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Venus on Earth | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dengue Fever
Label: M80
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $11.34
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 3737
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 101
UPC: 723721330354
EAN: 0723721330354
ASIN: B00114XM36
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Seeing Hands | | • | Clipped Wings | | • | Tiger Phone Card | | • | Woman in the Shoes | | • | Sober Driver | | • | Monsoon of Perfume | | • | Integratron | | • | Oceans of Venus | | • | Laugh Track | | • | Tooth and Nail | | • | Mr. Orange |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
At last, Dengue Fever has made an album that quite nearly matches their incredible live performances. The group began at least as a tribute to the playful yet heavy psychedelic pop scene that flourished in Cambodia before Pol Pot came to power and silenced countless suspected dissidents in that country's infamous killing fields in the mid-1970s. Like the Cambodian pop music that so enamored them, Dengue Fever began by revitalizing strong elements of '60s surf and garage rock in their sound. Over time, they've expanded their influences to Ethiopian funk and modern dance-rock. Once a multi-culti California band with a Cambodian-born singer paying homage to the past, Dengue Fever now plays original, swirling, psychedelic pop. With Western audiences ever more open to hybrid sounds, it will be a huge surprise if Venus on Earth doesn't allow Dengue Fever to quit their day jobs for good, especially after the film about their trip to Cambodia, Sleepwalking through the Mekong, hits the festival circuit in 2008. --Mike McGonigal
Album Description
"A unique and surprisingly danceable group that combines a beautiful Khmer-language vocalist from Cambodia and a quintet of seasoned locals with a knack for mixing Southeast Asian pop, Vietnam-war-era lounge music, klezmer, ska, surf rock, and Ethiopian jazz." -- SPIN psychedelic. They are world music. They are anything but mainstream. There is virtually no other band in the world playing "Khmer Rock," the style of 1960s Cambodian rock derived from Armed Forces Radio in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Sophomore album Venus On Earth features eleven original songs that expand on the band's sound but will please hardcore fans of both the group and the genre. There is no other band like Dengue Fever, which garners fans in everyone from indie kids to well-heeled world music consumers.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 chills and dengue fever December 16, 2008
This album uses many, many influences but most notably old school r'n'b and eastern rythms. They remind me a little of The Go Team. Very uptempo with catchy tunes at every twist and turn. Inshort, a mish mash of old influences thrown into a concrete mixer, then regurtitated in a totally refreshing way. buy it now !!!
 Promises, disappoints December 11, 2008
The first track is awesome. Killer vocals and dense, powerful production. After that the songs sound pretty gimicky and all the male vocals are really weak. This band could be great but not here.
 venus on earth by dengue fever September 7, 2008
I happenened to come accross this group on pbs and just liked thier sound.It's as simple as that,I'm hooked on thier music.
A Fresh Sound May 23, 2008
I like all music, and this music is fresh! I heard an interview with the bandleader on PBS, and some cuts were played. The soloist's voice is truly addictive. Add this group to your collection, and you'll enjoy it.
Great stuff April 28, 2008
I can't tell you how fun this band is. The first CD is fun silly pop, the next two are darker and more moody but still have some lively party tunes. Hypnotic, addictive so catchy, you'll be singing in Khmer all day! I will say that the new songs in english take some of the fun out of the whole experience but I haven't been this excited about a band in many years.
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