Despite negative reception from his co-workers and Trax owner Larry Sherman, Jefferson's track "Move Your Body" became popular with patrons of Chicago dance music clubs in 1985 from cassette tapes, leading to the tracks eventual release in June 1986.

[1] Jefferson was a fan of rock music, specifically noting bands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, stating he "bought the records with every penny [he had]."

[1][2] At the store, a salesperson came up to him and showed him the Yamaha 284 synthesizer telling him it could play it like a professional keyboard player even if you never had lessons.

[1] Jefferson received a line of credit from his work and not only bought the sequencer along with a keyboard, drum machine and a mixer which totalled up to around $9,000.

[1] Lawrence eventually connected with Ron Hardy and continued to give him cassettes of his work, including tracks stated in an interview in 2005 that "were never put out.

[1][3] On meeting with Larry Sherman of Trax, he helped release Jefferson's first record of "Go Wild Rhythm Tracks" as Virgo.

"[3] Jefferson explained that Sherman was predominantly keeping a low profile and worked with smaller labels distributors as he did not want a lot of attention brought to him as he was running a "chop shop" above Trax Records, a place where stolen cars were torn apart and had spare parts sold from them which was where Sherman larger profits came from.

[2] For "Move Your Body", Jefferson stated he wanted to have something on the track that would "drive the rack forward" and felt that a piano would do this.

[2] To play the piano intro, Jefferson recalled that he recorded the keyboards at about forty to forty-five beats per minute then sped it up.

[6] Weinel noted that the lyrics celebrate the "ecstatic revelry and physicality of losing oneself in dance" while critic Simon Reynolds reflected that "the social scene of Chicago house was one in which gay black men were able to find liberating communal experience of dance in response to their status as exiles from mainstream culture.

"[6] Weinel reflected on this noting that these themes extended to other Chicago house tracks such as Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" and Fingers Inc.'s "Can You Feel It".

[6] Despite having pressed the track early, "Move Your Body" was not released initially by Trax, with Jefferson recollecting that Sherman didn’t like it, proclaiming the song wasn’t house music.

[2] This response led to Jefferson adding the phrase "The House Music Anthem" to the title of the track.

Jefferson culled the song's vocalists — including lead crooner Curtis McClain — from his post-office graveyard shift.

[18] In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked "Move Your Body" number 335 in their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".