A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist, Steve Roach (born 1955 in La Mesa, California) drew on the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient. Inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis and by the Peter Weir film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback, with field recordings of aboriginal life inspiring his acknowledged masterpiece, the double-album Dreamtime Return. 

After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom, and in the years to follow grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with artists including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, - in all, close to two dozen major works in the 1990s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music.


Steve Roach : Ambient retrospective (Invisible landscapes) 1982-

1) Floyd Westerman, also known as Kanghi Duta ("Red Crow" in Dakota)
2) Mercurius Alchemical Creation From The Realm Of Opposites - Mercurius / 2018
3) The unreachable place (again) - Truth & Beauty / 1999
4) Deep sky time - New life dreaming / 2005
5) Memory - Empetus / 1986
6) Liminal - At The Threshold Of The In-Between - Mercurius / 2018
7) Calyx revelation - Halcyon days  / 1996
8) Longing to be...- Sigh of ages / 2010
9) Night strands - The road eternal / 2011
10) Cloud Of Unknowing - The magnificient void / 1996
11) Cloud of knowing - Shadow of time / 2016
12) Infinite shore - The magnificient void / 1996
13) Specter - Desert Solitaire/ 1989
14) Aftermath - Truth & Beauty / 1999
15) Calyx revelation w/Stephen Kent / Kenneth Newby – Halcyon Days / 1996
16) Oracle (part 2) -   Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces / 2003
17) Connected underground - Origins / 1993
18) HeartBreath - Tomorrow / 2020
19) One - 01 - Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig - Mantram / 2004
20) Immanent - Mercurius / 2018
21) Structures from silence - Structures from silence / 1984
22) Ascension for protection - Cavern of sirens / 1997
23) The current below -  Cavern of sirens / 1997
24) Aeon -  Mercurius / 2018
25) Birth still of places - Dynamic stillness / 2009 
26) Soul tones -  Soul tones / 2012
27) Underground clouds over a secret grotto - Atmospheric conditions / 1999
28) HearAfter - The Delicate Forever / 2014
28) Perfect sky -  The Delicate Forever / 2014
29) Quiet friend - Structures from silence / 1984
30) The return - Dreamtime Return / 1988
31) This life - Day out of time / 2002
32) Cloud of New Promise  / Michael Stearns ‎– Beyond Earth & Sky / 2021
33) The initiation - Steve Roach, David Hudson, Sarah Hopkins – Australia: Sound Of The Earth / 2001

Steve Roach - Ambient mix (Invisible Landscapes)

Music curator and a selector. Avid record collector (cd's and vinyls) and a mixologist since the late 1990's. Radio show host from 2000 to 2009. Resident DJ from 2002 to 2012. I spend a lot of time listening to new and older music, curation is my passion.

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Music I like : ambient, techno, dub-tech, deep house, Detroit Techno, IDM, downtempo, trip-hop and hip-hop, funk, electro, italo-disco, synth pop, new wave, krautrock, jazz, OST & dub. 

Infuences :  Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Biosphere, Can, Vangelis, Global communication, Autechre, FSOL, Photek, Aphex Twin, David Toop, Laurent Garnier, Plastikman, Underworld, Speedy J, Gescom, Beyond records, Waveform, Rising High, DJ Shadow, Monolake, Bandulu, UR, Basic Channel & Chain Reaction, Rhythm & Sound, Rockers Hi-Fi, Burial and lately : EEE edits, Kuniyuki, Dialog, Music From Memory (label) and Sound migration.

I am mostly interested in mingling with record collectors, art lovers & music connoisseurs alike. Real DJ's who play live and collectors of physical medias. Birds of a feather flock together!

Steve Roach - Ambient mix (Invisible Landscapes)

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