One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code. — Stephen Mallinder Albums Copy Share Image
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom. — Stephen Mallinder Austerity Copy Share Image
I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture. — Stephen Mallinder Art Copy Share Image
In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We also worked with Marshall Jefferson for Groovy, Laidback and Nasty. So we were lucky to work with some really great people. — Stephen Mallinder Great people Copy Share Image
I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we… — Stephen Mallinder Dada Copy Share Image
I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic… — Stephen Mallinder Film Copy Share Image
We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also… — Stephen Mallinder Entertainment Copy Share Image
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days… — Stephen Mallinder Analogue Copy Share Image
We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a… — Stephen Mallinder Iconoclastic Copy Share Image
I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you… — Stephen Mallinder Arrogance Copy Share Image
You don't have to be trained in music to create sounds and to produce and release music. That's what we were saying… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception. — Stephen Mallinder Construction Copy Share Image
We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music. — Stephen Mallinder Journalist Copy Share Image
I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in… — Stephen Mallinder Berlin Copy Share Image
If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model… — Stephen Mallinder Change Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making… — Stephen Mallinder Looking back Copy Share Image
Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in… — Stephen Mallinder American culture Copy Share Image
This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much… — Stephen Mallinder Aesthetics Copy Share Image
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think… — Stephen Mallinder Cold Copy Share Image
We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
As sonic journalists, we were increasingly becoming bombarded with global images. It was the early idea of the cut-up, the idea of… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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