Sources

When checking out new music, because I'm not familiar with the genre I need to find lists and recommendations of what to check out.  Based on Google search results (essentially the word of god) the site Resident Adviser seems to be a fairly comprehensive, fairly large, and decently  long-running list of techno music reviews, DJ pages, lists.  So RA will be my primary source for finding content. 

The next split beyond what site to use is to look at more recent content or to look for curated lists of older content.  The advantage of more recent content is the that you're more like to be able to see the bands you find ( does that even matter / happen with techno?). 

The advantage of curated content is higher-quality.  The best hundred songs of the last month will be better than 100 random songs that I pick, and the best hundred songs of the last year will be better than the best hundred songs of the last month.  The best hundreds of the last 10 years will be better than the best hundred songs of the last year. To those who don't already know, I'm an extreme quality kind of guy so this is a no contest. It's curated lists. 

The lists that I will use then I will be the resident advisory list of the top hundred tracks of the 00's and the top hundred albums of the 00's. 

A disadvantage is that if resident adviser has any biases, those biases will be very prominent in my search and will likely influence my final findings and the outcome of my search.  If there are other sites that are similarly well-regarded or useful I'd like to know about them.  However since I do not advertise this blog or plug it or otherwise promote it in anyway, it would be shocking to find any readership. So it's unlikely that I that I'll be able get any recommendations of better sites by asking my readers.  Nonetheless, nonexistent readership, if you know any better source than resident adviser for listings of top techno over the past decade or so please let me know. Thanks