{"id":2532,"date":"2012-03-21T12:40:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2012-03-21T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:50:19","slug":"longwalkshortdock-comes-full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/03\/21\/longwalkshortdock-comes-full-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Longwalkshortdock comes full circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

A childhood deeply immersed in gaming has come full circle for Dave King, the Vancouver-based electronic musician better known as Longwalkshortdock.<\/p>\n

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Dave King, a.k.a. Longwalkshortdock, freaks out on stage (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cGrowing up, those video games were what was the most interesting to me,\u201d he says. \u201cOther than sports and school, vids were my main interest because I didn\u2019t really give a damn about girls then.\u201d<\/p>\n

King says there was just something about the sounds on those old video games that appeal to him. Sometimes he takes the time to deconstruct hardware he\u2019s curious about, going so far as to record sound from a hacked Nintendo cartridge and purchase hardware off eBay with the sole purpose of opening it and trying \u201cto make it freak out,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like the tonality of the sound chips in those machines,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re really gritty and bitey. You really don\u2019t have to look too hard to find elements of that in modern music.\u201d<\/p>\n

King believes that other musicians of his generation have similar experiences to his when it comes to nostalgia towards vintage gaming. And because modern-day musicians have grown up with gaming, its influence has made its way into popular culture.<\/p>\n

Aside from gaming, Longwalkshortdock also produces infectiously upbeat and high-tempo music. But his latest release, 2011\u2019s Bigger Fish Frying<\/em>, marks a darker, more mature, and more memorable sound when compared to his debut EP, 2009\u2019s Casual Tea<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And perhaps more than the music, King\u2019s shows are memorable for having that guy on stage dancing harder than anyone. This is fitting, since a piece of King\u2019s gear has a sticker that says \u201cIf you can read this, you\u2019re not dancing hard enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know\u2014I think it\u2019s partly a lot of bottled-up nervous energy,\u201d says King on dancing non-stop during his performances. \u201cEven if I\u2019m tired at the time, I\u2019ll find some kind of energy tank to unleash.\u201d<\/p>\n

King\u2019s story truly came full circle when he worked on the soundtrack of the recently released video game SSX Tricky<\/em> for Electronic Arts. The boy who spent his time with video games instead of girls is now seeing his hobby pay off.<\/p>\n

And when he comes to Victoria on March 31, he\u2019s planning on bringing something new to his local fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cVictoria is really my favourite place to play,\u201d he says. \u201cFor the show coming up we\u2019re gonna be trying a bunch of new things. I\u2019m gonna try and drift away a bit from the all-one-tempo stuff, try and surf around on some other BPMs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longwalkshortdock <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sugar Nightclub<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 31, $21.50<\/p>\n

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A childhood deeply immersed in gaming has come full circle for Dave King, the Vancouver-based electronic musician better known as Longwalkshortdock. \u201cGrowing up, those video games were what was the most interesting to me,\u201d he says. \u201cOther than sports and school, vids were my main interest because I didn\u2019t really give a damn about girls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-march-21-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}