Joy Electric
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Joy Electric is the brand label for a series of electropop/synth pop productions by Ronnie Martin
Ronnie Martin
Ronnie Martin is an American musician best known as the sole member of the synth-pop outfit Joy Electric, one of the few remaining major bands to model its music after classic electro-pop...

. Martin began producing music under the Joy Electric name in 1994, after the demise of Dance House Children
Dance House Children
Dance House Children was the early 1990s musical group of Ronnie Martin and Jason Martin that was the precursor to The Brothers Martin. In the liner notes of Jesus, Ronnie described its music as trendy, club-oriented rave music. The group was signed to the Blonde Vinyl label and released two...

, a band Ronnie was in with his brother Jason Martin of Starflyer 59
Starflyer 59
Starflyer 59 is an alternative rock band from Riverside, California that was founded in 1993 by Jason Martin, brother of Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric. While Jason Martin has written nearly all of Starflyer 59's songs, the band has included a number of different musicians over the years, including...

. Starflyer 59 bass player and Velvet Blue Music
Velvet Blue Music
Velvet Blue Music is an independent record label founded in 1996 by Jeff Cloud . They are a label that has prided itself on a completely independent nature and DIY ethics while also living up to these same qualities...

 owner Jeff Cloud
Jeff Cloud
Jeff Cloud is a former bass guitar player for rock band Starflyer 59. He joined the band after the album Americana had been recorded, and remained a member until after the recording of the album I Am the Portuguese Blues. From 1996 until 2002, Cloud was member of the electropop/synth pop group...

 joined Joy Electric from 1996 until 2002. Joy Electric is currently a solo act.

Pre-Joy Electric history

Having experimented with live shows, formed countless after-school bands, and recorded an album that was never to be released under the moniker Morella's Forest
Morella's Forest
Morella's Forest was a band from Dayton, Ohio which formed in 1992. They released three albums on Tooth and Nail Records and one with an independent label. Their signature sound is noise pop or space music comparable to Starflyer 59 or The Breeders....

 with Randy Lamb, Ronnie and his brother Jason found their way onto Michael Knott
Michael Knott
Michael Knott is an American singer-songwriter and frontman for various bands, many of them Christian. He has released some 35 albums, including solo albums and with bands such as LSU and Cush....

’s fledgling label, Blonde Vinyl
Blonde Vinyl
Blonde Vinyl was an independent record label founded in 1990 by Michael Knott. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music describes the label as "one of Christian music's first true indie labels."-Background:...

, with a dance album to produce, Songs and Stories.

After buying an old Akai sampler and a few synthesizers, Ronnie began crafting his own spin-off of current electronic "club" music. Still working with his brother Jason, Ronnie's new band, Dance House Children
Dance House Children
Dance House Children was the early 1990s musical group of Ronnie Martin and Jason Martin that was the precursor to The Brothers Martin. In the liner notes of Jesus, Ronnie described its music as trendy, club-oriented rave music. The group was signed to the Blonde Vinyl label and released two...

, posited cold, hypnotic electronica against quaint, old-fashioned lyrics. After producing another album, Jesus, Dance House Children found Jason leaving to pursue his own musical endeavors, Starflyer 59
Starflyer 59
Starflyer 59 is an alternative rock band from Riverside, California that was founded in 1993 by Jason Martin, brother of Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric. While Jason Martin has written nearly all of Starflyer 59's songs, the band has included a number of different musicians over the years, including...

.

With the help of a few friends, Ronnie turned from the club-oriented music to a more melodic, orchestrated sound. A large range of instruments were used on his third album, containing timpanis, Moog synthesizer
Moog synthesizer
Moog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled...

s, and far more exotic sounds than anything he had previously produced. It was evident that Martin was quickly moving beyond the level of pre-programmed keyboard sounds as he became more well-versed in the programming of his synthesizers. Rainbow Rider: Beautiful Dazzling Music No. 1, the name of his third album, formed the bridge between Martin's "techno"-like early days and his enigmatic Joy Electric creation. Rainbow Rider was part of the name of Ronnie's third album, rather than a change in the name of the musical group from Dance House Children.

Melody and Five Stars for Failure

During the process of writing his fourth album - originally intended as Beautiful Dazzling Music No. 2, then Fairy Tale Melodies (some Tooth and Nail promotional material came out with this name), and then later to be renamed simply as Melody - Martin found the sound of his project changing radically. Of course, changes were quite evident during Beautiful Dazzling Music, but this fourth album carried things to the extreme. Analog synths began to dominate the studio floor-space. Furthermore, Martin began perfecting a clock-like musical technique that had a strange assortment of blips and whirls constantly rotating in the background. The fourth album resulted in several things: a new band name (Joy Electric), his signing with a new label (Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today...

), and the launching of Martin's signature sound which he carries to this day.

Although Joy Electric was now part of a "real" record label—with all the benefits of promotion and better distribution—this did not spell the end of Martin's worries for his budding project. Amidst mostly punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

, ska, or hardcore
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

 bands, Joy Electric was usually dismissed as a Tooth & Nail curiosity—a funny little joke band with Atari
Atari
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA . The original Atari, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It was a pioneer in...

 music and girlish vocals. Looking back on those years, Martin recalls a crisis of feeling legitimate and being treated as a peer. Audiences at Joy Electric shows remained small. Melody caused no stir. The album came and went without much response from the audience, the critics, or anyone in general.

This depressing situation was the backdrop for the next CD—an EP appropriately titled Five Stars for Failure
Five Stars For Failure
Five Stars for Failure is an EP by Joy Electric. As the title would suggest, this EP contains much darker content than the preceding album, Melody...

. This EP, Martin's first, could not have contrasted more with the exuberantly optimistic joy of Melody. Bi-polar Joy Electric had slumped to the opposite extreme. The sound become slower and more dire. Covering previously happy songs (with remix titles like "The Woods are Haunted" and "The House in the Woods") Martin seemingly undid all his previous work.

Besides simply being sad, the Five Stars EP showed a curious development: with darker sounds and "House in the Woods" songnames that conjured up pictures of frightening Black-Forest scenes, Joy Electric was picking up a strange strain of imagery: the dark world of German folklore
German folklore
German folklore shares many characteristics with Scandinavian folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology. It reflects a similar mix of influences: a pre-Christian pantheon and other beings equivalent to those of Norse mythology; magical characters associated...

, mixed in with a little bit of medieval scenes for good measure. The upcoming album, We Are the Music Makers
We Are the Music Makers
For the band of the same name see We Are the Music Makers We Are the Music Makers is an album by Joy Electric. The title is based on a poem by Arthur O'Shaughnessy. This album was Martin's first attempt at making an album using only a synthesizer,...

, would become the strangest goth album to be produced: dark and Teutonic, electronic and infectious, antiquated with a strong backbeat.

We Are the Music Makers and Old Wives Tales

By this time, Martin became increasingly fascinated with the idea of musical purism
Purism
Purism was a form of Cubism advocated by the French painter Amédée Ozenfant and the architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret . Purism rejected the decorative trend of cubism and advocated a return to clear, ordered forms that were expressive of the modern machine age as documented in their 1918 book...

. Finding inspiration in '70s electronic bands that were "purists" out of necessity (having nothing but simple analog synthesizers with which to assemble an entire collage of blurpy sounds), Martin delegated nearly his entire studio to the closet and vowed to build an album up, brick by brick, from the sounds of just one master synthesizer. Under this constraint he went to work—designing, programming, and storing all his sounds for the new album in a Roland JD-990
Roland JD-990
The Roland JD-990 is a module version of Roland JD-800 synthesizer with expanded capabilities. JD-990 is a multitimbral synthesizer utilizing wave-table synthesis technology. It is equipped with 6 Mb of ROM containing wave-table, four sets of stereo outputs that are assignable to individual,...

.

Putting all his eggs in one basket (or synthesizer in this case) left Martin particularly vulnerable to one perennial problem: his synthesizer's storage memory got wiped clean. It's uncertain how this happened, but halfway through the new album Martin found that all his work had been lost.

Martin had to begin again from scratch. Taking this opportunity to reconsider his approach, he decided to move into an even more purist direction than before, determined to create a cohesive synthesizer concept album with a medieval, Tolkienesque feel.
Since the first half-completed album is no longer in existence, it is impossible to gauge just how radical a change this was from Martin's original effort.

We Are the Music Makers
We Are the Music Makers
For the band of the same name see We Are the Music Makers We Are the Music Makers is an album by Joy Electric. The title is based on a poem by Arthur O'Shaughnessy. This album was Martin's first attempt at making an album using only a synthesizer,...

 includes Arthurian songs of dim castles, assemblies of knights riding out to battle, dedications to monarchy, and crumbling recollections of Christendom. This Medieval theme was unusual subject matter for a mid-'90s electronic
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 album.

Of all his albums, Martin consistently cites this as his least favorite. (On top of feeling burnt out from the amount of work he put into the album, he came to feel in retrospect that the albums' more experimental sound concealed a somewhat subpar group of songs, in terms of hooks and melodies). Some find the album shows Martin's inexperience at this new "purist" model. However, other fans claim that this album contains some of Martin's most memorable and emblematic work, including "Burgundy Years," "Hansel (I Will Be Your Friend)," and "I Beam, You Beam".

Martin quickly followed this album with yet another EP, this one titled Old Wives Tales
Old Wives Tales (extended play)
Old Wives Tales is an EP by Joy Electric. Like most of Joy Electric's EPs, Old Wives Tales sports a much more simplistic and minimal style then on the majority of the full-length discs...

. While retaining the Black Forest
Black Forest
The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres ....

 fairy-tale theme, he dropped the darker, gothic strains and produced a set of songs mixing pop and nostalgia. Joy Electric, in some way or another, has always been an escapist band, leading the listener into a sort of musical land largely unfamiliar and isolated. Old Wives Tales stands as the high-point of that escapism, and proved to be just what fans were looking for. Audiences began to grow, the EP sold in greater numbers, and favorable articles appeared in all sorts of music magazines. Finally, the band was getting the attention it deserved.

Robot Rock and CHRISTIANsongs

Riding this building wave of popularity, Joy Electric began commanding greater respect both abroad and at home. This attention at Tooth & Nail was especially critical, leading to a series of albums that were designed to, and indeed succeeded in, garnering some degree of commercial success. Music videos were made and became more widely distributed. The music moved out of cult circles and picked up new fans in rapid numbers.

Robot Rock
Robot Rock
Robot Rock is the third full-length album by Joy Electric. In 2006, it was rereleased on iTunes, along with Melody & CHRISTIANsongs. This was the first Joy Electric album that almost completely left the fairy-tale theme and took on a more "punk rock" attitude...

 was the first album to capitalize on this. The album moved away from the world of "bedroom production" and into professional studio hands. The vocals came across as polished and well-groomed. Having practiced on his analog synthesizers for years, Martin commanded better control of his synthesizers' sounds. To showcase these growing skills, the songs were generally more sparse. The entire album harked back, more than any other release, to his groundbreaking work in Melody.

Following his pattern, Martin released an EP as well, titled The Land of Misfits
The Land of Misfits
The Land of Misfits is an EP by Joy Electric.-Track listing:#"Monosynth" – 3:19#"The Cobbler " – 2:50#"I'm Your Boy " – 3:06#"Sugar Rush " – 2:38#"The North Sea" – 4:17...

, containing Monosynth, three remixes of songs from Robot Rock and one new song. It was generally considered a disappointment by fans, containing only one new song along with reworkings of songs from Robot Rock.

Eventually another EP materialized, the Children of the Lord
Children of the Lord
Children of the Lord is a single by Joy Electric. The single also features two covers: the first is an MxPx song , and the second a Keith Green song . "Children of the Lord" and "Make My Life a Prayer" were included on the following album, CHRISTIANsongs...

 maxi single. While still including covers on the EP, Martin this time brought some greater variety to the release. Two songs covered radically different influences: Punk rockers MxPx
MxPx
MxPx is a pop punk band from Bremerton, Washington with connections to the Christian punk scene. The band has recorded eight studio albums, four EPs, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a DVD and released 20 singles....

 and seventies singer Keith Green
Keith Green
Keith Gordon Green was an American gospel singer, songwriter, musician, and Contemporary Christian Music artist originally from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. Beyond his music, Green is best known for his strong devotion to Christian evangelism and challenging others to the same...

. The last song was a Cloud2Ground
Cloud2Ground
Cloud2Ground was an American Christian electronic dance music production duo, consisting of Jeremy Dawson and Chad Petree. Dawson and Petree grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and met when they were teenagers. They played together in various bands, before separating to pursue other projects...

 remix of a song from the upcoming album.

In 1999, CHRISTIANsongs
CHRISTIANsongs
CHRISTIANsongs is the fourth full-length album by Joy Electric. A music video was recorded for "Children of the Lord." In 2006, it was rereleased on iTunes, along with Robot Rock and Melody. This album remains to this day the most overtly spiritual Joy Electric release, as the title suggests...

 was released. Concerning the title, Martin explained his frustration over Christian music groups attempting to downplay their religion in hopes for greater commercial success. Having grown up a Christian, Martin had rarely allowed his faith to intrude heavily upon his music. He nevertheless disapproved of silly "we're Christians but we're not a Christian band" statements. In contrast, and to set the record straight for any fans, Martin's new album title left no doubt concerning the matter.

CHRISTIANsongs contained some of Joy Electric's most overt references to Christianity, exhorting believers to remain strong ("Lift Up Your Hearts"), singing musical prayers of religious dedication ("Make My Life a Prayer", which was a cover of a song written by Melody Green), and proclaiming general obedience to God ("True Harmony"). But the album contained deep lyrical divides. The religious songs were overwhelmingly religious. The other half of the album was, more or less, the usual Joy Electric fare.

CHRISTIANsongs also demonstrated Martin's ability to move beyond bubbly-happy songs that critics condemned for being too shallow. The album showcased a wide range of feelings, spanning to familiar exuberant territory all the way into new, darker directions.

The Legacy Series

2001 saw the release of Legacy Volume 1: The White Songbook
The White Songbook
The White Songbook is the fifth studio album by Joy Electric, and the first in the band's ongoing Legacy series. The album has a "book" theme, with the songs logically divided into "chapters," which are also songs...

. A year and a half in the making, The White Songbook continued in the synthesized
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

 tradition of the past few albums by using nothing but a Roland
Roland Corporation
is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥33 million in capital. In 2005 Roland's headquarters relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Today it has factories in Japan,...

 System 100, but with many intricate and interwoven layers of sounds building on each other. The music was divided into four thematic chapters, and the very sparse artwork of the album was meant to invoke the sense of an old book. This album also brought the relatively successful single "We Are Rock." In spite of a level of critical success, Ronnie was miserable during the album's long and tedious production. The companion EP to this album is Starcadia
Starcadia
Starcadia is an EP by Joy Electric. The concept of Starcadia is based upon rides that have existed in Disneyland: Matterhorn Bobsleds, Space Mountain, Starcade, Submarine Voyage, and Carousel of Progress...

, which has since gone out of print and become a much sought after collectible.

The Legacy series continued with The Tick Tock Treasury
The Tick Tock Treasury
The Tick Tock Treasury is an album by Joy Electric. Martin yet again turns in the opposite direction of his previous album, weaving together much simpler, stripped down arrangements.-Track listing:#"The Tick Tock Treasury" – 6:14...

, whose sparseness was a musical reaction to the thick and lush nature of The White Songbook. Instead of including lyrics in the booklet, Ronnie opted to include a short story which served as inspiration for the title of the album. As opposed to The White Songbook, The Tick Tock Treasurys placement in the Legacy series was found only in a small and passing liner note in the CD insert. The companion EP to this album is The Tick Tock Companion
The Tick Tock Companion
The Tick Tock Companion is an EP by Joy Electric. It was released exclusively through the band's website shortly after the release of The Tick Tock Treasury.On this CD, bandleader Ronnie Martin is joined by synthesists Eric Melzer and Mike Perez....

, a long-running set of experimental synthesizer music recorded in one take.

The third Legacy album was Hello, Mannequin
Hello, Mannequin
Hello, Mannequin is the seventh album released by Joy Electric.Hello, Mannequin is the third release in the Legacy series and was created using the Roland System 100 synthesizer...

. Like its predecessor, its place in the Legacy series was only shown by a small liner note. This album brought a significantly more rigid structure to the songs, with basslines sometimes not changing for the duration of an entire track. The companion EP, Friend of Mannequin
Friend of Mannequin
Friend of Mannequin is an EP by Joy Electric. It was released in conjunction with the full-length Hello, Mannequin.-Track listing:#"Friend of Mannequin" – 2:21...

, contains remixes, several new songs, and a three-part interview.

The Ministry of Archers
The Ministry of Archers
The Ministry of Archers is an album by Joy Electric. It is the fourth album in the five-part "Legacy" series. The Moog Voyager was used for the creation of all sounds on The Ministry of Archers.- Track listing :...

, identified as a Legacy album only by the mark "lv4" (for Legacy Volume 4) in the liner notes, was also the first to be produced in the newly-renovated Electric Joy Toy Company on Ronnie's new Moog synthesizer
Moog synthesizer
Moog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled...

 equipment. The new synthesizer brought a significant change in sound, though the album bears some resemblance to previous Legacy works. Namely, it is broken into chapters like The White Songbook and its lyrics are not printed in the sleeve, like The Tick Tock Treasury. The companion EP, Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons
Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons
Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons is an EP by Joy Electric. This EP was released November 15, 2005. It featured 5 songs by Joy Electric, 3 remixes of Joy Electric songs, and a song previously released on The Ministry of Archers on vinyl only...

, is split into two sections: an eponymous mini concept album, and a collection of remixes and extra tracks called "Other Archers."

The Otherly Opus
The Otherly Opus
The Otherly Opus is an album by Joy Electric, released on March 20, 2007 on Tooth & Nail Records. Thematically, the album is split in two halves...

 was released on March 20, 2007 as the fifth and final volume in the Legacy series, noted as "Moog Dynasty Years Volume 2". The album includes some of the most intricate vocal work on a Joy Electric album to date. Thematically, the album is split in two halves. The first half is known as The Otherly Opus, while the second half is The Memory of Alpha, a mini concept album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 about antediluvian
Antediluvian
The antediluvian period meaning "before the deluge" is the period referred to in the Bible between the Creation of the Earth and the Deluge . The narrative takes up chapters 1-6 of Genesis...

 times. The album's companion EP, Their Variables
Their Variables
Their Variables is an EP by Joy Electric. It was released in conjunction with the full-length The Otherly Opus. It contains remixes of all ten songs from that album, plus two new songs.-Track listing:...

, contains remixes of all songs on The Otherly Opus as well as two new songs. It was released on September 18, 2007.

Moog Dynasty

Continuing on the Moog tradition of the previous two albums, Joy Electric's latest album My Grandfather, The Cubist
My Grandfather, The Cubist
My Grandfather, The Cubist is an album by Joy Electric. Ronnie Martin has stated in a Q&A on the Joy Electric website that it is much more minimal than his previous albums, and the closest album sound that he can compare it to is Melody....

 was released May 27, 2008.http://joyelectric.com/2008/features.html The following year, two EPs were released: Early Cubism
Early Cubism
Early Cubism is an EP by Joy Electric. It was made available for download online and was not released as a physical album. It contains three demo tracks from the recording sessions for My Grandfather, The Cubist.-Track listing:#"Four Gone Pierre" – 3:08...

 is a digital download
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...

 consisting of demos of three tracks from My Grandfather, The Cubist, while Curiosities and Such
Curiosities and Such
-Track listing:#"Curiosities and Such" – 3:49#"Which Witch" – 3:28#"Headley Grange" – 1:36#"Let Us Speak No More, Let Us Speak Light" – 3:48#"Cluster of Bare Trees" – 2:17#"Misuses, Atrocities" – 4:01-Credits:...

 contains six new songs.

In 2009, Joy Electric released "Favorites at Play
Favorites at Play
Favorites at Play is an album by Joy Electric. The album consists solely of covers of songs from nine different artists. It is the first such album from Joy Electric.-Track listing:In parenthesis is the artist who originally performed the song....

", an album composed of covers of artists such as Coldplay
Coldplay
Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as a...

, The Killers, Blink 182 and more.

Martin is also collaborating with Rob Withem of Fine China on a new project, The Foxglove Hunthttp://www.myspace.com/thefoxglovehunt, which released its debut album, Stop Heartbeat, in 2008.

Dwarf Mountain Alphabet

Per a recent interview with Ronnie Martin, there are plans to release a new album entitled "Dwarf Mountain Alphabet" in the Fall of 2011. For more information: http://www.joyelectric.com/other.html

Albums

  • Melody (1994)
  • We Are the Music Makers
    We Are the Music Makers
    For the band of the same name see We Are the Music Makers We Are the Music Makers is an album by Joy Electric. The title is based on a poem by Arthur O'Shaughnessy. This album was Martin's first attempt at making an album using only a synthesizer,...

     (1996)
  • Robot Rock
    Robot Rock
    Robot Rock is the third full-length album by Joy Electric. In 2006, it was rereleased on iTunes, along with Melody & CHRISTIANsongs. This was the first Joy Electric album that almost completely left the fairy-tale theme and took on a more "punk rock" attitude...

     (1997)
  • CHRISTIANsongs
    CHRISTIANsongs
    CHRISTIANsongs is the fourth full-length album by Joy Electric. A music video was recorded for "Children of the Lord." In 2006, it was rereleased on iTunes, along with Robot Rock and Melody. This album remains to this day the most overtly spiritual Joy Electric release, as the title suggests...

     (1999)
  • Unelectric
    Unelectric
    Unelectric is an unplugged album by Joy Electric. It mainly features acoustic versions of Joy Electric songs from previous albums, with the exception of "These Should Be The Good Times" and "Losing Touch With Everyone" which were new songs recorded only for Unelectric.-Track listing:#"Monosynth" –...

     (2000)
  • The White Songbook
    The White Songbook
    The White Songbook is the fifth studio album by Joy Electric, and the first in the band's ongoing Legacy series. The album has a "book" theme, with the songs logically divided into "chapters," which are also songs...

     (2001)
  • The Tick Tock Treasury
    The Tick Tock Treasury
    The Tick Tock Treasury is an album by Joy Electric. Martin yet again turns in the opposite direction of his previous album, weaving together much simpler, stripped down arrangements.-Track listing:#"The Tick Tock Treasury" – 6:14...

     (2003)
  • The Magic of Christmas
    The Magic of Christmas (Joy Electric album)
    The Magic of Christmas is a Christmas album by Joy Electric.-Track listing:#"Angels We Have Heard on High" – 1:48#"Deck the Halls" – 1:43#"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" – 2:11#"Winter Wonderland" – 2:20#"Holly Jolly Christmas" – 2:42...

     (2003)
  • Hello, Mannequin
    Hello, Mannequin
    Hello, Mannequin is the seventh album released by Joy Electric.Hello, Mannequin is the third release in the Legacy series and was created using the Roland System 100 synthesizer...

     (2004)
  • The Ministry of Archers
    The Ministry of Archers
    The Ministry of Archers is an album by Joy Electric. It is the fourth album in the five-part "Legacy" series. The Moog Voyager was used for the creation of all sounds on The Ministry of Archers.- Track listing :...

     (2005)
  • The Otherly Opus
    The Otherly Opus
    The Otherly Opus is an album by Joy Electric, released on March 20, 2007 on Tooth & Nail Records. Thematically, the album is split in two halves...

     (2007)
  • My Grandfather, The Cubist
    My Grandfather, The Cubist
    My Grandfather, The Cubist is an album by Joy Electric. Ronnie Martin has stated in a Q&A on the Joy Electric website that it is much more minimal than his previous albums, and the closest album sound that he can compare it to is Melody....

     (2008)
  • Favorites At Play
    Favorites at Play
    Favorites at Play is an album by Joy Electric. The album consists solely of covers of songs from nine different artists. It is the first such album from Joy Electric.-Track listing:In parenthesis is the artist who originally performed the song....

     (2009)
  • Dwarf Mountain Alphabet (2011)

Compilations

  • Happy Christmas (1998), track 2, "Winter Wonderland"
  • The Art and Craft of Popular Music
    The Art and Craft of Popular Music
    The Art and Craft of Popular Music is a double album by Joy Electric. It contains 34 songs in a "greatest hits" package spanning Joy Electric's career from 1994 to 2002...

     (2002)

EPs and Singles

  • Five Stars for Failure
    Five Stars For Failure
    Five Stars for Failure is an EP by Joy Electric. As the title would suggest, this EP contains much darker content than the preceding album, Melody...

     (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (1995)
  • Old Wives Tales
    Old Wives Tales (extended play)
    Old Wives Tales is an EP by Joy Electric. Like most of Joy Electric's EPs, Old Wives Tales sports a much more simplistic and minimal style then on the majority of the full-length discs...

     (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (1996)
  • The Land of Misfits
    The Land of Misfits
    The Land of Misfits is an EP by Joy Electric.-Track listing:#"Monosynth" – 3:19#"The Cobbler " – 2:50#"I'm Your Boy " – 3:06#"Sugar Rush " – 2:38#"The North Sea" – 4:17...

     (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (1998)
  • Children of the Lord
    Children of the Lord
    Children of the Lord is a single by Joy Electric. The single also features two covers: the first is an MxPx song , and the second a Keith Green song . "Children of the Lord" and "Make My Life a Prayer" were included on the following album, CHRISTIANsongs...

     (Single
    Single (music)
    In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

    ) (1999)
  • The White Songbook: Unmixed/ Unmastered songs from the full length album (Single
    Single (music)
    In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

    ) (2001)
  • Starcadia
    Starcadia
    Starcadia is an EP by Joy Electric. The concept of Starcadia is based upon rides that have existed in Disneyland: Matterhorn Bobsleds, Space Mountain, Starcade, Submarine Voyage, and Carousel of Progress...

     (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (2002)
  • The Tick Tock Companion
    The Tick Tock Companion
    The Tick Tock Companion is an EP by Joy Electric. It was released exclusively through the band's website shortly after the release of The Tick Tock Treasury.On this CD, bandleader Ronnie Martin is joined by synthesists Eric Melzer and Mike Perez....

     (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (2003)
  • Friend of Mannequin
    Friend of Mannequin
    Friend of Mannequin is an EP by Joy Electric. It was released in conjunction with the full-length Hello, Mannequin.-Track listing:#"Friend of Mannequin" – 2:21...

     (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (2004)
  • Workmanship (7") (2005)
  • Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons
    Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons
    Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons is an EP by Joy Electric. This EP was released November 15, 2005. It featured 5 songs by Joy Electric, 3 remixes of Joy Electric songs, and a song previously released on The Ministry of Archers on vinyl only...

     (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (2005)
  • Workmanship (CD reissue) (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (2007)
  • Their Variables
    Their Variables
    Their Variables is an EP by Joy Electric. It was released in conjunction with the full-length The Otherly Opus. It contains remixes of all ten songs from that album, plus two new songs.-Track listing:...

     (EP
    Extended play
    An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

    ) (2007)
  • Early Cubism
    Early Cubism
    Early Cubism is an EP by Joy Electric. It was made available for download online and was not released as a physical album. It contains three demo tracks from the recording sessions for My Grandfather, The Cubist.-Track listing:#"Four Gone Pierre" – 3:08...

     ((EP; digital download
    Music download
    A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...

    )) (2009) http://joyelectric.com/cubism.zip
  • Curiosities and Such
    Curiosities and Such
    -Track listing:#"Curiosities and Such" – 3:49#"Which Witch" – 3:28#"Headley Grange" – 1:36#"Let Us Speak No More, Let Us Speak Light" – 3:48#"Cluster of Bare Trees" – 2:17#"Misuses, Atrocities" – 4:01-Credits:...

    (EP) (2009)

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