Love Corporation - Give Me Some Love (12" Andy Weatherall Remix)

Love Corporation - Give Me Some Love (Andy Weatherall Remix) / 12 Inch Extended Remix (HQ Audio)

In 1991, Andy Weatherall was one of the most sought-after remixers in the country.

He was still early in his career as a producer, and 1990 had been a big year for him, with groundbreaking mixes for Primal Scream (Loaded), Saint Etienne (Only Love Can Break Your Heart), New Order (World in Motion), and The Grid (Floatation).

Yet his remix back catalogue includes artists you might not expect to see working with someone so in demand. That’s because Weatherall’s philosophy was different from most other big-name remixers of the time.

“I have no desire to be in the limelight,” he said around the time of this track. “I’m a lot happier staying in the backroom, keeping myself to myself. The trouble is that some people are starting to think I must be a right arrogant bastard and they’re filling the gaps in what they know about me with fantasy stories, like how I get paid 10 grand for a remix. I’ll do a remix for a couple of luncheon vouchers if the track is good and it’s all the band can afford."

Perhaps that was the case with Love Corporation?

It was the latest project of Ed Ball, who had been releasing indie records for over a decade — first as O'Level (1978–1979), then as Television Personalities (1978–1982), as Teenage Filmstars (1979–1980), as The Times (1980–mid-1990s), as Sand (1985), and eventually as Love Corporation (1990–1992).

The latter three projects released their records through Creation Records, where Ball had become close to founder Alan McGee — as had Weatherall. Creation was on a path of increasing commercial success that had begun in the 1980s with The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and The Times, climbed a level with Ride, Primal Scream and Saint Etienne, and would go stratospheric when the label signed Oasis in 1994.

But much like Weatherall, Creation championed and supported many artists it believed in — regardless of their commercial success, and though much loved, Ball's records weren't among the label's big sellers.

This 12-inch single is loved and respected by DJs and aficionados of the time, but didn’t sell enough to gain any profile in more mainstream circles. In fact, it’s possible that more people knew the Andy Weatherall remix of this track through its inclusion on a free Creation Records compilation cassette given away with Select magazine in the UK in 1992.

Unlike Ed Ball’s previous work, Love Corporation was primarily an indie-dance project, collaborating with remixers to produce extended 12-inch singles aimed squarely at the dancefloor.

Give Me Some Love was the most successful, engineered by Hugo Nicolson (Björk, Happy Mondays, Radiohead) at Workhouse Studios on London’s Old Kent Road — where Ian Dury & The Blockheads had recorded their biggest hits, and which by 1991 was owned by Pete Waterman. The studio has since been demolished and replaced with a supermarket.

Weatherall’s mixes followed his typical approach — dismantling the track completely and building up a pulsating groove, with deep bass and addictive hooks, best understood and appreciated when booming out of huge speakers in a nightclub.

The 12-inch features a different mix on either side. Side 1 — featured here — is labeled as Produced by Andy Weatherall (7'45"). Side 2 is labeled as Produced by Love Corporation & Andy Weatherall (6'20"). Further versions were available on promo 12 inch singles, and the version on the Select mixtape is again different from the two mixes on this disc.

The final character in the story of this track is legendary mastering engineer George 'Porky' Peckham, who prepared Weatherall’s mixes to be cut to vinyl.

Peckham’s career began in a band supporting The Beatles in the early 1960s. By the end of the decade, he was working as chief disc cutter for their Apple Studios.

He became well known for etching messages into the runout groove of his master discs, such as 'A PORKY PRIME CUT'.

Ball and Weatherall’s collaboration may be almost as far from those 1960s records as you can get, but Peckham was still etching messages on the master discs when he cut this track.

So this Side 1 mix is appended with 'LEIBE LA' MOUR LUV LURVE' whilst the shorter collaborative mix on Side 2 is signed off by Peckham with 'A PORKY PRIME CUT. HMMMM PORKY. WAS IT GOOD FOR YOU?'.

Year: 1991 Label: Creation Records Cat no: CRE 086T