When not part of the group and production team The New Royales, LA-based Torontonian, Erik Alcock, can be found working on his home recording project Altar Eagles where he writes, produces and performs all the instrumentation.
While Altar Eagles’ sound departs from the world of hip-hop, the music is actually more inspired by indie and pop music. The songwriting draws insperation from the likes of The Beatles, Gorillaz, Kasabian and, Tame Impala while creating a sound that is both retrospective and prospective.
You can hear the 4 track playlist below.
What have you been listening to over the weekend? Who should we mention next Monday?
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Hello
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Good morning, all. Did somebody here order a white Christmas? I think it got delivered a little early.
Did they get the shipping address wrong again!?
Seems like your white Christmases end up over here every year, doesn’t it?
It has the past few years, we tend to have wet Christmases these days
It’s rare here to get white Christmases too. Actually, it’s rare to get snow before mid-January down here.
The odds here are 4/1 on there not being a white Christmas
Yes we will bet on aything
Good morning everyone! We might be snow in Portland mid-week, yay!
In today’s Spotify Artist / Song Title Confusion news: Islands / My Goodness.
The snowblower fired right up yesterday, there was much rejoicing.
good morning peeps.
a busy weekend at work has me commenting that i didn’t listen to a damned thing:(
let’s fix that today!!
Hi Morgan, please thank your daughter for the card 🙂
@garfielduk 🙂 She left a few minutes ago to walk through the snow to school but I will let her know at dinner.
Spotify has compiled a playlist for me to recap 2016. It is a nice start to the day.
@morgana, it did it for me too, I guess all of us with a membership will be getting it.
@michael wynn I am positive it will be for all of their members and not just me. Still nice me thins. It is intriguing that they see fit to calculate a persons % of fandom for a particular artist. stats are funny.
I looked at the Global list Spotify created for me and Bieber is on their twice :/
Garfield are you a closet Belieber?
no
I just found my Spotify email. My playlist looks great and interesting stats. Thanks Spotify.
The link isn’t working for my playlist at the moment though.
I am still recovering from a nasty cold. I am back at work today but I spent about 5 days laying on the couch watching Netflix. I was binge watching Downton Abbey. I hadn’t gotten around to checking it out before but I am hooked now.
And this concludes the DarBarSpecial hour. We now return you to your regular programming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cz7bE1771c
I have never watched Downton Abbey, it didn’t appeal to me
If I may be so bold as to actually discuss today’s official topic: so this dude is a literal one-man band? I assume he records each instrument separately and then layers the tracks, but it would be extra cool if he did it Homer-style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMBu2eFIHXg
Follow-up question: am I to undertand he dressed up as Minnie Mouse for halloween as a child?
How dare you speak on the topic!
@Garf – I wasn’t sure I would like it but it is pretty darn good!
Yeah, where do you get off talking about the topic, what does that idiot… wait a minute
I haven’t read anything to say either way but I couldn’t find a lot about him online (not that I spent a great deal of time looking to be honest)
I can imagine it being difficult at times for these people that play everything on their recordings to reproduce the sound live.
Don’t they usually hire other musicians to go on tour with them or use looping
Yup but still not easy to duplicate all the time.
I saw Whitehorse a few years back, and it was just Melissa and Luke, and they used looping to fill out the rest of their instruments. It was all kinds of awesome to see live! I agree, it’s probably not easy to do, but man, it was cool!
I have seen Whitehorse a few times. I love watching them work together. So cool!
If anyone is interested the BBC Music awards are on
link removed to stop the BBC complaining
I’m hoping they come back this way soon, I’d love to see them again.
Speaking of The Simpsons, and going off topic: last night’s Simpsons had a dumb gag where a sound crew came in and said they had to record 20 seconds of “room tone”, and then everyone just stood there while they recorded silence. What’s weird about this is that Family Guy did the exact same bit in last week’s episode. Now I’m not sure how long it takes to produce a Simpsons episode, but I don’t think they could possibly have stolen that joke after it aired, and even if they could, why would they? This leaves a few possibilities. Was it a deliberate collaboration between two shows that have, as I understand it, a not-so-friendly rivalry? Were they just independently referencing some meme I haven’t caught wind of before now? Or, and this is my favourite theory, perhaps it was two friends who are writers for either show, colluding in secret to slip the same joke past their respective teams.
@loozr, from what I understand asking for room tone is a regular thing in TV and film sound recording but I have never looked into why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xMMQkaD3_w
Yeah, but it seems an obscure enough reference that it’s unlikely two shows would make essentially the same joke at the same time by coincidence. Right down to both specifically mentioning 20 seconds! I call shenanigans.
It’s not that obscure, I’ve seen it mentioned in other shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjNtS1qecHs
Huh. So it’s just another of life’s boring little coincidences? That’s a bummer.
sorry
You can take some solace in the fact I now know why they record room tone, something I hadn’t bothered to look up before. I had assumed they used it to filter out background noise not so they coulkd add it back in later
I relish any opportunity to learn new useless trivia I’ll quickly forget 🙂