Steve Roach Exclusive

The door to the Timeroom archives is opening.

A monthly subscription to what Steve has kept in the Timeroom: concerts and rehearsals, alternate mixes, long-form zones and lost pieces, reaching back to a cassette made in 1980.

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Black and white portrait of Steve Roach, arms folded — Steve Roach, 2022

Behind the door

What the shelves have been holding.

“It is staggering, the abundance of material never heard outside the Timeroom.”— Steve

Steve goes through the archive himself and regularly adds what he finds. Subscribers stream each release in the Bandcamp app or download it DRM-free, in MP3, FLAC and more.

Concerts and rehearsalsFrom around the world, some of them more than forty years old
Lost piecesLost Pieces 2020, Timeroom Archives Vol. 1
Long-form zonesZone Offerings, Zone Expansions, Kairos Zone
Advance releases and alternate mixesBonus material from recent albums and deep catalog titles

Four from the archive

Forty-six years, one door.

1980

The Passage

Recorded live to cassette in a bedroom in Culver City, converted into a studio and already an early Timeroom: an Arp 2600, two Arp sequencers, a Micro Moog, a Roland SH3A and a Space Echo, with Klaus Schulze very much in the air. Steve thought of making it his first solo cassette, then felt his music moving away from long sequencer pieces.

19:24 · Early Years

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1982

Terminal Island Prison

Steve left La Mesa for Los Angeles in 1979, in a VW bug with the back seat taken out to make room for the synthesizers. Soon he was playing across the city and working at the Licorice Pizza record store on Sunset. One of the more surreal bookings of those years took him inside the prison at San Pedro. The recording has had no mastering and no EQ.

18:28 excerpt · May 3, 1982 · San Pedro, California · With Bob Ramey, rhythm synthesizer

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2024–25

Seven Cities

Every concert on the 40th anniversary tour of Structures from Silence closed the same way. Steve moved out in front of his full setup, closer to the audience, and played Structures on a single instrument, the Oberheim OB-X8. Seven of those versions are here, and subscribers had them ahead of any public release.

Seattle · Portland · Grace Cathedral, San Francisco · Chicago · Brooklyn · Denver · Knoxville · 1:00:36 complete

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2026

The Forgotten Temple

A single piece of just over an hour, made at the Timehouse in Baja Arizona with acoustic and electrically powered instruments. New this past September, and a fair measure of how the archive works: the oldest music here is a cassette from 1980, and the newest arrived this season.

1:02:04 · September 2026

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In concert

Four decades of rooms, in the order they happened.

The collection

95 releases so far. More as they’re found.

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Two ways through the door.

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Everything in the collection, and all the new music as it comes
Steve’s messages to subscribers, straight from Timeroom HQ
Discount codes on new and catalog releases from Timeroom Editions

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Patron

$20 / month

Everything a subscriber receives
At least two more patron-only releases through the year
Direct support for new music, studio work and concerts

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What’s included: The albums on the Exclusive page. Steve’s retail releases on Timeroom and Projekt are separate.
Where it stays: The music is for your own collection, and isn’t for broadcast or streaming services unless Steve releases it publicly.
On CD, later: Some of it may become limited CD editions, offered to subscribers in advance for the cost of shipping and handling.