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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name = Electric President
| image = Electric
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| origin = [[Jacksonville, Florida]]
| genre = [[Electronic music|Electronic]], [[
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| label = [[Morr Music]]
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| current_members = [[Ben Cooper (musician)|Ben Cooper]]<br>Alex Kane
| past_members =
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'''Electric President''' is a [[Jacksonville, Florida]] musical group started in 2003 by [[Ben Cooper (musician)|Ben Cooper]] and Alex Kane. Both were in Helicopter Project prior to its breakup though no music from this group was ever released. Afterwards the pair decided to continue to make music together.
Electric President's first release was a pseudo-eponymous album (named "Self-Titled" rather than "Electric President") in early 2006. They gained limited mainstream
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In 2009 Electric President left Morr Music and released their third album, [[The Violent Blue]], with Fake Four Inc. The album was largely made up of songs left over from the making of the group's previous album, ''Sleep Well''. After ''The Violent Blue'', ''Electric President'' went into hiatus as Alex Kane wanted to further his career and Ben Cooper focused on other projects, like Radical Face.
Electric President's mix of glitch, electronica and indie songwriting has been compared to [[The Postal Service]], [[Styrofoam (artist)|Styrofoam]], [[The Weakerthans]] and Anticon's [[cLOUDDEAD]].
In 2013, Ben Cooper announced on the Radical Face website that himself and Alex were planning a fourth ''Electric President'' album. He also hinted that it could be a [[Dance music|dance]] record.
==Releases==
Alex and Ben's first set of recordings with the name ''Electric President''. The EP consisted of five songs, four of which being released between two volumes (2004).
;Track Listing
Vol. 1
#"Good Ol' Boys" - 4:05
#"Dotted Lines" - 4:06
Vol. 2
#"I'm Not the Lonely Son (I'm the Ghost)" - 3:17
#"Wearing Influence on Our Sleeve-less T-shirts" - 3:49
=== ''S/T'' ===
The first official album to be recorded by Electric President was ''[[S/T (Electric President album)|S/T]]'' (2006).
;Track Listing
#"Hum" - 2:20
#"Snow on Dead Neighborhoods" - 3:26
#"Some Crap About the Future" - 5:06
#"Metal Fingers" - 3:50
#"We Were Never Built to Last" - 4:28
#"Farewell" - 7:56
=== ''Sleep Well'' ===
Released in June 2008.
;Track Listing
#"Bright Mouths" - 4:48
#"We Will Walk Through Walls" - 4:31
#"Graves and the Infinite Arm" - 4:39
#"Adrift in Space, or Whatever" - 1:20
#"Ether" - 5:10
#"Robophobia" - 4:35
#"Lullaby" - 5:36
#"It's Like a Heartbeat, Only it Isn't" - 1:02
#"All the Bones" - 5:16
#"It's an Ugly Life" - 5:52
#"When it's Black" - 5:12
=== ''The Violent Blue'' ===
Released with an American label, ''[[Fake Four Inc.|Fake Four]]'', ''[[The Violent Blue]]'' (2010) became the first American album by ''Electric President''.
;Track Listing
#"The Ocean Floor" - 5:03
#"Mr. Gone" - 3:06
#"Safe and Sound" - 4:07
#"Feathers" - 3:23
#"Nightmare No. 5 or 6" - 5:48
#"The Violent Blue" - 4:14
#"Circles" - 4:12
#"Elegant Disasters" - 4:31
#"Eat Shit and Die" - 3:09
#"All the Distant Ships" - 8:39
== Discography ==
* ''You Have the Right to Remain Awesome'' EP (2004)
* ''[[S/T (Electric President album)|S/T]]'' (24 January 2006, [[Morr Music]])
▲* ''You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 1'' 7" (29 June 2006, Morr Music)
* ''[[Sleep Well (album)|Sleep Well]]'' (24 June 2008, Morr Music)
* ''[[The Violent Blue]]'' (23 February 2010, Fake Four Inc.)
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! Year
! Song |-
| 2006 || Insomnia
▲* Insomnia
▲* Grand Machine No 12
▲* Ten Thousand Lines
▲* Good Morning, Hypocrite
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| 2008 || It's an Ugly Life
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* scrapbook 1 ▼
| 2008 || Explanatory
* scrapbook 2▼
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▲* Monsters
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| 2008 || Monsters
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| 2009 || The Violent Blue
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| 2010 || Feathers
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[[Category:Electronic music groups from Florida]]
[[Category:Musical duos]]▼
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