This ensemble has included Mabi Thobejane, Amampondo, Steve Stevens, Eduardo Niebla, Greg Ellis, Taz Alexander, Sugizo, Budgie and recently Hamsika Iyer and Magi Hikri.
He wanted to create experimental music and non-musical soundtracks that would work with installations, art pieces, and film projects.
[citation needed] The 1997 Blue Room Released Bible of Dreams was Juno Reactor's fourth album.
[citation needed] The sixth Juno Reactor album, Labyrinth, was released in October 2004, and featured Watkins' work from the Matrix films.
[citation needed] In 2006, Watkins was hired to compose an orchestral score for Brave Story, a Japanese anime feature film.
Juno Reactor & The Mutant Theatre premiered at the Ozora Festival 4 August 2016 "TIME" a unique performance featuring the Juno Reactor live band: Tal Tula Ben-Ari (Vocals) Nataly Hay (Dancer) Amir Haddad (Oud and Guitars) Ben Watkins (Electronics & Guitar) Johann Bley (Drums).
[13] Ben Watkins remixed the track Nukhta for Indian band Medieval Punditz which subsequently got released on their compilation on 30 August 2019.
In 1997, while on tour with Moby, Ben Watkins was requested to create the score for the original Japanese horror movie Ring but had to turn it down due to being mid-tour.
[15] Later, Ben Watkins, in collaboration with Don Davis, worked with The Wachowskis for the Matrix 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 (Mona Lisa Overdrive) and the Agent Smith fight (Burly Brawl) from The Matrix Reloaded and the subway train chase (The Trainman Cometh), the shootout on the Merovingian's club (Tetsujin) and the end credits (Navras) from The Matrix Revolutions.
[16] Brave Story saw Ben Watkins score his first full orchestra feature, released in Japan where it was the number 1 film for 6 weeks.
Other Juno Reactor tracks appear on movies such as Eraser, Virtuosity, Lost in Space, the 1999 film Beowulf, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
[5][6] Juno Reactor soundtracks have also been played during baseball, basketball, and gridiron football games, and the Japanese Grand Prix.