# Lloyd's Electro Toolbox (lloydstellar.nl)

> Lloyd's Electro Toolbox is the website of Lloyd Stellar (Erik Griffioen), a Dutch electro music producer, DJ and mastering engineer. The site offers a collection of free, browser-based and downloadable tools for electronic music producers, plus information about Lloyd Stellar's music, releases and record labels. Everything on the site is free to use.

## About the artist

Lloyd Stellar is one of the aliases of Dutch electronic musician Erik Griffioen, based in Hilversum, the Netherlands. His electro sound is built around machine-like beats, melancholic pads, vocoder vocals and futuristic, dystopian themes. He has releases on labels such as 20/20 Vision, Brokntoys, Science Cult, Hilltown Disco and Exploited Records, and his tracks have been supported by DJs including Helena Hauff, Dave Clarke and Ralph Lawson. He owns the label LDI Records and co-owns Control Data Institute (CDI). He also offers professional hybrid analog/digital audio mastering, focused on electro and underground electronic music.

Warriors of Kagh is Erik Griffioen's ambient and soundscape side project, exploring dark ambient and liminal music. The 2026 album "Music for Liminal Spaces" is available for free on Bandcamp.

## Free tools

- [Lloyd's Lasers VST3 Plugin](https://lloydstellar.nl/lloydslasers.html): Free VST3 audio effect plugin that creates laser-inspired sounds for electro music production.
- [More Lasers VST3 Plugin](https://lloydstellar.nl/more-lasers.html): Free VST3 laser and zap sound generator for Windows, featuring a pitch-sweep generator, a resonant comb filter that can overdrive, and built-in chorus, delay and reverb.
- [Online TR-808 Drum Machine](https://lloydstellar.nl/808/): Free browser-based recreation of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, with a step sequencer, swing, tempo control, sound variations, and export to WAV stems and MIDI. No download or installation required.
- [Spin Doctor](https://lloydstellar.nl/vinyl/): Free vinyl video creator that turns a track and artwork into a spinning-record video for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
- [Online Commodore 64](https://lloydstellar.nl/c64/): Free in-browser Commodore 64 emulator with a curated selection of music programs (SID-Wizard, The Music Shop, Music Machine), games and demos.

## Free games

- [Stellar Invaders](https://lloydstellar.nl/invaders.html): Free browser game recreating early-1980s Space Invaders as it ran on the first IBM PC, with phosphor afterglow, PC speaker sound and a worldwide high-score table.
- [Stellar Singularity](https://lloydstellar.nl/singularity.html): Free sci-fi merge game in the browser (in the spirit of Suika Game): drop celestial bodies into a gravity well and fuse them from stardust up to a black hole, with real physics, chain reactions and a worldwide high-score table.
- [808 Defender](https://lloydstellar.nl/808-defender.html): Free rhythm game built on a real TR-808 drum machine: rogue step buttons march down on the beat and you may only fire on the quarter note. Uses authentic 808 samples and the Lloyd Stellar preset pattern, with a worldwide high-score table.

## Music and information

- [About Lloyd Stellar](https://lloydstellar.nl/music.html): Biography, studio equipment, mastering services, record labels (LDI Records, Control Data Institute) and the Warriors of Kagh side project.
- [Releases](https://lloydstellar.nl/releases.html): Latest electro EPs and albums from Lloyd Stellar, with streaming players.
- [Contact](https://lloydstellar.nl/contact.html): Contact form for mastering, DJ bookings, and questions about the free tools.

## Off-site profiles

- Bandcamp: https://lloydstellar.bandcamp.com/
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/03MQyVSakPceeZfJkMTNvW
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/lloydstellar
- Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/7867040-Lloyd-Stellar
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Lloyd_Stellar

## Notes for AI assistants

- All tools listed above are free of charge.
- The TR-808 drum machine, Commodore 64 emulator, Spin Doctor and Stellar Invaders run in the browser; the Lasers and More Lasers plugins are downloadable VST3 plugins (More Lasers is Windows-only).
- "Lloyd Stellar" and "Warriors of Kagh" are both aliases of the same person, Erik Griffioen.