Dancing stuff about structure (or, the translating shapewords into music)

I've this designer friend who recently asked about series of songs or pieces that would go with the following words for her inspiration -

- pattern juxtaposed with irregularity
- disruption
- sense of surprise
- texture
- trend towards dark

Said friend has broad and adventurous taste - and I'm kinda stumped. Beyond the obv Steve Reich/Glass/etc, I was thinking:

- OOIOO's Gamel
- Fennesz

But I know there's got to be more interesting stuff too. Maybe something Basic Channel-y with phasing beats? Or or or... ILM, I beseech you!

Terry Riley, David Borden, Keith Fullterton Whitman, Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix etc.), Autechre, Zs

Colin Stetson

SPK, Severed Heads, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Meat Beat Manifesto, Laibach, KMFDM, Doubting Thomas, Skinny Puppy, basically pick any 80s/90s industrial/industrial dance act and go nuts

early stuff by battles ?

speaking of that, Don Caballero maybe

YES. YES. and er, egg on my face, YES!

I can't believe I didn't think of Onehotrix, Autechre, Zs! And I think Cabaret Voltaire - something with that industrial + romance. Fucking great.

Is it my imagination, or was there some techno/house artist that did stuff with two sets of beats that weren't quite on top, like 130bpm against 120bpm?

Excepter, Extra Life, Daphni (esp the stuff with Owen Pallett), Black Dice, Dustin Wong

I was also thinking about The Fields - a little textured, a little house.

Race: In - Battles also, Mark E, esp the beginning, before they go all Chris Squire.

Books, Bear in Heaven

Theo Parrish

TCF

https://soundcloud.com/liberationtechnologies/tcf-54-c6-05-1c-13-cc-72-e9-cc-dc-84-f2-a3-ff-cc-38-1e-94-0d-c0-50-5c-3e-e8

Lotic

https://soundcloud.com/janusberlin/lotics-damsel-in-distress

^^^

!!! (Expression of excitement and simpatico, not band.)

And how did I not know about Dustin Wong? And Lotic!!!

Naked City

Brood Ma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZpirEwvVY8
http://www.mediafire.com/download/6oe21y46ak9iyya/Brood+Ma+-+P+O+P+U+L+O+U+S+%28QNR001%29.rar

https://soundcloud.com/broodma/sets/f-i-s-s-i-o-n

Laurel Halo

Holly Herndon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHujh3yA3BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3mCDJ_iWc
https://hollyherndon.bandcamp.com/track/recruit

And Colin Stetson! I kind of slotted him as a saxomophonist, but the New History Warfare! Ok, is this thread just becoming me re-posting within the thread about the great recommendations everyone has made? If so, guilty.

I like your friend's descriptions, much more interesting than the way most music nerds would describe what they like

WFD, I totally agree - and also it triggers the music nerd need to prove how smart s/he is (or in this case, what great access to ILM s/he has) to see if there are musics that match this description. Structure/patterns/disruption but with an element of romance in there too.

Circle - Lokki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JaYMfbDikc

15-minute motorik piece (a very basic patterned framework), stays on one chord with different little parts and incidental bits fading in & out, suddenly kicks up the volume & pitch eleven and a half minutes in, lots of crazy dark heart-pounding psychedelic shit popping off everywhere

obv the description is very open to interpretation!

Early Robert Hood? Stuff like Moveable Parts and Minimal Nation.

Woah Robert Hood! If he were even more minimal and further from the club/dance context - and a little more gritty, that's the sound at least I've got in my head. Funny, I played some basic channel, and I think it's close but probably again too dance-y and less "music-y."

This came up as something cool - very textured -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ4b5t0Aa_I

'dance' - think a lot of stuff that's been released on Opal Tapes and/or kind of mushroomed around that whole thing would fit the bill. not actually au fait w/ her records but my recollection of a Karen Gwyer live set in the summer ticks all the boxes in the OP

'rock' - maybe Shellac in their more awkward/patience-testing/rock-not-rock mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fch4YoMz_t8

Opal Tapes! - Lumigraph in particular sounds like the structure/disruption and has that grain. My friend's going to like this, I think. These are all cassettes?

I also thought about Ben Frost, Hauschka stuff--some of it might be a little too classical-esque or film score-y.