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Sinnbus

German record label

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ2289466
Source-derived summary

Sinnbus is an independent record label and music publisher founded in Berlin, Germany, in 2003. The style of music released by Sinnbus varies from post-rock, post-punk, indie, and electronica.

It first started as a loose network of friends, musicians, and artists releasing albums and booking gigs independently.

They started with a sampler of local bands. Their first album they had released was SDNMT 2003.

In 2013 Sinnbus celebrated its 10th anniversary and has released its 50th full album since they've started.

Artists

Alarma Man

Audrey

Barra Head

Bodi Bill

Einar Stray Orchestra

Me and My Drummer

Rue Royale

The/Das

Troy von Balthazar

We Are the City

References

External links

Official Homepage

LABEL LOVE: A Sinnbus story...

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. For this dossier, Sinnbus, German and label is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Sinnbus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.