As a composer, Mason has won 12 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Awards for his TV and film work, MDA (presented in 2003), The Extra (2005), Peking to Paris (2006), The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2009), My Place (2010), The Outlaw Michael Howe (2014), The Code (2015), The Principal (2016) and Hungry Ghosts (2021).

This line up plus various guest artists recorded the album " Breaking Silence" between July and November 1979 with further contributions made by Tony Lugton and Peter Cook before its completion and release in 1980.

[3][4] Further changes by year's end resulted in Freud and Mason joined by Peter Cook on guitar and backing vocals and Tommy Hosie on drums.

James Freud & the Radio Stars' debut album Breaking Silence was released in June, it was produced by Tony Cohen.

[3][4] Numan liked the album and offered to produce the next one in London, as there was already a UK band called The Radio Stars, a name change to James Freud & Berlin occurred.

By 1984, Mason and Dean had combined with Hugo Burnham (Gang of Four) and Australian singer and bass guitarist Philip Foxman (Supernaut) to form funk rock outfit, Illustrated Man.

Their final studio album, Models' Media was released in December 1986, which peaked in the Top 30 and the band had a slot on the Australian Made Tour into early 1987.

[7] Mason as lead singer and Kelly, formed a side-project, The Clampetts, to record cover versions of nine country music tracks, which was released in 1987 as The Last Hoedown.

In 1988 Mason toured with Los Angeles new wave group Wall of Voodoo and appeared on their live album The Ugly Americans in Australia.

[12] In 1997, Mason teamed up with Graeme Revell to create the album Vision II - Spirit of Rumi, released through New York based Angel Records.

The two coproduced, supplied some of the instrumental accompaniment, and set to music 11 poems by renowned 13th century poet Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.