Saw this in the San Francisco Chronicle. I'm gonna try to hnut up some of their stuff: "Psychedelic Cambodian Surf Band Dengue Fever To Visit Bay"
"Psychedelic Cambodian surf music: Those words may seem like a random configuration, but they’re an apt description of the sound of Dengue Fever.
The Los Angeles band was born 12 years ago, when brothers Zac (guitar) and Ethan (keyboards) Holtzman discovered the Cambodian rock music of the ’60s and ’70s. Ethan heard Cambodian pop during a trip to Southeast Asia, while Zac collected cassettes of Cambodian surf music during his tenure at San Francisco’s Aquarius Records. When they assembled a band to play Cambodian rock, they discovered three more Angelenos who had been listening to Cambodian pop — bass player Senon Williams, drummer Paul Smith and horn player David Ralicke.
During a trip to a Cambodian nightclub in Long Beach, they met Chhom Nimol, who’d been a star back home before immigrating to Los Angeles. She joined up, and the band set out to introduce the music they loved to American audiences.
“The Deepest Lake,” the band’s latest album, came out last month on its own Tuk Tuk label. On it, Dengue Fever continues to expand its sound, adding Arab, Latin and African rhythms to its eclectic mashup of Cambodian, Ethiopian and American influences.
“Last year, we spent time on the road with Seun Kuti and Egypt 80,” Williams says. “He’s the son of (Afro-beat pioneer) Fela Kuti. He has guys from his father’s band playing with him. Their groove-heavy music inspired us. We found African rhythms blended well with surf guitar.
“When I first heard Cambodian pop, I noticed the African and Latin influences. Santana was big in Cambodia, so there were timbales and congas on (Cambodian pop) records. When we started working on 'Deepest Lake,’ we brought in our friend Gordon Clay to play percussion — wooden blocks, bongos, tambourines, kitchen pots and pans ... anything he could get his hands on.”
Everyone in the band helped develop ideas for the songs on “Deepest Lake,” with the idea of keeping Nimol’s voice prominent in the mix. “We just set up in the studio and played,” Williams says. “The idea was to be spontaneous and experiment, to break our mold. Zac’s guitar solo on 'Tokay’ uses scales from Indonesian and Molam music, a style from the border of Laos and Thailand.”
When the band began touring, the combination of Nimol’s Khmer vocal ornamentation and the band’s psychedelic indie-rock back beat seemed exotic, but recently, Dengue Fever’s music has been featured in movies and TV shows, including “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “The Hangover Part II.”
“There’s an evolution of consciousness, because the Internet makes everything available to everyone,” Williams says. “I think people are finally catching up with us — not that we were great forward thinkers or anything. We just wanted to have fun.” http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Psy ... to-7449762

To be honest, I find the likes of Dengue Fever and Cambodian Space Project highly overrated. Not sure why every foreigner in town sporting a fedora and big rimmed glasses thinks they're God's gift to humanity. I think their popularity has grown alongside the recent spurt in hipster expats.

I had no clue what type music they played. I've seen their name in club line ups back in SF before though.

there is an old girl next door that was playing stones and moody blues today.
i mean older ( looking) than me. cheery soul.

was waiting for "paint it black"" and colonel kurtz to come out of the bush.

maybe later.

I like that one song by Cambodian Space Project, "Have Visa, No Have Rice" and I like all of Dengue Fever's stuff, though I was actually into Dengue Fever before Cambodia meant a thing to me and just thought it sounded cool. When I started researching coming to Cambodia, I remembered that that band I always loved was partially Khmer!

I think a lot of expats love their music because the earlier CDs are some of the highest quality recording you'll hear of some of the great classics. I'd love if they covered more because as much as I love the 60s surf rock sounds of Cambodia, the recording quality is almost always painful to listen to.

Of course, this won't happen because all their new CDs are just that bearded dude's hipster tunes (still decent, but another CD of classic covers couldn't hurt ).

tonight, she started with carlos santana, now it is some pinoy ballad!

intrigued!

she is late 50's.

met some interesting folks my age here.

oddly, many shared cultural points.

that old music being played in the kampong proves my assertion.

I love Tiger Phone Card.
"You only call me when your drunk."

last night her dogs tried to hide right in my house from the star hell mortar fireworks !

the music was good though!

Just listened to Tiger Phone Card again. Being a child of the '60s in my opinion they have the surf music sound down with a Cambodian twist. There is some interesting '60s Cambodian Rock n' Roll on Youtube and a documentary on the Cambodian music/surf music of the era.