“We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.” Quote by Stephen Mallinder
“We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.” ThinkingFilmViewsSituationInterpretationObservantJournalistic 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 red light district. Kino is obviously German and "film" and "cinema" and we were always cinematic in our thinking.” ThinkingLightFilmShotsRedCinemaBerlinCinematicRed Lights Author:Stephen Mallinder
“[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.” WellsSongMediaTitlesSong Titles 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 of film and cross-reference it with music.” ThinkingTryingFilmMovementCrossesRhythmCapture Author:Stephen Mallinder
“Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.” ThinkingCultureShockJapan80sCulture Shock 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 there are film reference as well as sound references.” WellsBigsCareFilmSoundShotsPeterEditedFunk Author:Stephen Mallinder
“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.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentInterestingLevelsCallingBeatsRhythmTitlesIronyDifferent WaysTensionPullingBassSlapFunk Author:Stephen Mallinder
“I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.” ThinkingLittlesBigsBitsLittle BitFunk 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 period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.” WellsHas BeensWarCulturePeriodsEuropePostsDirtyAmerican CulturePost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.” VideoEditsTropes Author:Stephen Mallinder