‘Going Back To My Roots’ gets remixed on Subliminal Records

‘Going Back To My Roots’ gets remixed on Subliminal Records

27 May, 2008 | 12.29PM

• Written by: Lewis Dene
• Filed under: Music News: lamont dozier, subliminal records

‘Going Back To My Roots’, Lamont Dozier’s socio-political track was inspired in the ‘70s by the apartheid regime’s treatment of Africans in South Africa. 

It is a perennial favourite to the club fraternity, although I’m betting few know the roots to the song.

(See, it’s an education reading my blogs!)

Back to the subject at hand, ‘Going Back To My Roots’ has been covered in a variety of styles over the last three decades, with perhaps Odyssey and the FPI Project’s crossover versions the best known (although Richie Havens and Linda Clifford’s version ain’t chopped liver!).

In a new twist, Subliminal Records and Germany’s Denis the Menace & Big World deliver their own superlative version featuring a Bob Marley sound-alike in newcomer Inusa Dawuda [pictured].

It’s certainly different, and doesn’t adhere at all to the “subliminal sound”—whatever that may be these days—and yet it maintains a certain amount of charm and nostalgia.

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