Fast recorded a series of pioneering synthesizer music albums under the project name Synergy. The first album in the series,
Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, was released as an
LP in 1975. Like the following albums in the series, it exclusively made use of synthesizers and electronic instruments. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Fast released eight more Synergy LPs on
Passport Records, all of which were later re-released on
CDs. The 1998 remastered re-release of
Semi-Conductor, a compilation album originally released in 1984, contained ten additional tracks. The eleventh album in the series,
Reconstructed Artifacts, was released in 2003; it contained completely new performances of select compositions from the previous albums, using modern digital synthesizers as well as new digital recording technologies. At least two tracks from the album
Audion (1981) were used as the basis for music in
Commodore 64 computer games:
Rob Hubbard's scores for the C64 version of
Zoids and
Master of Magic, which were unofficial partial-covers of songs
Ancestors and
Shibolet. Synergy's first album states "..and nobody played guitar." The second album, Sequencer, says "...and still no guitars." These are rumored to be a tongue-in-cheek response to statements that appeared on albums by the rock group
Queen that they used no synthesizers, which were made to inform listeners who assumed otherwise. Fast's third Synergy album, Cords, states "Finally, guitars...sort of," which references the use of a Russ Hamm
Guitar Synthesizer played by Pete Sobel. In August 2013, after several years of no releases, "Tower Indigo" was released on the
Projekt Records compilation
Possibilities of Circumstance. The Synergy albums are: • 1975:
Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra No 66
Billboard 200 (18 weeks) • 1976:
Sequencer No 144
Billboard 200 (11 weeks) • 1978:
Cords No 146
Billboard 200 (6 weeks) • 1979:
Games • 1981:
Audion • 1981:
Computer Experiments, Volume One • 1982:
The Jupiter Menace (soundtrack for film
The Jupiter Menace) • 1984:
Semi-Conductor (compilation containing two new tracks) • 1987:
Metropolitan Suite • 1998:
Semi-Conductor, Release 2 (re-release of
Semi-Conductor, remastered and containing ten additional tracks) • 2003:
Reconstructed Artifacts (compilation consisting of re-recorded versions of old tracks) Fast has been developing a new Synergy album. This will be his first studio album of new material in over twenty years. According to Fast's website, it will use primarily
software synthesizers (one of which is, fittingly,
Sample Logic's
Synergy synthesizer) rather than the hardware he had been using. He has amassed new thematic material for the album and also plans to rework old and unreleased pieces. == Other music projects ==