Review
Genre and Mood
Solee released Sommerliebe on an EP that Discogs files under tech house, deep house and experimental. The feelings on this page, dreamy and warm, are our reading of a long instrumental club track whose title means summer love; no review describes how it sounds, so take them as a starting point rather than a verdict.
Song Summary
Sommerliebe runs eight minutes 27 seconds and shares the EP Sommerliebe / Traumschiff with a second original, Traumschiff, or dream ship. Parquet Recordings released it digitally in August 2013 under the catalogue number PARQUET064: Discogs gives 16 August, MusicBrainz 30 August. Two remixes of Sommerliebe complete the package, by Eelke Kleijn and by Roland M. Dill and Koook, along with a Normandie remix of Solee’s earlier track Blown. A month before the release, on 12 July 2013, Solee posted a video edit of four minutes 19 on his own channel. The track returned on his album The Seven Year Itch that December and, in 2026, on the retrospective XX, whose upload this page plays.
Musical Breakdown
No source walks through Sommerliebe part by part, so this breakdown names only its shape and leaves the sound to your ears.
Intro
At this length the opening has time. Listen for what comes first and how long the track takes before it settles into its groove.
Main Section
The long middle is where a club track like this does its work. Notice which elements return, which change and when the track feels most like its title.
Outro
How the original mix ends is not described anywhere. Notice whether it leaves the DJ a clean ending to mix from.
Concepts in Focus
A radio edit cuts a track down for listeners who are not on a dance floor. Solee’s video edit does that job for YouTube: half the length of the original mix, it is the version made to be watched rather than mixed.
A remix sends the same track in other directions. Eelke Kleijn’s version was the one that travelled: it appeared on the label’s compilation Parquet Goodies 2013 and on Milk & Sugar’s mixed compilation House Nation, and Finnebassen played it at Sankeys Ibiza for DanceTrippin. That is club culture at work, with DJs choosing what a crowd hears and carrying a record far beyond its label.
Artistic Context
Solee is the German producer Normen Flaskamp, credited as the composer of Sommerliebe, and the head of Parquet Recordings. Another of his tracks is heard through a remix in Solee, Unique Repeat – Phoenix - Unique Repeat Remix.
Impact and Reception
No review or chart place of the original mix was found; its afterlife runs through its remixes and compilations. Give it the full eight minutes.
