| |introduction = '''Funky Design''' was offered (as '''The Funky Design''') as an mp3 download as part of [[NPG_Music_Club_Year_One_Releases#NPGMC_Edition_.23_1|NPG Music Club Edition # 1]] (along with [[Mad]], [[Peace]], [[Splash]], [[When Eye Lay My Hands On U|When]][[file:EyeBlue.png|link=When Eye Lay My Hands On U]][[When Eye Lay My Hands On U| Lay My Hands On U]] and [[NPG Ahdio Show 1|NPG Ahdio Show #1]]). The track originates from 1994, however, and the studio version was played at the [[New Power Generation Store]] in Minneapolis in November 1994 (along with [[Mad]] and [[Snow Man]]). An excerpt of the track had also been streamed on [[NPGOnlineLtd.com]] on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/July 17|17 July 2000]] (as '''Funky Design'''), before the full track was released in 2001. Despite being released after [[Prince]] reverted to using the his own name, rather than [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]], the track was credited to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]], as it was recorded while using that name. | | |introduction = '''Funky Design''' was offered (as '''The Funky Design''') as an mp3 download as part of [[NPG_Music_Club_Year_One_Releases#NPGMC_Edition_.23_1|NPG Music Club Edition # 1]] (along with [[Mad]], [[Peace]], [[Splash]], [[When Eye Lay My Hands On U|When]] [[file:EyeBlue.png|link=When Eye Lay My Hands On U]] [[When Eye Lay My Hands On U| Lay My Hands On U]] and [[NPG Ahdio Show 1|NPG Ahdio Show #1]]). The track originates from 1994, however, and the studio version was played at the [[New Power Generation Store]] in Minneapolis in November 1994 (along with [[Mad]] and [[Snow Man]]). An excerpt of the track had also been streamed on [[NPGOnlineLtd.com]] on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/July 17|17 July 2000]] (as '''Funky Design'''), before the full track was released in 2001. Despite being released after [[Prince]] reverted to using the his own name, rather than [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]], the track was credited to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]], as it was recorded while using that name. |
| Specific recording dates are unknown, but it is likely that basic tracking took place in November 1994 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, Minnesotoa. [[Sonny T.]] also overdubbed vocals (replacing [[Prince]]'s) for a version placed as the sixteenth and final track (twelfth song) on a [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 2|2 December 1994]] configuration of the [[Band: New Power Generation|New Power Generation]]'s second album [[Album: Exodus|Exodus]]. This version remains unreleased, however. | | Specific recording dates are unknown, but it is likely that basic tracking took place in November 1994 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, Minnesotoa. [[Sonny T.]] also overdubbed vocals (replacing [[Prince]]'s) for a version placed as the sixteenth and final track (twelfth song) on a [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 2|2 December 1994]] configuration of the [[Band: New Power Generation|New Power Generation]]'s second album [[Album: Exodus|Exodus]]. This version remains unreleased, however. |