Artist
Fast Forward
1980s experimental music project exploring industrial textures and noise aesthetics through cassette and LP releases.
About
Fast Forward was an experimental music project active during the 1980s, operating within the broader underground and industrial music scenes of that era. Based on their release timeline, the project emerged in the early 1980s with their debut LP "Bye Bye Love / City Of Merchandise" in 1981, establishing themselves as part of the burgeoning post-punk and experimental underground. Their work demonstrates an engagement with noise, industrial textures, and experimental sound design, as evidenced by releases such as "Red Raw Steel Drum" (1984) and "The Music From Rotorblade" (1986). The latter release on A.R.P.H. Tapes, a cassette label associated with avant-garde and experimental music distribution, suggests their alignment with the DIY tape culture and underground networks that characterized independent experimental music during the mid-1980s. Fast Forward's aesthetic appears rooted in abstract, textural approaches to composition, contributing to the wider experimental and noise music communities of their period.