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

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.

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.

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.

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

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.

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.