You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Andre Allen Anjos is better known as RAC,
a musician who first found success by remixing other people's songs.
His remixes for artists like Lana Del Rey have gotten millions of plays online.
In 2013, RAC released Strangers, his first album of original material,
and in this episode, he breaks down the song Let Go from that record.
It features guest vocals from Kelly, best known as the frontman of the band Block Party,
and singer MNDR, who talks later on about her experience working on the track.
Here's Let Go by RAC on Song Exploder.
My name's Andre.
I make music as RAC.
I think I started writing this song in like early 2010.
It was actually the first track that I got a singer on, which...
Kelly from Block Party was actually the first guy to agree to do anything on this album.
Because I had done a couple of remixes for Block Party before and this was actually pre-RAC.
I was still living in Portugal at the time.
I think it was 2005.
I was just some... I wasn't even in college yet.