Artist
Wiley
Wiley appears 4 times in our Grime, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred lists, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 4
- Appears on
- Grime, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Years
- 2002–2004
- Highest placing
- No. 3 in Grime
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Appears on
Eskimo
2002 · Wiley Kat
Ranked No. 3 in Grime
The instrumental that named a subgenre and set the emotional temperature: cold, hollow, and deliberately unwelcoming. Wiley's whole theory of the music is audible in ninety seconds.
Also on The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Wot Do U Call It?
2004 · XL
Ranked No. 6 in Grime
A single whose entire subject is the argument about what to call this music. Wiley refuses garage, refuses urban, and in refusing them names the thing by negation.
Eskimo
2002 · Wiley Kat
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts
The coldest record here and the one with the least obvious Jamaican inheritance. It earns its place by testing the line: grime keeps the sound system and throws the warmth away.
Also on Grime, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Eskimo
2002 · Wiley Kat
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Cold, hollow and deliberately unwelcoming. An entire scene's emotional temperature set by one instrumental in ninety seconds.
Also on Grime, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts