Robert Owen Talking (feat. Robert Owens)

When I first discovered house music

Ahh, let's see

Okay, let me try to think real quick

Um I think I was at a house party probably and checking out some vibes

And saying oh man what's that?

And they were saying this is some of that warehouse vibe

And um, I went down there to check it out

And I was like yeah, this is cool

But the main thing that I grasp from just being there

Was the unification and the party

How everybody, you know

Seem like they was on one accord

You know everybody was there

You know like one unit, you know

And all embracing each other in the music you know

Music, boxing, so many other clubs

And even over here in England

Where was this (?)

Rip parties, confusion parties

So it goes back a long, long way this whole house thing

You know, and me, and being there

Evolved into the feeling

Um and my first experience so that's what we were getting at, huh?

You know that some of the

Most important DJs in that, in that early stage

Was definitely Frankie Knuckles, and um, Ryan Hardy and Larry Levan

Those were like the three inspirations for me

Coming up in the system, you know, um

I know there was many other great DJs back in that period as well

And all due respect to all of them

But those were the main three that I actually had a close rapport with

Where, you know I've been to their house, they've been to my house

And, you know, we've been in touch with each other

Like, from a brotherly perspective, you know

So that's why

Um, I probably focus on, you know

Mentioning those three brothers often in the system

You know, because I've had personal conversations with them

Where I've seen them outside of their artist, kind of

Um, um, persona, you know

You know I've seen them just ordinary

You know, where they were relaxed

Um, it all stemmed out of disco for me, and

And, you know, um, some of the break type material

Definitely out of the disco era, the disco period

A lot of guys got inspired from a lot of that disco

Um, tracks that, um, Ryan Hardy and Frankie Knuckles were

Playing in Chicago

That's where they generated their ideas

To go and buy, um, the sample units

The drum machines

The 303, um, 707, 909, 808

Um, a lot of the young cats

Bought because, um, it was the simplified way

For them to reduce rhythms

And, a, you know, from a cheap format

They couldn't afford to go into studios and

And pay for the kind of productions

That they were hearing on those disco, um, tracks

But they could come up with little formulas

You know that made them feel good

And its always been about about, you know

Trying to create something

That makes you feel good in return, you know

Hopefully it will make others feel good

And, you know

You know, so that's where a lot of the guys

Got inspired, to you know

Push this whole house system forward

Yeah!