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.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

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.

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

Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that with it came a certain responsibility. It wasn't meant to be purely entertainment; it was meant to be something a little bit more serious - and to provoke people - wrapped within an outer wrapping of entertainment.

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.

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.