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> [I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/i-edited-big-funk-some-of-the-footage-was-shot-by-peter-care-we-were/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

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> [ I think underneath it all \[in the Big Funk\] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/i-think-underneath-it-all-in-the-big-funk-was-a-little-bit-of-a/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

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> [I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/i-think-in-everything-we-did-there-s-a-sense-of-tension-and-a-sense/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

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## Other authors on Funk

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-clinton-37588.jpg) George Clinton 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funk/george-clinton/)
- [Afrika Bambaataa 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funk/afrika-bambaataa/)

## More by Stephen Mallinder

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/it-was-an-important-period-for-us-because-even-though-we-weren-t-a/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/music-doesn-t-have-to-be-so-rule-based-and-so-strict-in-its/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/we-had-always-used-found-sound-but-we-had-always-used-it-in-an/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/crackdown-the-video-interpreted-and-reflected-a-sense-of-authority/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/i-think-what-we-tried-to-do-lyrically-vocally-and-musically-was-to/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [ I think probably underneath it all, film \[Kino\] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/i-think-probably-underneath-it-all-film-kino-has-its-own-rhythm-and/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/if-you-re-going-to-change-things-one-of-the-things-we-had-to-change/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/even-though-we-were-influenced-by-american-culture-and-music-we-like/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/we-were-sort-of-coming-from-an-angle-where-we-wanted-to-break-rules/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/we-were-iconoclastic-we-weren-t-there-to-sort-of-follow-the-trends/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/even-if-that-statement-was-ambiguous-we-kind-of-wanted-to-cause-a/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much a reaction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/i-think-we-saw-our-reaction-coming-from-dada-but-at-the-same-time-it/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/i-edited-big-funk-some-of-the-footage-was-shot-by-peter-care-we-were/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/you-don-t-have-to-be-trained-in-music-to-create-sounds-and-to-produce/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

> [Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the famous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/some-of-it-was-shot-in-berlin-but-a-lot-of-it-was-filmed-in-hamburg/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

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