Back in the day stuff like New Order, Primal Scream, Adamski, 808 State, Sunscreem, The KLF, The Shamen (before the Ebeneezer Goode episode) and, bizarrely Fortran 5 were very much my thing.
Fortran 5 were probably the oddest band going, actually managing to get Derek Nimmo to sing "Layla" amongst other strange things. However they did manage to produce some absolute gems like "Persian Blues" (Philamonic remix).