Amsterdam Camp
A full week of writing at the Amsterdam Camp — five studios in the heart of the city, 30+ Hit by the Windmill affiliated writers & producers, and sessions built around your artist projects. We cover the stay — you bring the briefs.
We take care of our end.
We welcome your knowledge, experience and inspiration — and together we get the best songs done.
Hotel
Accommodation in Amsterdam for the full camp week, arranged and covered by us.
Studios
Five fully equipped studios in the heart of Amsterdam, booked for all four session days.
Lunch
Daily lunch at the studios covered — no logistics, no interruptions to the flow.
30+ writers & producers
Our roster of 30+ Hit by the Windmill affiliated writers and producers, matched per brief and per room.
Four days of sessions.
Arrival
Guests fly in, check in to the hotel, and join us for a welcome dinner to meet the writers.
Arrival daySessions · Day 1
First pairings per brief. Five studios running in parallel.
12:00 – 18:00Sessions · Day 2
New pairings, new rooms — fresh combinations every day.
12:00 – 18:00Sessions · Day 3
New pairings again; deep-dives on the strongest ideas.
12:00 – 18:00Sessions · Day 4
Final pairings — closed with the playback session in the evening: every song of the week, back to back.
12:00 – 18:00 · playback eveningWe bring the world together.
Thomas de Raad & Bobby Sukhraj — empowered by 30+ affiliated writers & producers.
Hit by the Windmill
The creative collective — 30+ affiliated songwriters and producers across pop, dance and urban, rooted in Amsterdam and writing for the world.
Houston Comma
Boutique publishing & management from Amsterdam, founded by Bobby Sukhraj. Home of an exclusive award-winning writer-producer roster with 500+ songs.
Tommyadvice
A publishing, management and consultancy firm, established in 2019 by Dutch music executive Thomas de Raad — bringing over a decade of experience across pivotal roles within the music industry.
"Building the publishing company of the future — where Amsterdam's best writers meet the world's biggest artist projects, in one room, in one week."
The talent.
Houston Comma and TommyAdvice HQ teamed up to create Hit by the Windmill — a non-exclusive Amsterdam-based talent pool: 30+ writers and producers across pop, dance, urban and K-pop, matched into rooms per brief.
Camps with results.
Camps in Amsterdam since 2019, writing trips to Seoul, and an active pitch pipeline into K-pop, J-pop, dance and pop worldwide. The results speak for themselves.
