How Can You Just Pretend? The fourth album from Longwalkshortdock is available now! Find it on iTunes, Beatport, Spotify, Juno Download or wherever you support musicians that love what they do and want to keep doing it.

I'd like to thank you immensely and personally for your initial support of this release. It peaked at #14 in the overall releases on Beatport and is iTunes Top 200 Releases Electronic Chart. I am truly blown away by this. I literally can't believe it. Thank you so so much for supporting me and my music, now and in the past. I genuinely can't thank you enough. Hope you enjoy.

Sludge: A trudgey sloggin journey thru some kinda muck. Sometimes my brain resembles this state...

Sludge - Longwalkshortdock - How Can You Just Pretend? - NEW ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW

I am a 10 year old Dj who is learning many styles of music and how to mix.  I have already done 2 shows.  I was nervous but it was also fun. I put together a set and DJ'd my 10th birthday party. I invited my whole class! I am going to start busking maybe this summer so I can buy my own deck

I learned to mix playing house but am starting to dive deep into big room trap!

Longwalkshortdock esentially started the first time Dave King heard gritty electronic music in early eighties 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 when he was really playing nintendo (note : actually practicing might have served him better). Currently, a veteran of sound design and electronic music production for well over a decade, Longwalkshortdock's music has stepped into a genre of its own. Heavily influnced by early 80s video game music, metal and rock music, found-sound and vintage analog synthesis, he stacks layers of melody in his tracks until they implode and reform. Heavy drums and aggresive synths join forces with rolling grooves and melodic lead lines to create a wide variety of slamming dance floor originals. Lesser known fact : Not limited to dance music, LWSD's music crosses into many territories. His vast catalogue of hundreds of songs dives into ambient, IDM, electro, acid, house, big beat, indie rock, drones, electronica and down tempo. Dave holds two degrees from the Art Institute of Burnaby for Music Recording and Production. Playing songs and remixes he wrote and produced, Longwalkshortdock performs live PA with live vocals, synthesizers, drum machines, guitar, effects, toys, computers and even some of his own strobes and lighting. Know for his increadably "enthusiastic" performances, longwalkshortdock creates an undeniable stage presence and visceral experience at a show. Break through performances at Soundwave 2009 and Shambhala 2010 have made LWSD an artist to watch out for. He was even recently featured on the legendary Annie Nightingales pod cast on BBC radio 1 as a result of a review received about his "smashing" Shambhala 2011 performance. Longwalkshortdock has performed live with the likes of Phil Western (Download, Skinny Puppy, Kone) and opened for talented artists like, MSTRKRFT, Opiuo, Junkie XL, Vibesquad, Alex Patterson (The Orb), Mimosa, Adam Freeland, Shout out out out out and Matt the Alien too name a few. Always working to enhance and upgrade the LWSD live experience Dave is currently in the process of collaborating with veteran of visual wizardry Tim Hill of RIM Visuals. Using at least 10 projectors loaded with custom content, the live LWSD experience is nothing short of a full venue transformation into a etherial and immersive light cube of doom! Longwalkshortdocks second self-released record entitled "Bigger Fish Frying" follows up on his debut album "Casual Tea" with many signs of progress and promise. Final point of note : Did you know they found him in a cave on the moon? Thats what i heard...