Yeah - a heavy shuffle makes things sound nice and angular. And it all depends where you put the emphasis in the rhythm, try something percussive on the last sixteenth of the bar for a really rolling feel. On three sixteeths before the snare for a funkier feel.

Shuffle or swing basically slides the even sixteenths in a bar forward in time a little, 100% shuffle (something like 16D/E in Logic Audio) is a triplet feel. Try putting something on 16th triplets at the same time to see what i mean. Makes things sound very housey at slower tempos...

Hard house often has a heavy shuffle whilst trancier stuff tends to have less of one ...

If your sequencer has a groove quantise function you can probably do some weirder things !