Wax Trax! Records
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Wax Trax! Records was a record label in the United States. Wax Trax! began as a record shop in Denver, Colorado opened by Jim Nash and Dannie Flescher. They sold the store in 1978 and opened a new one under the same name in Chicago, Illinois. The record store became a record label slowly at first, releasing a few limited edition records, then some EPs. Their re-release of Cold Life by Ministry set the stage for them to become one of the preeminent industrial music and dance labels of the 1980s and 1990s.
They sub-licensed a number of recordings from Play It Again Sam of Belgium, and eventually helped to open a U.S. unit of PIAS. Wax Trax! was bought out by TVT Records in 1992 or 1993, with Nash and Flescher still holding creative control over the label. TVT continued to use the Wax Trax! imprint for years, even after Nash's death in 1995. A former Wax Trax! employee founded WTII Records in 2000 in an effort to rekindle the spirit of Wax Trax!'s early music.
Among the most prolific artists released by Wax Trax! were Front 242, Coil, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Revolting Cocks, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Cubanate and Chris & Cosey.
See also
External links
- Wax Trax Records (http://www.waxtraxrecords.com/), the original Denver record store
- "Wax Trax! Records (http://www.discogs.com/label/Wax+Trax!+Records) article at discogs.com