Larry Fast/SYNERGY® DISCOGRAPHY

COMPLETE SYNERGY ALBUM RELEASES

(Passport and Audion release numbers have no suffix for vinyl albums; "C" for cassette; "CD" for Compact Discs).

ELECTRONIC REALIZATIONS FOR ROCK ORCHESTRA
1975 (Passport PB6001) LP, clear LP, Cassette, 8 track, Quad-8 Cartridge, CD (issued 1986)
(originally issued as Passport/ABC PPSD 98009; Passport/GRT 9167-98009 in Canada; Sire/Phonogram 9299 752 in the UK; Philips RJ-7072 in Japan)

1995 reissue (Third Contact 3CR 1001) CD-only. Digitally transferred and remastered from the original 1975 non-EQ'd first generation analog master tape mixes; the artwork has been slightly revised for this CD package. This CD version is not derived from the original LP-equalized and compressed cutting master.

1998 re-reissue (PolyGram/Chronicles 314-558-042-2) CD-only. Same remastering as the Third Contact release. Slightly (again) revised artwork.

TITLES:

• Legacy
• Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
• Synergy
• Relay Breakdown
• Warriors

The UK release of this album in January, 1976 also contained "Classical Gas", using a reference mix of the unfinished version that later appeared on SEQUENCER. The track was originally recorded between the two albums and was included on the UK release seven months after the May, 1975 US release.

8 track (actually 4 channel discrete quadrphonic tape cartridge)

• S-Scape
• Chateau
• Cybersports
• Classical Gas
• Paradox

  a) Largo, New World Symphony

  b) Icarus

• Sequence 14

• On Presuming To Be Modern I
• Phobos And Deimos Go To Mars,

  1) Phobos

  2) Deimos

• Sketches Of Mythical Beasts
• Disruption In World Communications
• On Presuming To Be Modern II
• Small Collection Of Chords
• Full Moon Flyer
• Terra Incognita
• Trellis
• On Presuming To Be Modern III

GAMES
1979 (Passport PB6003) LP, clear LP, Cassette, 8 track, CD
(distributed in Germany by Metronome)

• Delta Two
• Delta Four
• Delta One
• Soundcheck Delta Three
  • Delta 3/A
  • Delta 3/B
  • Delta 3/C
  • Delta 3/D
  • Delta 3/E
  • Delta 3/F

(8 track supplied courtesy of Ron Owen)

AUDION (the album, not the label)
1981 (Passport PB6005) LP, clear LP, Cassette, CD

• Orbit Five
• Revolt At L-5
• Terminal Hotel
• Electric Blue
• Ancestors
• After The Earthquake
• Falcons And Eagles
• Flight Of The Looking Glass
• Shibolet
• An End To History

• Artificial Intelligence (Monday January 28,1980)
• Artificial Intelligence (Friday January 25,1980)
• The World After April (Tuesday January 22,1980)

THE JUPITER MENACE
1982 (Passport PB6014) Film Soundtrack LP, Cassette (no CD release)
Soundtrack to movie of same title.

• The Alignment
• Alien Earth
• Rampage of the Elements/The Jupiter Menace
• Pueblo Bonito
• The Prophecy-The Prophecy Fulfilled/Warriors [excerpt from "Warriors" on Electronic Realizations]
• Earth in Space
• Ancient Gods
• The Plunge/Earthquake simulation [excerpts from "Sequence 14" on Sequencer]
• Solar Observatory/San Francisco 1906 [excerpts from "Delta 4" and "Delta 3" on Games]
• The Survivalists
• Cities on the Brink ["Flight of the Looking Glass" from Audion]
• The mystery of Piri Reis/Return to Admiral Byrd's Camp
• The final alignment
• Closing Theme ["Trellis" from Cords]

SEMI-CONDUCTOR
1984 (Passport PB11002) Double LP, Cassette
compilation with two new tracks

TITLES:

• Legacy
• Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
• Classical Gas
• Cybersports
• Delta Two
• Paradox:

  Largo, New World Symphony

  Icarus

• Phobos And Diemos Go To Mars

  Phobos

  Diemos

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• Delta One (single version) [1]
• Launch At Dawn [2]
• Delta Three (parts A and C) [1]
• To The Edge And Back [2]
• Earth In Space
• Orbit Five/Ancestors [1]
  
  

   

SEMI-CONDUCTOR, release 2
1998 reissue (PolyGram/Chronicles 314-558-048-2) CD-only. Digitally transferred and remastered from the original non-EQ'd first generation analog and digital master tape mixes; the artwork has been slightly revised for this CD package. This album has never been available in an authorized CD version before.


release 2 REVISED RUNNING ORDER (INCLUDES NEW COMPILATION MATERIAL):

• Legacy
• Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
• Classical Gas
• Cybersports
• Paradox:

  Largo, New World Symphony

  Icarus

• Phobos And Diemos Go To Mars

  Phobos

  Diemos

• Disruption In World Communications

   

• Delta Two 
• Delta One (single version) [1]
• Delta Three/A [1]
• Delta Three/C [1]
• The World After April
• Orbit 5
• Ancestors
• Earth In Space
• Launch At Dawn [2]
• To The Edge And Back [2]
• North River
• Steam and Steel Towers
• Metropolitan Theme
  

[1] Previously Unreleased in this form
[2] new track for this compilation

METROPOLITAN SUITE
1987 (Audion SYN204) LP, CD, cassette

• Metropolitan Suite
  • North River
  • Steam And Steel Towers
  • City Goes To War
  • Metropolitan Theme (Main Theme)
  • End Of An Era
• Into The Abyss
• Prairie Light
• West Side Nights
• Redstone

RECONSTRUCTED ARTIFACTS
2002 (Third Contact 3CR-1010) CD only

A new collection of recordings made in January and February, 2002 of classic, older Synergy pieces from the 1970s and 1980s, newly performed on digital synthesizers and recorded digitally. (see below for the titles). They are completely new recordings and performances, not repackaging or remastering of the original recordings.

• RELAY BREAKDOWN
• WARRIORS
• S-SCAPE
• ORBIT 5
• ANCESTORS
• FLIGHT OF THE LOOKING GLASS
• Metropolitan Suite (abridged)
  • NORTH RIVER
  • STEAM AND STEEL TOWERS
  • METROPOLITAN THEME (Main Theme)
• INTO THE ABYSS
  

45 RPM 7" SINGLES

• "Synergy/Classical Gas" 1975 SIRE 6078 600 UK only
• "Relay Breakdown" 1975 PASSPORT-GRT 1167-7906 Canada only
• "Classical Gas" 1976 PASSPORT PPA-7907 USA
• "Delta One/Delta 3A" 1979 METRONOME 0030.216 Germany only (picture sleeve)

12" SINGLES

"Phobos and Deimos Go To Mars"
1978 (Passport/Arista SP 30) promo only 33 1/3 stereo single. Edited version (3:59) on side A, full-length (7:14) side B

"Redstone"/"Metropolitan Theme"
1986 (Audion SYN 12204 DJ) 12" promo only/picture sleeve

OTHER RELEASES WHICH INCLUDE SYNERGY TRACKS OR ORCHESTRATIONS

• BACK IN TIME, A SPACE ODYSSEY produced by Chris Abbot (http://www.c64audio.com). This is the third in a series of full orchestra arrangements of video game soundtrack music which was originally performed by on the SID synthesizer chips of Commodore C64 computers. "Ancestors" was often appropriated for C64 themes back in the 1980s. Chris Abbot has provided three outstanding orchestral versions of "Ancestors" on this British CD released in 2001.
• MUSIC FOR THE 3rd MILLENNIUM (AMP-CD039) http://www.ampmusic.demon.co.uk-contains the track "Moon Caves" Synergy/Tekneon (same as the New Music Seminar compilation, 1993)
• REFUGE, a compilation to raise money for Kosovo refugees; contains a SYNERGY recording of an electronic interpretation of Ravel's Pavane.
• THE MUSIC OF COSMOS 1981, reissued 1994 and again in 2000 on BMG Special Products. "Legacy" (edited) Selections from the score of the PBS television series COSMOS by Carl Sagan (RCA/BMG 07863 54003-2) CD
• FIRST EDITION 1986 (SYN105; 1st Audion Sampler; "The World After April" (edited)) LP, CD, cassette
• BEST OF BOTH WORLDS 1987 (SYN108; 2nd Audion Sampler; "Metropolitan Theme") CD, cassette
• COSMIC DREAMS 1989 (Warner Special Products OPCD-3519; 3 CD set, "Legacy" (edited) on disc 2) CD, cassette
• NETHERWORLD 1992 Film Soundtrack; David Bryan & Larry Fast (Moonstone/Sony 12940 2) CD
• "Moon Caves" Synergy/Tekneon 1993 ( NMS93) one track on the New Music Seminar club compilation 12" vinyl
• "Legacy" complete 10 minute version included on a CD of examples bundled with the book "How Music and Computers Work" by Erik Holsinger, Ziff Davis Press 1994 ISBN 1-56276-215-X. This version was derived from the analog master used to produce the 1986 Passport Records CD release.

WARNING... THERE ARE SYNERGY IMPOSTERS.

There are CDs out on the market, some available through big online services and stores, using the name SYNERGY®. We don't want you to be misled by buying the wrong records and not getting the artist or quality of music that you're expecting. These recordings are not by Larry Fast/SYNERGY®. Legal action is being taken. The most prevalent of the fraudulent CDs are one called "Synergy:12 Electrifying Hits" on the LaserLight label, and another called "Matsuri" by new age musicians from Australia calling themselves Synergy on the Celestial Harmonies label. There are also some older, now-deleted dance titles. These are in clear violation of the real SYNERGY's United States Trademarks.

If anybody has encountered another Synergy release, legitimate or otherwise, please drop an email to synergy@synergy-emusic.com so that we can add it to the list. There are possibly some non-United States releases that we're not aware of.

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