Wiley aka Eski-Boy aka Igloo-Boy is the true founding father of grime. He pioneered the music as a member of Pay As You Go Cartel, then with his crew Roll Deep Entourage and as a white label star, through which he refined the ice cold sound of Eski-Beat. His first album, ‘Treddin’ on Thin Ice’ was released by XL and he produced and masterminded most of Roll Deep’s album ‘In At The Deep End’ (Relentless) and their second album ‘Rules and Regulations’. Since leaving XL he has inspired the grime world through his ‘Tunnel Vision’ mixtapes which sell in their tens of thousands and in 2006 he self-released his own album ‘2nd Phaze’. This album sold astoundingly well without any proper distribution and last year his album ‘Playtime Is Over’ contained three tracks from it that deserved to reach a still wider audience. Now it’s time for the founding father, the maverick, the relentless innovator, to release his brand new, long awaited 3rd album ‘Grime Wave’. Choosing to do this on his own record label Eskibeat. A blazing return to the experimental crucible of East London music known as grime, ‘Grime Wave’ offers everything that is most brutal, cutting edge, funny, clever, terrifying and moving about the sound and the world which created it. The Grime world would be an infinitely poorer place without the many stories and legends the great man has inspired.
Recommended!!