Love in Motion (song)

"Love in Motion" is the first new material released by the Australian rock synthpop band Icehouse as a 7" vinyl single-only in October 1981 on Regular Records for the Australian market. The band had been known as Flowers until 27 June 1981 after which they changed their name to Icehouse, they had signed to Chrysalis Records and most of Flowers' material was released under the new name into Europe, UK and US markets. "Love in Motion" peaked at #10 on the Australian singles charts. The B-side, "Goodnight, Mr. Matthews" was included on the 1982 album Primitive Man with "Love in Motion" included on the Chrysalis Records US / European versions of the album, the UK 1983 version of the album was re-titled Love in Motion.

Both tracks of the single were written by the Flowers/Icehouse founder and mainstay Iva Davies who recorded the tracks while Icehouse were on tour in London using the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, and produced them with Steve Nye.

In 1992, Icehouse released Masterfile, a compilation album on Massive Records, which included a new version of "Love in Motion", being a duet between Iva Davies and Christina Amphlett (of Divinyls), the duet version was also released as a CD-single. In 1994 an Icehouse remix album Full Circle featured a 6:12 remix of the Amphlett vocal version, retitled 'Slow Motion'.

A 1996 Icehouse compilation was called Love in Motion and released by dIVA / Massive Records.
The Wicked Beat Sound System remix was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.