Thinking Quotes by Stephen Mallinder

Stephen Mallinder

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

Stephen Mallinder

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

Stephen Mallinder

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

Stephen Mallinder

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.

Movement

Thinking

Trying

Stephen Mallinder

I think that’s the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Art

Culture

Thinking

Stephen Mallinder

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

Bigs

Littles

Thinking

Stephen Mallinder

I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much a reaction to the social conditions. That was part of it for us as well, and that’s why we were kind of swept along with punk.

Kind

Saws

Thinking

Stephen Mallinder

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

Capture

Sound

Thinking

Stephen Mallinder

I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. “Arrogance” is the wrong word. I think when you go into it, you’re aware that you’re doing it for the right reasons – and you have your own moral and ethical code. And we weren’t driven by money, but by a a desire to make music and make a statement.

Arrogance

Desire

Thinking

Stephen Mallinder

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us – the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

Thinking

Wall

War

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Able

Albums

Angle

Arrogance

Art

Austerity

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Band

Bigs

Break

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Care

Cinema

Cold

Construction

Couple

Culture

Cutting

Desire

Different

Dirty

Edits

Entertainment

Etc

Europe

Film

Get Away

Ideas

Important

Interesting

Involved

Japan

Journalist

Kind

Light

Littles

Lucky

Media

Morality

Movement

Mtv

Myth

Names

Nasty

People

Perception

Periods

Process

Reactions

Responding

Responsibility

Rock Music

Rocks

Roots

Saws

Shapes

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Structure

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War

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World

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Thinking Quotes by Stephen Mallinder

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 think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.

I think that’s the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much a reaction to the social conditions. That was part of it for us as well, and that’s why we were kind of swept along with punk.

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

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us – the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

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