There's something really odd and ghostly about that era of dubstep and some of the grime tunes. Think it's partly just how memory works and partly because of how digital everything sounds nowadays. Some of this stuff almost doesn't sound like electronic music. It's also taken on that lost quality for me that people talked about with hardcore, jungle and garage, although with none of the euphoria. It almost doesn't feel real. As though I just imagined it all.
I'm looking at the cover of Skream's first album now. The sweaty house party, the clothes people are wearing. and can't help but think of the famous L. P. Hartley quote: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.