Dubblestandart
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![]() Dubblestandart with Lee "Scratch" Perry ( Popfest 2015) |
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General information | |
origin | Vienna , Austria |
Genre (s) | You b |
founding | 1990 |
Website | www.dubblestandart.com |
Current occupation | |
guitar |
Herb Pirker |
Vocals, bass |
Paul Zasky |
Drums |
Ali Tersch |
Keyboard, programming |
Robbie East |
Dubblestandart is a dub band from Vienna that has been around band leader Paul Zasky since 1988. The band is known for their live sets, which they refer to as Hi-Energy Dub or 21st Century Dub. They have played many concerts in Europe , Canada and the United States since the mid-1990s . In addition to their activity as a live band or backing band for Lee Scratch Perry , Ariup , Dillinger or Lilien Allen, they have so far released eleven studio albums , a range of 12-inch or maxi-CD recordings and various remixes for Waldeck or ElodieO. Their most successful album to date is Return From Planet Dub, which was released in 2009 and was produced with Lee Scratch Perry and Ariup.
Dubblestandart has collaborated with a number of well-known international singers, musicians and producers on the previous releases. These include Sly & Robbie , Mad Professor , Lee Scratch Perry, Ariup, Dillinger, Sounds From The Ground, Dreadzone, The Rootsman , Manasseh, Keith LeBlanc , Mark Stewart , Supermax , Subatomic Sound System, Jahdaan Blackamore, Doctor Marshall, Ken Boothe , Devon Denton, Topcat, Mikey Dread , Dub Syndicate ao
On the album Return From Planet Dub, film director David Lynch is also represented as a guest vocalist on the number Chrome Optimism, which is a dub- reggae adaptation of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygen Part 4.
Together with Lee Scratch Perry and Ariup they gave a concert at the Centralpark Summerstage in New York City in 2009, which marked a high point of their careers. Dubblestandart first worked with Lee Scratch Perry in 1992. This was followed by an excursion in the more pop-oriented direction in the early 1990s with the album Egalica, released on the then very well-known Austrian label GiG Records . The album, released by Gig Records, reached two top ten placements in the Austro Top 40 of 1994/95.
Dubblestandart was discovered in 1992 by music journalist Walter Gröbchen when they won the DJ competition of the only independent music broadcast on the Austrian popular radio station Ö3 at the time, Musicbox . The excursion into the popular subject and the Austrian mainstream lasted only a short time, however, and Dubblestandart returned to their original style, dub music, in 1996.
In 2010 the twelfth album Marijuana Dreams was released on the German label Collision Records / Echo Beach. It contains reworks and unreleased versions of Dubblestandart songs with guest vocalists such as William S. Burroughs , Anthony B , Lee Scratch Perry, Elephant Man and Gudrun Liemberger .
Discography (selection)
Albums
- Feel the Balance (1992; Rebel Radio)
- Egalica (1995; Gig Records )
- Vienna Dub Melange (1996; Swound Park Products)
- Vibes of this Reality (1997; Geco Pottery )
- Revivals & Sellouts (1999; Geco Pottery)
- Streets of Dub (2002; Select Cuts)
- Heavy Heavy Monster Dub (2004; Echo Beach)
- Are you Experienced ( 2006; Collision: Cause Of Chapter 3)
- Immigration Dub ( 2007; Collision: Cause Of Chapter 3)
- Marijuana Dreams ( 2010; Collision: Cause Of Chapter 3)
- Woman in Dub (2013; Collision: Cause Of Chapter 3)
- In Dub ( 2014; Echo Beach)
- Nu School of Planet Dub (2014; Echo Beach)
- Dub Realistic (2016; Echo Beach)
Singles and EPs
- Front of Enemies ( 1991)
- Sound Is in the Air ( 1995; Gig Records)
- Music Is the Only Drug ( 1997)
- Playerhater ( 2000 and 2001; Fabrique Records )
- 10 Tons of Dope ( 2002; Select Cuts)
- Kung Fu Fighting (2004; Select Cuts)
- Heavy Heavy Monster (2005)
- Everything Is Go (2006)
- When I Fall in Love / Island Girl (2007; Collision: Cause Of Chapter 3)
- Chase the Devil - Dubstep (2009; Elephant House Recordings)
- Blackboard Jungle Dub - Dubstep (2009; Subatomic Sound)
- Chrome Optimism - Dubstep (2010; Subatomic Sound)
- Dubstep (2010; Collision: Cause Of Chapter 3)
- Dem Can't Stop We Form (2011; Subatomic Sound)
compilation
- Return from Planet Dub (2009; Collision: Cause Of Chapter 3)
- King Size Dub Special (2015; Echo Beach)
Web links
- Official website
- Interview with Paul Zasky on the band's 20th anniversary
- Dubblestandart at Discogs (English)
- Dubblestandart at Allmusic (English)