Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.

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've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

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.