Body Electric (album)

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Body Electric
Studio album by Steve Roach and Vir Unis
Released	1999
Genre	Ambient
Length	56:54
Label	Projekt Records
Producer(s)	Steve Roach and Vir Unis
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Alternative Press favorable May 1999 Piero Scaruffi 6/10 link
Steve Roach chronology
Dreaming... Now, Then: A Retrospective 1982-1997 (1999)	Body Electric (1999)	Quiet Music: Complete Edition (1999)
Vir Unis chronology
The Ambient Expanse (1998)	Body Electric (1999)	The Drift Inside (1999)

Body Electric (1999) is a collaborative album by ambient artists Steve Roach and Vir Unis. The music is a unique blend of smooth ambient textures, techno rhythms and various acoustic and natural recordings.

The artwork on the album was created by computer artist Steven Rooke. Instead of a booklet, this CD comes with four cards. The first card contains the front cover and on the reverse side the liner notes while the other three cards feature a panel of artwork on each side.

[edit] Track listing

1. ”Born of Fire” (9:12)
2. ”Pure Expansion” (10:16)
3. ”Mind Link” (7:07)
4. ”Gene Pool” (5:40)
5. ”Synaptic Gap” (1:56)
6. ”Homunculus Within” (4:15)
7. ”Bloodstreaming” (3:10)
8. ”Solar Tribe” (4:13)
9. ”The New Dream” (3:58)
10. ”Cave of the Heart” (7:00)

[edit] Personnel

• Steve Roach (analog and digital synthesizers, percussion, voice, treatments)
• Vir Unis (synthesizers, treatments)
• Omar Faruk Tekbilek (ney on “Born of Fire”)
• Roger King (bass on “Born of Fire” and “The New Dream”, EBow guitar on “Born of Fire”)
• Linda Kohanov (voices on “Pure Expansion”)

[edit] See also

• Steve Roach
• Vir Unis
• Ambient music
• Electronic music