Drummond and Cauty learned a lot about producing music from Pete Waterman as well.
It's certainly Waterman's opinion.
Specifically it was supposedly during the recording of Brilliant's only album with SAW in 1986. The band included Cauty and Martin 'Youth' Glover (ex-Killing Joke bassist, who also went on to be a successful producer and was part of the original Orb lineup with Cauty and Paterson) and Drummond was their A&R man at WEA. The album was a flop, only reaching number 83 in the charts..
Drummond's view of the experience was a bit more circumspect:
I signed a band called Brilliant, who I worked with, we worked together, and it was complete failure. Artistically bankrupt project. And financially deaf. We spent £300,000 on making an album that was useless. Useless artistically, useless commercially.
As The KLF they accurately parodied the then-current SAW style on 1989's
Kylie Said To Jason, which was also a flop and led to the original version of The White Room (and the accompanying film) being scrapped.
One of thYe Chemical Brothers basically does fuck all production wise these days and gets paid much less because of it.
Ed Simons basically became a part time member and stopped touring in 2014, as he wanted to concentrate on an academic career. Tom Rowlands has diversified into being a successful producer for other artists as well as doing most of the Chemical Brothers' heavy lifting