I’m excited to share something special with you, a remix of Mona Lisa Overdrive, reimagined by Reaky Reason.
Some of you may already know Reaky’s work, including a powerful reinterpretation of Navras. This track has always carried a certain weight, and in Reaky’s hands it’s been given a fresh intensity and perspective that feels both respectful and boldly new.
For Reaky, this remix is deeply personal. He’s loved Mona Lisa Overdrive ever since first encountering it during The Matrix Reloaded, a moment that clearly left a lasting imprint. That kind of connection is exactly what makes a remix powerful.
The original track itself holds a special place for me. It was the very first piece I was asked to write for The Matrix Reloaded. I remember being called out to Los Angeles in January 2003, tasked with finding a studio, which led me to an extraordinary place called The Paramour.
The Paramour in Silverlake wasn’t just a studio, it was an experience. A vast, hauntingly beautiful mansion with a history that seemed to seep through the walls. Built for Ramon Novarro, the first great Latin romantic film star, it carries within its walls the residue of longing, glamour, and something darker, less easily named. Once a gathering place for old Hollywood stars, Errol Flynn, David Niven, Humphrey Bogart, Anthony Quinn, and W.C. Fields…, it carried an atmosphere that was impossible to ignore. There were long nights in enormous rooms, strange noises & echoes with underground passage ways filled with art and objects, the sense that the past was always close by. Bob Dylan recorded there, Fiona Apple was in one of the small apartments recording her album “Extraordinary Machine”, films had been shot there, it is alive with 4th dimensions.
That environment became the backdrop to the writing of Mona Lisa Overdrive, and I think some of that energy made its way into the music.
To hear it now, years later, transformed through someone else’s passion and imagination that’s a rare and rewarding thing.
I hope you enjoy this new version as much as I have enjoyed thundering it out to dance crowds.
Stay Strange, Stay Kind
Keep feeling for the pulse beneath the noise.
Brilliant remix of Mona Lisa Overdrive finally puts the foot down, a hell of a mix by Reaky Reakson… Hope you enjoy it come Friday.
#matrix #matrixreloaded #newremix
El pistolero está de regreso... 🎩
Después de años sin verlo en nuestros escenarios, desde su última presentación en Fantastic Festival 2016, es momento de recibir a una leyenda.
🪐 Juno Reactor , regresa para los XX años de Atmosphere festival.
Un nombre que marcó generaciones…
y que hoy regresa para hacer historia una vez más.
🪐 XX AÑOS DE ATMOS
🎟️ Universal: $1,250
🎫 Platino: $1,750
🚐 Transporte Oficial: $390
Disponible en línea y puntos autorizados
#ATMOS #20AÑOS #OMMIX #PSYTRANCE
Zig Gron Music editor and brilliant wing man, helped me no end on the two films, as a friend and brilliant Music Editor. We had so many laughs everyday, which def helped with the nob-heads I had to deal with! #matrix #newremix #electronicmusic
Don Davis amazing composer & conductor giving it to the Orchestra for Mona Lisa Overdrive Session in LA, one of the many sessions I keep as treasured memory. New Remix of this little ditty by Reaky Reakson. #matrix #recording #remix
Matrix orchestral recording session
Chatting with JoeE Rand, the man behind so many films, as Music editor and composer, great guy to talk to about all the things I haven’t got a clue 😂
New Reaky Reakson remix out on the digital sea.
#matrix #remix #newmusic
When things go wrong it can be the best thing for you !
Mona Lisa Overdrive (the Freeway Chase) was the first track for the Matrix reloaded, I started it in Brighton, I was nervous, worried they might not like what i was doing!!’
My Cubase program kept on messing up big time, i tested a number of other programs, in the end I settled on Motu’s Digital Performer, it worked great and was also the DAW Don Davis used.
Scarlet (6) was meant to fly to South Africa with with Norma and Django but her passport had ran out, so she had to stay with me, in what I thought would be a important time for writing. By looking after Scarlet, instead of getting in my way, she calmed me down, it wasn’t all about me and the film, she played my Les Paul, with an effect on the Zoom 9030 that sounds like a sonic rubber band floating through space, it was the only space sound the Wachowski’s really liked. All these years later it is good to look back and remember not to worry about things out of your control.
The new Remix by Reaky Reakson is so powerful, I have been playing it in my sets for over a year, many updates later Reaky provided the ultimate version
I hope you enjoy it, comes out April 17th
Link in Bio if you wanna earmark it, it helps us with these god dam algorithms
💜
#digitalperformer #motu #matrix #freewaychase cubas
“It’s a bit like a car crash…”
No formula. Just people, energy, and instinct.
From South Africa to touring across America, musicians came together unexpectedly, each bringing something completely different. Then, Opera. Flamenco. Dance. Rhythm.
Worlds colliding into one sound.
You don’t plan it. You react to it. And then you see what comes out.
Also, the new remix of "Mona Lisa Overdrive" by @reaky.reakson is set for release April 17th - stay tuned!
@elamirguitar@virnavincelli@liliana_izyk@moduzen@josh_weinberg_music@marclaytonbennett@mauro_kenji_serra
#JunoReactor #CreativeProcess #Collaboration #MusicFusion #ElectronicMusic #BehindTheScenes #MusicJourney
Pistoleros’s in Tenerife
Left to Right
Wiggz : The human jumping bean Guitarman
Josh: Man on a mission to prove you can drum with one leg working.
Liliana: Straight out of twin Peaks Surreal and Operatic
Virna: A Tour de Force, 6 Shooter loaded
Ben: can’t talk about myself
Marc: Loves a good healthy looking brew
Amir: My Pistolero Number One
Big thanks to the JR Band for always making shows so enjoyable, especially all the added work put into these “Inside The Matrix” Shows, which I wouldn’t have thought of if it wasn’t for Pedro @tenerifenoir coming up with the Idea. As they worked so well we will be doing more theatre shows in the future in this format. Big thanks to the Crew: Miles, Erik & Mauro
