Review
Genre and Mood
Purple Disco Machine, Boris Dlugosch and Karen Harding share the credit on Love for Days, 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.
Song Summary
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.
Musical Breakdown
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.
Concepts in Focus
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A remix 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).
The music video, 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.
Artistic Context
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.
Impact and Reception
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.
