It does seem like its all been building up from about 2007/2008/2009 for me ever since things started to split in the scene more. Its just a natural progression from all of that stuff like... Quarta 330, Joker, Darkstar, Shorstuff, Rustie, Untold, Hessle, Hemlock, Hyperdub. Look at the tracks from those years and beyond and you can easily see the thru lines. Damu and Emma have that Darkstar, Zomby, Samiyam, Rustie, Joker, Desto colourful syrupy thing going on, etc. You can hear the same eski influence at 130 in early Shortstuff, he even sampled Wiley for
one. Untold did that house/eski EP on Hemlock with Stop What You're doing on it. But yeah there does seem to be a nice new focus from it of late with Keysound really bringing it together more, there is still a load going on outside of it but Keysound are really building momentum and drawing things together in their own way and its sounding wicked.