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“[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.”

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Stephen Mallinder

Stephen Mallinder is a renowned singer. Born on January 1, 1955, he has made a significant impact in the music industry with his unique musical style and talent. more

“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 slap bass, and it's got "funk" in the title. But I think there's always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.”

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“I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.”

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“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 period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.”

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“One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.”

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“As sonic journalists, we were increasingly becoming bombarded with global images. It was the early idea of the cut-up, the idea of images being juxtapositioned, which we were doing with sound. That was the early days of samples.”

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“We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using collage and sound in a digital way. MTV, a couple of years later would be that way.”

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“We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now and U2's producer, etc. Even though we weren't working in a strictly popular music area, which was great, we were lucky enough to work with people who were on the cusp of those sort of things.”

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