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</style><table class="infobox vcard plainlist"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de; font-size: 125%;"><div class="fn">Larry Fast</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption">Fast performing in 2006</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1951-12-10</span>) </span>December 10, 1951</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Essex_County%2C_New_Jersey" title="Essex County, New Jersey">Essex County, New Jersey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">
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</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">Electronic music</a></li><li><a href="Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock">progressive rock</a></li><li><a href="Pop_rock" title="Pop rock">pop rock</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Musician</li><li>composer</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instrument</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="Keyboard_instrument" title="Keyboard instrument">Keyboards</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1975–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Passport_Records" title="Passport Records">Passport</a></li><li><a href="Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic</a></li><li><a href="Voiceprint_Records" title="Voiceprint Records">Voiceprint</a></li><li>ABC Classics</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://synergy-emusic.com">synergy-emusic<wbr>.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Lawrence Roger Fast</b> (born December 10, 1951) is an American <a href="Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer">synthesizer</a> player and composer. He is best known for his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums (<i>Synergy</i>) and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts, including <a href="Peter_Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel">Peter Gabriel</a>, <a href="Foreigner_(band)" title="Foreigner (band)">Foreigner</a>, <a href="Nektar" title="Nektar">Nektar</a>, <a href="Bonnie_Tyler" title="Bonnie Tyler">Bonnie Tyler</a>, and <a href="Hall_%26_Oates" title="Hall & Oates">Hall & Oates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2></div>
<p>Fast grew up in <a href="Livingston%2C_New_Jersey" title="Livingston, New Jersey">Livingston, New Jersey</a> and attended <a href="Lafayette_College" title="Lafayette College">Lafayette College</a> in Pennsylvania, where he obtained a degree in History. There he took his previous training in piano and violin and melded them with computer science to become interested in synthesized music and to build his own primitive sound-making electronic devices.
</p><p>He was introduced to <a href="Rick_Wakeman" title="Rick Wakeman">Rick Wakeman</a>, the keyboard player from the band <a href="Yes_(band)" title="Yes (band)">Yes</a>, during a local radio interview, and traveled to the UK to work with Yes on their 1973 album <i><a href="Tales_from_Topographic_Oceans" title="Tales from Topographic Oceans">Tales from Topographic Oceans</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FWR_Audion_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FWR_Audion-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was there that he got a recording contract with Passport Records.
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<p>Fast recorded a series of pioneering synthesizer music albums under the project name Synergy.
</p><p>The first album in the series, <i>Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra</i>, was released as an <a href="Gramophone_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Gramophone record">LP</a> 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 <a href="Passport_Records" title="Passport Records">Passport Records</a>, all of which were later re-released on <a href="Compact_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Compact Disc">CDs</a>. The 1998 remastered re-release of <i>Semi-Conductor</i>, a compilation album originally released in 1984, contained ten additional tracks. The eleventh album in the series, <i>Reconstructed Artifacts</i>, 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.
</p><p>At least two tracks from the album <i>Audion</i> (1981) were used as the basis for music in <a href="Commodore_64" title="Commodore 64">Commodore 64</a> computer games: <a href="Rob_Hubbard" title="Rob Hubbard">Rob Hubbard</a>'s scores for the C64 version of <i><a href="Zoids%3A_The_Battle_Begins" title="Zoids: The Battle Begins">Zoids</a></i> and <i><a href="Master_of_Magic_(1985_video_game)" title="Master of Magic (1985 video game)">Master of Magic</a></i>, which were unofficial partial-covers of songs <i>Ancestors</i> and <i>Shibolet</i>.
</p><p>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 <a href="Queen_(band)" title="Queen (band)">Queen</a> 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 <a href="Guitar_Synthesizer" class="mw-redirect" title="Guitar Synthesizer">Guitar Synthesizer</a> played by Pete Sobel.
</p><p>In August 2013, after several years of no releases, "Tower Indigo" was released on the <a href="Projekt_Records" title="Projekt Records">Projekt Records</a> compilation <i>Possibilities of Circumstance</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The Synergy albums are:
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<ul><li>1975: <i>Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra</i> <small>No 66 <a href="Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200"><i>Billboard</i> 200</a> (18 weeks)</small></li>
<li>1976: <i>Sequencer</i> <small>No 144 <i>Billboard</i> 200 (11 weeks)</small></li>
<li>1978: <i>Cords</i> <small>No 146 <i>Billboard</i> 200 (6 weeks)</small></li>
<li>1979: <i>Games</i></li>
<li>1981: <i>Audion</i></li>
<li>1981: <i>Computer Experiments, Volume One</i></li>
<li>1982: <i>The Jupiter Menace</i> (soundtrack for film <i>The Jupiter Menace</i>)</li>
<li>1984: <i>Semi-Conductor</i> (compilation containing two new tracks)</li>
<li>1987: <i><a href="Metropolitan_Suite" title="Metropolitan Suite">Metropolitan Suite</a></i></li>
<li>1998: <i>Semi-Conductor, Release 2</i> (re-release of <i>Semi-Conductor</i>, remastered and containing ten additional tracks)</li>
<li>2003: <i>Reconstructed Artifacts</i> (compilation consisting of re-recorded versions of old tracks)</li></ul>
<p>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 <a href="Software_synthesizer" title="Software synthesizer">software synthesizers</a> (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.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_music_projects">Other music projects</h2></div>
<p>In addition to the <i>Synergy</i> albums, Fast made contributions to musical projects headed by other people:
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<ul><li>Worked sporadically with <a href="Nektar" title="Nektar">Nektar</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> providing much of the dominating synthesizers on their 1975 album <i><a href="Recycled_(Nektar_album)" title="Recycled (Nektar album)">Recycled</a></i>.</li>
<li>Also known for his work with <a href="Peter_Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel">Peter Gabriel</a>. He played synthesizer on records and on tour, and rounded out the production team on Gabriel's albums from 1976 to 1986. He recorded parts for <i>So,</i> but these were not used.</li>
<li>Contributed to the 1977 concept album <i><a href="Intergalactic_Touring_Band" title="Intergalactic Touring Band">Intergalactic Touring Band</a></i> on Passport Records.</li>
<li>Played the <a href="Sequential_Circuits_Prophet-5" class="mw-redirect" title="Sequential Circuits Prophet-5">Prophet Synthesizer</a> on <a href="Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a>'s 1980 Album <i><a href="Never_for_Ever" title="Never for Ever">Never for Ever</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Produced Canadian progressive rock group <a href="FM_(Canadian_band)" title="FM (Canadian band)">FM</a>'s 1980 album <i><a href="City_of_Fear_(FM_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Fear (FM album)">City of Fear</a></i>.</li>
<li>Contributed music to the <a href="Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a> 1980 television program <i><a href="Cosmos%3A_A_Personal_Voyage" title="Cosmos: A Personal Voyage">Cosmos: A Personal Voyage</a></i>.</li>
<li>Provided additional synthesizers on <a href="Foreigner_(band)" title="Foreigner (band)">Foreigner</a>'s 1981 album <i><a href="4_(Foreigner_album)" title="4 (Foreigner album)">4</a></i> and <a href="Foreigner_(band)" title="Foreigner (band)">Foreigner</a>'s 1984 album <i><a href="Agent_Provocateur_(musical_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Agent Provocateur (musical album)">Agent Provocateur</a></i>.</li>
<li>Played synthesizers on the 1983 <a href="Bonnie_Tyler" title="Bonnie Tyler">Bonnie Tyler</a> single "<a href="Total_Eclipse_of_the_Heart" title="Total Eclipse of the Heart">Total Eclipse of the Heart</a>".</li>
<li>Contributed synthesizers to <a href="Hall_%26_Oates" title="Hall & Oates">Hall & Oates</a>'s 1982 album <a href="H2O_(Hall_%26_Oates_album)" title="H2O (Hall & Oates album)">H2O</a>.</li>
<li>Collaborated on the 1980s pop music project Iam Siam, which produced the hit "She Went Pop".</li>
<li>Produced and performed synthesizer on <a href="Annie_Haslam" title="Annie Haslam">Annie Haslam's</a> 1989 release <i><a href="Annie_Haslam_(album)" title="Annie Haslam (album)">Annie Haslam</a></i>.</li>
<li>Along with <a href="David_Bryan" title="David Bryan">David Bryan</a> composed, arranged, and performed the score music to the 1992 film <i><a href="Netherworld_(film)" title="Netherworld (film)">Netherworld</a></i>.</li>
<li>Helped create the music for <a href="Tokyo_DisneySea" title="Tokyo DisneySea">Tokyo DisneySea</a>, a new Walt Disney theme park.</li>
<li>Toured and recorded with bassist <a href="Tony_Levin" title="Tony Levin">Tony Levin</a> (himself an alumnus of Peter Gabriel's band) as part of Levin's <a href="Waters_of_Eden" title="Waters of Eden">Waters of Eden</a> band.</li>
<li>Toured with the <a href="Tony_Levin" title="Tony Levin">Tony Levin Band</a> in 2002 and 2006. Fast appears on <i><a href="Double_Espresso" title="Double Espresso">Double Espresso</a></i>, the live album recorded by the Levin band on their 2002 tour.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_interests">Other interests</h2></div>
<p>Fast has done some work with designing listening devices for the hearing disabled; his wife had been working in the field for some time. Fast owns several patents<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for audio distribution using infrared optical technologies.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
Fast is also part of a government group aiming to protect some of <a href="New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>'s historic assets against developers.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://synergy-emusic.com/">Larry Fast's official homepage</a>, containing his <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://synergy-emusic.com/lfbio.html">biography</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://synergy-emusic.com/syndiscography.html">discography</a>.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p30338">Synergy</a> at <a href="AllMusic_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="AllMusic (identifier)">AllMusic</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/325903">Larry Fast</a> discography at <a href="Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a> </li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268780/">Larry Fast</a> at <a href="IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,499510,00.html#bio">Larry Fast biography</a> on artistdirect.com</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130131081428/http://news.planetorigo.com/article.php?poarticle_id=380">2009 Interview with Larry Fast</a> on <i>Planet Origo</i></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.innerviews.org/inner/fast.html">2004 Interview with Larry Fast</a> on <i>innerviews</i></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.electronicmusic.com/features/interview/larryfast.html">1997 Larry Fast interview</a> at electronicmusic.com</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/larry-fast">Larry Fast Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2009)</a></li></ul>
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</style><div id="Nektar222" class="fn org" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Nektar" title="Nektar">Nektar</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>
<ul><li><b>Ron Howden</b></li>
<li><b>Derek "Mo" Moore</b></li>
<li><b>Randy Dembo</b></li>
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<li><b>Kendall Scott</b></li>
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<ul><li><a href="Carmine_Rojas" title="Carmine Rojas">Carmine Rojas</a></li>
<li><a href="Billy_Sherwood" title="Billy Sherwood">Billy Sherwood</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><i><a href="Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Eye" title="Journey to the Centre of the Eye">Journey to the Centre of the Eye</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="A_Tab_in_the_Ocean" title="A Tab in the Ocean">A Tab in the Ocean</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="...Sounds_Like_This" title="...Sounds Like This">...Sounds Like This</a></i></li>
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<li><i><a href="Down_to_Earth_(Nektar_album)" title="Down to Earth (Nektar album)">Down to Earth</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Recycled_(Nektar_album)" title="Recycled (Nektar album)">Recycled</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Magic_Is_a_Child" title="Magic Is a Child">Magic Is a Child</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Man_in_the_Moon_(Nektar_album)" title="Man in the Moon (Nektar album)">Man in the Moon</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Prodigal_Son_(Nektar_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Prodigal Son (Nektar album)">The Prodigal Son</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Evolution_(Nektar_album)" title="Evolution (Nektar album)">Evolution</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Book_of_Days_(Nektar_album)" title="Book of Days (Nektar album)">Book of Days</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="A_Spoonful_of_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="A Spoonful of Time">A Spoonful of Time</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Time_Machine_(Nektar_album)" title="Time Machine (Nektar album)">Time Machine</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Other_Side_(Nektar_album)" title="The Other Side (Nektar album)">The Other Side</a></i></li></ul>
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<ul><li><i><a href="Sunday_Night_at_London_Roundhouse" title="Sunday Night at London Roundhouse">Sunday Night at London Roundhouse</a></i></li></ul>
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