RAC is about to undergo a couple changes. A lot of these are basically how the collective has evolved and it’s about time the outward appearance reflected that. We’ll be launching our brand new site within the next couple of weeks.

RAC Remixes:

It’s been pretty obvious that I (Andre) have been doing most of the remixing lately. Andrew has moved more into engineering/producing/mixing records (Ra Ra Riot, Princeton, Kisses). For the RAC Maury fans out there, no worries. You’ll still see remixes from time to time. But on the whole, I’ll be taking on most of the remixing work.

RAC Production:

As previously mentioned, Andrew has moved more and more into record production. Last summer, he recorded The Static Jacks “Laces” EP, made a trip out to LA with Chris Walla to assist in the recording of Tegan and Sara’s “Sainthood,” mixed The House Floor’s stunningly unique debut album “Warship,” Co-Produced and engineered the highly anticipated forthcoming Ra Ra Riot full length album “The Orchard,” and is currently tracking Princeton’s second album. We’re opening the idea of RAC into production, and Andrew will be involved a lot here.

RAC Media:

This area will focus on TV, advertising, film, gaming. We’ve been doing a ton of this lately and like this it will be much more apparent while having a more dedicated section of the website.

RAC DJ:

We’re bringing in somebody new for this. His name is Karl Kling and he’ll be travelling the world with me to bring our music to the dancefloors. We already DJ’ed in Brazil and we’re gearing up to tour throughout the US and Europe. We’ll do a more formal introduction soon. Book us?

RAC Asia:

This is still very much in an early form, but we’re gonna bring in a couple people to focus on j-pop, k-pop remixes. We’ll definitely announce more on this in the upcoming future.

RAC Records:

A record label is something we’ve wanted to do for years and now is the time to put that in motion. We’re starting a 7” singles label. Free mp3 + 7” vinyl for true fans. We’ll announce our first release very soon. Shhh, it’s a secret for now.

RAC Fashion:

Our art director Akutou is designing a number of tshirts that we’ll have for sale on our site.

In Conclusion:

The initial idea behind RAC was solely tied to remixing and as things have expanded far past what we intended, it’s simply time to readjust. We are still a collective, we still hold the same standards of quality, and we’re still trying to take over the world.

Shoot us an email!

We have somewhat of a history with Bloc Party. It was the very first official remix I ever did, back in 2005. Even before RAC existed. I was a little heartbroken when I found out my favorite band didn’t want to use the mix. I was still learning after all. Fast forward 5 years and now we’re remixing Kele, with a couple other Bloc Party mixes in the middle. (VOL1?)

This song was produced by the amazing Zdar and has such a great hook it was hard to mess up.

Kele – Everything You Wanted (RAC Mix)

Tokyo Police Club was one of the first bands we’ve had the privilege to work with back in 2007. Our Be Good remix is still one of the most popular ones. So when they asked me to do another remix, I was more than happy to work on another for their new album. I really tried to make it a little more 80′s and a little more poppy. Sometimes remixes really click, and this was definitely one of them. From start to finish, it took about a day to wrap up. This very rarely happens, but it’s always really exciting when it does.

Tokyo Police Club – Wait Up (Boots Of Danger) (RAC Mix)


To download the track, the band is asking for a small donation to the ASPCA. Click the download/buy link on the player to find out more.

We’re DJ’ing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 8th, 2010. at a great place called 00. It’s put on by the awesome people at CLAP! More info here

On the 9th of July 2010 we head to Sao Paulo, Brazil. We’re playing at Estudio Emme. We’re playing the very popular Funhell party. More info here

Listen to the original here:
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (RAC Mix)

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Feel free to ask any kind of recording questions or whatever, I’d be more than happy to clear something up.

Ok, I never realized this was out until somebody finally mentioned it. It’s a remix for the great australian band An Horse. This came out on a remix EP called ‘Beds Rearranged‘.

An Horse – Camp Out (RAC Mix)

I totally ripped off No Doubt’s harmonic guitar skills. Enjoy!

Listen to the original here:
http://remixartistcollective.com/1005

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Feel free to ask any kind of recording questions or whatever, I’d be more than happy to clear something up.

Stereogum just premiered our collaboration with Tegan & Sara and Steel Train. It was quite an interesting project because it’s essentially a remix using a never before heard vocal track by T&S. This will be released on Terrible Thrills Vol.1 .. an all female cover album featuring Scarlett Johansson
, Holly Miranda
, Deradoorian
, Alia Shawkat, and 
Amanda Palmer. It’s only available if you pre-order their upcoming album, sooo, do that.

Steel Train – Turnpike Ghost (RAC Mix ft. Tegan & Sara)

New remix out today for Brad Walsh. He just released his remix album with the likes of Junior Sanchez, True Blue, Monsieur Adi..

Brad Walsh – Boy Girl (ft. CariDee English) (RAC Mix)

It’s pretty different than our normal style, so I hope you like it.

Rubik just released a free EP today that you can download on their site for the small price of an email. We remixed their track Wasteland which is also featured on the EP. They’re kicking off their tour with mewithoutyou, so if you’re in the US, be sure to check them out.

Rubik – Wasteland (RAC Mix)

Download the EP here

The cool people over at Stereogum asked me to do a remix to kick off their competition. Being a fan of Will Forte and his hilarious role in Flight Of The Conchords, and the MacGruber SNL skits, how could I say no?

Kristen Wiig – Champion (RAC Mix)

The original track is performed by the hilarious Kristin Wiig. If you don’t have time to check it out, it’s basically a Queen’ish ballad. What came out on the other side is another story.

I give you the first ever Power Metal remix.

Listen to our brand new remix of New Zealand’s own Kids of 88.

Kids of 88 – My House (RAC Mix)

I had a lot of fun really drawing out the song and making it slowly build. Mark Suhonen recorded drums and it completely takes the song to another level that is not achievable through drum programming. I hope you like it.

Artwork by Akutou

Back in early 2009 I signed on to work on some portions of a film called Holy Rollers. It was starring a little known actor named Jesse Eisenberg. Over the past year, Adventureland and Zombieland happened. This elevated his profile quite a bit, not to mention showing some great acting range. The basic theme of the movie is blind faith and Jesse’s character struggles quite a bit with it. All the while growing up and discovering the world outside of his small Hassidic community. The music I wrote for the film was mostly representative of that outside world. It’s representative of everything his community frowned upon. Since the movie was is set in the 90′s, the instruments used were also from that era. TR909′s, TB303′s and even some TR808′s. No virtual synths were used as there were none in the 90′s.

I really hope you enjoy it.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE

Thanks to the always amazing Liset Alea, the director Kevin Asch, music sup Scott Vener, composer MJ Mynarski. It was awesome working together.

Also, very important, go see the movie.

You can purchase individual tracks, however the album is really made to flow as one piece.

Artwork by Akutou

Back in early 2009 I signed on to work on some portions of a film called Holy Rollers. It was starring a little known actor named Jesse Eisenberg. Over the past year, Adventureland and Zombieland happened. This elevated his profile quite a bit, not to mention showing some great acting range. The basic theme of the movie is blind faith and Jesse’s character struggles quite a bit with it. All the while growing up and discovering the world outside of his small Hassidic community. The music I wrote for the film was mostly representative of that outside world. It’s representative of everything his community frowned upon.

This song was written for a very specific scene, a turning point, a moment of great excitement and enlightenment.

I really hope you enjoy it.

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This single also includes remixes by my good friends Gigamesh, True Blue and Blue Satellite. It’s generally me doing the remixing and it was great to be on the other side and have somebody alter one of my own songs. I loved what they did and they all had a unique take on the song.

Thanks to the always amazing Liset Alea, the director Kevin Asch, music sup Scott Vener, composer MJ Mynarski. It was awesome working together.

Also, very important, go see the movie.

Check back tomorrow for the full length album, RAC x HOLY ROLLERS.

We took over Downplayer this weekend!

Check it out HERE

We’ve just decided that we want to go ahead and do another NINTENDO VS SEGA thing. Last time we just picked songs, but I think it would be awesome for you guys to get involved. I started up a official request thread on our facebook page.

GO SUBMIT!!!!!111

Just for kicks, here is the previous NINTENDO VS SEGA,

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One of our most popular remixes was for Back In Your Head off of Tegan & Sara‘s previous record. I was obviously very excited and slightly nervous to live up to the first remix. Subconsciously I was even trying out similar tricks that worked well on the first one. I soon realized that I shouldn’t try to do the same remix twice, so I went a completely different direction and just had fun with it.

I really hope you like it.

Tegan & Sara – Alligator (RAC Mix)

Just for kicks, here’s the last one we did.

Tegan & Sara – Back In Your Head (RAC Mix)

I had this draft saved and didn’t realize I hadn’t published it. Chances are you saw it on our facebook page or twitter. @andreanjos @aemaury .. Or most likely the 4 times it was at #1 this week on hypemachine.

Check out our latest remix of The Temper Trap.

The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (RAC Mix)

Check out our first ever remix music video for Leif & The Future:

To download/purchase the song, follow this link

Enjoy,

Speak – Carrie (RAC Mix)

Also, check out their official video:

Speak “Carrie (Mindfull)” from SPEAK on Vimeo.