Hi,

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So there's this UK-based thing that may be a record store or a label or neither: http://www.midnightriot.org/

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On their Shep Pettibone mixes compilation, which is most likely pure bootleg, there's a needledrop of Hot Thing that sounds just like the remix we know... only it's 7:03.

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Could this be from some White Label/Test Pressing, or they've just edited it like savages?

OK, I've just realized they also sell that unofficial Mojo comp, with the fake Traffic Jam, so I guess that answers my question... Sorry...

databank said:

Hi,

.

So there's this UK-based thing that may be a record store or a label or neither: http://www.midnightriot.org/

.

On their Shep Pettibone mixes compilation, which is most likely pure bootleg, there's a needledrop of Hot Thing that sounds just like the remix we know... only it's 7:03.

.

Could this be from some White Label/Test Pressing, or they've just edited it like savages?

There is a bootleg called T's 12 inches that has all of Prince's extended versions.

laurarichardson said:

databank said:

Hi,

.

So there's this UK-based thing that may be a record store or a label or neither: http://www.midnightriot.org/

.

On their Shep Pettibone mixes compilation, which is most likely pure bootleg, there's a needledrop of Hot Thing that sounds just like the remix we know... only it's 7:03.

.

Could this be from some White Label/Test Pressing, or they've just edited it like savages?

There is a bootleg called T's 12 inches that has all of Prince's extended versions.

I don't think there exists a real 7:03 version that would have escaped everyone's attention so far, unless it's from a test pressing (Neversin just talked about Baby I'm A Star edits on a test pressing that no one's ever heard of). It could be from a megarare foreign promo or single, like those weird Brazilian, South African or Spanish edits of a few 80's songs that are being dug out of oblivion every once in a while, and if so I may find it on Discogs at some point, when proofreading 1987 on my site, but I'd say 99,9% chances it's a fan edit made so all 13 tracks on this unofficial comp fit on one CD. In any case it's clearly audible that it's a needledrop.

People can just make unauthorized comps and sell them on Bandcamp, as long as they don't get caught: same as with those boots on iTunes, Spotify or Amazon...

databank said:

I don't think there exists a real 7:03 version that would have escaped everyone's attention so far, unless it's from a test pressing (Neversin just talked about Baby I'm A Star edits on a test pressing that no one's ever heard of). It could be from a megarare foreign promo or single, like those weird Brazilian, South African or Spanish edits of a few 80's songs that are being dug out of oblivion every once in a while, and if so I may find it on Discogs at some point, when proofreading 1987 on my site, but I'd say 99,9% chances it's a fan edit made so all 13 tracks on this unofficial comp fit on one CD. In any case it's clearly audible that it's a needledrop.

People can just make unauthorized comps and sell them on Bandcamp, as long as they don't get caught: same as with those boots on iTunes, Spotify or Amazon...

I have entertained the thought that this version might be a previously unreleased alternate remix submitted by Shep Pettibone when he worked on the "Hot Thing" remixes that appeared on the 12-inch single of "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man." (Pettibone was known to submit several remixes of the same track.) I have also wondered if it could be a "Mastermix" he did for New York radio (although I don't know if he still did those in 1987), sort of like those DJ mixes found on Hot Tracks and other remix services. Perhaps it is, as you speculate, just a fan-made edit of the existing remixes, but I thought I heard minor elements I didn't remember from those (I should do an A-B comparison). Its release is almost certainly unauthorized, but I'm still curious about the edit.