Audiopile Review – The recent surge of interest in ‘90s trance continues on, and this time we’re treated to the first vinyl reissue of Juno Reactor’s epic 1997 full length, Bible Of Dreams. Taking off from the trance originators of the early ‘90s—recently documented in the excellent Planet Love comps on Safe Trip—Juno Reactor mainstay and founder Ben Watkins took the grab bag of world influences inherent in the genre and hyper focused on the percussive aspect, bringing in the famed South African and Nelson Mandela-approved percussionist Mabi Thobejane into the fold for this album. Driving Bible Of Dreams with his intense hand percussion, Thobejane adds an explosive and organic element to the psychedelic and sci-influenced sound of Watkins, resulting in Juno Reactor’s most revered and beloved full length. Comes packaged in an eye-popping spot-varnished and debossed jacket. 90’s trance fans rejoice!

Reissued on vinyl for the first time, Juno Reactor’s 1997 ‘Bible of Dreams’, also newly mastered and available of double black vinyl.

‘Bible of Dreams’ 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. The band collaborated with Amampondo, a traditional South African percussion act, on the single ‘Conga Fury’. Watkins and Amampondo went on a five-week tour of the US, opening for Moby.

Featuring music from the film soundtracks The Matrix Reloaded, Animatrix, Mortal Kombat Annihilation and Beowulf.

Composer, producer, musician and performer Ben Watkins is an essential innovator of modern electronic music and a pioneer of Trance. Over the course of nearly 30 years, Watkins has created a unique driving fusion of electronica, orchestral and global music executed on an epic & symphonic scale.

Juno Reactor was formed as an art project in 1990. Ben Watkins 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.

As well as releasing a string of influential albums as Juno Reactor, Watkins’ tracks have been placed in numerous high-profile feature films, television programmes and computer games and Ben Watkins composed large sections of the original score for the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, as well as composing the entire orchestral score for Japanese anime feature film Brave Story.