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.

We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.

Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

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.

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

We also worked with Marshall Jefferson for Groovy, Laidback and Nasty. So we were lucky to work with some really great people.