'One Love' was the first single from Prodigy's second album, 'Music for The Jilted Generation'. 'One Love' was housey song combined with a lot of breaks. 'One Love' was written in 1993 - the year when Liam decided to change the band's musical direction. 'One Love' made Prodigy a faceless dance act and the video of the song didn't include the members because the video was all computer animated. The rave scene was dying and and the Criminal Justice Bill made hard to arrange any raves. 'One Love' had a "special announcement" about the CJB written on the back sleeve.

    The announcement was: "Remember a few years ago? Remember the raves with the pumping bass. The volume at it's best. The Atmosphere kicking. The people friendly and free! But then the police had to put their oar in. The ggovernmentthen have their say. 'Turn down the music, noise pollution'. What a load of bollocks. If you've been to the latest raves you'll know the score. Whats going on? You pay between 15-25 quid, queue up for about 45 minutes whilst having to put up with the old bill eyeing you up and down as if you're some sort of mass murderer, and once you've been searched and had your shoes and socks removed, you then walk into the grounds to be met by thousands of police and the music at about 2 D.B's, you might as well of bought your walkman. At every large rave lately the department of health and environment are there with their precious little toys called D.B. meters making sure the volume doesn't go above a certain level. For example, if you went to Universe on 13/08/93, Resurrection on 14/08/93 or Living Dream 6/08/93 then you'll know what we mean. All we can do is apologize to you all for the very bad sound quality, but what can we do? You can't blame the promoters because they are doing an excellent job of bringing you the best quality sound system (even though you don't get to hear it at its best), excellent lighting, DJ's. You can't fault them. If they did try to turn up the volume then the authorities have two methods of getting them to turn it down - 1. They can revoke the licence and close down the party and then ban any further events by the offending organization. 2. Impose ridiculous fines which could be in excess of £25,000 and revoke any future licences. Now you know why these events are becoming more and more of an effort to go to, and why they're so quiet when you do. So there's no one left to blame but the authorities. Bollocks to the authorities, you can't stop us, we're gonna keep the dance seen strong even if the world isn't. This is your day and no one can take it away from you. The dance seen is far to big to just disappear. Respect - Liam, Leeroy, Maxim, Keith, Mike (Prodigy/Midi)".

    Releases

    The great mystery of 'One Love' is that it was originally released on anonymous white labels. The whites were titled as Earthbounhome studiortbound 2 - the title comes from the name of Liam's homestudio. 1,000 copies of each were made and the records had "Eartbound" stamp on the sleeve. When the whites were given to DJs the records were praised and they were at the time asexpensivee as £120! Some dance mags even said that 'One Love' was the dance tune of the year. Earthbound 1 contained the original version and Earthbound 2 Jonny L's remix. Three months after 'One Love' was released on white labels XL released 'One love' as a commercial single in October. After it was revealed that 'One Love' was actually by The Prodigy many DJs decided not to play the song because many people thought that Prodigy was too main stream and sold out to be played by DJs.

    'One Love' changed Prodigy's musical direction as Liam explains it: "'One Love' was quite a big jump. It was more of a housey tune, less breakbeats, and that could have lost us all the people who had previously followed us for the breakbeat element. In a way, the whole scene at that point was confused, unsure, and as such splitting up into various categories, with one set of DJs going one way and others going elsewhere. I didn't want to get involved in all the internal politics, because that would have restricted me creatively, I would have been too limited. So 'One Love' came from that. With more typical Prodigy 'Full Throttle' and the B-side incorporating the Johnny L mixes, which were more German techno with a touch of breakbeat, it was still a hard record. That whole EP was a strong sign that we wanted to do things differently. The old style was wearing very thin by now and we were very lucky to get away with 'Wind It Up'. After my uneasiness with that previous single, I realised that the band had to progress and evolve, that I had to get back to the music and move forward. "

    Theofficiall press release which was with 'One Love' 12" promo said: "Initially promoted as two extremely limited white labels, entitled "Earthbound 1" and "Earthbound 2" The Prodigy prepare to release the debut single from theiforthcomingng album. The track entitled "One Love" comes with mixes from Liam and Jonny L - which have already created a buzz underground - gaining radio support from Colin Faver, rave reviews in DJ by Technohead and which also featurhighlyly in the current Mixmag hard chart. The promo and finished twelve inch also include the two bonus tracks "Rhythm Of Life" and "Full Throttle"."

    Tracks

    The 12-inch contained the original mix, Jonny L remix and 'Rhythm Of Life' and 'Full Throttle'. The CD single had the edit instead of original mix. Jonny L was Prodigy label mate and and said following about his remix: "This is a trancy more mellower sound for the Prodigy. I like the way Jonny L changes thbass linene under the vocal. It has quite a good European club vibe to it." The original mix is much better than the edit because the original version has a very cool intro and extra beats in the end. The vocal sample "One love, one love" is 'Arabic Muezzin' sample taken from a 'Zero G' sample CD released by Time and Space Records. 'Rhythm Of Life' is a classic Prodigy tune with its hard techno beats and trancey vocals. There's a rumour that the song would contain a sample from Led Zeppelin's 'A Homeboy, A Hippie And A Funky Dred' but it don't have a clue if it's true. 'Rhythm Of Life' was a long time in Prodigy's live set and the band even performed it live in 1999. 'Full Throttle' was a techno tune sampling the film 'Star Wars'. To avoid copyright problems Liam reversed the Star Wars sample for the album.


    Records

    'One Love' was released on 12" (XLT 47), cassette (XLC 47) and CD (XLS 47 CD). XL released 12" promo copies with the samtrack listingng as the commercial 12" but the promo came in XL-Recordings sleeves. The single was released in thNetherlandsds by PIAS as 4-trk single (825.0047.22) and as a cardsleeve single (825.0047.24) and in Germany by Intercord (INT 827.909). 'One Love' was released in Japan as 3-inch CD single (AVDD-20058) by Avex Trax. The single has all three mixes; original, edit and Jonny L remix. For some reason the edit is titled as Juliana Mix. There's also a promo release of that 3-inch single. Earthbound 1 and Earthbound 2 are really hard to find but the good news is that, to my knowledge, they have not been bootlegged.
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