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Artist:  Prince and the N.P.G
Album:   Slave/New World (E.P)
Year:  1995
File Format: MP3
Bitrate: 320

Slave, previously titled Slowly Candle Burns and Candle Burns, is the first track on 
the third disc of Prince’s 19th album Emancipation, the third album to be credited 
to , and, eleven months before the album’s release, Slave was given out as a cassette
single at a Paisley Park Studios show on 9 December 1995 (the same show where the 
Crystal Ball version of Days Of Wild was recorded and the studio version of One Of 
Us was premiered).

Basic tracking dates are unknown, but it is likely that the track was recorded in 
mid-1995 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. It was included as the 
third track on a July 1995, configuration of Emancipation, and as the fourth track 
on another 1995 configuration. The released version contains a drum pattern during 
the chorus that is sampled directly from Ain’t No Place Like U, which was not 
included on an earlier, unreleased version of the song. The song contains some 
lyrical and musical similarities to Slave 2 The System, but the two are otherwise 
different songs. The song was also featured (as Candle Burns) as the third track on 
the 1995 New World album project, a precursor to what became the album Emancipation.

01. Slave
02. New World
03. Slave 2 The System
04. New World (Housemix)
05. Days O' Wild (Raw Cut Unsencored)