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Prince’s sound engineer details how she created his infamous vault and saved his masters from the Universal Music Fires

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Double J’s Take 5 podcast, Rogers revealed that she began to collate Prince’s vault as a “practical matter” when the artist would demand old reference tapes.“When I first started working for him, he would sometimes say to me at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning ‘bring me this tape or that tape’.

I realised I have to know where all these things are, ’cause how would I know this obscure stuff that had never been released,” she explained.“I started working with the women who worked in his office, and I asked for their help.

Let’s collect all these tapes and start a database…With [a] personal computer we were able to start forming a database of all the tapes – the two inch, the quarter inch, the half inch – and then I got really ambitious.

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