Transient Records was founded in West London in 1994 by Russel Coultart and Lawrence Cooke (Disco Volante) to release their own tracks and those from other artists on the London party scene. Music policy was mostly Trance and Psy/Goa-Trance.

The label was re-launched in early 2006 under the leadership of Greg Coyle with DJ Kristian (3) on A&R. The first release was the appropriately titled compilation.

Transient is now back under the control of Russel Coultart who plans to relaunch the label during 2017.