![]() Two years later, he released his best known album, Structures from Silence (1984). His debut album, Now, was released in 1982. ![]() He moved to a bungalow in Culver City, in which he built a recording studio named the Timeroom and worked odd jobs while creating music. He lived in Hollywood, California for a brief time, during which he worked at the Licorice Pizza record store alongside future The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, and became a part of the electronic music community in the Los Angeles area. He went on to purchase a Micromoog, ARP 2600, and ARP String Ensemble at once with a "super high interest loan". Roach taught himself to play the synthesizer when he was 20 among his first instruments were a Roland SH-3A and Vox Continental. He was also influenced by progressive rock, namely Close to the Edge (1972) by Yes and Ummagumma (1969) by Pink Floyd. Roach was greatly influenced by electronic music as a teenager, particularly Timewind (1975) by Klaus Schulze and works by Tangerine Dream and Brian Eno. That set the tone." Having grown up near deserts, mountains, and the ocean, these became key aesthetic influences in Roach's music. You're completely in you're inside of it, your life depends on it. All of those things relate right over to what would become my path in music. ![]() ![]() He developed a passion for Motocross racing in the early 1970s, experiences from which he incorporated into his composing and performing later on. Roach was born as a single child in La Mesa, California, less than 10 miles from San Diego. Steve Roach performing at SoundQuest 2010. ![]()
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