I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's interesting calling it "beat music". That's quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it's got a… — Stephen Mallinder 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 punk band,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much a reaction… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
You don't have to be trained in music to create sounds and to produce and release music. That's what we were saying back in… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the famous… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share
