It was edited in Melbourne, Australia, by Bruce Milne and Andrew Maine, with graphic design by Michael Trudgeon.
The cassettes interspersed interviews with music and were packaged with printed artwork and distributed in record shops around Australia and abroad.
Milne told Rolling Stone's Andrea Jones in 1981 that "I don't see the music we put down on those tapes as being a permanent document like a record.
I was running gigs and pretending to be managing bands, starting a record label and working at Missing Link, and doing radio shows.
By the time I started Fast Forward, in late 1980, I had already been writing for the major music magazines, but also doing fanzines for a number of years.
[2] Fast Forward was effectively a purchasable radio show (not a "compilation album" as some have termed it,[4] as interviews and other spoken-word material were integral to the content) in packaging which began with a simple one-piece "cover" in a plastic bag to a silk-screened wallet with various leaflets and booklets in its various pockets.