About this item

Professor Supercool’s "If You Love Somebody" is many things at once: an example of a special brand of British pop music, influenced by US-American soul more or less from the get-go, the Second Summer of Love, the conception of Balearic as a music genre, the cultural interchange of European dancefloors and DJs from across the pond and underground music marketing through the vessel of special one-time pressings. The mysterious Professor Supercool is actually a moniker for Dr. Rob of The Blow Monkeys’s fame, who produced the song with a veteran and legendary DJ of the Northern Soul scene The Real Hector - a resident at the famous Wag Club.

Originally a part of the band’s album "Spring Time For The World", it appeared first as a special For-Promotion-Only-12“ in 1989 with limited information as a trial ballon to avoid preconceptions. The fear was without reason. Like the band’s other big dancefloor record and Balearic fave "LA Passionara" a year later, it got played and supported by the DJs of its time. Next to Graeme Park at the Hacienda or Paul Oakenfold, it also got picked up by Mastermixer Tony Humphries and became a staple at his radio and club sets for KissFm respectively Club Zanzibar. While the vocal mix found its way on said album, the preferred 12“ instrumental version has never been released anywhere else up until now and made the record go for a substantial amount of Discogs dollars.

Expanded with an edit by Running Back's in-house DJ Gerd Janson that is supposed to work as a dub alternative to the vocal mix, the 12-inch contains the original plus a faithfully restored and remastered version of the in demand instrumental. If you love this record it is impossible to let it go!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Amazing late 80s bomb that straddles genres with charismatic belligerence. Part baggy rave bomb, part garage masterpiece, part proto-house Zanzibar anthem; and previously rare as white dog shit; "If You Love Somebody" sees a triumphant return with a fresh Gerd Janson edit to boot.

TRACK LISTING

A1. If You Love Somebody
B1. If You Love Somebody - Instrumental
B2. If You Love Somebody - Gerd Janson Edit