Trax Records

Trax Records
Trax Records' current logo, redesigned by Jorge Cruz.
Founded	1983
Genre	House
Country of origin	United States
Official website	traxrecords.net

Trax Records is a house-music record label based in Chicago. It played a major part in the development of house music with records such as Jamie Principle & Frankie Knuckles's "Your Love."

Larry Sherman began operations in 1983 by purchasing Musical Products, then Larry and Jesse Saunders, co-founded Trax Records in late 1984. The label design and initial artist signings were done by Vince Lawrence. The first release was "Wanna Dance/Certainly" by Le Noiz (a pseudonym of Jesse Saunders, TX-101 (matrix number 85 indicated the year of release). Trax Records may be best known for inventing the squelchy acid-house sound on tracks like "Dream Girl" and "Acid Tracks."

Trax was an important outlet for house music in its early days, 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 outside of Chicago. In Early 2007, Rachael Cain being the driving force and face of the label—she founded a new record label called Phuture Trax Records, which she currently owns and operates along with her TV show Trax Television. Ms. Cain still owns all her interests in Trax Records along with 100% of the legendary Trax trademark.

Trax Records is not affiliated with the Chicago house record label Dust Traxx Records founded by Radoslaw Hawryszczuk in 1997, nor with Wax Trax! Records, the Chicago record store and industrial-music label that moved from Denver in the late 1970s that was acquired by TVT Records in the 1990s.