Mixing dub with techno gets more popular by the day. Following the noisy and repetetive basslines of the Basic Channel gang and the minimal click/pop-rhythms of Pole, more and more albums with clear dub influences keep cropping up. Tennis is a collaboration between englishmen Benge and Si{cut}.db, and as such they choose a markedly less minimal route than the previously mentioned artists. They often use rhythms with a grainy, sandy feel, and they have a penchant for squeaking and creaking sounds. I feel Tennis has done a good job with the dub elements of the record, but the other sounds can often get irritating and they are given too much room, whereupon that laid back feeling that I like about dub records more or less goes missing.
