsewell said:

I believe that was the official explanation, but how would they have known? As far as I remember there was only the ad, there wasn't ever any opportunity to register your interest - or was there? I don't remember any, and I had intended to buy the set so I'm pretty sure it never got further than the ad.

Seems more likely.

There are samples on the Rave dvd? Is it just a few samples on the ad for the $700 set or is there anything useable on there?

ernestsewell said:

there are more samples then u think circulating.

I can account 4 almost 200...Do not know if there official or not.

I could give exsamples....

AsylumUtopia said:

1800-NEW-FUNK took pre-orders

nyse said:

If what you're talking about is what I think you're talking about, then they're not samples from the $700 set, they're a fan creation pretending to be some of the samples from the set.

realm said:

It did? I obviously wasn't paying close enough attention then, because I completely missed that.

AsylumUtopia said:

Yes, Directly through the 1800 number.

AsylumUtopia said:

Thats what I think also....

Little red corvet strings
1999 vocals only
Face down vocals only
npg operator
The human body moans
get loose bass
come drums
sound fx...more

There's also some redone Linn loops that someone recreated. I have loops for Anotherloverholenyohead, and something from 1999. It's not the official tracks to my knowledge, but they're pretty convincing. They're not created from the tracks either. It's someone who messed with a Linn drum and recreated them. I have only like 3 or 4.

AsylumUtopia said:

There are samples on the commercial on the DVD. You could take the audio from that, and chop them up and use them if you wanted. NOT SAYING THAT'S LEGAL.

ernestsewell said:

Prince decided against releasing the set in the end (with some persuasion
from Femi). At first he thought it would be a good idea to release his own
sample set like George Clinton had done. But the thought 1,000 wannabe
DJs and remixers legally putting out tons of terrible dance tracks filled with
Prince samples (and the loss of control that goes along with it) finally put
a stop to it (and I tend to agree).

Other than the few samples used in the online and DVD ads for the set,
none of the samples have leaked. There's a lot of fan made samples doing
the rounds, as well as a few patches that came from a keyboard that was
sold during one of the Paisley Park garage sales.

nyse said:

..i have some funk samples..just instrumentals...BEAUTIFUL..the only one that knows the name of them is prince..
...mzssexybaby

I bought it but it wasn't worth the 700$ I shelled out.

nyse said:

I downloaded it too. Yeah, it's an obvious fan made deal. The give-away is that all of the "samples" are taken from a capella tracks and easily obtained snippets.

ernestsewell said:

There's an entire CD's worth of samples from the Linn LM1 floating about. A few years back, a dude with the LM1 made it and was selling it on eBay. Nice little thing to have.


Just for giggles:

PEJ said:

The greatest sampler set never sold.

realm said:

Ah ok, I remember that. Unfortunately for most of us, US 1-800 numbers only work in the US.

So there was no way for most of us to register our interest.

Don't think it would've made a difference though, I think what BorisFishPaw said is about on the mark. Plus, it was limited to 1000, wasn't it? I would be very surprised if there weren't at least 1000 people in the US who did register their interest, so the notion of it being cancelled due to lack of interest holds no water.

Had it gone ahead he'd probably have had more than just 1000 wannabe DJ's to worry about - bit of a double-edged sword really, he may have ended up as the most sampled artist in history (he may still end up getting that accolade), but once in the public domain it would've been impossible to control legal/illegal usage of those samples.

You can imagine that if a couple of major record labels had bought a copy, then every crap pop song churned out would have a Prince sample in it.

squirrelgrease said:

Yeah, that's the one, probably. I think there are various configurations floating around though.

Some of them are good, I've actually created a few of those samples myself for use in mixes, had I had those samples then, it would've saved me a bit of messing about.

squirrelgrease said:

Yeah, there's actually quite a few LM1 sample sets floating about, some better than others. I did at one point consider buying an LM1, but they're too expensive for what is to all intents and purposes an obsolete toy (but would still be a very nice toy to own).

AsylumUtopia said:

There was always a local Minneapolis phone number for people outside of MPLS and the US. The one place the 800 number didn't work (aside from outside the US) was Minneapolis itself. If you were local, you had to use the local number.

ernestsewell said:

I wasn't aware of that but I probably would've ignored it anyway. OK, the cost of an international phone call would've been a (relatively) nominal amount, but I wouldn't do it now, and I suspect I wouldn't have done it then. I'm not in the habit of subsidising Prince's 1-800 numbers for him.*

It's the same thing with the LotusFlow$r t-shirts. $7 for postage? What's it wrapped in? A lead tin? $7 for a free t-shirt isn't free and I'm not about to subsidise US postage costs for Prince either.

(* that bit doesn't actually make any sense, but never mind)
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