I was so fasncatied with Techno. I never heard anything like it. It was so electric to me. I've moved onto Drum and Bass since then as one of my top three musical genres, but I would have never gotten there if I wasn't taken with Techno first.
It was the mid '90s, and I was completely into New Age piano and Classical music, nothing else. Then I saw the movie
Heat which ends with a glorious piano piece called
God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters. I sought out the soundtrack and found it was a piece by an artist called "Moby."
I bought his album
Everything Is Wrong with the aforementioned track on it. With the exception of that track and another called
Hymn, basically the whole album is Techno. I certainly wasn't expecting that; I'd never been exposed to Techno before, but since this guy was clearly capable of amazing things, I kept listening to it and branching out to find more like it.
Then I found Robert Miles and the album
Dreamland. It was piano meets my new interest Techno. It was perfect. I must have listened to that album a thousand times. I even taught myself how to play the piano for damn near every track. It was because of Miles that I worked a summer gig with my dad to earn enough money for another keyboard so I could recreate whole songs from
Dreamland, i.e.: strings, drums, effects, etc.
Today? I can't listen to it. It is awfully cheesy and cringeworthy, but I can't help but credit Miles and Moby as a MASSIVE stepping stones in my musical evolution.