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Steve Roach – Life Sequence
CD, Timeroom Editions, 2003

As Steve states in the cd-booklet, this album chronicles five unreleased pieces recorded between 1988 and 2003 which re-visit his roots in analogue sequencer style music.

The cd nicely takes off with “Lightness of Being”, a bubbling soundscape with swirling fractal groove samples. Next we enter “Living the Dream”, a track which takes us back to the period of “Dreamtime Return”: a slowly building arc of textures featuring minimal and nicely moulded sequencer patterns.

The third track “Sundial” is one of two tracks which Steve made with Paul Ellis in 2002. It’s a rather “light” sounding piece of music containing a swirling rhythm and sequencer leading the way with a blanket of transparency on top.
Steve and Paul also composed the fourth track “Sands of Time”, in which I felt it took quite a while before things really started to move. I think this 15-minute track lacks a bit of direction and content, although in the last few minutes things eventually start evolving.

“Life Sequence” concludes with the full, unedited 27-minute version of “Destination Horizon”, which some might know in a shorter version from the Echo-sampler “A Door in the Air” of 1991.

In my opinion, the most part of the sequencer-driven, pure electronic pieces on “Life Sequence” is pleasing and rewarding.

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