| Member Since | 3/24/2006 | | Band Website | www.longwalkshortdock.com coming soon... | | Band Members | Dave King = Writer, Producer, Performer of Longwalkshortdock
Side Projects :
Containment Unit = Dave King LWSD and Josh Hall
Occasional Collaborations :
Phil Western - Kone
Stephan Fisher - Start Apology
Dan Ross and Patrick Barrnet - Name Undetermined | | Influences | Aphex Twin, My Bloody Valentine, Guided By Voices, Retro Nintendo and Commodore 64 music, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Brian Eno, Do Make Say Think, Pavement, Velvet Underground, Smashing Pumpkins, Noubou Uematsu (Final Fantasy), Chemical Bros, Secret Mommy, Wagon Christ, Underworld, Cliff Martinez, Stars Of The Lid, Dillinger Escape Plan, Daft Punk, Kris Benoit, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Luke Vibert, AFX, The Fall, Lali Puna, Squarepusher, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Prefuse 73, Anti Pop Consortium, Beans, Busta Rhymes, Fly Pan Am, The Talking Heads, Phil Western, Cypress Hill, Download, Frozen Rabbit, Miopus, Godspeed You Black Emperor, M83, Manitoba, Beck, Tool, Tortise, Duo 505, SND, Sonic Boom, Gary Numan, Four Tet, Deftones, Death From Above 1979, Cornelius, Chris Clark, Flaming Lips, Mike Patton, Bjork, DJ Shadow, Mr. Ozio, Plasticman, The New Deal, Air, Ben Folds Five, Low, Kraftwerk, Dr. Octagon, Future Sound Of London, Failure, Jimi Hendrix, Pixes, Thomas Newman, T. Raumschmiere, Interpol, The Beatles, Portisehead, R.E.M., Pantera, Two Lone Swordsmen, Plaid, Sparrow Orange, 1 Speed Bike, Mogwai, Wire, Severed Heads, Coil, Brothomstates, Syd Barret, RE: , Mono, Stereolab, Mauritzio, Jimmy Edgar, Avalanches, and im sure ill think of more later... | | Sounds Like | uhhh.... nintendos in the blender? clouds on the mountain top? robots on life support? trees growing sideways? colours and numbers? comets hitting jupiter? melting speak and spells? interigation and torture bunker 7H audio archive greatest hits volume 2? water in your keyboards? . . . | | Record Label | Unsigned.... Write me, We'll talk... | | Type of Label | Unsigned |
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Longwalkshortdock esentially started the first time Dave King heard gritty electronic music in early eightys videogames. Strongly influenced by these sounds and melodys, Dave started recording and looping segments as a child. He also got a taste for sampling and recording; Taping segments of his piano practice to fool his parents into thinking he was practicing in the other room. Dave then noticed he was writting his profile in the third person......... After briefly considering the pretentious implications of doing this he decided to continue on with it. After the early years of video game loops, longwalkshortdock went through many years of musical genre infidelity and learned to play many instruments in many styles. After collecting gear, ideas, and collaborators, Dave decided to move from his home town of Calgary to Vancouver to take 2 degrees in sound production and recording. Dave has worked in the studio and played live shows along side a host of talented artists such as : Alex Patterson (The Orb), Matt the Alien, Phil Western (Download, Kone, Beehatch) to name a few. Since then longwalkshortdock has been putting together a large body of work both for album release and for live use in the hopes of creating a positive ear related experience for "the people". Did you hear they found him in a cave on the moon? Thats what I heard... Dave then decided that was enough information in the Bio for the time being and decided to stop adding to it right in the middle of typ
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