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.

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.

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.

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.

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.

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.