What is Ronnie Martin?

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Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric.
Ronnie Martin is a 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 . His other works include Dance House Children (a relatively unknown techno/house group comprised of Martin and his brother Jason, who went on to form Starflyer 59), Shepherd (his rock side-project), Rainbow Rider, The Brothers Martin (a pop-rock collaboration with his brother Jason) and The Foxglove Hunt. He is also the founder and previous owner of the electronic music label, Plastiq Musiq.

Martin is an analog purist, meaning he uses only analog synthesizers and sequences in his music. He is a self-proclaimed Christian and appeared in the movie Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?. His musical influences include Keith Green, Kraftwerk, New Order and Joy Division, Depeche Mode, and Daft Punk.


External Links:

Official Joy Electric Website

Listen to Joy Electric on Myspace

Listen to The Brothers Martin on myspace

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Ronnie Martin
Discography
Albums: Melody We Are the Music Makers Robot Rock CHRISTIANsongs Unelectric The White Songbook The Tick Tock Treasury The Magic of Christmas Hello, Mannequin The Ministry of Archers The Otherly Opus
Extended Plays: Five Stars for Failure Old Wives Tales The Land of Misfits Starcadia The Tick Tock Companion Friend of Mannequin Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons Workmanship (CD) Their Variables
Singles: "Children of the Lord"
Box Sets: The Art and Craft of Popular Music (2-disc best of)
Seven-inch Vinyl: Workmanship
DVDs: Picturebook

References

Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop ever since.
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Joy Electric is a one-man electropop/synth pop group consisting of Ronnie Martin. The group started out in 1994, after the demise of Dance House Children, a band Ronnie was in with his brother Jason Martin of Starflyer 59.
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Electropop (also called Technopop) is a form of synth pop music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981. Electropop laid the groundwork for a mass market in chart-oriented synthpop, but later became seen by musicologists as merely a
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Dance House Children was the early 1990's musical group of Ronnie Martin and Jason Martin that would become the precursor to The Brothers Martin. In the liner notes of Jesus, Ronnie described its music as trendy, club-oriented rave music.
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Techno is a form of electronic dance music that had its early beginnings in Western Europe in the late 1970s[1] and later developed and established as a genre in Detroit, Michigan during the 1980s.
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House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. House music is strongly influenced by elements of the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco.
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Jason Martin is a musician from Southern California. He is best known as a member of the indie rock band Starflyer 59, one of the first bands to sign with Tooth & Nail Records.
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For the Japanese airline see StarFlyer.


Starflyer 59 is an indie rock band from Riverside, California that was founded in 1993 by Jason Martin, brother of Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric.
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Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or synthesizers.
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The Brothers Martin is an indie rock band from Riverside, California consisting of brothers Ronnie Martin and Jason Martin. [1] Musically, it incorporates elements of both Joy Electric and Starflyer 59 (Ronnie and Jason's primary music projects, respectively): electropop
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For other uses, see Pop rock (disambiguation).


Pop rock is a subgenre of rock music that uses "catchy" pop style, with light lyrics over top of "guitar-based" songs.
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Plastiq Musiq is an electronic music record label created by Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric in 1997. It is sometimes referred to as PQMQ for short. Plastiq Musiq shared a partnership with Tooth and Nail Records until it was turned over to Mike Williams in 2005.
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An analog synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically.

Analog synthesizer circuit composition


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You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. A purist is one who desires that a particular item remain true to its essence and free from adulterating or diluting influences.
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Christianity

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Keith Gordon Green (October 21, 1953 – July 28, 1982) was an American gospel singer, songwriter, musician, and Contemporary Christian Music artist originally from Sheepshead Bay, New York.
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Kraftwerk (pronounced [ˈkʁaftvɛɐk], German for "power station") is a German musical group from Düsseldorf that has made immense contributions to the development of improvisational rock and electronic music,
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New Order were [1] an English rock group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass, electronic drums), and Stephen Morris (drums, synthesizers).
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Joy Division were an English rock band that formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. The band consisted of Ian Curtis (vocals and guitar), Bernard Sumner (guitar and keyboards),[1] Peter Hook (bass guitar and vocals), and Stephen Morris (drums and percussion).
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Depeche Mode (IPA: /dəˌpɛʃˈmoʊd/) are an electronic music group that formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, England.
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Daft Punk is the collective name of Paris house musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974)<ref name="MusiqueVol.1" /> and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975).<ref name="MusiqueVol.
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Melody
(1994) Five Stars For Failure
(1995)

Melody is the debut album by Joy Electric that was released in November, 1994. In 2006, it was re-released on iTunes, along with Robot Rock and CHRISTIANsongs.
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We Are the Music Makers
(1996) Old Wives Tales
(1996)

For the band of the same name see We Are the Music Makers (band)

We Are the Music Makers is an album by Joy Electric.
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Robot Rock
(1997) The Land of Misfits
(1998)

Robot Rock is the third full-length album by Joy Electric. In 2006, it was rereleased on iTunes, along with Melody & CHRISTIANsongs.
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CHRISTIANsongs
(1999) Unelectric
(2000)

CHRISTIANsongs is the fourth full-length album by Joy Electric. A music video was recorded for "Children of the Lord.
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Unelectric
(2000) The White Songbook
(2001)

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
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The White Songbook
(2001) Starcadia
(2002)

The White Songbook is the fifth studio album by Joy Electric, and the first in the band's ongoing Legacy series.
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The Tick Tock Treasury
(2003) The Tick Tock Companion
(2003)

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
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Hello, Mannequin
(2004) Friend of Mannequin
(2004)

Hello, Mannequin is the seventh album released by Joy Electric. Every sound on the album was created on a Roland System 100 synthesizer.
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The Ministry of Archers
(2005) Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons
(2005)

The Ministry of Archers is an album by Joy Electric. It is the fourth album in the five-part "Legacy" series.
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