the best 5 albums of techno music

Some reclassifications:

The Chemical Brothers "Surrender"
Basement Jaxx "Remedy"
The Prodigy "Music for the Jilted Generation"
Not techno, but house/breaks

Leftfield "Leftism"
This is hard to say. I guess electronica in general - they do some of everything. Techno does have a major part in this though.

Underworld "Beaucoup Fish"
Actually, a mix of techno, trance, tech trance, tech house, and ambient (basically this is an electronic album). Still, it's much closer to techno than the first 3 I "reclassified".

If you want actual techno, try Surgeon, Umek, Carl Cox, DJ Rush, Pascal FEOS, and Green Velvet, to name a few suggestions. Trust me - this stuff is too underground to be bought ANYWHERE (except Carl Cox, but he's not pure techno, or maybe Umek, in some places). (There's a good chance you won't like it anyway, it's REALLY boring and repetitive). I'll make a list in the future, explaining the difference between electronic genres, but for now, trust me, it's massive - ie the difference between techno and ambient is about as big as the difference between hardcore punk, and cheesy pop (those aren't in conparison to the two genres, just in the distance between them)

(you can download from those artists (albeit awful artists) using soulseek, which U can get at www.slsk.org)