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TDPR 022LP
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Six songs, one sound signature, one vision. Supreme Beats Series by Drei Farben House is an album that firmly stands in the tradition of the big records of the disco era: a vinyl disc full of kicks and licks, just as much as two sides in amazing sound quality can hold. The album is the latest work of Michael Siegle, the Berlin-based producer and owner of Tenderpark Records. 13 years after Drei Farben House's first full-length on the acclaimed Force Tracks label (2006), it features contributions by singer and songwriter Mavin and none other than Robert Owens, who's voice shaped house music forever. The trademark sonic elegance of Drei Farben House blends perfectly with the timbre of the man behind Fingers Inc.'s "Mysteries Of Love". Siegle's work as a producer is not so much about turning this rich heritage upside down, but about refining it and creating a space within that realm that's very much his own. The title of the opening song with Owens states it: "I'm Remaining Here". And Supreme Beats Series invites you to come over and stay there, too, in a refuge of class and funkiness. The record offers dense layers of rhythm, vintage keyboard sounds, chucking guitar, and vocal samples that indulge in a many-voiced conversation. Not to forget the prominent, singing rather than walking bass lines performed by the hands of Michael Siegle himself with his bass guitar. You could think of Supreme Beats Series as a cross-section in time and space. It allows you to take a closer look at the here and now of a much bigger picture, both aesthetically and socially. Siegle uses the vocabulary of house music in a way that transcends its conception as merely a genre and speaks of the historic evolution and the profound roots of this music as a movement. His record takes inspiration from '60s Motown hits as well as the blue-eyed soul of the '80s, you can discover influences ranging from Philly's pre-disco craze to new jack swing and on to the heyday when house-pop divas stormed the charts. By drawing these lines, Siegle deliberately opens up the space of a visionary soul pop continuum.
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TDPR 020LP
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Throughout his life, Berlin based musician Drei Farben House has been thrilled by the artistic concepts of repetition and modifying resemblances. Small but precise and perceptible variations of (musical) themes have fascinated him throughout his life, specifically as a lover of dance-infused pop. The artistic concept of handwriting has been questioned in the world of fine arts with some justification, but Michael Siegle, aka Drei Farben House, has remained a strong advocate of this artistic principle, which, in his view, has resulted in many impressive musical expressions in the history of soul and disco. Fluency Fabrics' sleeve shows the "Doris and Norman Fisher House" in Hatboro (a suburb of Philadelphia) designed by Louis I. Kahn from 1960-1967. Kahn was based in Philadelphia and was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. The almost spiritual sensibility of his buildings and his poetry of light created deep, fundamental connections between the spaces and their inhabitants. "Every building must have . . . its own soul," the famous quote of Kahn, can easily be seen in the modest and wonderfully warm Fisher house, which consists of two intersecting cubic volumes created from cedar wood - twenty miles away, at the same time, the newly founded Sigma Sound Studio was recording the Delfonics' first record, installing the basements of Philadelphia Soul which was later leading to Philly sound, disco, and house. Drei Farben House sees Fluency Fabrics as a piece of work using disco as a main inspiration source, but steers clear of aesthetically imitating the pioneering sounds of the '70s and '80s from New York and Philadelphia. Instead, Fluency Fabrics strongly emphasizes a claim to contemporariness and unmistakably locates itself in the house music scene of the present. Still, the references to the times of classic disco are all there: from the laid-back tempo which leaves room for the dancers to breathe and unfold to the traditional format of a vinyl record. Concept, art direction, and graphic design created by Till Sperrle of ITF Grafikdesign. Cover photograph by Tom Crane. Mastered and cut by Helmut Erler at Duplates & Mastering. Includes download code.
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FTS 074CD
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Drei Farben House is a pop-house project by Hamburg-based producer Michael Siegle. Following his 12" release on Force Tracks, with a stunning Unai remix, Michael Siegle is ready to take off. His first album Any Kind of Feeling continues the Force Tracks series of first class albums: digital disco for pop lovers. Not unlike Swedish producer Unai, this album conveys the desire for sensation and emotion in music. Siegle strips house down to its basic elements. The stuttering synth-disco groove picks up the extraordinary moments of late disco sound. And Siegle adds the key elements of pop music, drastic harmonies and bittersweet melodies combined with jumbled-sounding guitar riffs. Siegle's voice is a perfect supplement to the music, a very neutral voice -- dry and distinct. With only a few pure elements, Siegle creates the atmosphere of a very melancholic autumn night. It's the imagination of resignation, but also a yearning for something, which cannot be articulated. An album of full-blooded melodrama.
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BRUT 001EP
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"After a string of fantastic releases on the much-missed label Scheinselbstaendig and indie-major Force Tracks, Hamburg's best hidden talent Drei Farben House debuts on Brut! On the A-side, 'On My Side (Daso Remix)' comes in the form of an energetic remix by the excellent Daso. following from his successful release on Connaisseur, Daso adventures himself again on techno terrains turning the light-hearted original into a moody dancefloor track. On the B-side, Drei Farben House does what he knows best: to provide us with a delicate balance of minimal house and pop sensibilities. The original of 'On My Side' comes in a more uplifting way, bringing us the brighter moments of the windy autumn days and 'Nightly Affairs' finishes the whole in a more dramatic manner, full of emotional strings and deep chords." Pressed on green vinyl.
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FTS 072EP
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Drei Farben House is a pop-house project by Hamburg-based producer Michael Siegle. Not unlike Swedish producer Unai, Siegle strips house down to its basic elements -- the groove picks up the extraordinary moments of disco, and then Siegle adds key moments of pop music, harmonies and sweet melodies. His voice is a perfect supplement to the music, dry and distinct. Unai celebrates one track with his swirling remix attitude.
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