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Video for Fashion & Architecture

In our pre­vi­ous blog post, we talked about doing music for the ‘mak­ing of’ video for the Fash­ion & Archi­tec­ture exhi­bi­tion (open­ing Fri­day, July 16th at ARCAM in Ams­ter­dam at 17:15 hrs). The result is amaz­ing; check it out here: You can of course still down­load a min­imix of the four tracks from the video for your listening […]
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Fret Hinge & Fashion & Architecture

Fret Hinge was asked to sup­ply four tracks for the ambi­tious Fash­ion & Archi­tec­ture project, co-organized by our friends at Ont­Front. For this project, four duos – each com­pris­ing a fash­ion designer and an archi­tect - are chal­lenged to enter into a design process. The teams con­sist of: Iris van Her­pen & Jan Ben­them and Mels Crouwel (Benthem […]
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Giel Beelen plays Afrodisiacting on Radio 6

Yes­ter­day, our boy Simon Amon was inter­viewed live on Radio 6 (soul & jazz) by well known dutch radio host Giel Bee­len about the Simon Amon x Fret Hinge project. Simon explained how we met, talked about the upcom­ing EP and album, and our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ont­Front side­walk tai­lor­ing. In addi­tion to the inter­view, Giel also […]
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08 Bar / CDR Live Beat Session: Mike Slott

On March 5th, we par­tic­i­pated in the 08 Bar / CDR Live Beat Ses­sion event at Trouw Ams­ter­dam. The goal was to make a remix on the spot of the Mike Slott track ’40 Winx’. We were accom­pa­nied by a num­ber of tal­ented pro­duc­ers, among whom were Ebokai, Sotu the Trav­eler and Steven de Peven. Check out […]
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The Scotty Pippens

The Scotty Pip­pens guys are on a roll. They pro­duced a bad-ass tune & a home-made video­clip which rocks harder than the stone age. Check it out after the quick click…
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OntFront AIFW 2010

Liza and Tomas from Ont­Front chose to use the tune Afro­disi­act­ing as their show finale at the AIFW 2010. Afro­disi­act­ing will be accom­pa­nied by six other tunes on the upcom­ing EP named “Break­fast For Heroes” by Simon Amon x Fret Hinge. Check out the quick vid after the click.
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Afrodisiacting & Ebokai RMX

Down­load Afro­disi­act­ing below; the first sin­gle of the Simon Amon x Fret Hinge EP (title: Break­fast For Heroes; to be released Spring 2010).
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Shoot with oofverschuren.nl

Today Fret Hinge and Simon Amon worked with Oof Ver­schuren on some spiffy shots. Oof is a true Hasel­blad magi­cian. Heres a teaser.
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Fret Hinge?

Fret Hinge are two pos­i­tive, mod­ern day producers/performers from Utrecht and Rot­ter­dam, for­merly known as the pro­duc­ers of the­Fringe. They are recip­i­ents of the Best Musi­cians award and Peo­ples Choice award of the Grote Prijs van Ned­er­land. Fret Hinge’s crit­i­cally acclaimed, uniquely fresh sound is the result of com­bin­ing sam­pling tech­niques with live-instruments.
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