Steve Roach

Biography Roach during a soundcheck at SoundQuest in October 2010, Tucson, Arizona.

Roach was born a February 16, 1955 in La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego. He is an only child. He developed a passion for Motocross racing in the early 1970s, experiences from which he incorporated into his composing and performing later on. "You have to be fully awake and present ... All of those things relate right over to what would become my path in music. You're completely in; you're inside of it, your life depends on it. That set the tone." Having grown up near deserts, mountains, and the ocean, these became key aesthetic influences in Roach's music.

Roach taught himself to play the synthesizer when he was 20; among his first instruments were a Roland SH-3A and Vox Continental. He went on to purchase a Micromoog, ARP 2600, and ARP String Ensemble at once with a "super high interest loan". been beatless. His rhythmic and trance-based groove and tribal-ambient releases, however, are nearly as numerous of its use in ambient music. His work with Mexican musician Jorge Reyes introduced Roach to Prehispanic musical elements, which he has also included in his music. These fusions established Roach as one of the founders Quiet Music 2 (1986 Fortuna) -cassette Quiet Music 3 (1986 Fortuna) -cassette Dreamtime Return (1988 Fortuna) – 2 discs, (remastered 2005 Projekt) World's Edge (1992 Fortuna) – 2 discs Origins (1993 Fortuna) The Dream Circle (1994 Soundquest LTD1) -CD (Limited 2000 copies) Artifacts (1994 Fortuna) The Dreamer Descends (1995 Amplexus) The Magnificent Void (1996 Hearts of Space) On This Planet (1997 Hearts of Space) Slow Heat (1998 Timeroom Editions 1) Light Fantastic (1999 Hearts of Space) The Dream Circle (1999 Timeroom Editions) Re-release of 1994 CD Atmospheric Conditions (1999 Timeroom Editions) Early Man (2000 Manifold) - (1 disc Limited Slate Slab PKG) Midnight Moon (2000 Projekt) Early Man (2001 Projekt) - 2 discs Core (2001 Timeroom Editions) Streams & Currents (2001) Darkest Before Dawn (2002) Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (2003 Projekt) – 4 discs Life Sequence (2003) Fever Dreams (2004) Holding the Space: Fever Dreams II (2004 Timeroom Editions) Possible Planet (2005) New Life Dreaming (2005) Immersion: One (2006 Projekt) Proof Positive (2006) Kairos: The Meeting of Time and Destiny (2006) – CD + DVD Immersion: Two (2006 Projekt) Immersion: Three (2007) – 3 discs Fever Dreams III (2007) – 2 discs Arc of Passion (2007) - 2 discs A Deeper Silence (2008) Dynamic Stillness (2009) – 2 discs Immersion: Four (2009 Timeroom Editions) Afterlight (2009) Destination Beyond (2009) Sigh of Ages (2010) Immersion Five – Circadian Rhythms (2011) Groove Immersion (2012) Back to Life (2012) Soul Tones (2012) Future Flows (2013) Spiral Meditations (2013) The Delicate Forever (2014) The Delicate Beyond (2014) Bloodmoon Rising Night 2 (2014) Invisible (2015) Bloodmoon Rising Night 3 (2015) Skeleton Keys (2015 Projekt) Etheric Imprints (2015 Projekt) Vortex Immersion Zone (2015 Timeroom Editions) Skeleton – Spiral Passage (2015 Timeroom Digital) Emotions Revealed (2015 Projekt) This Place to Be (2016 Timeroom Editions 38) Shadow of Time (2016) Painting in the Dark (2016 Timeroom Editions 40) Fade to Gray (2016 Timeroom Editions 41) Spiral Revelation (2016) The Passing (2017 Timeroom Editions 39) Nostalgia for the Future (2017 Timeroom Editions 42) Long Thoughts (2017) Eclipse Mix (2017 Timeroom Editions 43) Molecules of Motion (2018) Return to the Dreamtime (2018 Timeroom Editions 44) Electron Birth (2018 Timeroom Edition 45) Mercurius (2018) Atmosphere for Dreaming (2018 Timeroom Editions 46) Bloom Ascension (2019) Trance Archeology (2019) Stillpoint (2020 Timeroom Editions 47) A Soul Ascends (2020) Tomorrow (2020 Soundquest Music) Into the Majestic (2021 Timeroom Editions 49) As It Is (2021) Zones, Drones & Atmospheres (2022) What Remains (2022) Rest of Life (2023) Sanctuary of Desire (2023)

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