Electronic Music Fans

Server structure

Overview

A community for people who listen to electronic music first and make it second. Subgenres get their own rooms - #house, #techno, #drum-and-bass, #trance, #bass-music, #ambient-and-downtempo and #garage-and-breaks - so a conversation about a new techno label does not land in front of the trance crowd. New music has a category of its own: #release-radar is a curated, read-only feed the Curator role posts to, #new-releases-chat is the reaction to it, #track-id is for the clip you cannot name, #label-watch follows labels and #track-of-the-week is a weekly poll. Mixes are a forum tagged by style and by kind of set, with #mix-feedback for the DJs among the members and #radio-shows-and-podcasts as a feed. Festivals get a read-only calendar, a #festival-meetups forum tagged by region, #event-photos and #lineup-reactions. The production corner is small on purpose: #production-chat, #work-in-progress-tracks, #sound-design-tips and #daw-and-plugins, enough for the fans who also produce without turning the server into a producer server. The floor is voice: Main Room, Second Room, a Listening Session stage with #session-chat, and Chill Out.

When to use it

Your electronic music chat is one channel where a drum-and-bass thread, a festival carpool and a request to identify a track all arrive in the same minute. This layout splits the scene by subgenre, gives new releases a curated feed and a weekly vote, puts mixes in a forum where they stay findable, and gives every festival a meetup thread by region.

What makes it different

• Seven subgenre rooms, each with a self-assigned role, so House and Techno regulars find their own corner.
• #release-radar is a read-only curated feed; #new-releases-chat and #track-of-the-week carry the reaction and the vote.
• #mixes is a forum tagged by style and set type, with #mix-feedback for the members who DJ.
• #festival-meetups is a forum tagged by region, so a carpool thread survives until the festival weekend.
• A small production corner keeps the fans who also produce without turning this into a producer server.

Recommended Vetox setup

• Self-Roles

  Post a Self-Roles panel in #genre-roles for House, Techno, Drum and Bass, Trance, Bass Music and Ambient, plus Producer and DJ, so a subgenre room can mention its regulars.

• Notifications

  Feed the radio shows and podcasts the community follows into #radio-shows-and-podcasts with Podcast and RSS Notifications so new episodes arrive on their own.

• Temp Voice

  Point Temp Voice at Main Room so a third listening group gets its own room on a busy night without a permanent channel.

• Reminders

  Schedule a Reminder in #session-chat for the weekly Listening Session and one in #new-releases-chat every Friday for release day.

• Starboard

  Point Starboard at the subgenre rooms so the track shares with the most reactions collect in one place for newcomers.