Trax Records
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The classic house record label Trax Records was based in Chicago, and put out seminal House records like Jamie Principle & Frankie Knuckles's "Your Love".
Larry Sherman, owner and founder of Trax Records, began operations in 1983 by purchasing Musical Products, Chicago's only vinyl record pressing plant at the time. Trax Records may be best known for inventing the squelchy acid house sound on tracks like "Dream Girl" and "Acid Tracks".
Trax became the dominant House label, releasing many classics including "No Way Back" by Adonis, Larry Heard's "Can You Feel It" and the first so-called House anthem in 1986, "Move Your Body" by Marshall Jefferson. This latter tune gave a massive boost to House music, extending recognition of the genre out of Chicago.
Trax Records is not to be confused with the Chicago house record label Dust Traxx Records founded by Radoslaw Hawryszczuk in 1997, or with Wax Trax! Records, the Chicago record store and industrial music label that moved from Denver in the late 1970s and was bought by TVT Records in the 1990s.
