Ratatat

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2008

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Ratatat are an instrumental music duo whose their album, LP3, was recently released. Their sound combines elements of rock, hip-hop and dance music.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Chad from Phoenix, the Sound of Young America's independent production supported by listeners
0:06.0	like you and me. If you'd like to donate to support the show visit MaximumFun.org and click
0:11.7	on Donate. Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles, I'm Jesse Thorn and this is the Sound of
0:17.5	Young America from MaximumFun.org.
0:47.5	It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guests on the program Mike Stroud and Evan
1:02.4	Mast are the two members of the band duo musical group Ratatat. Their third album LP 3 was just
1:11.7	recently released. Like their previous albums it's a combination of some sweet rock and roll guitar
1:18.3	playing, sometimes programs, sometimes live drums. It's something that if it came out in the period
1:26.0	when the word electronica existed it might be slotted under the word electronica but only because
1:32.8	that was a word that you could just put anything under where any technology was involved in its
1:38.6	creation at all. Gentlemen, welcome to the Sound of Young America. Thanks. Thanks. So Mike you were
1:44.9	touring as a rock and roll guitarist in various bands. Bands is diverse as Ben Queller and according
1:53.6	to the internet Joe Satriani, is that true? Yep. Somebody's been editing their own Wikipedia page.
2:02.4	Evan, you were making kind of quiet electronic music. What did you think you could get out of
2:12.0	collaborating together? What was the new thing that you wanted to do as a duo? When we started
2:18.4	it wasn't really that we were trying to do anything different. It was kind of just like I know
2:23.2	you do music. Let's get together and have fun and make some songs and we weren't like oh let's
2:27.3	start a band and let's do something new. It was just like let's have some fun and so the first few
2:31.7	songs we made were just jokes like really ridiculous broke dance songs. Michael's it true for you
2:38.3	too? Did you always imagine yourself and was the next logical step in your path to? I thought I
2:44.5	was like Stephen Tyler I brought on my scarves. He's pretty sure we're going to be huge. You
2:50.8	ended up having to split your scarves with him because he didn't bring any scars which was really
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