Steve Roach (born February 16, 1955)[2] is an American composer and performer of ambient and electronic music, whose recordings are informed by his impressions of environment, perception, flow and space.

[6] Roach was greatly influenced by electronic music as a teenager, particularly Timewind (1975) by Klaus Schulze and works by Tangerine Dream and Brian Eno.

[1][7] 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.

[7][6] 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 had pressed a run of cassettes of the album, which caught the attention of Stephen Hill who played it on his Hearts of Space radio show on KCRW, which generated further interest in Roach's music.

Roach learned to play the digeridoo during his extended trips to Australia in the 1980s, and he became an early proponent[9] of its use in ambient music.