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Nujabes - Modal Soul
First heard about Nujabes from my friend following his death. Decided to check him out and was blown away. Related artists I discovered as a result include: Emancipator, Bonobo, Uyama Hiroto, Haruka Nakamura, Nomak to name a few.

Opeth - Blackwater Park
Could not stand metal vocals until this album. I'm still not the biggest fan of growls apart from Mikael Akerfeldt, but Blackwater Park was highly influential on my tastes. I still don't listen to much metal apart from Opeth, Mastodon, Devin Townsend and Gojira though.

GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Having spent my teen/musical development years in the early to mid 2000s, I wasn't really exposed to much in the way of good hip hop. As a result, I had a pretty negative view of the genre until I heard this album.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞
First heard the heavily edited version of East Hastings in 28 Days Later and it was like nothing I'd ever heard before. After a little bit of research, I discovered the post rock genre, which now makes up probably half of what I listen to. Other post rock favourites include: Red Sparowes, Mono, God is an Astronaut, Mogwai, Daturah, Jakob.