It's odd. It's almost as if the music has found me.

I started out, really, with Pink Floyd. When I first saw qoyaniskaatsi I dug the hell out of the music, even at the age of nine, despite the fact that my mother - a classical violist - deemed that I was required to hate it. Tracks like "One of these days" and Rush's "Mystic Rhythms" were really where it was at when I was 11 or 12... but as soon as I found industrial music, I leaned towards the softer, atmospheric stuff.

About then I found Sect's Telekinetic and industrial took a bit of a wayside; six months later I found The Future Sound of London and Air Liquide and it was like I was getting closer to what I heard in my head.

It kind of came full circle as soon as I found Aes Dana and Solar Fields. It wasn't so much that my tastes took me here, it's more that with a gazillion different places to find music, I was finally able to find music.

In High School, if I wanted to buy an album, I had to order it out of a catalog and hope it was good, based purely on what the cover looked like. Assuming the cover was in the catalog at the music store. Now? Now it's easier to refine your tastes down to the nine other people on the planet who listen to and play music like you do.