quote:Ik ken z'n muziek nog niet heel lang, ik hoorde z'n fucking lekkere stem voor het eerst op Photek - Solaris, maar tering, elk nummer wat ik download waarin hij zingt is gewoon een kicken nummer. Z'n stem is heerlijk!!
Though electronica has always been a producer's medium (and the few vocalists keeping their head above water are usually woman), Robert Owens became one of the figures most associated with the late-'80s golden era of Chicago house. Born in Ohio in 1961, he grew up singing in the church, but was working as a DJ when he met pioneering Chicago producer Larry Heard in 1985. The pair formed Fingers Inc. with Ron Wilson, and released a few excellent singles ("You're Mine," "It's Over") and the 1988 full-length Another Side.The group dissolved soon after, though, as Heard's burgeoning solo-production career (as Mr. Fingers) took over.Owens had already released tracks on his own - "Bring Down the Walls" and "I'm Strong" for Alleviated, with production from Heard - and he signed a solo contract with 4th & Broadway. His 1990 LP Rhythms in Me was a solid effort, though it soon disappeared within the quickly disintegrating Chicago house scene. (One of his best-known features of the late '80s, the epic house moment "Tears," appeared under the names of Frankie Knuckles and producer Satoshi Tomiie.)
Owens had basically retired from music by the early '90s, preferring instead to run his own Christian bookstore. By 1996, he'd returned to dance music with Ordinary People, a two-part EP for Musical Directions. He teamed up with Tomiie and Cevin Fisher for a track from Tomiie's Full Lick LP in 1999, and one year later Owens appeared on the Photek smash "Mine to Give." - John Bush
Robert Owens - I'll Be Your Friend
Frankie Knuckles Feat Robert Owens - Tears
Photek - Mine To Give
Photek - Can't Come Down
om maar een paar te noemen. Stuk voor stuk heerlijke house / drum&bass nummertjes.
Wie is er nog meer gechameerd van z'n heerlijke stem?
[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door haaahaha op 15-02-2003 19:30]
http://www.afroartrecords.com/owens.html
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_08.08.02/thebeat/extended.html
Mooi leesspul
En nog een paar muziekfragmenten 
The River
Tears
Can You Feel It
Wellicht een volstrekt nutteloze opmerking; toen ik voor het eerst Awakening van Rank 1 hoorde deed me dat wel heel sterk denken aan het deuntje van "i'll be your friend".
quote:Dat nummertje ken ik niet, maar ik weet wel dat ik vandaag effe richting plato ga dat nieuwe cdtje van Owens te kopen
Op zondag 16 februari 2003 12:17 schreef moosexing het volgende:
Jawel, maar verder dan "i'll be your friend" kom ik niet.Wellicht een volstrekt nutteloze opmerking; toen ik voor het eerst Awakening van Rank 1 hoorde deed me dat wel heel sterk denken aan het deuntje van "i'll be your friend".
*kicken*
Alle GSM aanbiedingen overzichtelijk bij elkaar.
quote:I'll be your friend is errug lekkerrrrr
Op dinsdag 18 februari 2003 11:44 schreef Lortnoc het volgende:
Ik heb I'll be your friend op plaat...volgens mij een Danny Tenaglia mix op white label
Tears van Frankie Knuckles feat Owens heeft ook een tering lekker klankbeeldje
Inderdaad een goeie plaat, is een aantal jaren geleden ook opnieuw uitgebracht op het Bonzai Classics label...
quote:Love Will Find A Way The Best Of Robert Owens
March 2002 sees a gentleman of dance music honoured with the release of The Best Of Robert Owens, a compilation of truly great and original tracks. Love Will Find Its Way is the essential collection of Robert Owens. Spanning two decades it defines the different periods and styles from the seminal hits Bring Down The Walls, Ill Be Your Friend and Tears right up to his 2001 collaboration with Photek on the David Morales mix of Mine To Give. This album is the quintessential Robert Owens, raw n uncut, an incredible 25-track journey from house musics leading male vocalist - Inspiring and influential, Owens will always find a way! This is an awesome reminder of something extra ordinary, Robert is the greatest voice in dance music and just let me urge everyone to have a (another) listen to the Farley & Heller remix of Ordinary People here, its timeless club stuff folks! Owens is due to start work on a new album of original works later this year so look out for that also!
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