Who is juno reactor

LP: This disc veers from heart-attack anthems to freaked out dub and jazz. Ben Watkins: A car, petrol and a long road is all you need. The sweet perfume of a distant horizon. LP: You're a wired dude. What's the future of the music industry as we know it? Ben Watkins: There is no future, only this moment. The future is not worth looking at. Just the present — and picture postcards. Forget culture clash.

In , they released a single titled "Hotaka," which was recorded in Japan and featured traditional taiko drumming by percussion ensemble Gocoo. The group celebrated its first decade with the retrospective Odyssey: Following Juno Reactor 's collaborations with Don Davis on the film scores to The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions , the band released the full-length Labyrinth , which featured an extensive cast of guest musicians as well as the Hollywood Film Chorale.

Watkins composed the orchestral score for the Japanese anime film Brave Story, which was recorded with the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra and released by Sony Japan. The album featured several new additions to the Juno family, including Japanese guitarist Sugizo and dancehall reggae toaster Ghetto Priest. The album partially returned to their earlier Goa trance sound while still incorporating their widescreen cinematic vision and global influences.

The Golden Sun Remixed followed in , as the group continued to tour across the world. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.

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The album, titled Luciana , was essentially the tracks created for "The Missile Project". While the driving force behind the music was still a heavy barrage of trance influences, Watkins added in more diverse elements, such as break beats.

Relatively different from the previous three albums, it marked a dynamic transformation away from the typical dance-techno formula that continues to dominate the genre.

Later that year, Watkins took Amampondo on a five week tour of the U. The performances proved a crowd pleaser, and Juno Reactor kept Amampondo as a full time tour collaborator. Watkins completed the fifth Juno Reactor album, Shango , and the first for Metropolis Records in Named after the Nigerian God of Thunder, the title alluded to an image of governments and media sterilizing facts of a major European war to make it seem normal to the citizens of the world.

Many myths and legends are explored, ranging from South African tribalism to Celtic mythology. In fall , Juno Reactor delivered a new single titled Hotaka.