Ratatat's founders, Mike "Snake" Stroud and Evan ''E*Vax" Mast, have been making music out of a Crown Heights apartment in Brooklyn since 2001; their sound born of a combined love of Jay-Z, The Rolling Stones, Timbaland and Beethoven.
Mike is one of New York's best guitarists and has spent his time touring the world with Ben Kweller and Dashboard Confessional. Evan has been producing music as E*vax for the past few years, releasing most of his output on Audio Dregs Records the label run by him and his brother E*Rock.
Now back in their bedroom studio, the Ratatat pair made a sing-along record (their self-titled debut album) just without words - while dance music is trying to re-invent itself and rock is returning to it's roots, Ratatat seem to make a happy mess in both fields. As well as touring with the likes of The Killers, they also made an incredible mixtape of putting hip-hop a capellas to new and old Ratatat music.
(Biography by XL Recordings)
