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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.