Quotes by Stephen Mallinder

Stephen Mallinder

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

Media

Song

Titles

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.

Cutting

Ideas

Sound

Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.

Albums

Balls

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

Austerity

Authority

Video

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.

Names

People

Responsibility

Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there’s a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.

Dirty

Europe

War

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.

Culture

Japan

Thinking

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.

Names

Roots

Thinking

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.

Care

Film

Sound

I think in everything we did, there’s a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It’s interesting calling it “beat music”. That’s quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it’s got a slap bass, and it’s got “funk” in the title. But I think there’s always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.

Interesting

Thinking

Titles

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Europe

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Get Away

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Quotes by Stephen Mallinder

Stephen Mallinder

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

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.

Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.

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

Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there’s a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.

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.

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.

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.

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