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NPG Music Club download - no official artwork created included on The Slaughterhouse Song details Performer: Prince First Released: 15 December 2001 - NPG Music Club Edition # 11 Album(s): The Slaughterhouse Writer(s): Prince (assumed) Producer(s): Prince (assumed) Live Appearances First and last live appearance: This track is not believed to have been performed live by Prince, except for some of its lyrics quoted in Xenophobia on the One Nite Alone... Tour 2002. Performed regularly on tour: none Performed occasionally in shows: One Nite Alone... Tour 2002 (lyrics included in Xenophobia), 2002 (some lyrics included in Xenophobia)

Silicon was released initially as an mp3 download as part of NPG Music Club Edition # 11, although a clip of the song had been included nine months earlier as part of NPG Ahdio Show # 2. In 2002, Silicon was offered again (with no explanation) as one of only two mp3 downloads offered in the second year of the NPG Music Club. In 2004, an edited version of the track was included as the opening track on the compilation album The Slaughterhouse (the first line of the song is "welcome 2 the slaughterhouse"). Recording dates are unknown, but the first verse is largely taken from The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (The Adam & Eve Remix), which may suggest the track was recorded shortly after that remix, in late 1999 or 2000 (most likely at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota). Some lyrics from the track ("don’t you know dead blood kills interferons?") were later quoted in the live version of Xenophobia, released on the live album One Nite Alone... Live! Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info Late 1999 - 2000 (assumed) Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed) Tracking Recording Personnel Prince - all vocals and instruments (assumed) Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Silicon 4:47 NPG Music Club Edition # 11 mp3 download NPG Music Club Year Two mp3 download Studio Silicon 4:16 The Slaughterhouse Edit Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in... Title Length Released Version Additional info Xenophobia 12:39 One Nite Alone... Live! Live 30 April 2002, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR, USA

Additional Information See also Trivia NPG Music Club Edition # 11 NPG Music Club Year Two The Slaughterhouse album References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)

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