I've got confused feelings about the house/techno scene right now. On the one hand I think there's a lot of ace stuff coming out (I've been mostly buying house records over the last few months), but not a lot of it is really pushing the scene forward. The only artists I can think of off the top of my head who are really progressing things are Kassem Mosse (especially with his stuff with Mix Mup) and Actress.
I think that that's reflected in the fact that this thread is mostly people (including myself) posting links to tracks and mixes and saying 'this is ace!'. There's no real discussion of where things are going. But most of the tracks and mixes linked to are ace in my opinion so I don't know if it really matters