Ratatat, I Heart Hiroshima LIVE at The FCC

Ratatat: Guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer player Evan Mast.

The international music scene's presence will be felt in Cambodia in December when The FCC Phnom Penh hosts Brooklyn electronic music duo Ratatat and Brisbane indie-pop juggernaut I Heart Hiroshima.

"The bands are much into new experiences and audiences," says Australian Paul Curtis, the promoter for both bands on the Southeast Asian dates. "They are looking for unexplored territories."

For independent music fans, the announcement of the shows came as a minor shock. In the past, Phnom Penh has seldom played host to such live music hotshots.

For Curtis and the bands, like so many others, a date with Cambodia proved too attractive to refuse.

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