[2] He took sound engineering classes at college and said his favorite musicians were Prince, David Bowie, Depeche Mode and the Human League.
[3][4] Frankie Knuckles was originally from New York; he moved to Chicago to work as a club DJ, initially at the Warehouse from 1977 to 1982, then at the Power Plant, which he owned and operated.
[2] Principle did not know Knuckles before working with him on "Your Love", but remembered attending the clubs, which he said during the Reagan Era were "a place to escape.
When Frankie [Knuckles] had his Power Plant club, it was like going to church and letting yourself be free without worrying about all the craziness that was happening in the streets and in the world.
Frankie played Louie's unreleased dub mix for an entire year in his sets where it became a crowd favorite.
Knuckles later went into the studio to re-record the track with Jamie Principle, and helped put "Your Love" and "Baby Wants to Ride" out on vinyl after these tunes had been regulars on his reel-to-reelplayer at the Warehouse for a year.
"[6] Knuckles stated he trimmed the lyrics, believing he was attempting to "thin this out and concentrate on what's sweet about it, what's innocent about it, what's natural about it".
[4] Jacob Arnold of Wax Poetics stated the cassette version that was played in the Power Plant was "little more than a snare march with vocals".
[8] Trollan added much material to the song, including its synthesizer intro and a bassline that takes inspiration from an Italo disco track named "Feels Good (Carrots & Beets)" by Electra.
[1] Some releases of "Your Love" are paired with the song "Baby Wants to Ride",[1] which Principle said is about "spirituality, sexuality, and political views on certain things, like the draft and why I felt like the government wasn't accepting everyone's rights".
[2] The early version of "Your Love" without Trollan's added production was played in clubs from tape for over a year before it was released on vinyl.
When the edit was played at Chicago clubs, audiences were generally unaware it was a Chicago-based artist, believing the song originated in Europe.
[2][8] Persona Records was created in 1984 and was co-owned by Danny Alias, who met Knuckles at a Chicago release party.
[8] Alias stated doing business in Chicago led to problems; despite selling many copies of the record, there were issues with "let's just say ...mob control".
[9] Chin noted the "lush European feel of the vocal version is counterbalanced by the 11-minute perc-apella mix (by Mark 'Hot Rod' Tollan), totally vocal-less and absorbing".
[4] According to Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster, music of this era in Chicago only grew after it demanded a wave of what Broughton described as "simple, repetitive drum tracks" and as people began to realize how basic a track could be while equipment became more affordable, they then began submitting endless tapes to DJs.