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RAC levels up live performance at Granada Theater

In 2014, André Allen Anjos, the musician known as RAC, played for about 50 people at The Prophet Bar in Dallas. This year, RAC leveled up.

Most electronic musicians play their sets from a computer and only run a portion of it live, but after thinking of ways to reinvent his live performances, RAC decided a live band and vocals were the way to go.

At the Granada Theater Sunday night, he put this plan into action.

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The show opened with a remix of the Imperial March from Star Wars, and that set the scene. When RAC spoke with GuideLive a few weeks ago, he mentioned how important it was for audiences to have a band they could relate to.

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"There's just something about the lead man or woman that people  just connect to," he said.

For this tour, RAC is made up of Anjos, his wife Liz, (also known as Pink Feathers) and friends Karl Kling and Troupe Gammage.

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Each of them, aside from Anjos, took turns on lead vocals during the set. Kling took center stage for RAC's Two Door Cinema Club and Foster the People remixes, Gammage did most of the original stuff and Liz took point on the songs with female leads.

Kling also took point on the song he wrote with Anjos, "Repeating Motion."

For an artist that built his platform on remixes, RAC's original songs definitely hold up. "Hollywood ft. Penguin Prison" and "Let Go" were easily some of the standouts, while "Something Good Can Work" was just a fun in-between track.

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While Anjos said he still likes remixing songs, there's something special about crafting something all your own.

"To me, it's just been a natural progression and being interested in different things," he said.

But music wasn't the only thing that took a step up at this show (though opening act Big Data was a great lead-in.) The light setup was mesmerizing.

"It's completely revamped from the last tour," Anjos said. "The lighting rig is completely new and the show is sort of a hybrid."

What Anjos meant was that the show was equal parts music as it was lights and sound. The light bars behind the musicians were timed with the music and made the whole thing seem just that more cohesive.

Unfortunately, the show still lacked capacity. For a theater usually packed for indie performances as the Granada is, it was still odd to see spaces in between.

It was intimate, sure, but for a man with a band as dedicated as RAC, let's have a few more people come out next time.