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Prince And The Revolution - Dream Factory (unreleased studio project, 1986-07-18 configuration) [Pimpsandwich, 2004]

 - "The revolution doesn’t belong to the committees, it’s yours." -

Dream Factory
1 CDR
Label : Pimpsandwich
Catalogue : N/A
Disc Length : 77:51
Catalogue : N/A
Source : Unreleased 1986 Project 
(1986-07-18 the final configuration, with a twist)
Sound Quality : EX+
Year Of Release : 2004
Artwork: Included

Lineage: Single FLAC file (with cue file) > medieval cue splitter > you 

Further Lineage: 
- From the now defunkt demonoid destroyed asteroid, uploader unknown received single FLAC file in a trade.
- Tracks split par moi. (Yeah, that's right. If you let me, I'm gonna get medieval on your ass.)

* Reviews from TheDataBank c/o daysofwild down below.

* Full-song audio samples par moi way down below.

- "L'imagination prend le pouvoir!" (Imagination takes power!) - 
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Prince And The Revolution - Dream Factory (1986)

Tracks:

01. VISIONS   
02. NEVAEH NI ECALP A   
03. DREAM FACTORY   
04. TRAIN   
05. THE BALLAD OF DOROTHY PARKER   
06. IT   
07. STRANGE RELATIONSHIP   
08. STARFISH & COFFEE   
09. INTERLUDE   
10. SLOW LOVE   
11. I COULD NEVER TAKE THE PLACE OF YOUR MAN   
12. SIGN O' THE TIMES   
13. A PLACE IN HEAVEN   
14. CRYSTAL BALL   
15. THE CROSS   
16. LAST HEART   
17. WITNESS 4 THE PROSECUTION   
18. MOVIE STAR   
19. ALL MY DREAMS

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- "Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible." (Be realistic, ask the impossible.) -
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Note from the demon uploader: 

"Yes, I know: You have the Thunderball & Sabotage versions. You have these songs in hundreds of boots, but.... This is DIFFERENT. It's a different configuration, but this is NOT the important. The important here is that this Dream Factory SOUNDS different. If you heard this one with headphones, you will appreciate what in spanish I say "los infinitos infinitesimos detalles", that is, a lot of little details that you will NOT appreciate in the others. For me this is a GEM and ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE, so PLEASE, GIVE IT A CHANCE, HEARD IT WITH HEADPHONES AL LEAST 2 TIMES AND..... WELCOME TO HEAVEN!!!!!!!!! ENJOY!!!!!!!"


TDB COMMENT

"This release represents the final configuration of the Dream Factory album which was sequenced on July 18th 1986. The track-listing on this particular release differs from most others as it places Wendy's guitar interlude before 'Slow Love', as opposed to before 'I.C.N.T.T.P.O.Y.M.' That's not the only difference though. The first thing I noticed upon listening to this release was the bass on 'Dream Factory' - it's kicking out at you like on none of the other releases of this album. Guitar parts which were lost in the mix on other tracks ('Sign O' The Times' springs to mind) are also audible on here, 'I.C.N.T.T.P.O.Y.M. sounds less flat than on the Sabotage 'Dream Factory Remastered' release, and the slowed down voice on 'All My Dreams' can be heard to completion. It's quite unusual for a fan's home-made work to out-do one of the major bootleg labels, however I believe that this release has easily out-classed all other versions of this 1986 masterpiece. Pretty much an essential in my collection."


TDB COMMENT Re: Dream Factory Remastered (Sabotage: Year Of Release : 2003)

1. Visions   2. Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A   3. Dream Factory   4. Train   5. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker   6. It   7. Strange Relationship   8. Slow Love   9. Starfish And Coffee   10. Interlude   11. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man   12. Sign O' The Times   13. Crystal Ball   14. A Place In Heaven   15. Last Heart   16. Witness 4 The Prosecution   17. Movie Star   18. The Cross   19. All My Dreams

"An absolutely fantastic release. This configuration was sequenced sometime between June and July 1986 - although it is not the final configuration. I can only imagine what would have happened had this actually been released, as it is Prince and the Revolution at their most creative and at their imaginative peak. Firstly, you have to remember that Sign O' The Times (the album) hadn't been released or thought about yet, so the forget how the tracks sound on the Sign O' The Times album. Visions is a beautiful solo piano piece by Lisa, Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A (A Place In Heaven backwards) is simply an intro to Dream Factory. Train is an absolutely amazing song and it's a crime it hasn't been released. Interlude is Wendy's guitar solo piece. Strange Relationship is the 'Revolution' version. I Could Never Take The Place is slightly extended during the guitar portion of the song. A Place In Heaven is Lisa's vocal. And finally 'All My Dreams'  - surely if there's one song that sums up Prince, Wendy & Lisa's work together at it's most inspirational, imaginative and most clever - it's that. The material was obviously too good to shelve after the Revolution disbanded, so it's understandable he chose to use some tracks on S.O.T.T. An absolute must have album for any Prince fan. The packaging for this disc is brilliant. The booklet includes a nice 'story of the Dream Factory', taken from The Vault. Sheer class."

[DF-R artwork is included for you here. -ed md.]
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All Music review by Rick Anderson

"It's Her Factory" - Gang Of Four (1980)

In 1980, Gang of Four's particular brand of British punk was pretty unusual. Where other bands with strong political agendas were mostly getting their messages across by yelling over pounding drums and driving power chords (Crass, U.K. Subs, Killing Joke), Gang of Four sounded positively austere; bass and drums were locked into a tight, minimalist funk groove while guitarist Andy Gill slashed and stuttered above them and singer Jon King delivered his Marxist sentiments in a cool, detached voice -- sometimes singing, occasionally shouting, but mostly simply speaking in time with the band's lurching, barebones rhythms. "It's Her Factory" was the third track on the band's four-song Yellow EP, which remains one of their strongest musical statements. "It's Her Factory" sets the band even further apart from the rest of the post-punk pack by dealing explicitly with politics of a sexual nature -- the factory in question is the home, and the exploited proletarian is the housewife. "It's her factory/It's her duty," King intones, "Scrubbing floors/They're close to the earth/In a man's world/They're not men." This wasn't the first or the last time that Gang of Four would deal explicitly with themes of domesticity and patriarchy, but it may be the most eloquent treatment of the topic they would ever achieve -- the fragmented nature of couplets like, "A little of a lot/Keeps them happy" actually masks a certain amount of rhetorical sophistication. For a musical genre (and political stance) in which empty-headed cant usually serves as a stand-in for insight, that's pretty impressive. And you can dance to it. 
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- "Commute, work, commute, sleep . . ." - 

...Hunger City 2013-07-19, mikedreams on...

 - "L'été sera chaud!" (Summer will be hot!) -

* JULY 19: HAPPY: - REVOLUTION DAY (Nicaragua)! - HAPPY HOT! (First of the month of Thermidor (heat) in the French revolutionary calendar) - HAPPY FESTIVAL OF THE PUZZLEBOX! HAPPY FEAST OF CRANKS! 

- HAPPY FESTIVAL OF SIRIUS! (the brightest star in the night sky, the "Dog Star", reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (Greater Dog). The heliacal rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians it marked winter and was an important star for navigation around the Pacific Ocean)

- HAPPY DREAM FACTORY WEEKEND!

 - "A single non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of total revolution." -

BELATED BLOODY HAPPY DREAM FACTORY WEEKEND DAY (FOR NIGHT, FOR 4 NIGHTS)!

* JULY 18 
- 1984 – Release of a 7" of Let's Go Crazy b/w Erotic City in the US 
- 1984 – Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince recording - Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA)
- 1986 - a configuration of the album Dream Factory is sequenced 

 - "Ne travaillez jamais." ("Never work.") -

So I was too busy striking out yesterday, still dreaming about Paris Graffiti, May 1968. 

 - "L'ennui est contre-révolutionnaire." (Boredom is counter-revolutionary.) -

And so it was that on March 31st 1987, Prince And The Counter-Revolution broke out of the Contragate like lions more than ready to roar "Sandanista!," with their first and only album, "Sign o' the Times." (Was there another, ever, really, or do I try to remember to forget?) Before that, the "Sign o' the Ti