It's use of ethnic vocal samples was unfavourably compared with Czukay's 'Movies', whose 'Persian Love' recontextualised an Iranian ballad; in actual fact, Czukay had got there 12 years earlier with 'Canaxis', which used Vietnamese 'Boat-Woman's Song'.

Meanwhile, the then freshly reissued Faust were impacting the burgeoning 'industrial' scene (Cabaret Voltaire, Zoviet France etc), their collage aesthetic paralleling the in-vogue cut-up techniques of William Burroughs.