CULTURETECHLENSBring Down the Walls
STRONG EVIDENCE evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)
Combined Graph record U-00406 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0094. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Song title: 'Bring Down The Walls' Artist as framed by Resident Advisor (tier 4 specialist): 'Robert Owens/Fingers. Inc'; Owens freestyled/sang the vocal over Larry Heard's beat in Heard's living room in 1986 Year: 1986 — RA's review header lists the release as 1986 (labels ML2203 / TX132); the text states Heard first pressed it under the name Fingers Inc. for his Alleviated label in 1986, and it was re-released under Owens' name on Trax Records the following year Defected Records' house-history feature (fetched in full) independently frames it as 'Robert Owens - Bring Down the Walls' and states the record was 'released back in 1986'
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Song title: 'Bring Down The Walls' Artist as framed by Resident Advisor (tier 4 specialist): 'Robert Owens/Fingers. Inc'; Owens freestyled/sang the vocal over Larry Heard's beat in Heard's living room in 1986 Year: 1986 — RA's review header lists the release as 1986 (labels ML2203 / TX132); the text states Heard first pressed it under the name Fingers Inc.
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- Year: 1986
- Work type: song
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- https://nl.ra.co/reviews/33864 (verification source · master store)
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Song title: 'Bring Down The Walls' Artist as framed by Resident Advisor (tier 4 specialist): 'Robert Owens/Fingers. Inc'; Owens freestyled/sang the vocal over Larry Heard's beat in Heard's living room in 1986 Year: 1986 — RA's review header lists the release as 1986 (labels ML2203 / TX132); the text states Heard first pressed it under the name Fingers Inc. for his Alleviated label in 1986, and it was re-released under Owens' name on Trax Records the following year Defected Records' house-history feature (fetched in full) independently frames it as 'Robert Owens - Bring Down the Walls' and states the record was 'released back in 1986'
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