I think I've got a general feel for the sound and vibe you want, but I can't say I've really seen sample packs for any synth that really address that need. That's because it's a really niche type sound where the sound itself becomes the track almost. The sound is not so much a patch in the synth as much as the sound as a component of the final production (by that I mean how the sound is routed will matter as much or more than the sound itself).
Are you tracking with me on that (no pun intended)? I just mean that you will find something like this maybe in Omnisphere packs where the entire sound is set up for you to hit a key, hear a sequence, and then hear the sequence in a different key but you won't feel like you wrote anything doing that.
One of the reasons Detroit Techno became legendary is that it involved taking analog synths an just getting flat-out creative with them, ignoring everything else that was going on and letting things evolve into a texture, or a dance groove, or whatever dudes felt like at the time. What made it techno was the fact that they were taking existing technology and moving it to the next level by simply doing something different, even if it meant routing one signal elsewhere to get some effect or vibe.
Perhaps the biggest peril with that is that (from the perspective of finding sound packs) is that if you do come up with some creative texture sound, then put it in a box for someone else to use, it is no longer unique or cool. That may be one reason you don't see a lot of sound packs for the Virus that address true Techno as opposed to dance music (most techno by the purist term is of course not dance music, though techno means a lot of things to a lot of people these days I guess).
If you really want to get down to how the masters did it back in the days, you have to go pure analog, but I promise you've got a lot of work ahead compared to what most of us are used to these days. I get some great sounds out of my Leipzig-S but putting it into a repeatable form then making a track out of it can be a shitload of work. The days of digital, virtual analog and soft synths have simplified a lot of things but they might have made the particular sound you're looking for more elusive in some ways. At that point you're dealing more with the intricacies of the signal path than just the patch properties. It can be beautiful when it comes together well, it's just that theirs never a big enough audience to fully appreciate it and that's why sound designers don't go after it.
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