The founding members are Philip Graulty, Chelsea Green, Ben Harbert, Brandon Mayer, Marc Nimoy, Felix Salazar, JohnPaul Trotter and Bryce Wilson.

They have performed music by Frank J. Oteri, Wayne Siegel, Randall Kohl, Cornelius Boots, Peter Yates, Derrick Spiva, and Nathaniel Braddock.

[citation needed] The Los Angeles Electric 8 produces arrangements of older works for their ensemble including Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, Giovanni Gabrieli, Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Franklin.

Their repertoire adapts music that was originally intended for strings, organ, gamelan, bells, wind ensembles, classical guitars and choirs.

[2] The concert included students of guitarist Peter Yates playing a West Coast premiere of three new works by Chicago composer/guitarist Nathaniel Braddock.