TUK TUK Catalog

Ganadaramaba

© 2016 TUK TUK Records

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 bonus track for download. The Record Store Day pressing is limited to 500 copies. Only available in stores on 140gm orange vinyl! These tracks are not available for streaming or standalone download. Made in the USA.

Tokay (Single)

© 2015 TUK TUK Records

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.”

The Deepest Lake

© 2015 TUK TUK Records

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 the studio looking to expand their sound while also following their instincts to explore jams that came out of demos recorded in their home studio where the album was produced entirely by the band themselves. The result is sound that showcases their musically adventurous side while still remaining faithful to the bands otherworldly sound.

Girl From the North (EP)

© 2013 TUK TUK Records

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 a format that gives us room to play and think of songs in smaller chunks."

Girl From the North has three new songs: "Taxi Dancer", "Deepest Lake on the Planet", and the title track, "Girl From the North".

Venus on Earth (Deluxe Edition)

© 2013 TUK TUK Records

Three albums in the novelty has worn off, but Dengue Fever has smartly chosen to keep evolving. Venus on Earth is at once the band's most accessible and most varied release. A recap: when first heard from in 2003 on their self-titled debut, Dengue Fever was like no other band, fronted by a Cambodian-born woman, Chhom Nimol, who paid homage to that Asian nation's pre-Pol Pot cheesy psychedelic-cum-lounge-surf-garage pop sound of the '60s/early '70s. For Venus on Earth, the mainstream beckons, or comes as close to beckoning as it's ever going to for a band as non-mainstream as Dengue Fever. Nimol's vocals are as beguiling as ever, Ethan Holtzman's Farfisa organ still swirls, Zac Holtzman's guitars still chime and chunk, and Paul Dreux Smith's drums clang happily along. With horns provided by David Ralicke and bass from Senon Gaius Williams, Dengue Fever has softened some of the rougher edges, injected some serious soul, and added more swing to their thing. "Oceans of Venus" could be an outtake from the first B-52's album, "Clipped Wings" a lost Blondie tune, and "Woman in the Shoes" is just one of the most cuddly pop songs in ages. The groovelicious Nimol-Zac Holtzman duet "Tiger Phone Card," a tale of a long distance Phnom Penh-NYC romance, is the pop smash Yoko Ono might have had in an alternate universe. Drenched in reverb, soaked in sweat, marinated in some phantom historical moment yet tethered to the now, Dengue Fever is more innovative and resourceful than 99-percent of the bands that receive 99 times the publicity. Source: AllMusic

In the Ley Lines

© 2013 TUK TUK Records

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 live at Real World Studios in front of a live audience, introduced from the stage by Peter Gabriel.

In the Ley Lines gives fans a chance to hear DENGUE FEVER like never before. The quality of the recordings is cleaner, crisper, and contains the only studio version of "Doo Wop (Today I Learnt to Drink)", plus live versions of fan favorites "Sober Driver", "New Years Eve", and a rocking six-and-a-half minute live performance of "One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula."

Also included: “Mr. Orange”, “Tiger Phone Card”, “The Province”, “Hold My Hips”, “Seeing Hands”, and “Pow Pow”. The band is releasing In the Ley Lines commercially for the first time under their new TUK TUK Records label. DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY.

Venus on Earth (CD)

© 2013 TUK TUK Records

Three albums in the novelty has worn off, but Dengue Fever has smartly chosen to keep evolving. Venus on Earth is at once the band's most accessible and most varied release. A recap: when first heard from in 2003 on their self-titled debut, Dengue Fever was like no other band, fronted by a Cambodian-born woman, Chhom Nimol, who paid homage to that Asian nation's pre-Pol Pot cheesy psychedelic-cum-lounge-surf-garage pop sound of the '60s/early '70s. For Venus on Earth, the mainstream beckons, or comes as close to beckoning as it's ever going to for a band as non-mainstream as Dengue Fever. Nimol's vocals are as beguiling as ever, Ethan Holtzman's Farfisa organ still swirls, Zac Holtzman's guitars still chime and chunk, and Paul Dreux Smith's drums clang happily along. With horns provided by David Ralicke and bass from Senon Gaius Williams, Dengue Fever has softened some of the rougher edges, injected some serious soul, and added more swing to their thing. "Oceans of Venus" could be an outtake from the first B-52's album, "Clipped Wings" a lost Blondie tune, and "Woman in the Shoes" is just one of the most cuddly pop songs in ages. The groovelicious Nimol-Zac Holtzman duet "Tiger Phone Card," a tale of a long distance Phnom Penh-NYC romance, is the pop smash Yoko Ono might have had in an alternate universe. Drenched in reverb, soaked in sweat, marinated in some phantom historical moment yet tethered to the now, Dengue Fever is more innovative and resourceful than 99-percent of the bands that receive 99 times the publicity. Source: AllMusic

Escape From Dragon House (Deluxe Edition)

© 2012 TUK TUK Records

DENGUE FEVER's debut album was all covers of the cute, romantic Cambodian pop of the 1960s. Having gotten that out of their systems, they've followed it with an album of original material that shatters the language barrier with mildly psychedelic, blissed out pop. On "Tip My Canoe", Zac Holtzman takes a stab at singing in Khmer, laying those long, mellifluous syllables over a tweaky vamp, as Nimol uses her imposing pipes to trace accents so dynamic that they sound almost vocodered as she leaps around her impressive range. "Sni Bong" channels Dick Dale through its verses and explodes into crunchy garage rock choruses, with a-- wait for it-- Cambodian rap bridge. "One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula" pairs sun-baked spaghetti western guitars with Nimol's clipped, forceful singing, and acoustic ballad "Hummingbird" closes the album on a quiet note, with Nimol sliding between English and Khmer. If that fact that Dengue Fever's music has been used in films as diverse as Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers and the John Cusack vehicle Must Love Dogs isn't proof enough of its potent versatility, then the ease and unity with which the band conflates idioms should be. The Deluxe Reissue contains 4 bonus tracks not availble on the original release. Source: Pitchfork.com

Dengue Fever (Deluxe Edition)

© 2012 TUK TUK Records

Fronted by amazing vocalist Chhom Nimol, Dengue Fever has surprisingly universal appeal. Chhom herself is already quite accustomed to seizing the hearts of listeners (including the King and Queen of Cambodia), as she comes from a family best considered as a Cambodia pop music dynasty-- not unlike a Cambodian version of the Jacksons. The rest of the band is no flake-fest either, consisting of Zac Holtzman (Dieselhed) and his brother Ethan on Farfisa organ, Senon Williams (Radar Brothers), David Ralicke (Beck) and seasoned drummer/engineer Paul Smith. Their covers stay remarkably true to the crazy party music spirit of the ’60s- and ’70s-era originals. But there are also original songs, some of which veer off into the darkened corridors of lost love and ghostly noir romanticism, dissolving sometimes into spaces of genuine bleakness and tragedy — all in the Khmer tongue. Far from mere novelty or cheap Orientophile thrill, Dengue Fever keeps listeners on their toes, dancing to their way-out tones. The Deluxe Reissue contains 5 bonus tracks not availble on the original release. Source: Web of Mimicry