Emission possible: interview with DJ Andrew Weatherall, Update magazine, Feb 1997
Andrew Weatherall’s Emissions label has risen from noodly obscurity to deep house heaven. Anthony Teasdale joins Weatherall on the couch and sniffs the air I JUST woke up one morning and thought, ‘arse’.” The inspiration for a name of a new record company can come from many sources: art, history, music. But in the case of Andrew Weatherall, the inspiration came from a bodily function. Still, if he’d gone with his original plan, we’d be sitting in his office discussing the merits of Year Zero Records and its fetching Pol Pot logo. So Emissions it was. Set up a couple of years ago to replace the much lauded Sabres Of Paradise, Emissions was launched with minimal publicity to an unsuspecting record buying pub-lic, most of whom didn’t even realise who was behind it. “I was getting anxious because people were judging me on my history, not on the strength of my music,” says Weatherall, looking rather smart in spanking new Levis, and animated as ever on the company sofa. “It took some people
