1. On The House – Pleasure Control 4:26
2. Adonis – No Way Back 4:57
3. Marshall Jefferson – The House Music Anthem – Move Your Body 5:46
4. Boris Badenough – What’s Up Rocky? 6:37
5. Mr. Fingers – Can You Feel It? 5:44
6. Virgo – R. U. Hot Enough 7:38
7. Hercules – 7 Ways To Jack 6:50
8. Master C & J – When You Hold Me 6:57
9. Jungle Wonz – The Jungle 5:59
10. Farley „Jackmaster“ Funk ft. Darryl Pandy – Love Can’t Turn Around 6:12
11. Steve „Silk“ Hurley – Jack Your Body 6:50

Die Titel #3*, 10 und 11 sind enthalten in der Vol.1 Release.

*=Wobei bei #3 „Move your Body“ die Neueinspielung von DJ International auf Vol.1 erschien.

Side A

1. On The House – Pleasure Control 4:25
   Lead Vocals: Curtis McClain | Producer, Written: Marshall Jefferson
   Mixed By: Ron Hardy | Bright Star Rec. #BR 003
2. Adonis – No Way Back 4:55
   TX 112 | Written, Producer – Adonis
3. Santos – Work The Box 4:22
   TX 126 | Producer, Mixed: Adonis | Written: Ron Hardy, Erik Santos
4. Duane & Co. – J.B. Piano Traxx 6:25
   Producer, Written: Duane & Co. | Dance Mania #DM001
5. Marshall Jefferson – Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem) 7:45
   TX 117 | Producer, Written: Virgo (M. Jefferson) | Mixed By – Ron Hardy

Side B

6. Boris Badenough – What’s Up Rocky 6:39
   TX 130 | Producer, Written: Dean Anderson | Mixed: Ron Gresham
7. Sweet D – Thank Ya 8:28
   TX 119 | Producer, Written: Sweet D
   basiert auf „Cheryl Lynn – You Saved My Day“
8. Mr. Fingers – Can You Feel It 5:45
   TX 127 | Producer, Written: Larry Heard
9. Virgo – R U Hot Enough 7:36
   TX 114 | Written: Virgo | Producer: Virgo, Adonis

Side C

10. Hercules – 7 Ways To Jack 6:48
    Producer: Marshall Jefferson | Written: Hercules, M. Jefferson | Dance Mania #DM002
11. On The House with Marshall Jefferson – Ride The Rhythm 7:00
    TX 121 | Producer, Written: Marshall Jefferson | Mixed: Ron Hardy
12. Mr. Fingers – Washing Machine 4:20
    TX 127 | Producer, Written: Larry Heard
13. The Rude Boy Farley Keith – Give Your Self To Me 4:17
    TX 116 | Producer: Danny Wilson, Farley Jackmaster Funk
    Written: Farley Keith
14. Master C & J – When You Hold Me 6:56
    TX 118 | Producer, Mixed: The New York Kids | Written: Mr. Lee

Side D

15. Sampson ‚Butch‘ Moore – House Beat Box 6:15
    TX 128 | Producer: Steve „Silk“ Hurley
    Written: Steve Hurley, Sampson Moore
16. Adonis – We’re Rocking Down The House 6:00
    TX 120 | Producer, Written, Mixed: Adonis
17. Fresh – Dum Dum 5:30
    TX 115 | Producer, Written: Fresh
18. Willie Wonka – What Is House? 4:50
    TX 122 | Producer, Written: Willie Wonka | Mixed: Mickey Oliver
19. Jungle Wonz – The Jungle 6:00
    TX 129 | Vocals: Harry Dennis | Producer: Marshall Jefferson
    Written: Harry Dennis, Marshall Jefferson

When the first wave of Chicago House records arrived in Britain and were greeted by the familiar cries of media hype, there was a strong feeling that the music would be a seven day wonder – a super baad fad. It would have no lasting impact on the clubs and would be virtually irrelevant to daytime radio and the pop charts.
The reverse happened. House music managed to tap a vein of mass popularity beginning in gay clubs spreading to London’s most fashion conscious venues like Raw, Delirium and The Wag and to influential alternative dance clubs like The Garage in Nottingham.

Beyond all expectations, the Chicago House sound proved to be phenomenally successful, Farley Jackmaster’ Funk’s ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’ broke the Top Ten; Raze’s ‚Jack The Groove’ made it to the Top Twenty, and in unprecedented style Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley’s ‚Jack Your Body’ came from nowhere to become the No. 1. selling record in Britain. When it crashed into the charts it had never been played on Radio 1, club exposure alone was enough to guarantee its national popularity.

Like New York hip-hop, the relentless sound of Chicago House Music thrives on theft. House is robbery with a violent rhythm. It borrows and plunders from seventies soul, hi-energy, Italian disco, beat-box music and from British based alternative dance groups like The Art of Noise, Depeche Mode, Human League and New Order.

House producers borrow from the past, the present and each other. Farley Jackmaster’ Funk’s ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’ a song that comes in countless competitive versions, is a modern strearnlined version af the old Isaac Hayes hit ‘I Can’t Turn Around’. Sleezy D’s I’ve Lost Control’ descants on Joy Division’s record of the same name the record that became a disco hit via Grace Jones’s re-worked ‘She’s Lost Control’.
On this compilation, the best of Trax Records, one of the major House Labels from Chicago, you will hear hi-hat cymbal intros stolen from the great hits of the Philly era and basslines taken unapologetically from Sharon Redd, D. Train and Chic.

The theft of ideas, narnes, titles, rythms and basslines has driven a wedge of animosity through Chicago as accusation feeds counter-accusation. Hundreds of people have claimed they invented the name ‘House’, although most people now agree it came from a legendary Chicago club The Warehouse, presided over by a New York born master-mixer Frankie Knuckles.
And hundreds of people squabble over the compositional credits of ‘Love Cant Turn Around’ forgetting Isaac Hayes in the rush for credibility. Rivalry between the scenes two major labels, DJ International, which provide most of the records on ‘The House Sound of Chicago Volume 1’, and Trax, the under estimated independent label which released House Classics like Marshall Jefferson’s ‘Ride The Rhythm’ and ‘The House Music Anthem: Move Your Body’, has reached frantic proportions.

Listen to ‘What’s Up Rocky’ by the fictitious Boris Badenough and you get some sense of the rivalry.
The song is cynically dedicated to Rocky Jones the owner of DJ International, and savagely mocks his decorative hats, his recording activities and ends witha final insult about his looks — “you’ve got sharp ears for a squirrel.”

Stuart Cosgrove, NME