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The new post of today is about RATATAT!
Formed by guitarist Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast (AKA E*vax) who met at Skidmore College the band formed during the first years of 2000.
Their first album "Ratatat" was released in 2004, a deep mixture of electronic music and rock, entirely instrumental except for some vocal excerpts which they define spoken interlude.
The most well known song on the album is "Seventeen Years". It was featured in a television advertisement titled "Accessorize" for the Hummer H2 in 2004 on the British television show Soccer AM as the original background music for "The Crossbar Challenge" segment, also in Level One Productions's ski movie "Shanghai Six".
In the same year the band released "Ratatar Remixes Vol.1" a collection of remixes made by the duo to a list of original songs played by American Hip Hop artists. This volume garnered the attention of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Second album came in 2006 and was titled "Classics" from which three singles were extracted: "Lex", "Wildcat", and "Loud Pipes". Few months later, in 2007 the band released the second volume of "Ratatat Remixes" titled in fact "Ratatat Remixes Vol. 2", 14 tracks full of electronic indie sounds backing famous Hip Hop artists' rhymes. Like the first volume, the second reached a good success among the scenes both Hip Hop and Electronic one.
Third album came in 2008, simply titles "LP3". Unlike the first two albums, this one was recorded just in a few weeks. Here the band experimented different genres using percussions, synthesizer patches, sound effects, and samples.Ratatat is as much prolific on production as on live shows, having been touring top cities in USA and Europe. Their shows are a mix of light shows, swirling colors, and movie clips that get projected onto a screen. Evan Mast is the creator and the editor of those videos. A peculiarity of their concerts is that cameras are usually not allowed inside.In 2009 Ratatat contributed on two songs of the debut album "Man on the Moon: The End of Day" by Kid Cudi. The two songs are entitled "Alive" and "Pursuit of Happiness" (featuring MGMT).One year later, on June 8 2010 Ratatat released "LP4" fourth band's album. In an interview the band stated most songs were concepted during the recording of the previous album "LP3".In this new album many new instruments were used, changing slightly the band's sound never appearing though "completely different".Three music videos were produced for the tracks "Drugs", "Mahalo", and "Neckbrace".
My personal opinion on this band is that they are an extremely interesting act of the industry, for their artistic side that combines sounds and videos in a perfect mix that often makes the viewer reflecting, and for the innovation in style, not only because they can easily approach different genres and artists, but also for the freshness and the attraction power of their live concerts.
Welcome back to PlaySnack! Music 2 Eat.
The new post of today is about RATATAT!
Formed by guitarist Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast (AKA E*vax) who met at Skidmore College the band formed during the first years of 2000.
Their first album "Ratatat" was released in 2004, a deep mixture of electronic music and rock, entirely instrumental except for some vocal excerpts which they define spoken interlude.
The most well known song on the album is "Seventeen Years". It was featured in a television advertisement titled "Accessorize" for the Hummer H2 in 2004 on the British television show Soccer AM as the original background music for "The Crossbar Challenge" segment, also in Level One Productions's ski movie "Shanghai Six".
In the same year the band released "Ratatar Remixes Vol.1" a collection of remixes made by the duo to a list of original songs played by American Hip Hop artists. This volume garnered the attention of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Second album came in 2006 and was titled "Classics" from which three singles were extracted: "Lex", "Wildcat", and "Loud Pipes". Few months later, in 2007 the band released the second volume of "Ratatat Remixes" titled in fact "Ratatat Remixes Vol. 2", 14 tracks full of electronic indie sounds backing famous Hip Hop artists' rhymes. Like the first volume, the second reached a good success among the scenes both Hip Hop and Electronic one.
Third album came in 2008, simply titles "LP3". Unlike the first two albums, this one was recorded just in a few weeks. Here the band experimented different genres using percussions, synthesizer patches, sound effects, and samples.Ratatat is as much prolific on production as on live shows, having been touring top cities in USA and Europe. Their shows are a mix of light shows, swirling colors, and movie clips that get projected onto a screen. Evan Mast is the creator and the editor of those videos. A peculiarity of their concerts is that cameras are usually not allowed inside.In 2009 Ratatat contributed on two songs of the debut album "Man on the Moon: The End of Day" by Kid Cudi. The two songs are entitled "Alive" and "Pursuit of Happiness" (featuring MGMT).One year later, on June 8 2010 Ratatat released "LP4" fourth band's album. In an interview the band stated most songs were concepted during the recording of the previous album "LP3".In this new album many new instruments were used, changing slightly the band's sound never appearing though "completely different".Three music videos were produced for the tracks "Drugs", "Mahalo", and "Neckbrace".
My personal opinion on this band is that they are an extremely interesting act of the industry, for their artistic side that combines sounds and videos in a perfect mix that often makes the viewer reflecting, and for the innovation in style, not only because they can easily approach different genres and artists, but also for the freshness and the attraction power of their live concerts.
I chose to post three videos, the first is "Drugs" from LP4, the second is "Shempi" from LP3, and the third is a recording of one live concert (Bonnaroo 2011).
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For info visit:
http://www.ratatatmusic.com
http://www.facebook.com/RATATAT
http://www.youtube.com/user/ratatatmusic
jules
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