Ratatat

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• Germany To Germany

Artist Biography

Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo: guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer driver and producer Evan 'E*Vax' Mast.

Stroud and Mast originally met as students at Skidmore College, but did not work together musically until 2001, when their project was named Cherry (later the name of the final song in their debut album). Written and recorded in the bedroom of Mast's Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment, the band's debut album Ratatat for XL Recordings was released in 2004. This album is entirely instrumental, except for excerpts of dialogue at the ends of some tracks. Ratatat has toured with bands such as Interpol, Clinic, Junior Boys, The Killers and The Faint.

Ratatat have been known to remix other artists' songs, most notably on their limited 2004 release Ratatat Mixtape Vol. 1, which garnered the attention of Rolling Stone. In 2005, the band remixed a track for Swedish band Shout Out Louds and We Share Our Mothers Health.

In August 2006, Ratatat released a second album Classics, from which the single Wildcat was taken.

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Artist Discography

Albums

Classics (2006-08-22)
Ratatat (2004-04-19)

Singles

Germany to Germany (2004-10-04)
Lex (2006-10-24)
Loud Pipes (2007)
Seventeen Years (2003-11-25)
Wildcat (2006-07-25)

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