there are maybe four paths to idm.
"goth" -> industrial -> idm (i got into aphex through nin and nothing records)
autism (it sounds like my video games and i see norse gods fighting in the sky when i listen to drukqs)
mortal kombat soundtrack -> the prodigy "funky shit on the event horizon soundtrack"/pi soundtrack/matrix soundtrack -> idm (lesser autism)
and then there's being british, which means you're probably around fifty years old and went to raves in the eighties, but most of these people are dead.