Prince and house

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Lately I've been thinking, what is/was Prince's relationship to house music? While in the 80s he released records that have a clear proto-house feel ("Controversy", most of 1999, etc), or, later on, tunes that seem to have been influenced by house ("Housequake", "Batdance", the 12" mix of "Glam Slam", etc), [i)Emancipation[/i] is the only album of his I've heard with a couple of straightforward house tunes. (I'm not counting stuff like the house mix of "Thieves in the Temple", because they were done by outside remixers.) Has he ever talked about his relationship to house music? Could it be that in the 80s he merely travelled a parallel path with house, but his muso attitudes and background in live music stopped him from really embracing it?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 March 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

Whoops, fucked up with the tags there.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 March 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

Haha, I also posted this on the wrong board.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 March 2008 17:59 (seventeen years ago)

This is an excellent question! (on the wrong board)

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 13 March 2008 17:59 (seventeen years ago)

ha!

― carne asada, Thursday, 13 March 2008 18:00 (seventeen years ago)

I asked the mods to move this to ILM.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 March 2008 18:01 (seventeen years ago)

Never mind, I started a new thread on ILM:

Prince and house

― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 March 2008 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

I think the relationship is, that Prince owns a house.

― snoball, Thursday, 13 March 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

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