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RAC on the First Truly Free Markets for Music and Culture

Grammy-winning recording artist RAC explores the business of music and how crypto experiments could shift the balance of power.

Breakdown 10.16

Grammy-winning recording artist RAC explores the business of music and how crypto experiments could shift the balance of power.

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Today’s Breakdown is a conversation with Andre Anjos – aka RAC, a Grammy Award-winning recording artist and music entrepreneur.

He and NLW discuss:

  • Starting the “Remix Artist Collective” as a business
  • Evolving from remixing to performing artist
  • The challenges and trade-offs of working with major labels
  • How the music industry beat back technology innovation where other industries failed
  • How NFTs, tokens and other crypto innovations are opening up truly free markets for music and culture

Find our guest online:
Twitter: @RAC
Web: rac.fm

See also: RAC on Defi and Yield Farming: 'These Days It Feels Like a Full-time Job'

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Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.

Nathaniel Whittemore