Ankstmusik is a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 formed in 1997 by Emyr Glyn Williams following the dissolution of the Ankst

Ankst

Ankst was a Welsh independent record label formed in 1988 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by Alun Llwyd, Gruffudd Jones and Emyr Glyn Williams...

 label. Relocating from Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

 to Pentraeth

Pentraeth

Pentraeth is a village on the island of Anglesey , north Wales, at . The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75.Its Welsh name means at the end of a beach, and it is located near Traeth Coch . There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which runs through it. The village's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint...

 on Anglesey

Anglesey

Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...

, Ankstmusik continued (as the name suggests) pretty much where Ankst left off, releasing material by such bands as Llwybr Llaethog

Llwybr Llaethog

Llwybr Llaethog are an experimental Welsh language band that effectively mix such varied musical genres as rap, dub, reggae, hip hop, and punk in their music....

, Datblygu

Datblygu

Datblygu was an experimental Welsh rock group in the 1980s and early to mid-1990s, now regarded as a catalyst of the new wave of Welsh rock in the early '80s.-History:...

, Tystion

Tystion

Tystion was a Welsh language hip hop band from Wales.- Background :In 1996, MC Sleifar and G Man got together and released a few cassettes themselves...

, Ectogram

Ectogram

Ectogram are a Welsh band from Bangor, United Kingdom.Ann Matthews and Alan Holmes were previously members of Welsh language post-punk band Fflaps between 1987–1993, touring Europe, releasing three LPs and recording two John Peel Sessions during that time...

, Infinity Chimps, Zabrinski

Zabrinski

Zabrinski were an alternative rock band from Carmarthen, Wales. They formed in the late 1990s and released four albums before splitting up in 2007.-History:...

, Geraint Jarman, Rheinallt H Rowlands

Rheinallt H Rowlands

Rheinallt H Rowlands was a band from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch operating between 1991 and 2001. It was the brain-child of Ectogram's Alan Holmes and consisted of Oz Wright and Dewi Evans...

, MC Mabon and Wendykurk.

In 2005 Ankstmusik branched out into film production, making the gritty bilingual feature Y Lleill which went on to win a BAFTA for best film at the 2005 Bafta Cymru awards as well as a number of other awards.

This was followed by the concert film production Nobody Knows if it Ever Happened is a documentation of krautrock

Krautrock

Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. The term is a result of the English-speaking world's reception of the music at the time and not a reference to any one...

 group Faust

Faust (band)

Faust are a German krautrock band. Formed in 1971 in Wümme, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with record producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner.-History:Faust...

's 1996 gig at London's Garage venue. The film played at the ICA in London, with film festival screenings in Hamburg, Birmingham and San Francisco and was released on DVD in 2007 and went on to feature in UNCUT magazine's top twenty films of the year.

In 2008 Ankstmusik released and screened the musical memoir film 'Saunders Lews v Andy Warhol ( A ffilm found on the stockroom floor )or 18 Short Films About Late 20th Century Welsh Language Rock Music 1989-1997 in cinemas around Wales. Between 1989 and 1998 EMYR GLYN WILLIAMS ran ANKST RECORDS. In that time he also kept a wide ranging visual record of all the great bands he worked with on formats ranging from Super 8 / 16mm and 35mm to VHSC, Digibeta and all formats in between.From these sources he has created the musical memoir film that is  'Saunders Lewis vs Andy Warhol'.Emyr calls the film....'a group portrait from a time before our music was Cool or devolved, and a film created exclusively from the images that I shot and produced at that time augmented by words that were said directly to me .......' The film includes a massive list of influential musicians caught exclusively for his camera and also featured in exclusive conversations with Emyr - Among those who appear   ... Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Ffa Coffi Pawb, Catatonia, Melys, Topper, Fflaps, Datblygu, Llwybr Llaethog, Y Cyrff, Beganifs,