VINYL FORMAT. Wiley and The Checkmates have a lot to live up to. The hill country blues of Fred McDowell, Junior Kimbrough, and R.L. Burnside. The literary landmarks of William Faulkner, Larry Brown and John Grisham. Herbert Wiley formed the Checkmates in 1960 and the group began performing on the chitlin' circuit as a marquee act and playing behind soul legends like Otis Clay, Percy Sledge, and Syl Johnson. After a dozen years with The Checkmates, Wiley quit music to run the family business and raise a fa...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Away from the eyes and ears of the mainstream, there is a scene growing stronger by the day. A scene which sits somewhere between ragga, US rap, UK garage, and jungle...the new sound of the British inner city. The sound of Wiley. Wiley is an artist who has been involved in this underground scene for years, and is now one of its most respected producers. Once a part of the influential Pay As U Go cartel in the late '90s, he went on to form the Roll Deep Crew (which once boasted Dizzee Rascal a...   [ read more ]

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Wiley, the pioneer, the founding father, the maverick, the relentless innovator, releases his brand new (and possibly last) album. A blazing return to the experimental crucible of the East London music known as grime, Playtime Is Over offers everything that is most brutal, cutting edge, funny, clever, terrifying and moving about the sound and the world which created it.

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