Steve Roach & Robert Logan

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The story behind the creation of BioSonic and Second Nature, the collaborative and thematically linked albums from Steve Roach and Robert Logan, is the stuff of young-ambient-musician dreams. Logan, a Roach fan since the age of 13 whose own work is profoundly inspired by him, began corresponding with Roach about 15 years ago. In his initial contact, he included a CD of his own music. Roach says that he found Logan’s music to be “…already emoting at a very high level that seemed well beyond his years.” The two began on some intercontinental collaboration—Logan in England, Roach in the American southwest—the results of which are expressed in these two works. As much of a Roach fan as I am, if you just sat me down and hit play on BioSonic, I would not have identified it as his work. The mechanistic clicks, whirs, and gurgles, like some robotic boot-up coming on line, instantly grab my attention but definitely do not shout “Steve Roach.” As it transposes itself into a pleasantly plodding rhythm and the air fills with a dizzying array of sounds, I find that it wouldn’t matter who was at the controls—it’s easy to hear from early on that this will be a good ride. After that first track, I pick up more of Roach’s work seeping into the deep mix. Chugging percussive tones and a feeling of electronic velocity on “OmniGen” bring up memories of Trance Spirit as Roach and Logan thicken and intensify a storm-swirl of sound. The wall they create is fantastically dense, and the way it unload

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BioSonic

Second Nature

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Biosonic (name-your-price)

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Second Nature (name-your-price)

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Deep Space One: Deep ambient electronic and space music. [SomaFM]

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SomaFM - Deep Space One

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Earwaves: Spanning the history of electronic and experimental music from the early pioneers to the latest innovators. [SomaFM]

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Second Nature (w/ Robert Logan)

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Second Nature (CD, Projekt, PROJEKT327)

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Biosonic (CD, Projekt, PROJEKT326)

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PGM 1114: BIOSONIC

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