Iconic Chicago House Label Trax Records Sued For Decades of Illegal Business Practices

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Iconic Chicago House Label Trax Records Sued For Decades of Illegal Business Practices
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The artists involved in the lawsuit allege in court documents and in interviews that Trax Records didn’t make royalty payments, and in a number of cases released their music without paying them anything at all.

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in 2011, “They never had the rights to release any of my stuff . . . They literally just stole my stuff.”

“We didn’t have record companies in Chicago,” Jefferson recalls. “It was totally uncharted territory. We didn’t know how to do record deals or anything like that, so we were basically lambs to the slaughter. He wouldn’t tell usJefferson had originally wanted to issue “Move Your Body” on his own new label, Jam Line, and says he paid Sherman $1,500 to press a thousand copies, and that Sherman took the fee and the master recording without pressing the record. “He didn’t like it.

As Chicago house began to take off during the UK’s late-Eighties rave explosion, Sherman kept the music’s popularity overseas hidden from his artists. “At that point, it was fairly easy for him to suppress me knowing that it was hugely successful,” according to DJ Pierre, a member of Phuture, whose “Acid Tracks” introduced the freaky “acid” sound, which became a global dance-floor phenomenon. “It wasn’t like you had all these other sources to dispute that.

According to the filing, “Rachael Cain committed Fraud on the Trademark Office,” pointing to her registration of the Trax Records logo and her attempt to register the name Dance Mania, another iconic Eighties Chicago label. “Vince Lawrence came up with the name Trax Records and created the now iconic logo,” the filing states. “It is this creation that is one of Vince Lawrence’s proudest achievements, one that he expected to be equated with for the rest of his career.

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