Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer driver and producer Evan Mast. History Mike Stroud and Evan Mast first met as Skidmore College students, but they did not work together until they recorded "Cherry" in 2001, a track that later would complete their debut album. The name Ratatat comes from an experience in which Mike saw eight rats tap dancing while high on LSD. Their 2004 debut, Ratatat was written and recorded in Mast's Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment on Stroud's PowerBook. This album is entirely instrumental, except for occasional excerpts of dialog at the beginning and end of some tracks. While touring in 2006, they added a third member, Jacob Morris, on keyboard. Morris is rarely pictured in media photos of the band. The group started out on the independent label Rex Records, on which they released their first single, Seventeen Y

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