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Juno Reactor is a multi-national musical and performing group, primarily based in Brighton, UK. Known for their cinematic fusion of electronic, global influences, and orchestral symphonic approach, collaborating with composer Don Davis and composing for the musical score of '' The Matrix (Reloaded and Revolutions)''. Central to the project is Ben Watkins and his collaborations with a constantly changing ensemble of musicians from across the world. This ensemble has included
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Eduardo Niebla Eduardo Niebla is a Spanish guitarist. Besides his work with jazz and Spanish flamenco guitar, he has collaborated with trance group Juno Reactor and early in his career played in Spanish progressive rock band Atila, and the Franco-British progres ...
, Greg Ellis,
Taz Alexander Taz Alexander is a British singer who has toured with Juno Reactor, Alpha-X, and Sin e, among others. She currently resides in London, England. Career With Juno Reactor, she has provided her voice for the soundtracks for ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ...
,
Sugizo , born and better known by his stage name Sugizo, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist and violinist of the Rock music, rock band Luna Sea since 1989. Sugizo started his solo ...
, Budgie and recently
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and Magi Hikri.


History

Juno Reactor was formed as an art project in 1990.
Ben Watkins Juno Reactor is a multi-national musical and performing group, primarily based in Brighton, UK. Known for their cinematic fusion of electronic, global influences, and orchestral symphonic approach, collaborating with composer Don Davis and compo ...
wanted to collaborate with other artists, producing exciting projects that were not commercially driven. He wanted to create experimental music and non-musical soundtracks that would work with installations, art pieces, and film projects. Juno Reactor released their first single, "Laughing Gas", in 1993 on the NovaMute label. This was soon followed by their debut album, '' Transmissions''. Later, the band released '' Luciana'' on
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's (
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) Inter-Modo label. Juno Reactor left NovaMute and Inter-Modo in 1995 and signed with the UK label
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to release the single "Guardian Angel". Their album '' Beyond the Infinite'' was released in 1995. The 1997
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''
Bible of Dreams ''Bible of Dreams'' is the fourth album released by the multi-genre trance group Juno Reactor. The song "God Is God" was covered by Laibach for their album Jesus Christ Superstars (Mute Records) in 1996. Track listing All tracks made by Ben Wat ...
'' was Juno Reactor's fourth album. It had a very different sound from the group's previous albums, and moved away from the traditional dance beats by implementing tribal influences. Watkins collaborated with
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, a traditional
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n percussion act, on the single "Conga Fury". Watkins and Amampondo went on a five-week tour of the US, opening for
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. In 1998, Juno Reactor played a live set with Amampondo at
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. The group collaborated with
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on the track "I'm here...Another Planet" for the ''
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'' (1998) soundtrack. They teamed up with
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again in 1999 on the track "Exterminating Angel", featured on that group's album ''
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''. Watkins released the fifth Juno Reactor album, ''
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'', in 2000. It was the first of his albums on
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. The first track from the album, " Pistolero", was a collaboration with
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's guitarist,
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. The track was featured during the trailer for the movie ''
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'', as well as in the film itself. In the fall of 2002, Juno Reactor released a new single titled "Hotaka". It was recorded in a Japanese studio overlooking
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. "Hotaka" featured Stevens on guitar, and included traditional
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drummers Gocoo. In 2003, the album ''Odyssey 1992–2002'' was released as a compilation of the best Juno Reactor tracks of the decade. The sixth Juno Reactor album, ''
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'', was released in October 2004, and featured Watkins' work from the ''Matrix'' films. The album once again featured the tribal influences present in their music through tracks like "Conquistador II". In 2006, Watkins was hired to compose an orchestral score for ''
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'', a Japanese
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feature film.
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released the soundtrack, which was recorded at the Slovak Radio Concert Hall in
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with the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra. The album was written by "Ben Watkins aka Juno Reactor". In 2008 Ben Watkins collaborated with anime director Koji Morimoto for '' Genius Party Beyond'', an anthology of short animated films from Studio 4 °C. Juno Reactor's album '' Gods & Monsters'' was released in March 2008, and featured the introduction of Ghetto Priest and
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into the Juno Reactor fold, along with
Eduardo Niebla Eduardo Niebla is a Spanish guitarist. Besides his work with jazz and Spanish flamenco guitar, he has collaborated with trance group Juno Reactor and early in his career played in Spanish progressive rock band Atila, and the Franco-British progres ...
, Xavier Morel, and Yasmin Levy. In 2009, the band toured with drummer Budgie, of the band
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. Juno Reactor's album '' The Golden Sun of the Great East'' was released on Metropolis Records in 2013. Juno Reactor & The Mutant Theatre premiered at the
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4 August 2016 "TIME" a unique performance featuring the Juno Reactor live band: Tal Tula Ben-Ari (Vocals) Nataly Hay (Dancer)
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(Oud and Guitars) Ben Watkins (Electronics & Guitar) Johann Bley (Drums). Joined by Agnivo and Stigma Show, visual performance groups from Russia, under the banner of The Mutant Theatre. '' The Mutant Theatre'' was released by
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on 22 June 2018 and features tracks from the live show '' Juno Reactor & The Mutant Theatre''. The first single from the album, ''Our World'', was released on 30 June 2017. In August 2018, Juno Reactor performed at the
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Conference,
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. Along, on 10 August 2018, the single ''Dakota'' was released, written together with the Israeli DJ duo Undercover. On 22 August 2019, the EP '' Into Valhalla'' was released on
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(North America) and Blue Tunes Records (worldwide) featuring remixes by GMS and 3 of Life. Ben Watkins remixed the track ''Nukhta'' for Indian band Medieval Punditz which subsequently got released on their compilation on 30 August 2019.


Appearances in media


Movies and television

Juno Reactor produced and wrote
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' hit "
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". As an instrumental it featured on the soundtrack to the 1995 ''
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'' movie during the fight between Liu Kang and Reptile. The group also appeared on the
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to the sequel, ''
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'', with the track "Conga Fury". In 1997, while on tour with
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, Ben Watkins was requested to create the score for the original Japanese horror movie ''
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'' but had to turn it down due to being mid-tour. Instead, two tracks, Guardian Angel and Feel the Universe were used on the soundtrack compilation stating "inspired by". Later, Ben Watkins, in collaboration with Don Davis, worked with
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for the ''
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'' series of films and video games. Juno Reactor's music was featured in five sequences from the middle two films in the franchise, including the highway chase (
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) and the
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fight ( Burly Brawl) from ''
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'' and the subway train chase (The Trainman Cometh), the shootout on the Merovingian's club (Tetsujin) and the end credits (Navras) from ''
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''. ''
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'' also featured pre-existing tracks "Masters of the Universe" (in ''
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'') and "Conga Fury (Animatrix Remix)" (in ''
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''). ''
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'' saw Ben Watkins score his first full orchestra feature, released in Japan where it was the number 1 film for 6 weeks. in 2001 "
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", from the album ''
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'', was briefly used in the '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' movie trailer. Many other tracks have been used in films including those listed below. Their single "Guardian Angel" was featured as the opening theme of the
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series ''
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''. "Guardian Angel" was also featured in the movie ''
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'', starring
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and
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. Other Juno Reactor tracks appear on movies such as ''
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'', ''
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'', the 1999 film ''
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'', and ''
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''. Juno Reactor soundtracks have also been played during
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. The track Feel the Universe is featured in the Kevin Phillips first movie, Super Dark Times. Ben Watkins also worked on ''
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'' released in the fall of 2011.


Video games

The video game ''
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'' may have taken inspiration from the name of the band and used it to name an in-game location: The "Junon Underwater Reactor", a mako reactor. Their work appears in the
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game '' Jet Moto 3'',
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's ''
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'', PlayStation 2's ''
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,'' PlayStation 2's '' Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild,'' and the
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game '' Mad Dash Racing''. Juno Reactor also scored the PlayStation 2 game '' The Mark of Kri''. Juno Reactor also has a song in the game '' Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 4''. The trailer for ''
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'' includes an excerpt from the song "War Dogs" from the album ''
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''. Also from ''Labyrinth'', the song "Mutant Message" is featured in the ''
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'' trailer. Gran Turismo commissioned Juno Reactor to create exclusive GT mixes of ''Alien'' and ''Return of the Pistolero'' for their global release of
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, both tracks appear on the 2018 album.


Discography


Full-length albums

* '' Transmissions'' ( NovaMute Records 1993) * '' Luciana'' ( Inter-Modo 1994) (61-minute track originally recorded for the traveling art installation ''The Missile Project'') * '' Beyond the Infinite'' (
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1 October 1995) * ''
Bible of Dreams ''Bible of Dreams'' is the fourth album released by the multi-genre trance group Juno Reactor. The song "God Is God" was covered by Laibach for their album Jesus Christ Superstars (Mute Records) in 1996. Track listing All tracks made by Ben Wat ...
'' (
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1997) * ''
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'' (
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2000) * ''
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'' (
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,
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2004) * '' Gods & Monsters'' (
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2008) * '' The Golden Sun of the Great East'' (
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, April 2013) * '' The Mutant Theatre'' (
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, 22 June 2018)


Singles and EPs

* Laughing Gas (1993) * High Energy Protons (1994) * Guardian Angel (1995) * Samurai (1995) * Conga Fury (1996) * Jungle High (1997) * God Is God (1997) * GOD IS GOD!! (
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Mixes) (1997) * Pistolero (
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2000) * Nitrogen (2000) – 2 tracks taken from ''Shango'' *
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(2001) * Hotaka (2002) * The Zwara EP (2003) * Song to the Siren (2009) * Fear Not (with
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, 2009) * Our World ( Juno Reactor & The Mutant Theatre) (2017) * Dakota ( Juno Reactor & The Mutant Theatre) (2018) *Into Valhalla (2019)


Live recordings and compilation albums

* ''Odyssey 1992–2002'' * ''Shango Tour 2001 Tokyo (Live in Tokyo)'' (2002) * ''Juno Reactor Live – Audio Visual Experience'' (2007) * ''Inside the Reactor'' (2012) * ''The Golden Sun – Remixed'' (2015)


References


External links


JunoReactor.com
– Juno Reactor official website * * {{Authority control TVT Records artists English electronic music groups English techno music groups British trance music groups Goa trance musicians Mute Records artists Electronic music groups from London Musical groups established in 1990 English industrial music groups Cyberpunk music Metropolis Records artists