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Recommended by us on 7th October 2010
...according to our Business Lady on Thu 07 Oct, 2010.
Harmonious Thelonious is a new project from Stefan Schwander (aka Antonelli) a Düsseldorf-based musician and producer with a keen ear for rhythm and melody (which i guess helps in this line of work) and an anti-agenda when it comes to fads and trends. As a result he's almost created his own sub-genre of dance music that takes the hypnotic rhythms of African music and re-tools it using European sequencing techniques and real loud amplification. What can I say about this CD? It's fucking ace for a start and totally mental too. It basically sounds like Stefan has heard Congotronics and decided that it's not loud enough or crazy enough so he's re-imagined the sound using modern recording/sampling techniques and ramped everything up to 11 for maximum effect creating what can only be described as hybrid form of Afro-Industrial music. These tracks sound like they we're recorded live too as you can faintly make out a very loud and excitable audience who appear to be going crazy throughout. I fucking love this record and I'm gonna go buy one now. I recommend you do the same. Nerd info: 'Talking' compiles the tracks previously available on EP 'On Stages' released on Düsseldorf-based label Diskant records with the addition of four bonus tracks.
* HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS, the new electronic project by Stefan Schwander (aka Antonelli), combines the reduced
serial structures of American minimalist music with African rhythms and European sequencing. Without any ideological
agenda, the Düsseldorf-based musician blends gripping harmonic and rhythmic patterns to create an entirely new kind of
club music. He conjures up hypnotic voodoo atmospheres - danceable, challenging, and melodically playful.
* Stefan Schwander released the "Just Drifting" EP under the pseudonym HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS on London's
Dreck Records in 2008, crossing Throbbing Gristle with the djembé. With the "On Stages" EP, released recently on the
new Düsseldorf label Diskant, he formulated his intoxicating, sequencer-driven Afro-Industrial with more urgency and
reaped bountiful applause from London to Berlin.
* Now ITALIC brings you "Talking", the debut LP by this Rhenish jack of all trades, who has never cared about
trends and instead constantly explores new worlds of rhythm. Alongside the tracks from the "On Stages" vinyl EP, it
includes four new pieces whose pulse is driven in equal parts by the rhythms of Africa and electronics of Europe. In
future HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS will also tour as a live band (Stefan Schwander, Marc Matter, Stefan Suhr), hitting
the clubs with turntables, sequencers, effects and Afro-Cuban percussion and conjuring up enthralling trance states.
1. Angewandte Muziek (5.49) 2. Entranced (6:25) 3. Tautological Speakers (5:46) 4. Mokambo (5:37) 5. Makeshift (5:30) 6. On Stages (6:21) 7. Primitive, Persuasive, Provocative Percussion (7:19) 8. Verwobene Muziek (4:32)
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