Founded as a dance label in a Greenwich Village living room, Instinct Records gained prominence in the early 1990s by releasing compilations of Acid Jazz -label material in the US. The simultaneous success of the label's first signing, electronic musician Moby , was built on by licensing and releasing seminal recordings from Rising High Records , Kickin Records , and Antler-Subway , as well as releasing music by local techno-oriented ambient musicians signed to the label. Instinct was purchased by Knitting Factory Records in 2003.