Featuring the diverse songs of songwriter Anthony Lloyd (BMI) and his band Electric Chair 3000. Please enjoy the music. If you would like to purchase or license any songs, look to the links on the side for more info. Please support any Internet radio station that you can by donating money. See the links to the side of the blog.
"Juggernaut" is one of two songs by Electric Chair 3000 available on the Rosenklang compilation calledDreaming Beach Party 2. It is one the few songs that I ever done that I had never changed anything on. It was composed as is and has never changed.
At the time of its composition, I was trying to make a song that combined funk, trop rock, Caribbean rhythms, and California surf rock. Yes.
In my mind, I succeeded which why I have never changed it. It one of the few songs I've done that I really love.
Currently, I have two songs on Dreaming Beach Party 2. The other is called "Southland". Both are 89 cents each. Only 89 cents. Less than a dollar.
Sometime this year, I will release the album called Juggernaut which features a whole selection of songs which combine funk, trop rock, Caribbean rhythms and California surf rock. Be on the lookout. Alert the media. Warn your family and friends.
"Juggernaut" and "Southland" composed by Anthony Lloyd.
Go out and write great songs
Anthony Lloyd
Electric Chair 3000
Way back in 2001, I composed a song called "Slam Slam Slam" for my group called Teflon. Teflon was an experimental project where I tried to combined funk and electronica into some sort of workable combo. The first Telfon CD was called "Turn That Shit Off Now!!!" which is what I would suspect someone to say if they heard it blasting out of radio, mp3 player or car.
Not one to be settled, I tried to mix and mash as many different styles of music into a solid whole. Truth be told, I get bored with one sound or style if it is played over and over. I can listen to 80's pop, hip hop, heavy metal and 70's funk in one setting. This doesn't make me special, I just want to let readers know where I'm coming from musically.
Back to "Slam Slam Slam." The song is now featured on a second Rosenklang compilation. The first one is called A Collection of Asian Pop. The song is also featured on the new compilation calledJapan 3.
Both versions are 89 cents. So help a brother out and go buy one or both if you're really feeling charitable.
Once again, the group is credited as The Electric Chair. Why? Because at one time it was called The Electric Chair. After thinking it over, I decided to change the name to Electric Chair 3000. Why? Because there are several other bands called The Electric Chair.
Rosenklang Records commissioned this song from my music publisher before the name change.
Thanks for reading. Go write some great songs.
Anthony Lloyd
Electric Chair 3000
"Apocalypse Dance Club" is the new release by Electric Chair 3000. It combines a modern electronica dance beat with distorted Rhodes keyboards, Miami bass and wild spacey organs. It's sort of a combo of the Black Eyed Peas and Daft Punk but with our own signature sound.
You can get a brief preview at Amazon MP3 Downloads. The song with be included in yet another upcoming Electric Chair 3000 digital album. Currently we are working on four digital albums to be released this year: Pacific Loop, Down Home, Juggernaut and Apocalypse Dance Club. Yeah, we're putting a lot of work this year.
Go out and buy "Apocalypse Dance Club" by Electric Chair for 99 cents. If a broke songwriter like me can afford 99 cents, you can. Peace.
"Venus" by Electric Chair 3000 is out now in most digital stores including iTunes and Amazon MP3 downloads. So do a struggling songwriter a favor and buy this outstanding song. Don't have an extra 99 cents to spare? No problem. Go to the Electric Chair 3000 Jango page and listen to it everyday for free and then go out and buy it.
"Venus" is to be included on the digital album called "Pacific Loop." So, be on the lookout for the album coming soon.
Venus by Electric Chair 3000 composed by Anthony Lloyd(BMI)
One of my most recent upload to Audiosparx is a French dance instrumental called "Le Dancer." This song was inspired after listening to an online radio station called Le Mouv to get idea of what is happening in French pop music.
A lot of French Pop is fast paced, upbeat dance music that combines elements of House and Electronica. Think Daft Punk, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas. That kind of music.
"Le Dancer" features two female vocal samples. The first female vocal is spoken in French and is saying "J'aitiens beaucoupde la danse " which means "I enjoy dancing" in English. The female is not listed at Internet Archives.
The second female vocal is by Ilona Europa (pictured) from Sony's "Ilona: Universal Female Vocal Toolkit." I got this and many other vocal sample for free from Sony's website. However, I like the samples so much that I will buy the entire set of loops by Europa.
So go and listen to "Le Dancer" at Audiosparx and if you want to license it for a media production, join Audiosparx if you're not a member already.
"Slam Slam Slam" is available on A Collection Of Asian Pop. Again, the group is credited as The Electric Chair. This song was selected before the name change.
Feel free to buy both "X-Static" and "Slam Slam Slam" or any of the other songs these compilations. 89 cents? Even I can afford that!
Why the name change? There are other bands called Electric Chair or The Electric Chair. I like the name though. So, to be different, I named my band Electric Chair 3000.
How are these songs doing? Are they making this songwriter money? Are they being played?
What isJango? Jango is an online radio station where the listener votes on the music. It is also a place where an unknown bands like Electric Chair 3000 gets to be played. So, go to Jango and request Electric Chair 3000 and become a fan.
Electric Chair 3000 joined Jango in March and so far we've liked the results. People are listening to the songs along side the likes of Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas and The Beatles and are becoming fans.
I will give a more in-depth review of Jango next week.
In summary, I'll say this: our songs are being played and people are listening.
"Blow Up" was one the first songs that I got a royalty check for and I didn't even know it. As a member of BMI, I am a songwriter who receives royalties for songs played on the radio, television or in-store media. Now, it doesn't mean that I only get royalties for songs played in the USA, BMI has its tentacles in foreign markets too.
In 2000, I used software called Acid DJ created by Sonic Foundry (now owned by Sony Music) to create all of my songs for the group I called Crowdpleaser. The software came with a disc with over 600 music loops. To date, I think I've used every one on that disc or at least I've tried too. "Blow Up" was supposed to be a combo of old school rap beats into modern electronica. It represented at the time the purpose of Crowdpleaser (now Electric Chair 3000) to combine as many styles of music into one solid whole. Truth be told, I'm a lot better at doing it now in 2011 then I was in 2000.
In 2005, "Blow Up" was played on a Taiwan radio station in the first quarter. Well, it got enough airplay to qualify for royalties.
At the time, I had no idea that it was being played anywhere. Because I never received royalties in the five years that I was with BMI, I assumed 05 was not going to be any different. To this end, I never checked my BMI account...for years.
Then one day in 2010, I decided to take songwriting seriously again and checked my BMI statement and I was shocked to see that I had a check coming to me.
Well, I clicked the box and open my pdf file to show my royalty statement and praise God there was "Blow Up" and how much money it made in 05. A grand total of $12.61. Was I upset? Hell no! It motivated me. I figured if I could one radio station to play my song, why not 100 or 1000. With the rise of internet radio, itunes and YouTube, any hustling artist or songwriter should be able to make some kind of money. The key words being hustling artist.
"Blow Up" was one of the many songs I had at the original MP3.COM. On the original MP3.Com, an independent artist could load up as many songs as he liked and have the public judge them. I had about 50 songs and some of them did relatively well. "Blow Up" wasn't one of them.
Mp3.Com was sold and all of the indie bands had to take down their songs or have them taken down. Some bands went to GarageBand other went to Myspace or their own websites.
Somebody in Taiwan must of downloaded" Blow Up"and liked it enough to play on the radio and years later I got a check for it.
This has motivated me to redouble my efforts at songwriting and promotion.
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