Within just one year afmusic got off to a lightning start. The most innovative netlabel in Germany for Darkwave, Gothic and Independent Music celebrates on the label founder Falk Merten’s birthday their release-anniversary and distributes big presents to their fans – and that are 16 in number on this fiftieth publication.

All are on this Anniversary-Compilation “AFMUSIC #50″. Exactly one dozen of it are previously unreleased or recorded exclusively for this release. Beside many known afmusic-acts the sampler also presents an absolutely new band. Therefore, it is less a retrospective, than even more a look in the future of the label.

“AFMUSIC #50″ indicates not only the variety and versatility of the present releases, but also their high musical and artistic quality. LATRISTE – the newest member of the label family – immediately deliver with her first song a potential hit single. SMOKE FISH and EMERALD PARK contribute dark-coloured pop pearls of the grade 1A and CONFUSION IS NEXT are represented, just like LIGHT IN YOUR LIFE with a dreadfully nice ballad. Thereby the music ranges from Shoegaze to the sturdy Alternative rock.

SPINEFISH, (((S))) and ART NOIR provide for the dark sound-collage which hold together “AFMUSIC #50″ and lend a breathtaking atmosphere to the album.

In between the big potential of a lot of afmusic-bands flashes: The label-draught-horses ALL:MY:FAULTS cement with a never been there mixture of 8-bit Postmetal and spoken words their exceptional position as the most innovative German band of the scene. STROMBLE FIX’s “Dispirited” is more progressively Hybrid from Grunge and Deathrock, “Enjoy” of REPTILE71 is more sombre than the legendary “Drowning one” and CAMP Z present a modern version of the Sisters Of Mercy.

Crowning end of the completely successful afmusic-show is the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” cover, which is the most stretching cover with wide distance of this decade.

From the 7th of August “AFMUSIC #50″ is ready to download for free on www.af-music.de.

Tracklist:

1. Emerald Park – Obscured By Lies (4:12)*
2. Smoke Fish – Hey!Talk! (3:23)
3. Stromble Fix – Dispirited (4:29)*
4. Confusion Is Next – Shooting at the Sun (Orchestra Mix) (5:00)*
5. all:my:faults – Es wird ein Regen kommen (5:00)
6. Spinefish – Memory (3:30)*
7. Plastique Noir – Genebra (Harry Tribute) (3:15)
8. Light in Your Life – It Would Be Fine (4:12)
9. Diskoteket – Untitled (4:53)*
10. Reptile71 – Enjoy (Demo 2000) (3:23)*
11. Camp Z – W.Hell.Come II (afmusic edit) (3:50)*
12. (((S))) – Mesmerized (remix by Angele Phase/Pete Salmang) (4:45)*
13. Art Noir – Silent Green (Chuck Mellow Groove Remix) (7:05)*
14. Rebentisch – Die Suche [Als Godzilla Japan Aß - RMX] (3:08)*
15. Latriste – Love Is the Number of Keys (3:40)*
16. Notes from Underground – Smells Like Teen Spirit (4:10)*
    *exclusive / previously unreleased

SONIC YOUTH have created the biggest what rock musicians can create: Nobody can assign them – they are neither a seventies, nor an eighties or nineties band. CONFUSION IS NEXT are not only named after one of their songs, they also smashed a similar way: On “The generation Of This Order” influences from the last 30 years melt to an independent and self-confident sound.

The quite talented quartet from Monza creates a monster from magic and melody of full masterpieces between post punk, post rock and post Metal. The PIXIES and MUDHONEY hit on the WHITE STRIPES and HÜSKER DÜ. In the most distant points of this tension-curve bulging confusion and clarity on each other. From time to time “The generation Of This Order” sounds lilke clean THE CURE songs – in other places the urgency of NIRVANA breaks through.

“Leaves” delivers the licking guitar-thunderstorms which ROBERT SMITH is dabbling in for many years. “Anemones & Elephants” begins like a METALLICA classic and ends in a Noise chaos. “Lichens On The Lich Gate” is riding the emotional roller coaster of JESUS THE & MARY CHAIN and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY. In the sum this new album of the Italians is a return to the glorious days of the alternative rock, back off the time when ‘alternative’ still meant ‘different’.

“The Generation Of This Order” creates the need that this past has future: Like the name-giving song CONFUSION IS NEXT look at a morning which they already create today by themselves. Not only in their music, but also in the way of distribution: The songs appear under a ‘Creative Commons License’ in the I-net and present themselves multimedia: Immediately two PDF booklets accompany the album through the data highway and provide for audio-visual aural pleasure at the end of the line.

Tracklisting:

1. Graffiti
2. Leaves
3. Anemones & Elephants
4. Lichens On The Lich Gate
5. Logora Worn
6. Graffiti, Rain Coming Down*
7. (Hidden Track) Ollè
   *Bonus: the deluxe version contains two pdf booklets + 1 extra track

From the 3rd of August there is “Generation Of This Order” for only € 3.90 as a high quality download. And you can hear the songs before – without obligations and free of charge in full length.

Again one month of this years has passed and over here there is a lot of news to report. Beside several republications in July, a fine single of the French Indierocker “Smoke Fish” (RD: 06/29/09) and several views of August we’d like to invite you to follow us on Twitter or meet us at Facebook.

http://twitter.com/afmusic_de

http://www.facebook.com/afmusic.de

Moreover, we prepare currently the new start of the label Ionium Records (www.ionium-records.info), as a part of afmusic for the musical tension area between Ambient, Electro and Techno-Industrial. Who likes electronic music, will find from September on there many new releases too.

Now, however, to the downloads and releases/reissues:

all:my:faults “neo.NøiR” (Reissue)
http://www.af-music.de/releases/allmyfaults-neonoir/

There is the last year’s longplayer of the Metal-Industrial-Rockers from Darmstadt with immediate effect in all known download-stores with changed tracklisting for downloading. Besides, the unusual acoustic song “Stay In The Middle Of The Lake” as a bonus track of the album is anew. Who owns till present no copy of the album can, among the rest, find it at iTunes.

http://itunes.com/allmyfaults

Split Seconds “So sad about it all”
http://www.af-music.de/releases/splitseconds-sosadabout/

The single of the Bielefelder Darkwaver is also available from now on with another track. Now beside the title song of the single this contains the flip side “Lost and Found”.

http://itunes.com/splitseconds

The Search – back-catalogue as digital download

After their last year’s album “Saturnine Songs” received very positive reviews, and the first live gigs were very successful in Germany (amongst others at the ‘Wave Gothic Treffen’), we recommend you now the complete catalogue of the band (“The Search”, “Deranged Minds Unite” and “Bloodbathe & Bazaar of Lush Loose Limbs”) as digital download, as always available in all known download-stores.

http://itunes.com/thesearch

The Glass Spider “Resistance”
http://www.af-music.de/releases/afm033-the-glass-spider-resistance/

Before the new album “For Better or for Worse” will appear in autumn, there is their current EP with changed trackorder for downloading

Free downloads of THE SLIMP and REPTILE71

Now two our this year’s publications are also available as a free download – The SlimP “Wavelands” and Reptile71 “In Dust: 2000 – 2003″. In addition you find all infos here:

http://www.af-music.de/releases/afm041-reptile71-in-dust/

Download: http://www.af-music.de/download/63/

http://www.af-music.de/releases/afm040-the-slimp-wavelands/

Download: http://www.af-music.de/download/48/

Both downloads are under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa licence and may gladly be exchanged, spread, be sent or be offered for downloading. All non-commercially, goes without saying.

Smoke Fish “Insane Inside”

Already on 06/29/09 the current single “Insane Inside” appeared by the band from Brest (France). If it is in a folk ballad, in a rock song or in a song with oriental sonority, Smoke Fish plays with contrasts and creates a music of full intensity which is also tender and rousing and invites to dream.

Who wants to dream with us, can find the download and info here:

http://www.af-music.de/netlabel/smoke-fish-insane-inside/

Views / new releases

And also then in August some exciting new releases are waiting for you.

Immediately on 08/03/09 it starts with a new EP called “The generation of this order” by the Italian alternative rockers CONFUSION IS NEXT. Beside a free variation, the download version liable for costs contains an additional song and two luxurious booklets to the album. For fans of Sonic Youth or nirvana a must have!

http://www.af-music.de/releases/afm054-confusion-is-next-the-generation-of-this-order/

Then on 08/07/09 we will also publish, finally, our Anniversary-compilation and celebrate with it our (now already more than) 50 publications in 1,5 years. This is going to come exclusively as a free download on our web page and will contain many up to now unpublished songs and Remixes.

http://www.af-music.de/releases/afm050-various-artists-50/

On 08/10/09 there is also an album with a huge number of demos, remixes and live recordings of the Brazilian Gothic rock volume PLASTIQUE NOIR. In addition we will publish the download and all infos in a contemporary way on our web page.

On 08/21/09 then we have the highlight of the month with the CD release of the album “Ghost” of the Danes (((S))) which is published only digitally up to now. On the CD two songs which are not included in the download-package are “Fusty” and “Ghost in the snow”. Moreover, are as a bonus the videos of “Mesmerized” and “Fall With Me” on the album.

http://www.af-music.de/releases/afm046-s-ghost/

And last, but not least we will publish on 08/31/09 the debut album of the Russian Cyber-Gothic-Industrialrock band CYBER SNAKE with the simple name “Internet Album”.

Many thanks for your present support.