Dengue Fever’s increasingly notable role as a flashpoint band for myriad styles — starting with but less and less limited to re-creating 1960s Cambodian fuzz-pop smashes — gets a logical summary with Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, part career overview and part documentary of the sounds and styles which originally[…]
The band Dengue Fever have managed to build a career out of their obsession with Cambodian pop music of the 1960s and ’70s, and with this compilation, they’ve generously allowed fans to sample their treasure trove of rare recordings, rescued from battered cassettes brought back from visits to Southeast Asia.[…]
* “Mr. Bubbles” and “Durian Dowry” available on digital and CD releases. † “Genjer Genjer” appears on the LP release only. ‡ “The Province” is a digital only bonus track. With such a melting pot of styles, ideas, and sounds, it’s perhaps inevitable that ‘Cannibal Courtship’, their fourth and most[…]
In 2009, Real World Records approached Dengue Fever to record an albums worth of material for the high-end audio manufacturer Bowers and Wilkins’ music subscription service “Society of Sound”. The band recorded “The Province” for the first time, four newly arranged tracks of previously released material, and five tracks recorded[…]
On December 3, 2013, DENGUE FEVER released the first batch of new music on their homegrown TUK TUK Records label. “Girl From the North” features three brand new tracks, including the first single, “Taxi Dancer”. “We’re doing an EP this time around,” drummer Paul Smith explains, “we feel like its[…]
The Deepest Lake finds Dengue Fever expanding their trademark psych/surf/Cambodian pop sound with African percussion, vocals that would make Exene and John Doe proud, sweeping melodies and extended psychedelic jams of songs that often time out after five or six minutes. The band made a conscious decision to head into[…]
Digital single for Track 1 off of The Deepest Lake, featuring a new psycho-tropical remix of album track “Ghost Voice” from Yukicito, and unreleased track “Old Torn Clothes.” Watch the official music video for Tokay below!
Available in Record Stores November 25! This limited edition vinyl Record Store Day release includes covers we recorded of Korean psych classic “Ganadaramaba” and a new version of Dengue Fever’s “Integratron” performed by a collaboration of both Goonam and Dengue Fever. The vinyl includes a digital download card with a[…]
DENGUE FEVER’s first Digi EP, containing previews of songs that would appear on Escape From Dragon House and a remix of “Lost in Laos”.