The label's history originates from the first gabber party organized by the 3 guys in 1992 at Utrecht Conference Center, which was named "The Final Exam" and gathered 12.000 people. Due to the party's success, they organized more events such as Thunderdome, Mystery Land and Global Hardcore Nation. The popularity of trance genre at the end of the 90's led the label to change their sound focused on the emerging Dutch trance artists.
In 2005 the company went through a big change since it was acquired by Be Yourself Music, a label started by old ID&T employees. Nowadays, the company continues to throw big dance parties for the masses mainly in the Netherlands.
Instinct Records was a dance label set up in New York by Jared Hoffman (1989). The label gained popularity from its first signing, which was a then unknown artist called Richard Melville, better known later as Moby! Through Moby's work, the company released worldwide hit singles and launched sublabels as alliances with other companies (such as FAX USA to re-issue material from German label Fax +49-69/450464, This Is Acid Jazz to publish material from UK label Acid Jazz in North America). Additionally, the label introduced to the US market prominent artists (DJ Krush, Amon Tobin, DJ Cam & Ninja Tune acts) through its sublabel Shadow Records. The company's success lasted until 2002, when it was sold to Knitting Factory Records.
Internal was a sublabel of FFRR (Pete Tong's label), which was established in 1992 by Christian Tattersfield, the former Marketing Manager of London Records. It was the production home of significant electronic music artists of the 90's, like Orbital, CJ Bolland, Salt Tank & The Advent. In 1996 Tattersfield left the company to become the Head of BMG UK imprint. Since then, he established a successful executive career in the music business, since he was appointed CEO of Warner Music UK between 2009 - 2014. With his departure, the label ceased operations a little years after.
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