The Tankdog Record was founded in Schwendau, Tirol Austira by Klaus Fankhauser in 2010. The label's start-up capital 100€ Enterprise Allowance Grant. The idea that self-expression was still possible in the corporate  a phone an a computer on the bedroom floor. Tankdog Records operating procedures and ethos remain the same – to represent and release music by artists who have no choice but to make music and to draw them to the attention of the outside world.