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

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

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

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.

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

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 iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.