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With the assistance of Aaron Jasinski, Chris Crookham, Andrew Maury and Karl Kling, Anjos formed RAC as a project designed to revision and reincarnate the songs of many highly esteem indie artists. Having studied piano and guitar in his native Portugal, Anjos moved to the States to study music business at Illinois’ Greenville College. Key to the approach was not to simply add a heavy, monotonous dance beat, but reinvent the songs, as was clear with RAC’s debut remix of the Shins’ “Sleeping Lessons”, which later appeared on the B-side of the band's single.
As a result Anjos earned remix collaborations with Surfer Blood, Foster the People and Bloc Party amongst a whole host of other revered artists and bands. Subsequently, the music blog and website Stereogum released a handful of RAC et al.’s remixes to date, propelling the producer to online stardom. 2012 marked Anjos’ first release of original material with the EP “Nintendo vs. Sega” led by the single “Hollywood”. Following the EP, RAC signed with Cherrytree Records, and released the "Don't Talk To" EP, which again featured “Hollywood” and the additional track “Let Go”.
In 2014 RAC released a pair of full-length albums titled “Strangers Part 1” and unsurprisngly “Strangers Part 2”, featuring collaboration with YACHT, Katie Herzig, Kele & MNDR, Tegan and Sara and Tokyo Police Club among others.
For the longest time, I was not a fan of remixes, so it took me awhile to discover Remix Artist Collective, aka RAC; in fact, I really only became a fan when I heard their original song “Cheap Sunglasses.” Once I heard the song, I decided to check out more of their songs on soundcloud, and then eventually found myself looking for their live shows.
Their shows are about as energetic as their music, they are also leaps and bounds better live than their studio versions. Instead of everything sounding electronic, you have an actual drummer, you have an actual guitarist, and damn does it make for a better sound. I think this partiall has to do with the fact that the songs that they remix already have an electronic track, so adding more live instrumentation just takes the songs to a whole different level. One of their most notable remixes that they did live was Temper Traps’ “Sweet Disposition.” What was really great was that it was like the track was playing and you were witnessing just guys jamming to the track. Essentially, it was a perfect “seemingly unplanned but really was planned” jam session, which really, leaves no room for complaints.
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