I've also been thinking how the devil mix stuff needs putting out again & how the demand must surely be there. From the odd interview, post etc & looking at his sprawling catalogue on Discogs, I think Wiley, much more than any other garage guy, seems to have that reggae mentality about releases - make em, put em out, get paid, move on, then concentrate on what sells best (hmmm, bad pop records) whilst throwing out a few bits of effortless brilliance to keep his hardcore audience happy. Reissues low on the agenda. Not got the Ruff Sqwad one yet but at least that's one done! I would imagine someone could pull together Danny Weed, Skepta, Jammer & a bunch of the one-offs & press em on proper CDs at least, there are enough 'wants' & high prices on discogs, obvious eski tributes on soundcloud etc. I've been having a bit of a clean-up on some of the classic grime/garage crew entries on discogs this week (putting members in crews, grouping aliases, etc) & there still looks like there's a ton of work to do there if anyone can be bothered but it's certainly much better than years ago.
Re: picking up originals, I had an unfortunate history with grime 12s - I was in Essex at the time, buying loadsa garage, but the local shop was slow to pick up on the grime (probably cos it wasn't as jiggy) so I only got a few (I did get "Ice Rink" amongst others though :-D ) & then moved to Blackpool just as it was really taking off. I couldn't work out where to get them in Manchester (I suspect you could - probably the shop right down the back end of Oldham St if I'd realised) & settled for tape packs rather than send for em all. Doh! However, few things are as hard to find as people tell you & I have scooped up a good few grime whites & high period grime 12s (Sing Along, Pull Up Dat Remix, Frontline 2 etc) dirt cheap in Manchester, Brum or a tenner or under online in recent years. I think from what I read (someone please feel free to flame me) that some of the pressings were reasonably sizeable, so I presume the main problem is identifying the white labels amongst the zillions that litter second hand store basements - who actually memorises all the matrix numbers?! The ones I've bought second hand have all been in good nick.
I know I should be but I'm not that interested in most of the DMZ stuff (although I love the Swamp 81 stable) but I don't know what they're doing not repressing all their stuff, most labels'd kill for the numbers they could shift.