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Copenhagen, Denmark (1999 – present)

Ampel is a Danish ensemble founded in Copenhagen in 1999 by high school friends Kasper Clemmensen (songwriting/vocals/guitar), Morten Hougaard (bass) and Mikkel Felland (percussion/keyboard/vocals/various) after a pubcrawl following a concert with Tocotronic initially calling themselves ‘Traurig und langweilig’ (German for ‘Sad and boring’).

After years as a trio, Ampel added Ditte Duus as a violinist/percussionist/vocalist to their lineup in 2003 and produced the EP Drink Your Milk with help from The Good Good’s David Penn.

Adding a violin and using a snare drum and brushes for almost every new song, Ampel’s music became the cheerful, bright twee pop wrapped up in wry guitar lines overlapping each other and with a lot of jumpy bass melodies that gave them their twee pop label. Kasper and Ditte shares singing duties, often with lyrics about the drollness of life without ever over analysing it.

In 2005 the lineup was further perfected with the addition of Peter Laursen (guitar/accordion/recorder/ukulele/melodica), and the band self-released two more mini-EPs, 2005’s Roger Human Toad (an anagram of their bass player’s name) and 2006’s Powdered Milk.

Since then Ampel has been perfecting their sound adding a cocktail drum kit to their setup, and they are currently (winter 2010) recording new songs.
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  • jupptenhagen

    Hey Lekkim, which one on the picture are you???

    January 2009
  • galskab

    Hope you had a great concert last night! Copenhagen is always so far away...

    November 2006
  • Montanus

    The new ampel songs are fabulous! C ya the fourth of November.

    October 2006
  • Lekkim

    The new songs are here, if you need the help: http://www.last.fm/music/Ampel/Powdered Milk

    October 2006
  • Lekkim

    Hey. Three newly recorded songs for everyone's enjoyment. Feel free to download and abuse in which way it suits you.

    August 2006
  • Montanus

    Gad vide hvor jeg blev af på listen over fans???

    May 2006
  • Montanus

    Listening to your music makes me happy-slappy!

    April 2006
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15 Feb 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/ampelrecords

..Hi everybody. Ampel tunes are now in stock again in limited numbers, as we're on this great compilation of pop pop beats and lol-fi sounds in the form(s) of twee-lectro, baroque crooner-core, …

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