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Laurent Ganier Goes Back to Dancefloor for Innervisions |
Contributed By: HellBeat Hero
Created On: Wednesday, 23 April 2008
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 Laurent Ganier
The story of the A-side, Back To My Roots, is thus: on the evening of Friday 29th February, Garnier was busily rocking Berlin's Panorama Bar to its very foundations. So far, so good, but at 5am the Frenchman still hadn't had enough, so he continued playing for another three hours.
It was then that Garnier pulled out a very special track indeed. So special in fact that, before he knew it, Dixon (who had been poised to takeover DJ duties at 5am) wanted to release it on his Innervisions imprint, in a spectacular meeting of the old school and the new electronic underground.
'During that time I played the demo mix of the Back To My Roots track, which I'd made that week (the B side wasn't even made),' Garnier explains, 'Dixon jumped on me to ask what it was. He said that he loved the sound of it and asked me what I wanted to do with it, mentioning that he would really like to release it on Innervisions.'
Dixon comments on this coup, 'When Laurent played 'Back To My Roots' at Panorama, I immediately had the feeling that I was listening to a classic. It's a very unique timeless production. Not hip, not modern, not "old school". It is also a 12-minute journey that is worth playing for that long. We were very happy that Laurent told me straight away in the club that he would be cool with releasing this EP on our label… and let's not forget about THAT B-side.'
Garnier takes up the tale, 'I went back home on the Monday and worked straight away on another track, which I named "Panoramix" (a tribute to that night at Panorama). I sent a very rough demo to Dixon via download and received a text five minutes later saying that he wanted it. It happened really fast without me having any plans at all.'
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