Love Tempo

Pickering and Rietveld wrote it, published by Island Music. It was recorded in 1983 at Revolution Studios in Cheadle Hulme, with Stuart Pickering engineering and DoJo-Be Music, Bernard Sumner and Donald Johnson, producing; Pickering, Rietveld and Johnson on guitar and percussion are credited. The 12-inch came out in July 1983 on Factory Benelux as FBN 23, also FAC 79, and on Of Factory New York. The original version runs 6:58, and Mark Kamins's New York mix 7:05 on the album and 7:52 on LTM's 2003 reissue. LTM and New Order Online say it reached 4 on the US Billboard dance chart, which we could not verify, and Wikipedia gives 32 on the UK indie chart. Early gigs at the Paradise Garage in New York saw it and "Atom Rock" go down like a bomb, per the Cerysmatic Factory biography.

LTM reissued it as a 12-inch in 2004 with the Kamins mix. We found no statement on its lyric, no covers or samples, and no setlist count; we do not know which version our upload is.