The best techno is from the UK - by far. That's what destroyed metal over there - in one fell swoop, everything got wiped out (including grunge, rock - basically anything that isn't dance culture). With a million people raving each and every weekend (guess how much 'e' gets digested), the dance culture in the UK is overwhelming.
I've got tonnes of friends into the hardcore acid techno scene - going to clubs where they manipulate the techno on the fly (no vinyl DJ'ing). I've met Chris Liberator a bunch of times myself.
I like some of that techno stuff, but I listen to it by myself with headphones on instead of on X (or e, whatever it's called now...) surrounded by a million pacifier-wearing freaks.