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Heist Recordings
116 releases tracked from 2012 · 128 producers · latest oct 2026
Scene: Deep house · also in Festival & crossover house, Soulful house
25 tracks · 14 charting artists · 21 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Heist Recordings was founded by Dam Swindle as a way to gain full control over their releases and to create a stage for likeminded musicians. Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the label has become a go-to for underground house and electronic music, releasing nearly 100 records and featuring artists including Frits Wentink, Nebraska, Fouk, and Kassian.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
83% one genreDeep House, then House and Jackin House
83% of the 116 releases we can tag · 4 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±8 BPM124 BPM typical, 111–127 across four in five releases
116 of 116 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
no tier76 chart entries
chart entries per record since July; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
10.4 yrs medianProducers here had a median 10.4 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 18 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
5 of 6
last debut
24 days ago
new here Miraa May (Oct) · Andre Espeut (Sep)
5 of the 6 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
61% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 83 of 137 · 23 various-artists compilations
remixes
50% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
54 of the 107 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Dam Swindle, Nachtbraker, Fouk
◢ how often the roster changes
3
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
14 of 36
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
8.5
releases a year
17 records in 24 months
◢ first records here, by year
Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.
◢ on the charts, week by week
new entries
week of 12 oct: 2 new entries · 0 top-20 placements · avg rank ▼ 4.3 places
pathSnatch! Records, Toy Tonics +6 → Heist Recordings → PRONTO, LW Recordings +68 before · 8 afterpath into
Heist RecordingsSnatch! Records7Toy Tonics6Defected Records4Fool's Gold Records4Heist RecordingsPRONTO68 before · 8 after ↓◢ path into Heist Recordingswhere Heist Recordings artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Snatch! Recordstier 17 artists
- Toy Tonicstier 26 artists
- Defected Recordstier 14 artists
- Fool's Gold Recordstier 34 artists
- Get Physical Musictier 14 artists
- Peppermint Jam Recordsno tier4 artists
- Crosstown Rebelstier 13 artists
- DFTDtier 13 artists
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02 · this label
Heist Recordings
03 · after · released here next
- PRONTOno tier6 artists
- LW Recordingstier 35 artists
- Clone Royal Oakno tier4 artists
- Hudd Traxxno tier4 artists
- Definitive Recordingstier 13 artists
- Hard Times Recordsno tier3 artists
- Permanent Vacationtier 23 artists
- Phonogrammetier 13 artists
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 37 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Freerange Records (4), Nervous Records (3), Razor-N-Tape Records (3), Shall Not Fade (3)
11 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 128
◢ who's on it
15 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 19 have pages here
sending a demo
- Freerange Records (4), Nervous Records (3) and Razor-N-Tape Records (3) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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