My musical history is something along the lines of
Punk->Digital Hardcore->Hardcore/Jungle->Psytrance->House/Electro/Glitch House->Minimal.
I resisted getting into electronic music for a long time, being 'punk and all'
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, then started to get introduced into some 'digital hardcore' stuff like atari teenage riot (handy bridge to EDM from punk). Was all about that and noizecore/hardcore for a bit, then started to drift into some hardcore stuff. Then, a friend of mine sent me Juno Reactor - Pistelaro, which knocked my socks off and spawned a love obsession with Psytrance for about 2 or 3 years, pretty much ignored every other genre for a while.
Then, started to date a guy in montreal, went to a few really good parties that played house and electro and was "wow, this stuff is pretty good!", which oepened me up to exploring other genres of music that I had been ignoring.
I'd say the main artist that lead me to the land of minimal from that exploration was T. Raum, he's the one that lead me to sender records and eventually to all of the other great minimal out there.
Then, one day - I listented to Hawtin while in a k-hole, which just further enforced my love of minimal, I suddenly 'got' plastikman, and started to listen to alot more minimal stuff after that
Mostly listen to minimal stuff, but like all sorts - I'm alot less narrow minded in what I listen to these days (Used to lock myself into 1 genre and listen to nothing but). Now, I listen to alot more stuff, but minimal is what I loves the most.