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  "slug": "fingers-inc",
  "name": "Fingers Inc.",
  "description": "Fingers Inc. appears 2 times in our Chicago House and The Waxonia Desk — In the Room lists, placing as high as No. 9. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/fingers-inc/",
  "appearanceCount": 2,
  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
    "first": 1986,
    "last": 1986
  },
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  },
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      "title": "Bring Down the Walls",
      "year": 1986,
      "label": "Alleviated",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Robert Owens sings it like a sermon, because it more or less is one. The clearest evidence that house came out of the church as much as the discotheque.",
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        },
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      },
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    },
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      "title": "Bring Down the Walls",
      "year": 1986,
      "label": "Alleviated",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Robert Owens singing gospel phrasing over a drum machine, in rooms most churches would not have admitted the congregation to. That tension is the whole record and nobody has resolved it since.",
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