Hypnus server slants to deep/hypnotic same as their label, also has a private area accessible via sub to label boss Michel's Patreon
A Thousand Details hosts Collective Details, which is a techno community and also a collective net label. We (I produce & do admin for the label) have four releases out with the 5th due very soon. More of a producer focus, and a bit broader techno taste, from industrial to deep to hypnotic to mental, but all on the underground flavour.
/r/hypnotech has a companion server for their reddit, it has shifted its focus more to cataloguing tracks and labels
6AM is an LA based techno event group, I think they sell merch and have a blog as well. They are also working on some integration with their own crypto coin. Music focus here is more on the mainstream / bigroom techno sound.
Richie Hawtin also has a server, but I literally just joined so I don’t know much about that one.
I’m on all of these under the alias neurojacker, stop by and say hi if you’re interested!
Oh, Stoor also has a producer focused discord. I lost the link when I unsubbed but it shouldn't be too hard to find from some googling.
There’s also server hosted by /r/technoproduction, but it was a bit of a hot mess of self promotion.
I’m familiar with Hypnos, some nice music on there!
Not sure if a Discord would be helpful as might need a critical mass to not get abandoned... But I would love to have a place with people from HN to chat techno, feel that could take me to music discussions I haven't had yet, the crowd here is quite interesting.
From my personal background, I've always liked dance music, got more into it when I was 17-18 in Brazil when the psytrance/Goa trance raves were huge. Got tired of the trance scene after a couple of years and went to check out house parties, those took me to techno which grappled me very, very hard.
There is something about techno, this feeling of techy tribal music, the psychedelic repetition and playing just with textures and timbres of sounds to make "music", that attracts me in a deep way.
So deep that about 2.5 years ago I decided I would try to learn making electronic music, not only techno but it was definitely the initial goal. Since then I've discovered a whole new universe and language, I didn't ever think I'd be able to learn music, had a lot of preconceptions while growing up thinking that it was an innate talent and/or you needed to start early in life.
Techno has not given me many, many special moments, not only at parties but with the community, with the friends I've made (and some that I keep to this day, more than a decade later) but also a complete new experience trying to create something akin to art, haha.