Some of my collectors friends call me "Sherlock". It's because they know, if they have something to investigate about a record, I will do everything possible to get the needed informations. Most of time these "riddles" don't concern my own stuff but sometimes they do. And this time I didn't even had any ambition to do an investigation. I just only wanted to buy a very special record, but this time the "riddle" just came to me by itself. And here is the story about that record, the legendary 2000 Wall Of Sound "We Love You... So Love Us" Amour 1 LP:

In the year 2020 I purchased this record via Discogs from a second hand dealer based in Brooklyn NYC. When the record arrived I noticed that the innersleeve was kind of wobbly and additional to that the upper cutting edge looked quite different to comparable copies of this record, wich I found in several autions online. This made me kind of skeptical about the authenticity of this record, even though I never heard of any bootleg pressed from this record. So I put it on my turntable to check the music and it was fortunately exectly the expected content. Every single track was similar to the tracklist of the legit copy. 

Next I checked the runouts and I found the following etches (and stamp): 
[Mastered by Trutone (stamped)] [PA -7-00   AMOUR WLY -000 (the WLY 0000 portion was crossed out) 1- A/B (etched)]  
As I didn’t had any info of the “original” runouts I tried to find out what Trutone is and I found out that Trutone Mastering Lab is a renowned Mastering Engineer Lab in 
Brookly NYC. Further the runouts even lead me to the person who has matered this record, ‘cause the initials “PA” were used by a guy named Phil Austin. Phil Austin is 
a legend in Mastering. He has mastered and cutted records for iconic artists like: Rod Steward, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and later on Thievery Corparation, Groove Armada and thousands more. The runouts even gave me the info when this record was cutted. Phil used to etch the dates of cutting behind his initials and this was 7-00 in my case. So this was cutted in July 2000, wich perfectly fits to the release date 
of the (only) known UK Version of this record. But the difference was, that Wall Of Sound as far as I know normally comissioned UK-mastering labs to cut and press their releases. 
I asked a friend of mine, who owns one of the legit UK-copies to check his runouts. It is: [AMOUR 1 LP – 1B (etched)] only on one side and nothing on the other. This was the final evidence, that my record was a different version of this edition. 

I further checked the Barcode on the rear cover. While the Barcode on the UK version is: 5028589011519, the Barcode on mine was absolutely different: 6 98650 30021 4. 
I found out that the Code on my record was a UPC-A(12) Barcode, wich was mainly used in the United States. There is also a Company Prefix coded in the Barcode, wich is: 
698650. It turned out that this code is the explicit Company Code for “Bad Magic” Records wich was a daughter of Wall Of Sound and released some of their stuff in USA for example the Blak Twang records.  

With this kowledge I contacted Trutone Mastering Labs in NY and fortunately the guy who answered me, was Carl Rowatti, founder and still chief engineer of Trutone Mastering. 
He confirmed to me, that this copy was cutted by Trutone and also confirmed, that the engineer who was responible was Phil Austin. Unfortunately he told me, 
that it’s not possible anymore to contact Phil himself, as he has passed away some years ago. 
I’m pretty sure now, that my record undoubly is a second press of this legendary record, presumed produced for distribution in the United States. But it would be great to get the confirmation about this release from a person who was directly involved in it. Maybe this person even remembers, why this pressing took place in NYC and how many copies were pressed. The only imaginable persons who can answer this question to me I guess are Marc Lessner or Mark Jones the founders of Wall Of Sound. 
I tried to find out, if there is any possibility to contact One of the responsable Mark/Marc. I noticed, that Marc Lessner is now involved in the "Modcast" Team of Eddie Piller. So I tried to contact Eddie Piller several times to ask if he might forward my message to Marc Lessner. Unfortunately I've never received any answer. So, my hope to get any info of how many copies were pressed in US will not be satisfied. 

My next step is now to list this different release of this "We Love You... So Love Us" 12" in Discogs. It will be interesting, if there are other collectors, who own this copy and not the UK version. So, keep an eye on that "new" Discogs listing!
 
Another intereting fact of this issue is: The record cover shows the famous Banksy’s “Flower Thrower” and it was printed in the US in 2000. I haven’t found any other 
commercial, athorized print edition of a Banksy Artwork outside UK in this year or earlier. So, it could be, that this was at least the very first authorized edition print 
of a Banksy artwork outside UK, wich would be at least kind of spectacular.