Discover music that moves you, not algorithmic noise. Hand-picked, authentic, and sometimes messy, just like life. Zola 2026-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/genre/nu-disco/atom.xml 2026-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 2026-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 korczis https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/purple-disco-machine-body-funk/ <h2 id="genre-and-mood">Genre and Mood</h2> <p><strong>Purple Disco Machine</strong>’s <strong>Body Funk</strong> is house built from disco, the style called nu-disco: Discogs files its album under house and nu-disco, and Wikipedia calls Purple Disco Machine a nu-disco and house producer. It is groovy and energetic, because its raw material is older dance records, one of them a 1982 hit.</p> <h2 id="song-summary">Song Summary</h2> <p>Body Funk is a track by Tino Piontek, the Dresden producer and DJ who records as Purple Disco Machine. It first came out on 25 May 2017 on the Australian label Club Sweat, as a single of the original at 7:23 and a dub. In October 2017 it became the second track of his debut album Soulmatic, in a version of 4:16, which is the version the yearbook holds. MusicBrainz lists what it is built on: samples of Sylvester and Patrick Cowley’s Do Ya Wanna Funk and of Hot Streak’s Body Work.</p> <h2 id="musical-breakdown">Musical Breakdown</h2> <h3 id="main-section">Main Section</h3> <p>No review we could find describes Body Funk part by part, so this page describes less than usual. What the sources do give is its material: the two sampled records, and Piontek as producer and arranger. Listen for the older records inside the new track.</p> <h2 id="concepts-in-focus">Concepts in Focus</h2> <p><a href="https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/sampling/" class="concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400" data-concept="sampling" title="Taking a fragment of an existing recording and reusing it in a new one, as a loop, a chop or a texture. Sampling is central to hip-hop and dance music and raises questions of credit and copyright.">sampling</a> is the heart of this track. Do Ya Wanna Funk was a 1982 dance hit recorded by the singer Sylvester and the producer Patrick Cowley, who played its synthesizers, drum machine and sequencer and died the same year. When Positiva and Virgin EMI released a short edit of Body Funk in Britain in 2019, Discogs shows Cowley and Sylvester credited as composers, alongside Curtis Hudson, Bernard Lentz and Willie Lee Duckworth.</p> <p>The single’s original is a seven-minute <a href="https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/extended-mix/" class="concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400" data-concept="extended-mix" title="A longer version of a track, with extra intro, outro or instrumental sections, made for clubs and DJs rather than radio.">extended mix</a> for DJs, with a dub version beside it; the album version runs a little over four minutes.</p> <p>The <a href="https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/music-video/" class="concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400" data-concept="music-video" title="A short film made to accompany a song. Since MTV it has shaped how songs are remembered, and on YouTube it is often the main way a song is heard.">music video</a> was directed by Nicole Alexander, with choreography by Del Mak, who dances in it with Brooke Brady, and a drummer, Vanessa Vendiola.</p> <h2 id="artistic-context">Artistic Context</h2> <p>Piontek was born in Dresden in 1980. His father, a record collector, introduced him to the funk of the 1970s and 1980s; he started producing in 1996 with Cubase and a few synthesizers and released his first productions in 2012. Soulmatic was his debut album, with guests such as Cee-Lo, Kool Keith and Karen Harding. Record Mirror once heard Sylvester inside <a href="https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/bronski-beat-why/" class="font-medium text-primary-700 hover:underline dark:text-primary-400" data-track-link="bronski-beat-why.md">Bronski Beat – Why ?</a>; here Sylvester’s own record is inside the track.</p> <h2 id="impact-and-reception">Impact and Reception</h2> <p>Body Funk did not chart in the countries Wikipedia lists, but it kept moving: in 2019 Carl Cox and Dom Dolla remixed it. Piontek went on to Hypnotized with Sophie and the Giants and a Grammy in 2023 for his remix of Lizzo’s About Damn Time. Turn it up and find 1982 inside it.</p> 2026-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 2026-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 korczis https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/purple-disco-machine-boris-dlugosch-karen-harding-love-for-days-feat-karen-harding/ <h2 id="genre-and-mood">Genre and Mood</h2> <p><strong>Purple Disco Machine</strong>, <strong>Boris Dlugosch</strong> and <strong>Karen Harding</strong> share the credit on <strong>Love for Days</strong>, a vocal song from Purple Disco Machine’s debut album that Discogs files under house and nu-disco and the artist’s own Bandcamp tags as nu disco, deep house and disco. No review of the track was found: groovy and uplifting are this page’s reading, not a critic’s words.</p> <h2 id="song-summary">Song Summary</h2> <p>Love for Days is the third of thirteen tracks on Soulmatic, released by Sweat It Out! on 20 October 2017. Its credits are full: the writers are Boris Dlugosch, Karen Harding, Karen Poole and Tino Piontek, the man behind Purple Disco Machine; Dlugosch is credited as producer, arranger and performer, Poole produced the vocals, Andreas Paulsen is credited with the chords and Perfect Master mixed it. German Wikipedia gives 3 November 2017 as the song’s first release as a single. No source describes the lyric.</p> <h2 id="musical-breakdown">Musical Breakdown</h2> <p>No source describes Love for Days section by section, so this page draws no map of it. The credits say where to put your ears: a lead vocal by Harding shaped by Poole, a chord part credited separately to Paulsen, and an arrangement by Dlugosch, a producer known for funky deep house. Listen for how those three parts share the song.</p> <h2 id="concepts-in-focus">Concepts in Focus</h2> <p>A &lt;a href=“https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/featured-artist/” class=“concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400” data-concept=“featured-artist” title=“A guest performer credited on another artist’s track, usually as “feat.”: a rapper’s verse, a singer’s hook or a second voice. Features bring together different styles and audiences and are central to hip-hop, R&amp;B and dance music.“&gt;featured artist</a> is often only a guest voice. Here the featured singer is one of four credited writers, and the second named artist, Dlugosch, produced the track: the label “feat.” understates both. Compare <a href="https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/purple-disco-machine-lorenz-rhode-music-in-you-feat-lorenz-rhode/" class="font-medium text-primary-700 hover:underline dark:text-primary-400" data-track-link="purple-disco-machine-lorenz-rhode-music-in-you-feat-lorenz-rhode.md">Purple Disco Machine, Lorenz Rhode – Music In You (feat. Lorenz Rhode)</a>, the album’s opener, where the guest is also credited as writer and producer.</p> <p>A <a href="https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/remix/" class="concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400" data-concept="remix" title="A new version of a recording made by reworking its parts: changing the beat, harmony, tempo or structure, often by another producer. A remix can turn a ballad into a club track.">remix</a> single followed on 26 October 2018, according to Purple Disco Machine’s Bandcamp: remixes by Kenny Dope, Lee Foss and Motez and an extended mix, with a 12-inch vinyl. MusicBrainz lists Kenny Dope’s 7:42 version on the Glitterbox compilations Love Injection (2018) and Discotheque (2019).</p> <p>The <a href="https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/music-video/" class="concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400" data-concept="music-video" title="A short film made to accompany a song. Since MTV it has shaped how songs are remembered, and on YouTube it is often the main way a song is heard.">music video</a>, posted on 25 October 2018, was directed by Nicole Alexander. Its credits list a cast of roller skaters, led by Candice Heiden and Ryan Carrillo, and thank the LA Roller Girls.</p> <h2 id="artistic-context">Artistic Context</h2> <p>Piontek, born in Dresden in 1980, found house music in Dresden’s clubs in the 1990s; his father had introduced him to 1970s and 1980s funk. Dlugosch, born in 1968, is a Hamburg producer whose 1999 remix of Moloko’s Sing It Back became a club phenomenon; with Purple Disco Machine he had already released L.O.V.E. in 2015, which won Best Indie Dance Track at the 2016 International Dance Music Awards. Harding, from Consett in County Durham, reached number seven in the UK with Say Something in 2015 and cites 1990s house as an influence. Poole, once of Alisha’s Attic, has written for Kylie Minogue and Becky Hill.</p> <h2 id="impact-and-reception">Impact and Reception</h2> <p>English Wikipedia lists Love for Days among Purple Disco Machine’s singles without a chart position, and no review was found. The song travelled through compilations and DJ mixes instead, such as Hed Kandi’s Disco Kandi in 2018. Play the album version, then Kenny Dope’s, and hear how far one song stretches.</p>