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The Joy Project
12+ albums
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about
The Joy Project (pka W. Keith Duffy) mixes a variety of electronic styles, including drum and bass, lounge muzak, samba, disco, funk...and am radio pop hits from 1973. In a review, Ink19.com says: "It's a little loungy, totally filtered, '70s-type porn music cool, groovy with chunky beats and smooth, rain-slicked melody. This is the type of music that if we all didn't know you were the coolest cat in the world, we might beat you up for listening to." Including both instrumentals and vocals, The Joy Project's most obvious influences include classics like The Hughes Corporation and The Andrea True Connection, as well as contemporaries Fantastic Plastic Machine and Towa Tei. Although the music is home-baked, published, and distributed exclusively by independent labels, many tracks have gone on to have lives of their own, including licensing deals with HBO's "The Sopranos," the Billy Kent comedy "The Oh in Ohio" starring Danny Devito, and The Oxygen Network's "Tempting Adam." For his day job, W. Keith Duffy, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. Connected to his work as The Joy Project, he has published research examining the rhetoricity of music and the use of digital recording technology in traditional postsecondary writing classes. He teaches academic writing for the social sciences, as well as courses in classical rhetoric, English education, and writing pedagogy. His refereed research articles include "Sampling as Citing: Digit
