Ratatat are two guys from New York who play laptop-programmed music with a million layers of guitars and synths. It sounds like sleazy, robotic, oom-pah chamber music and makes girls like Kelly Osbourne go weak at the knees. If you took it all apart and got real human beings to play their music it would be like one of those Glenn Branca shows with 87 people playing guitars...
Vice: You guys look a little the worse for wear, if you don't mind me saying.
Evan: Sorry. We played a show at The Astoria last night. It got a little crazy.
Mike: Yeah we played with CSS and then they took us to this place The End - Durr or something? I don't know.
Evan: Can you tell these UK promoters to stop giving us Jack Daniels on our rider, that stuff isn't even whiskey. It's just headache in a bottle. Ugh.
Your music seems highly programmed. Is it not just a case of standing onstage and pressing buttons?
Mike: No not at all. It would be unfeasible to play it all live though. We have a guy called Jacob who plays live keys with us now. And we do live guitars. Lead guitar and lead bass. Live is always exciting - we're not jamming out or anything but the live stuff can influence the studio stuff subsequently.
Evan: Yeah, I wanna make more aggressive stuff now. We could maybe do it live as a special one off show in New York or something. That would be cool. We have video projections we use too.
Would you cry if your laptop got stolen?
Evan: That would be the worst. We'd probably have to give up music.
Who is the average Rattatat fan?
Evan: Her (points at elderly lady sipping tea in the ICA café).
Mike: Seems to be a lot of stoner kids in the US.
So you've gone from playing guitar with Ben Kweller and Dashboard Confessional to remixing Biggie and Young Jeezy. How did that happen?
Mike: The job with Dashboard was just me and it was just that: a job. I was playing in a band on tour with them and they needed a piano player so I took the gig. I did one studio session then Ben poached me. That was more fun but this is what I wanted to do. As soon as we had the opportunity we did this. We met at college and we have been making music together since then.
Evan: The hip hop thing was just something we wanted to do. As well as Queen and this band White Light, I really love Timbaland; his production is a real inspiration. The remix thing is just a logical progression of what we do I think. Labels have begun to come to us. We did a remix for the Television Personalities. That was interesting 'cos I wasn't too familiar with them apart from like "Part Time Punks". We also did a remix of a track by The Knife. That was weird.
Mike: Yeah the girl sent us this super specific e-mail where she was like: "I want it to sound like this one specific Prince track" and spelled out in the e-mail duh duh duh duh duh duh duh. You know? Like how she wanted it to sound. Weird.
Evan: We heard back from Beanie Siegel and Devin saying that they'd heard the remixes and were into it. That's nice.
* Ratatat's new album Classics is out now
Ratatat played at my school, and I guess people got too close to the stage or something, and they up and left. totally ruined a potentially cool show.
Posted by: | 25/04/2007 at 19:32
Ratatat played at my school, and I guess people got too close to the stage or something, and they up and left. totally ruined a potentially cool show.
Posted by: ARS | 25/04/2007 at 19:33
These guys are fucking great.
Posted by: j | 25/04/2007 at 19:37
saw them in nashville two weeks ago-- they are the real shit. very good.
Posted by: a | 25/04/2007 at 20:04
I've been super in love with Ratatat since I heard their first album. I was lucky enough saw them a little bit ago... very good show, I love anybody who projects shit on the walls. Good openers too- Despot and 120 Days. And it was in the tiniest venue ever- some basement at Washington University. These guys are gonna blow up, I guarantee it.
Posted by: merritt | 25/04/2007 at 22:28
These guys play slut music. If you think of the lamest girl you've ever met doing some stupid drunk dance, wearing a tube-top and screaming girls-gone-wild-style, I promise you she wishes she were listening to this music. Fuck these wastoids.
Posted by: Fuckles | 25/04/2007 at 22:29
theyre a bit boring. the new rap stuff is less boring, but then gets boring again.
Posted by: bored | 25/04/2007 at 23:11
ah, couldn't you have tried to do a practice space with them instead?
Posted by: yoyo | 26/04/2007 at 00:42
Merrit.....I am yet to see a girl scream girls gone wild style to chilled out electronica and hence I dont think it is ever going to happen listening to Ratatat. Even their new rap influenced stuff is chill as shit.
Posted by: D | 26/04/2007 at 01:38
Evan is fucking hot, id fuck him. Mike not so much but completely do-able after a few beers.
Posted by: j | 26/04/2007 at 01:45
i want to bone evan
(i'm a girl)
Posted by: ytuuy | 26/04/2007 at 02:13
What was with that girl spraying the champagne all over the place in the CSS dressing room? Sloppy, sloppy.
So when is the new E*Vax album's E.T.A.? I was drunk and forgot...
Posted by: A | 26/04/2007 at 16:44
come on fellas, you're losing your heads. wanted to see what the fuss was, "Everest"-Grandma on the Bon Tempi. "Wildcat"- sacked ex BBC Radiophonic workshop employee. "Breaking Away"- lonely old church organist on his day off. Ratatat are the emperors new clothes.
Posted by: Vince | 27/04/2007 at 00:27
vince has some points.
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