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Ben Watkins is a British Electronic Music artist and producer, best known as being the principal member of the band Juno Reactor . He started making music in 1982 . In the early 1980s , Watkins started out as part of the London based New Wave band The Hitmen , featuring Alan Wilder who would end up in Depeche Mode and Recoil . He also played in Empty Quarter with Martin "Youth" Glover from Killing Joke .

After these, primarily guitar-based bands, he formed The Flowerpot Men (no relation to The Flower Pot Men , a British psychedelic-era band) together with Adam Peters , and recorded some songs which would follow the pattern of what would soon be called Techno Music . After the Flowerpot Men became Sunsonic and got dropped by their label, Watkins played with a few short-lived collaborations -- one of which included the group Psychoslaphead, known for their single of the same name -- before forming Juno Reactor. Watkins also wrote and produced Traci Lords ' solo album.


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