Tony Bontana - My NameTony Bontana, the Birmingham rapper, producer and multi instrumentalist, releases his 35th album My Name, which is also his first to receive a proper vinyl pressing. The album follows an impressive 2025 in which he performed with Nourished By Time, Mark William Lewis, YHWH Nailgun, TAGABOW and 454. His earlier 2025 album The Beautiful Malaise made The Wires annual top 50, and he appeared as the sole feature on Nourished By Times album The Passionate

Funk Machine marks a second release on Big Baba Record for Elado who goes big with four electrifying tracks that are perfectly tooled for open-air and summer dancefloors

For the flip side

First released in 2005 via his own label Sending Orbs

recognised as one of the UK’s most captivating and visionary artists

Riposa in pace

Label owners Barney Graman and Coco Vink have spent the past 3 years on bringing these lost and obscured recordings back into the limelight

and a groove that nods to vintage 45s

the vocal's a bit of a one take wonder from Dani

pruned and nurtured into the collection of sublime songs here presented

where every human is an IDF target

aka Jaakko Manninen

52nd Street 2:27