Ratatat

Ratatat is a Indietronic band from New York. It consists of guitarist Mike Stroud and Evan Mast producer.

Band History

Mast and Stroud found each other in 2001 and played their first concert under the current band name in September 2003, after having had to take legal reasons the original name "Cherry". Their first single Seventeen Years was published in 2003, first with the label Rex Records as a 12 " vinyl record in the same year Evan Mast founded with his brother Eric -. Below the stage name E * vax and E * rocks - the label Audio Dregs, which in the single November published in 2003, in a second, limited to 1100 copies edition. the first, simply titled Ratatat studio album was released in April 2004, the independent label XL Recordings, from which the single Germany to Germany was coupled out in October 2004.

In August 2004, Evan Mast published as E * vax his first studio album. His producer qualities were also instrumental for the second appeared under the name Ratatat album that Ratatat mixtapes, a remix album on which the duo R'n'B and hip- hop tracks from artists such as Missy Elliott and Kanye West with electronic and guitar sounds enriched.

Since 2004, Ratatat tour the U.S. and Europe and have thereby opening act for bands such as Franz Ferdinand, Tortoise and Interpol played.

In May 2013, it topped with Loud Pipes in the Austrian singles chart, after the mobile operator A1 Telekom Austria has used the song for a commercial.

Discography

Albums

  • Ratatat, April 2004 XL Recordings
  • Ratatat Mixtape Vol 1, 2004
  • Classics, August 2006 XL Recordings
  • Ratatat Mixtape Vol 2, 2007
  • LP3, 2008 XL Recordings
  • LP4, 2010 XL Recordings

Singles

  • Seventeen Years, 2003, Rex Records, Audio Dregs later
  • Germany to Germany, in 2004, XL Recordings
  • Wildcat, 2006 XL Recordings
  • Shiller, 2008 XL Recordings
  • Shempi, 2008 XL Recordings
  • Mirando, 2008 XL Recordings

Swell

  • Heather Phares: Ratatat. Biography. In: Allmusic. Retrieved on January 27, 2011.
  • Ratatat. In: laut.de. Retrieved on January 27, 2011.
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