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There's no telling what kind of crowd you can expect at a Ratatat show. Over the course of three albums and two mixtapes, the instrumental duo of Mike Stroud and Evan "E*vax" Mast has cultivated a nebulous musical identity. One minute the pair's carefully playing intertwining prog-rock fugues on its Epiphones over samples of tablas and khamaks ; the next it's kicking into some heavy metal riffage over trunk-thumping club beats. Just who exactly would turn out for a show like that? (Ratatat) [...]