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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Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company ‘Like A Duck To Water’ (Earthquack, 1976)

byJoe Silva

Imagine a time when, as a concession to your audience, you’d show them cartoons while you were busy repatching your synthesisers between songs.

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Side-projects can be a complicated affair, particularly if you’re a fan of the precursory band. Acolytes find themselves talking up a lesser-known record they might not actually like very much, but a perceived obligation of support results in them writing cheques their misplaced loyalty can’t cash.

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byNeil Mason

As Darren Price’s ‘Under the Flightpath’ landed on my desk, I was about to fly away.

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byNigel Huddlestone

The love affair started with ‘Flaming Desire’. The single got played on the radio at least once, possibly more, and had me swooning with its propulsive rhythms, swirling synths and croonerish vocal – a weirder version of Blancmange, Yazoo on speed.

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Kid606 ‘The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams’ (Violent Turd, 2002)

byJoe Silva

"...a hyper-paced stream of pinched music that Miguel Trost De Pedro reassembled into his glitched-out vision of the dancefloor."

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Space Raiders ‘Don’t Be Daft’ (Skint, 1999)

byNeil Mason

Prince said we should party like it was 1999, and, as far as we know, he hadn’t even heard the debut album by Middlesbrough’s Space Raiders.

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Paul Clarke

Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company ‘Like A Duck To Water’ (Earthquack, 1976)

ACID CASUALS ‘Omni’ (Placid Casual, 2006)

DARREN PRICE ‘Under The Flightpath’ (NovaMute, 1997)

Bill Nelson ‘The Love That Whirls (Diary Of A Thinking Heart)’ (Mercury, 1982)

Kid606 ‘The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams’ (Violent Turd, 2002)

Space Raiders ‘Don’t Be Daft’ (Skint, 1999)

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

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