Trax Records and related music

[Pada]

Since the I discovered the rush hour repress of Virgo's self titled LP I've been searching through the Trax records catalog and found some great stuff so thought i'd star an appreciation thread and look for suggestions at the same time!

[nakedlunch]

I could go on for days about this stuff , my first 'dance' music experience was getting pilled up back in 88 while visiting my cousin oxford and going to some random rave and hearing this , i was sold.

I love that they re-pressed a lot of this stuff and mastered it properly , i have some of the originals and they sound shite.
Brilliant label and should not be mentioned without mentioning Jack Trax and D.J International which also have some serious back catalouge

[deamonds]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVNObzcT ... re=related

http://www.discogs.com/Housemaster-Boyz ... ase/708245 got repressed recently on trax (well in 2006) originally from dance mania i think? anyone qualify?

[nakedlunch]

originally from dance mania i think? anyone qualify?

I think so , I have it on 'BCM' don't think that's the original label though

[groucho_marxx]

I love that they re-pressed a lot of this stuff and mastered it properly , i have some of the originals and they sound shite.
Brilliant label and should not be mentioned without mentioning Jack Trax and D.J International which also have some serious back catalouge

Larry Sherman has since admitted many times that he used to press over old records in the early days of trax!

[Pada]

Are the originals not even worth bothering with then?

[jah pat]

Are the originals not even worth bothering with then?

depends if you want to play them out or just have them sit in your collection. remember lots of people are collectors ahead of djs, hence the prices on discogs

to be honest, i would happily do the latter for washing machine or girls out on the floor

though all the good stuff is also mostly on those jack trax compilations which are all worth checking out, or on mp3s release

seminal

[jah pat]

must have been well good at the music box in 1986

[groucho_marxx]

Are the originals not even worth bothering with then?

If you can find them, I dont know exactly how many were dodgy presses, but as pat says if youre a collector, theyre a great addition.

I remember these being re-pressed in the late 90's in mass numbers.

[squnt]

big at spectrum.
housenation came out on dancemania in 86 and trax in 87 and reached number 8 in the mainstream uk chart

[phletch]

the whole trax back catalogue is being released on mp3 7th feb .
there is also a 2 x cd re-edit project featuring loadsa re-dit don's re versioning classic trax tracks using just the original stereo masters
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=12987
i entered a online comp to remix em and got included on the cd release
audio here http://soundcloud.com/bleepfunk/sets/remixes-re-edits/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_vkW96Riy8 virgo - do u know who u are . . larry heard stuff / mr fingers is class too...

[wheez-ie]

I've been going back and listening through their catalog...There is some downright amazing stuff in there!

[alex bk-bk]

check out early dancemania as well
they were on this tip too when they started out before stuff got really dirty (though obviously i love that era as well)

[WNCL Recordings]

perhaps a little obvious but, nevertheless, a seminal / life-changing moment...



where would we be without it?

[MattS++]

I picked up this compilation recently, and it is just sooo good.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Trax-Rec ... ter/283367

[MattS++]

Released by Saber. The Steve Poindexter mix is ka-bonkers too.

[jondavey]

I like the bassline on this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZj9oQ-5aaY

[skwiggo]

like this one, trax output is amazing and diverse