Dam Swindle Celebrate 13 Years with House of House Release
Dam Swindle just released House of House on Heist Recordings, a 19 track compilation marking 13 years of pure house music vision. Featuring names like Kerri Chandler and DJ Sneak alongside rising artists, it captures the sound and spirit of the culture at its core.
You know those moments where a release drops and you open it expecting something good and then track one hits and you just sit there like okay so my whole morning is gone now? That is House of House. Dam Swindle's 19 track compilation just landed on Heist Recordings today and it's not just a milestone release. It's a full on statement. A love letter to house music written by two guys who have spent thirteen years proving they actually mean it.
Stop reading. Go stream it. Then come back.
Who Dam Swindle are and why you should already know
Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets broke through in 2011 as Dam Swindle and have spent every year since making the kind of music that sounds equally good at 2pm in a park and 3am in a basement. That range is not an accident. Their whole thing has always been connecting the dots between deep, disco, tech, and soul without making it feel like a genre exercise. It just feels like good music because it is good music. Amsterdam raised them right.
But here is the part that actually separates them from basically everyone else doing this. When they founded Heist Recordings in 2013 they did something that almost no artist does when they start their own label. After their debut release they did not put out another Dam Swindle record on Heist until 2015. Two years of building the label up through other artists first. Finding talent, developing it, putting it out into the world with care. That kind of patience and commitment to A&R is genuinely rare and it is exactly why Heist has the reputation it has today. Trust is earned slowly and these two understood that from day one.
"Thirteen years of building something real. House of House is what happens when you actually care about the music and not just the moment."
What House of House actually is and why the tracklist is going to make your jaw drop
Nineteen all new tracks. Not re-releases. Not remixes. Not archival material dusted off for the occasion. All new music made specifically for this compilation. That alone should tell you everything about the level of intention behind this project.
The guest list reads like someone sat down and asked themselves what would the perfect house music compilation look like and then actually made it happen. Kerri Chandler is here. Two Soul Fusion, which for anyone who needs the context is Louie Vega and Josh Milan together, is here. Folamour is here. Cinthie is here. DJ Sneak is here. Supershy, the dance music alias of Tom Misch, is here. And then rising names like Papa Nugs and Lolu Menayed sit right alongside all of them like they were always supposed to be in that company. Because they were.
The tracklist moves through the full spectrum of what house music actually is when it is done right. Old school magic from Dam Swindle's own Back to the Old School featuring DJ Minx. Jazzy soulful depths from Kerri Chandler's Kerriousity. Peak time energy from Papa Nugs and Mixolydian's Let Go. Supershy's Pyrenees which sounds like a Sunday morning feeling that someone figured out how to bottle. Every single track feels like it was chosen with a purpose and placed in a specific spot for a reason. This is not a playlist. This is a curated document of what Heist stands for.
Why this is bigger than just hitting 100 releases
Look, a lot of labels hit milestones and celebrate with something that is basically a greatest hits wrapped in anniversary packaging. House of House is not that. It is all new music from legends and rising artists sitting side by side, which is the most honest representation of what Heist has always been about. A home for iconic names like Cinthie and DJ Sneak on one side and a launching pad for new voices like Kassian and Makèz on the other. Both generations in the same room making music together. That is community. That is what a label is actually supposed to do.
The consistency is the real story here. Thirteen years of caring about the music, the artwork, the distribution, and the marketing equally. In an era where labels feel disposable and interchangeable and everything sounds like it was made to perform on a Friday algorithm playlist, Heist has never once felt like that. Dam Swindle built something that has a point of view and has stuck to it for over a decade without compromising. That is genuinely hard to do and genuinely worth celebrating.
They did not make House of House to celebrate themselves. They made it to celebrate what house music at its best actually is. Generous, soulful, connected, and completely unbothered by whether the algorithm approves. Honestly that energy alone makes this one of the most important releases of 2026.
House of House is out today on Heist Recordings.
Triple vinyl ships later this year. Stream it at heistrecordings.bandcamp.com and then immediately send it to someone who needs it in their life today.
