German electronic musician Stefan Schwander uses the name Harmonious Thelonious for his danceable excursions that draw connections between hypnotic, repetition-based forms of music such as minimalism, Detroit techno, and African drumming. While the project often leans toward rough, post-industrial textures, particularly on early efforts like 2010's Talking, he channels early, stripped-down house on buoyant releases such as 2016's International Dance Record, and he incorporates traditional Arabic and African acoustic instruments into the winding polyrhythms of recordings like 2021's Instrumentals! (A Collection of Outernational Music Studies).