Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)

byPaul Clarke
May 8, 2025

"Despite never having quite the same cachet as your Warps or Ninja Tunes, the Sirkus label was a reliable stamp of quality at the turn of the 21st century..."

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Edgar Froese ‘Kamikaze 1989’ (Virgin Schallplatten, 1982)

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Don Dorsey ‘Bachbusters’ (Telarc, 1985)

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Back in April 2012, at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, my two young daughters – then aged four and five – were watching the Electrical Water Pageant float past. Transfixed by its colourful show of lights, they genuinely believed it to be the work of pure magic.

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Robyn Miller ‘Myst Soundtrack’ (Cyan, 1995)

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You’d say that Big Yoga Muffin took the biscuit when it came to daft names, but saying that sort of thing only leads to further unnecessary confectionery puns

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Tanning Salon ‘Dream Castle’ (PrismCorp, 2011)

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Tumbling into YouTube holes can be a risky business. One minute you’re learning about dark matter or the Italian Futurists, the next you’re watching a pseudo Professor Denzil Dexter explain how the moon is, in fact, hollow and made out of toilet roll tubes

Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)

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Paul Clarke

Edgar Froese ‘Kamikaze 1989’ (Virgin Schallplatten, 1982)

Ananda Shankar ‘Ananda Shankar’ (Reprise, 1970)

Don Dorsey ‘Bachbusters’ (Telarc, 1985)

Robyn Miller ‘Myst Soundtrack’ (Cyan, 1995)

Big Yoga Muffin ‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’ (Echo, 2000)

Tanning Salon ‘Dream Castle’ (PrismCorp, 2011)

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Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)

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