it looks so obvious that newcommers mostly listen to IM and AP and find them "TEH BEST", funny ...
EDIT : probably because IM sound imo is more DIGITAL rather than cosmic, not because they use softsynths, but it just has that technoish flavour, in many songs...
as for AP - donnu, could it be that they are widely mentioned as psy pioneers and because their name is so popular that ppl quickly start to listen without giving a try to different emmm, projects ?!