RED ANTENNA . . sep 02

(Web Magazine / New York / US)

Dubblestandart - "Streets Of Dub" (Select Cuts)

Like fellow Viennese dub fanatics Sofa Surfers, the Dubblestandart collective know how to rock a reverbed riddim without having to revert to cliche. It's done in the most unusual ways, though, by injecting sounds not often played with in most contemporary urban dub, such as rock (check the chugging guitar and pounding drums on "Airbus Dub") old-school electro/hip hop ("Return From Planet Egalica"), or sensual trip-hop (the slow motion tumbling of "Night Dub"). It's all done well, sometimes by the numbers (along with the Mad Professor and Rootsman remixes, just to keep it up to code), but it's just difficult is discern it from the next five or ten Select Cuts releases - diehard fans of modern dub, though, will certainly not leave "Streets Of Dub" disappointed. - Jason Olariu