* This entire narrative of the WaxTrax! history is heavily indebted to the recollections and writings of Julia Nash and the dissertation work of Stephen Lee.
* Also in Chicago beginning in 1985 was Trax Records, an important record label for house music, and in 1997, Dust Traxx Records, also for house music. If there’s any urban pride in Chicago’s repeated invoking of “Trax” as a spelling, it certainly began with Nash and Flesher.
** This led to a series of lawsuits between former band members in 2005 when Rykodisc reissued many of Jourgensen’s side projects.