Ankstmusik is a Welsh independent record label formed in 1997 by Emyr Glyn Williams following the dissolution of the Ankst label. Relocating from Cardiff to Pentraeth on Anglesey, Ankstmusik continued (as the name suggests) pretty much where Ankst left off, releasing material by such bands as Llwybr Llaethog, Datblygu, Tystion, Ectogram, Infinity Chimps, Zabrinski, Geraint Jarman, Rheinallt H Rowlands, 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 group 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,