[...] Two other house originals also teamed up in 1989 - Frankie Knuckles and Robert Owens, who recorded 'Tears' with Japanese keyboardist Satoshi Tomiie. 'Tears' was a great record but mystifyingly, even in the year of house hits, it failed to make the charts [...]
[...] Larry Heard and Robert Owens, later to be known as Fingers Inc, [...] were all experimenting with basic rhythm tracks long before they made the jump to vinyl. [...]