My first encounter with "proper" electronica was industrial my brother gave me on mix tapes, and I bought an EP: Evil A.D. - Destruction E.P. by Joey Beltram in 93, I really liked his stuff but somehow ended up listing to metal and rejecting anything electronic for some of years after.. how stupid of me (the rejecting part).
I think a friend of mine in school actually told me about psychedelic and goa trance, and I decided to get a shopping tip from him and I bought my first psy CD: VA - Pulse 4 The 4th Dimension in 1997 and after that I stopped buying metal...