Ratatat (album)
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Ratatat is Ratatat
's 2004 self-titled debut album
. It was recorded between July 2001 and May 2003 in Mast's Crown Heights
, Brooklyn
apartment and mixed in June 2003 before its release in 2004.
The album is essentially instrumental
, although it has occasional voice excerpts (referred to in the liner notes as "spoken interludes") by local MC and rapper Young Churf. The track "Spanish Armada" contains a French horn played by Michal Emanovsky. Other tracks of note are "Germany to Germany", later released as a single; and "Cherry", a homage to Ratatat's original name.
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; and in Level One Productions's ski movie Shanghai Six.
It was also played during Rob's party in the 2008 monster movie Cloverfield
. The song "Bustelo" was used in several Jaguar
commercials in mid-2006.
Ratatat
Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast .-History:Evan Mast and Mike Stroud first met as students at Skidmore College, but they did not work together until 2001, when they recorded several songs under the name "Cherry"...
's 2004 self-titled debut album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
. It was recorded between July 2001 and May 2003 in Mast's Crown Heights
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The main thoroughfare through this neighborhood is Eastern Parkway, a tree-lined boulevard designed by Frederick Law Olmsted extending two miles east-west.Originally, the area was known as Crow Hill....
, Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
apartment and mixed in June 2003 before its release in 2004.
The album is essentially instrumental
Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
, although it has occasional voice excerpts (referred to in the liner notes as "spoken interludes") by local MC and rapper Young Churf. The track "Spanish Armada" contains a French horn played by Michal Emanovsky. Other tracks of note are "Germany to Germany", later released as a single; and "Cherry", a homage to Ratatat's original name.
The most well known song on the album is "Seventeen Years". It was featured in a television advertisement
Television advertisement
A television advertisement or television commercial, often just commercial, advert, ad, or ad-film – is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization that conveys a message, typically one intended to market a product...
titled "Accessorize" for the Hummer H2
Hummer H2
The Hummer H2 is an SUV and SUT that was marketed by General Motors under the Hummer brand. It is a large truck , while longer, heavier , and taller with room for six passengers , seven passengers in some models. The rearmost part of the H2 SUV was modified to a pickup truck bed for the 2005 H2 SUT...
in 2004 on the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
television show Soccer AM
Soccer AM
Soccer AM is a British Saturday-morning football-based comedy/talk show, predominantly based around the Premier League...
as the original background music for The Crossbar Challenge segment; and in Level One Productions's ski movie Shanghai Six.
It was also played during Rob's party in the 2008 monster movie Cloverfield
Cloverfield
Cloverfield is a 2008 American disaster-monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.The film follows six young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city...
. The song "Bustelo" was used in several Jaguar
Jaguar (car)
Jaguar Cars Ltd, known simply as Jaguar , is a British luxury car manufacturer, headquartered in Whitley, Coventry, England. It is part of the Jaguar Land Rover business, a subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors....
commercials in mid-2006.
Track listing
- "Seventeen YearsSeventeen Years"Seventeen Years" is a song by Ratatat and is their first release as a band. It was first released in the USA on the independent record label Rex Records in 2003, before being later released in the UK by Audio Dregs, a label run by band member Evan Mast and his brother, E*Rock.The track is...
" - 4:26 - "El Pico" - 4:41
- "Crips" - 3:47
- "Desert Eagle" - 4:25
- "Everest" - 4:10
- "Bustelo" - 2:27
- "Breaking Away" - 4:19
- "Lapland" - 4:56
- "Germany to Germany" - 3:38
- "Spanish Armada" - 2:58
- "Cherry" - 5:58