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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They were called Vidéo Aventures. They were French, they had links to the extreme Rock In Opposition movement, and in 1981 they released ‘Musique Pour Garçons Et Filles’, a superb example of underground electropop weirdosity

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4,000,000 Telephones ‘4,000,000 Telephones’ (Bunker, 1985)

byJames Thornhill

“You have to play this album,” says Vincent, a fellow record dealer in Lincoln where my secondhand vinyl store lives.

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Robert Palmer ‘Pride’ (Island, 1983)

byRichard Skinner

Robert Palmer passed away in 2003 at the shockingly young age of 54. A massively underrated artist who wrote and produced so many great songs, the fact that he died without much comment or celebration of his life was a crying shame.

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Global Communication’s ‘Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis’

byNeil Mason

Lost gems? We got ‘em by the chestful. Glittering musical prizes lost in the mists of time. This month, we clap our ears around Global Communication’s ‘Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis’

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Yagya ‘Rigning’ (Sending Orbs, 2009)

byClaire Francis

Is dub techno having a resurgence? Did it ever really go away?

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Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

byMat Smith

Aside from its troubling “what if?” premise, two things stayed with me about the 1998 film ‘Sliding Doors’, and neither of these were Gwyneth Paltrow’s British accent.

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

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Paul Clarke

Vidéo Aventures

4,000,000 Telephones ‘4,000,000 Telephones’ (Bunker, 1985)

Robert Palmer ‘Pride’ (Island, 1983)

Global Communication’s ‘Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis’

Yagya ‘Rigning’ (Sending Orbs, 2009)

Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

Utah Saints ‘What Can You Do For Me’

Strafe ‘Set It Off’

Moby

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Modern Cosmology: Splinter Groop

Spiritualized: Suited, Rebooted

Auntie Flo: Flo Motion

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

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