Laurent Garnier - Back To My Roots EP
May 30th, 2008 | By marek in 12" reviews | 4 Comments »Innervisions - IV 16
There’s one obvious choice for you. The Laurent Garnier record has already received enough buzz without me adding to it. However, I have decided to ignore this fact and talk about it anyway. Sue me.
So the story is that Dixon was playing with Laurent Garnier at Panorama Bar and suddenly the man with the red face dropped a track that we now know as “Back To My Roots”. Dixon immediately proposed signing it to Innervisions. “Panoramix” was apparently (see Dixon interview) made the weekend right after they had signed “Back To My Roots”. You could say the man is on a row, considering the number of records he has put out in the recent years (hint: not many).
“Back To My Roots” is sort of a tribalish epic production. What amused me was Dixon’s comment on a message board (Faith Fanzine, I believe it was) about the track being shit for the first 8 minutes. Hell, that’s about as long as your regular track gets. Anyway, if you listen to the track, you can probably see what he meant. If “Back To My Roots” could have just as easily been produced 10 years ago (and that’s a good quality, by the way), “Panoramix” is the more contemporary piece of music on this EP. When I first heard it, I presumed it to be a remix of Sebo K’s “Horizons” and later learned I wasn’t the only one to make that connection. However, it’s also got a clear touch of “The Man With The Red Face”, for nostalgic purposes.
For me, it’s another rock solid Innervisions installment.
A: Back To My Roots (original Afrodiziac mix)
B: Panoramix
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