About the track:
The video for the song “Endorphinmachine” was created as a hidden treasure to be revealed for users who had successfully navigated their way through Prince’s “Interactive” CD-ROM. The game was released on Prince’s birthday — June 7, 1994 — in a year marked by many changes in his identity and career, and it offered the world an early taste of the album he would release the next year, The Gold Experience.
Long before “Endorphinmachine” was released on an album it had become a staple of Prince and the NPG’s live shows; the band began performing it live in 1993 on the Act II tour, and offered a searing performance of the song on VH1’s Honors Awards in June 1994, the same month that the Interactive CD-ROM was released.
Filmed on a shimmering set, the video for “Endorphinmachine” begins with a cameo from Rain Ivana, who can be heard speaking between tracks on The Gold Experience as the NPG Operator, and stars Prince (who was then identified only by his unpronounceable symbol) and his NPG bandmates Mayte Garcia, Morris Hayes, Michael Bland, Sonny Thompson, and Tommy Barbarella.
The set backdrop features the initials TOTP, which was a reference to the BBC’s musical chart show Top of the Pops; Prince and the NPG used the same set to film a performance of the Mustang Mix of their hit “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” for the program.
