Stefane Holweck

Frenchman Stephane Holweck started his music career in 1976, when he joined Hungarian Peter Ogi (O.G.I.) as bass player. OGI signed a deal with Malcolm McLaren, so they moved to London, UK. In the early 80's, he played with several South London rock bands, and started jamming with Youth who had just left KILLING JOKE, and they formed their own group called BRILLIANT. They both played the bass and were mega boosted by the drumming of Big Paul. The group recorded various singles and got charted in the independent charts. They were also joined by Jimmy Cauty, who lived in the same house as Stephane. Ben Watkins joined them in 1983 to play keyboards on a tour.

In 1984, Stephane created another band called FRESH, with Brandon Beal and Muff O'Donnell. In 1985 they recorded Bobby's Boys "Bobby Can't Dance". An electro single which involved Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese. They went to New York to record an album, but the collaboration stopped as the record company closed down.

In 1989 he made a band with Ben Watkins called ELECTROTETE, which was a 100% electronic based music project. They recorded singles for various labels including Raveage Records, Warner Brother and R&S. This project was really dedicated to make party music, sending the tracks to Goa, India, through the French DJ Yayo TBE and Fred KNK.

In 1992 Ben and Stef then made JUNO REACTOR and releases an album called Transmissions on Nova Mute. They also involved themselves in the art world when they recorded a live experimental ambient soundtrack to accompany the sculptural installation of Norma Fletcher. The track was later released on an album as «Luciana» by Alex Paterson's Inter Modo label. They also remixed for a few artists like SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES, FATIMA MANSIONS, KILLING JOKE, LAIBACH as well as a track for Traci Lords debut album.

Slowly Stef has slowed down his work relationship with Ben, but was still participating on the albums «Beyond the Infinite», «Bible of Dream» and «Shango». In the meantime, to escape the intensity of working with Juno Reactor, Stef linked up with Serge Souque in Paris in a TBE party on the famous Delo Barge. They wrote two tracks and recorded them in Youth's Butterfly Studios under the name TOTAL ECLIPSE. Soon after, Loic Vanpoucke joined the band. From there they built their studio in Serge’s hometown Bordeaux.

The following two years saw the imposition of Total Eclipse sound on the European dance floors with the release of vinyl singles through Dragonfly and TIP Records. «Delta Aquarids» their first album was out in 1995 with the new label Blueroom Released followed by a double album «Violent Relaxation» in 1996. They remixed for JUNGLE HIGH, KILLING JOKE, SVEN VÄTH, ANNE CLARK, GONG, PRANA etc. The group has also recorded under other names such as TYPHOON, THE ANTIDOTE and a collaboration with members of THE INFINITY PROJECT and HALLUCINOGEN called THE MYSTERY OF THE YETI.

In 1999 Blueroom released the third album of Total Eclipse, «Access Denied». The band also launched their own label called Totally Eclipsed Recording and released a compilation; «Melatonic Music» included artist such as Toirés, Pyxis and Electroslide. In the beginning of 2000 Serge Souque quit the band to form his own project The Antidote while Loic and Stef kept on touring with Total Eclipse around the world. In Japan Stef asked Michio Baba to play live gigs with Total Eclipse. As a result they wrote a few new Total Eclipse tracks together Their fourth album «Update files» was released in Japan during the winter 2003. But the collaboration in between Michio and Stef was also taking another turn as they built together the foundations of the collective DIGITAL MYSTERY TOUR. Michio's studio being in Tokyo and Stef's one in Bordeaux, Michio found the way to link everybody through the web. Stephane Holweck continues touring around the world and creating new projects such as Terraformers and Toxic Engine, exploring many different music styles.