10 years ago I was discovering artists like Orbital, Autechre, Plaid, Aphex Twin, LFO, Reload, µ-Ziq, The Future Sound of London, The Orb, The Black Dog and so on. The more IDM-ish artists crossed my path because I rent CDs like
The Dream Injection series and copied them with a 1 speed CD writer at a friends house. This series connected me to a lot of artists from the Warp roster and that's how I ended up listening to Boards of Canada - MHTRTC.
I now realize what the impact is to my current listening behaviour from samplers/compilations like The Dream Injection, The Future Sound of Jazz, Wasted, In Order to Dance, The Positiva Ambient Collection, Skampler, 0161 and the Artificial Intelligence series. 90% of my current
music collection is music that I discovered over the last 10 years...