Your Love (Jamie Principle song)

Your Love is a song by Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles. The song is an early example of Chicago house music.

Key features of the song are the arpeggiated repeating synthesizer line and a powerful propulsive bassline that drives the song. The song features a progressive chord sequence which many house records produced later in the 1980s would neglect.

The song became an anthem across Chicago despite never being released on vinyl, the song spreading as the tape was copied.

In 2004, the song was used in the videogame Grand Theft Auto San Andreas soundtrack as a song on the House Music Station, SF-UR.

Your Love is sampled extensively in You Got the Love by The Source, featuring vocals by Candi Staton. This song is featured in the film Layer Cake.

Jamie Principle gave the tape to Frankie Knuckles to play at the Powerhouse where it went down a storm, the only contribution Frankie Knuckles made to the tune was playing it to a wider audience. Sadly Jamie Principle was never credited for his part in such a seminal piece.

External Links

• History of House Mucis Pt4 Jamie Principle influence to house music