History Music / JoyElectric

* AnimeHair: Ronnie's weird 'do (with one patch of hair spiked straight up, and the rest of his hair carefully combed down) in the photos for * ''[=CHRISTIAN=]songs''.

* AnimeHair: Ronnie's weird 'do (with one patch of hair spiked straight up, and the rest of his hair carefully combed down) in the photos for ''CHRISTIANsongs''.

* AnimeHair: Ronnie's weird 'do (with one patch of hair spiked straight up, and the rest of his hair carefully combed down) in the photos for ''The White Songbook''.

* BoleroEffect: The instrumental buildup in the song "The White Songbook".

* LyricalColdOpen: "The Otherly Opus", "The Memory of Alpha", and "Red Will Dye These Snows of Silver".

* RearrangeTheSong: A lot of the [=EPs=] feature remixes of songs from the just-released album. In particular, ''Their Variables'' has remixes of every single track from ''The Otherly Opus''.

* TextlessAlbumCover: ''The Ministry of Archers''.

* GenreAdultery: The album ''Unelectric'' featured Ronnie performing prior songs with acoustic instruments. ''The Tick Tock Companion'' EP sees Ronnie abandon pop for TangerineDream-style abstract jamming.

* UnpluggedVersion: Subverted on ''Unelectric'', which covers his prior Synth Pop songs on acoustic guitar, but still including stripped down synths and drum machines.

Ronnie raised funds for self-releasing the next JE album, ''Dwarf Mountain Alphabet'' via Kickstarter.

* ''Dwarf Mountain Alphabet'' ([[ScheduleSlip initially scheduled for fall 2011 release]]; currently Ronnie is recording vocals for it)

* Retraux: Played with frequently in the use of analog synths, drum machines, and sequencers.

* The Brothers Martin: ''The Brothers Martin'' (2007) A mix of modern rock, new wave, and synth-pop. Ronnie's first collaboration with [[{{Starflyer 59}} Jason Martin]] since the Dance House Children days.

* {{all lowercase letters}}: ''The White Songbook'''s liner notes.

* ConceptAlbum: ''The White Songbook'', ''The Tick Tock Treasury'', ''Hello, Mannequin'', ''The Ministry of Archers'', and ''The Otherly Opus'' were supposed to be parts of what Ronnie called The Legacy Series. The themes of some of these made sense on their own: ''Tick Tock'' [[AllThereInTheManual had a story in the liner notes]] about a fantasy kingdom under attack. ''Mannequin'' was about the dark side of both fame and friendship. The second half of ''Opus'' was about [[TheBible the book of Genesis]], between the Fall and the Flood. But ''Songbook'' and ''Archers'' were impenetrable, and no one besides Ronnie knows how the five albums are supposed to be connected.

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* OldShame: Ronnie consistently cites ''We Are the Music Makers'' as his least favorite album. He feels that, underneath the new production techniques, the songs themselves were subpar.

* UnpluggedVersion: Subverted on ''Unelectric'', which covers his prior Synth Pop songs on acoustic guitar, but still including stripped down synths and drum machines.

* ''Dwarf Mountain Alphabet'' ([[ScheduleSlip initially scheduled for fall 2011 release]]; currently Ronnie is raising funds for it)

At the moment, Ronnie is raising funds via Kickstarter to pay for self-releasing the next JE album.

In 2010, Ronnie moved to Ohio, got a day job as a worship arts pastor, and started a new synthpop project (with his daughter, Beth) called Said Fantasy. According to statements in interviews and on his official forum, Ronnie's plan is to split his two songwriting focuses between both projects: Said Fantasy's be his outlet for songs influenced by early electronic music, while Joy Electric will focus on pop and feature extensive use of polyphony.

In 2010, Ronnie moved to Ohio, got a day job as a worship arts pastor, and started a new synthpop project (with his daughter, Beth) called Said Fantasy. Consequently his songwriting for Joy Electric has slowed down, but Ronnie doesn't plan to retire that name just yet. In 2011, JE parted ways with Tooth & Nail Records. At the moment, Ronnie is raising funds via Kickstarter to pay for self-releasing the next JE album.

!!Discography:

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* NonindicativeTitle: Joy Electric has far more songs ranging from melancholy to outright {{wangst}}y than they do genuinely joyful songs. Ronnie even claimed on the official forum once that "I don't write happy songs".
** Also, some of his releases are marked as [=EPs=], but are long enough that they could be considered albums. In particular, ''The Tick Tock Companion'' and ''Their Variables'' are both longer than the albums they were released after (''The Tick Tock Treasury'' and ''The Otherly Opus'', respectively).
* NotChristianRock: Subverted; while Joy Electric's lyrics are mostly abstract with few obvious references to Christianity, he's always been upfront about his faith in interviews, and he wrote the album ''[=CHRISTIANsongs=]'' specifically so people would stop asking, "So, is Joy Electric a Christian band?" Ronnie himself is also worship arts pastor.

* [[PerishingAltRockVoice Perishing Synth Pop Voice]]

* BlackSheepHit: "Sugar Rush" and "Drum Machine Joy" (the latter of which is HilariousInHindsight, considering Ronnie's refusal to use drum machines in almost all his albums since[[hottip:*:''Hello, Mannequin'' is the one exception; he used a Roland CR-78]].

* DontShootTheMessage: While Ronnie is a devout Christian, some of his lyrics address hypocrites and prigs who claim the faith ("Disloyalist Party", for example).

* [=~Don't Shoot The Message~=]: While Ronnie is a devout Christian, some of his lyrics address hypocrites and prigs who claim the faith ("Disloyalist Party", for example).

* BlackSheepHit: "Sugar Rush" and "Drum Machine Joy" (the latter of which is HilariousInHindsight, considering Ronnie's refusal to use drum machines in any album since, except for ''Hello, Mannequin'', on which he used a Roland CR-78).

In 2010, Ronnie moved to Ohio, got a day job as a worship arts pastor, and started a new synthpop project (with his daughter, Beth) called Said Fantasy. Consequently his songwriting for Joy Electric has slowed down, but Ronnie doesn't plan to retire that name just yet.

* ''Dwarf Mountain Alphabet'' (not yet released; [[ScheduleSlip initially scheduled for fall 2011 release]])

* GenreAdultery: The album ''Unelectric'' featured Ronnie performing prior songs with acoustic instruments. "Wireless, From London" (off the ''Workmanship'' EP) is the only JE song to use polysynthesizers. ''The Tick Tock Companion'' EP sees Ronnie abandon pop for TangerineDream-style abstract jamming.

In 2010, Ronnie moved to Ohio and started a new synthpop project called Said Fantasy. Consequently his songwriting for Joy Electric has slowed down, but Ronnie doesn't plan to retire that name just yet.

* ''Dwarf Mountain Alphabet'' (scheduled for fall 2011)

* The Brothers Martin: ''The Brothers Martin'' (2007) A mix of modern rock, new wave, and synth-pop. Ronnie's first collaboration with Jason Martin since the Dance House Children days.

* GenreAdultery: The album ''Unelectric'' featured Ronnie performing prior songs with acoustic instruments. "Wireless, From London" (off the ''Workmanship'' EP) is the only JE song to use digital synthesizers. ''The Tick Tock Companion'' EP sees Ronnie abandon pop for TangerineDream-style abstract jamming.

* IAmNotShazam: The long title of Dance House Children's final album caused many fans to think Ronnie had changed the band's name to Rainbow Rider.