TRAX Records 25th Anniversary CD Party in Chicago

Join the TRAX Record label as they kick off the 25th Anniversary CD Party at LIMELIGHT Night @ Excalibur, Chicago on Friday November 26th!

The legendary TRAX Records has become equated with The Original Home of House Music in Chicago and worldwide. Trax Records defines its genre and the legendary label and invented Acid House. TRAX Records earned the brand name "House" because of its warehouse link and produced an endless list of classic dance hits followed including "Move Your Body", "Baby Wants To Ride", "Real Thing", "Can U Feel It", "House Nation", "This Is Acid" and "U Used To Hold Me" not to mention the artists like Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson, Mr. Fingers, Farley Jackmaster, Adonis, Screamin' Rachael and others on the map of house music. Larry Sherman and "Screamin’" Rachael Cain, co-owners and founders of Trax Records were responsible for such hits as "Dream Girl" and "Acid Tracks and "Wanna Dance/Certainly" by Le Noiz, TX-10.

"Without Trax, words like 'Jack', 'Acid', and 'House' would never have dropped into our cultural lexicon...Crucially, without Trax, the house revolution would not have been amplified." - ID Magazine, June 2004

"Their propulsive, slightly sinister yet oddly funky Kraftwerk-goes-disco clanking led directly to rave, techno, bit beat and all the endless permutations of dance music." - Blender Magazine, September 2004

"...Brings together many of the mid-and late-1980s singles that gave birth to modern dance music. Classics like Adonis's "No Way Back" and Mr. Finger's "Washing Machine" sound as startling and as exuberant as ever..." -The New York Times, July 25, 2005

“It's a shame because, in many ways, house is a more purely Chicago sound than any of those others. - Pitchfork"

"Chicago's Trax Records is one of the most influential and important labels in the history of electronic dance music. They've been called "the Motown of House", and it would be hard under any circumstances to dispute this statement. Trax wasn't the only label to produce house music back in the hazy Paleolithic era of the 1980s, but they were certainly among the very best. - Pop Matters"

A partial list of the discography:

12" singles
TX101 -- Le Noiz "Wanna Dance/Certainly"
TX102 -- Jesse Velez "Girls Out On the Floor"
TX103 -- Le Noiz "I'm Scared/Get Out"
TX104 -- Farley Keith (Jackmaster Funk) "Jack the Bass"
TX105 -- Kevin Irvin "Ride the Rhythm [Remix]"
TX106 -- Farley Keith "Funkin With Drums Again"
TX107 -- Vince Lawrence "Virgo Tracks Again"
TX108 -- Jesse Velez "Super Rhythm Trax"
TX109 -- Ron Hardy "Sensation"
TX110 -- Screamin' Rachel "My Main Man"X
TX111 -- Man Goes Disco "Sensuous Woman"
TX112 -- Adonis "No Way Back"
TX113 -- Sleezy D "I've Lost Control"
TX114 -- Marshall Jefferson "Virgo/Free Yourself/R U Hot Enough"
TX115 -- Fresh Dum Dum "Part Two"
TX116 -- Farley Keith "Give Yourself to Me"
TX117 -- Marshall Jefferson "Move Your Body/House Music Nat'l Anthem"
TX118 -- Master C & J "When You Hold Me"
TX119 -- Sweet D "Thank Ya/Do It"
TX120 -- Adonis "We're Rockin Down the House"
TX121 -- On the House "Ride the Rhythm [Original]"
TX122 -- Willie Wonka: "What is House"
TX123 -- Radio Fashion "You Get What You Deserve"
TX124 -- Farm Boy: "Jackin’ Me Around"
TX125 -- Fat Albert "Beat Me Til I Jack"
TX126 -- Santos "Work the Box"
TX127 -- Mr. Fingers: "Can U Feel It/Washing Machine"
TX128 -- Sampson “Butch” Moore: "House Beat Box"
TX129 -- Jungle Wonz: "The Jungle"
TX130 -- Boris Badenough: "Hey, Rocky"
TX131 -- Lidell Townsell: "Party People"
TX132 -- Robert Owens: "Bringin’ Down the Wall"
TX133 -- Terry Baldwin: "Housemaster"
TX134 -- Two House People: "Move My Body"
TX135 -- Jungle Wonz: "Time Marches On"
TX136 -- On the House: "Give Me Back the Love"
TX137 -- Mr. Lee "I Can't Forget"
TX138 -- Mystery "Mystery Girl"
TX139 -- Eric Bell "Your Love"
TX140 -- Mr. Lee "Came to House"
TX141 -- William S "I'll Never Let You Go"
TX142 -- Phuture: "Acid Tracks"
TX144 -- Dalis "Rock Steady"
TX145 -- Kevin Irving "Children of the Night"
TX146 -- Two of a Kind "Somewhere in West Hell"
TX147 -- Pleasure Zone "Charley/House Nation"
TX148 -- Dr. Derelict "Doctor"
TX149 -- Dean Anderson "Don't Stop/Don't Dub"
TX150 -- Frankie Knuckles Presents "Baby Wants to Ride/Your Love"
TX151 -- Frankie Knuckles Presents "It's a Cold World"
TX152 -- Hercules "Lost in the Groove"
TX153 -- Dancer "Am a Dog/Boom Boom"
TX154 -- Evie "Stay the Night"
TX155 -- Rich Martinez "Are You Ready"
TX156 -- Mr. Lee "House this House"
TX157 -- Pierre's Phantasy Club "Got the Bug"
TX158 -- Lidell Townsell "Get the Hole"
TX159 -- Curtis McClaine "Let's Get Busy"
TX160 -- Dancer "Number Nine"
TX164 -- Pleasure Zone "Fantasy/I Can't Understand"
TX165 -- Phuture "We Are Phuture EP"
TX166 -- Mr. Lee "Pump Up Chicago/London/New York"
TX167 -- Donald Rush "Knockin at my Door"
TX168 -- Mike Wilson "Hit Tracks III"
TX169 -- Maurice Joshua "I Gotta Big Dick/This is Acid"
TX170 -- Lidell Townsell "Jack the House EP"
TX171 -- Mr. Lee - "Acid Fantaslee"
TX172 -- Farley Keith "As Always [Ricky Dillard]"
TX173 -- K.G.B. "Respect Rap"
TX174 -- Kool Rock Steady "Power Move"
TX175 -- Virgo Four "Virgo Vol. 4/Do You Know Who You Are"
TX176 -- M.E. "M.E. EP [Deep House]"
TX177 -- Grand and Dezz "You're Too Good"
TX178 -- Scamara "Kisses Never Lie"
TX179 -- J.R. "It's About House"
TX180 -- Samurai Sam "House Japanese"
TX182 -- Kamia "Take Me I'm Yours"
TX184 -- Maurice "Get Into the Dance"
TX185 -- Kipetotec "Sex Sells"
TX187 -- Gotham City "Bat Trax"
TX190 -- Streetlife "Streetlife/I Will Survive"
TX191 -- MTS & RTT "Native House"
TX192 -- Streetlife "Glow of Love"
TX193 -- Streetlife "Tearin Down the Walls"
TX194 -- Marshall Jefferson "Move Your Body '90"
TX195 -- Yvonne Gage "Bad Girls/Heartbreak Hotel"
TX196 -- M.E. feat. Yvonne Gage "Winter Days/Summer"
TX197 -- Humanoid "Slam"
TX198 -- Bart Starr "Way To Go Homer" - written by Jesse Saunders
TX199 -- Ralph Rosario "Running Away"
TX200 -- Over 2 U "Force of Habit"
TX201 -- Humanoid "Crystal (Back Together)/The Deep"
TX202 -- Lidell & The People "Another Lover"
TX203 -- Bazz "Very Well"
TX204 -- The Music Factory "It's Getting Late"
TX205 -- Kevin Irving "Puppet/About That Time"
TX301 -- Fast Eddie "Yeah Yeah Yeah"
TX302 -- Black Man "Beat that Bitch with a Bat"
TX303 -- Johnny Fiasco "Iz U Iz Or Iz You Ain't My Baby"
TX304 -- Farley "Love Can't Turn Around/House Nation"
TX305 -- Fast Eddie "No Other Love"
TX306 -- Joe Smooth "Untitled"
TX307 -- ???
TX309 -- ???
TX308 -- Amber (Joe Smooth) "A Matter of Time"
TX310 -- K. Kool (K. Alexi) "Hot Swing/Hot Summer Swing"
TX311 -- The Fusion EP
TX312 -- ???
TX313 -- United Freaks of America "Get Up Off Your Ass"
TX314 -- Hercules "Streetfighter"
TX315 -- Jungle Wonz "Bird in a Gilded Cage"
TX316 -- Ramovia "Your Love"
TX317 -- Pound "Move Yo' Body Again"
TX404 -- Adonis "Basement Jazz Remixes"
TX417 -- David Chong "There is no place / Our Last Chance"
TX418 -- Hydraulic Funk "Flash Light/Godzilla/Godzilla Rap (Feat. Afrika Bambaataa & M.C. G.L.O.B.E.)"
TX419 -- Dave Robertson "Liquidity & Warmth/Loss of a Love"
TX420 -- Maurice "Desires"
TX421 -- Frankie Knuckles "Waiting on my Angel" (2002)
TX467 -- Various Artists "Best of Movi' Record Vol. 1"
TX468 -- David Chong "Auto Ed"
TX476 -- Mr. Fingers "The complete can you feel i(Martin Luther King RX)"
TX486 -- Screamin' Rachel "Don't make me lonely"