{"product_id":"cheapo-sounds","title":"Cheapo Sounds","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pivotal figure in Düsseldorf’s Salon Des Amateurs, Stefan Schwander has already amassed a remarkably rich musical repertoire. Through his Harmonious Thelonious project, he has spent the past dozen years exploring the worlds of Pan-African, South American and Middle Eastern rhythms in combination with a minimalistic electronic sound, distilling his very own groove from the point at which they converge. His new album - challengingly entitled \u003ci\u003eCheapo Sounds \u003c\/i\u003e- sees Schwander move away from tried and trusted recipes. This musical reorientation starts with the fundamental approach to production: the entire record was created using a single instrument - the Monomachine – which lends a very physical sound to the 10 tracks featured here. The polyrhythms of earlier works are no longer in the foreground, replaced by melodies and chords interwoven on a base frame of brittle, simplified beat constructs and rugged bass pulses. On closer inspection, this is, at times, a new vision of an old technique. There are still the old amps in Schwander‘s rehearsal room, along with a primitive rhythm box, a programmable drum machine and various synthesizers, including an MS-20. None of these made it onto \u003ci\u003eCheapo Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e and yet the idea with which these instruments are associated is written into the DNA of the album. When new wave superseded punk and the last throes of rockism, a new and particular spirit emerged, one which Stefan Schwander sought to capture on his new works. A new wave record informed by techno\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50896087908683,"sku":"2004805","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50896088138059,"sku":"2004806","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Cheapo_Sounds_3adacd05_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1732664444","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/cheapo-sounds","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}