Larry Heard and Robert Owens settle Trax Records dispute, reclaim their music rights
completemusicupdate.comManagement firm TaP Music last week confirmed that Larry Heard and Robert Owens – prominent players from the 1980s Chicago house scene and two thirds of Fingers Inc – have settled their legal dispute with Trax Records, the label they worked with in the mid-80s.
The deal confirms that the duo own all the rights in the music they released with the label.Chicago-based Trax Records was co-founded in 1984 by Larry Sherman, who died in April 2020.
When reporting on his death, the Chicago Sun-Times noted that while Sherman and his label were “instrumental in developing house music”, he also “left a complex legacy within Chicago’s house music community”.
Over the years multiple artists signed to the label had complained about their treatment and unpaid royalties.Rachael Cain – who, after signing to the label as an artist, was involved in various business ventures with Sherman, later becoming President of Trax – acknowledged some of those controversies at the time of his death, telling the Sun-Times “he’s a controversial figure”.
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