It really doesn’t get more oldschool
than Robert Owens, but if you
aren’t aware of the house music experience
prior to 1996, you probably won’t
dig him. The vocalist’s tone was once
attached to Chicago house’s hip, bearing
a quality found in many Italo ‘hits’:
his croon is dramatic and cheesy but in
a way that makes fans fondly remember
the special time from whence the music
came. Inside the genre’s realm, Owen’
a Midwesterner living in London’is a
god of self-help house. He took that sensibility
from his collaboration with Larry
Heard as Fingers Inc., and it remains
steadfast in his latest effort, Night-Time
Stories. Most all the dubby, glittering
production on the album is guest-work
(Atjazz, Jimpster), and while we could
do without Owens’ breathy interludes,
one thing is clear: the man’s still got it.

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