Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.

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.

You don't have to be trained in music to create sounds and to produce and release music. That's what we were saying back in 73-74. And that's the way the world is now - and all the tools of creation, production and dissemination are there in everybody's bedrooms, front rooms and studios.

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.