Review
Genre and Mood
Purple Disco Machine and Lorenz Rhode open the album Soulmatic with Music In You, filed by Apple Music under house and by Discogs, for the album, under house and nu-disco. The feelings on this page, groovy and uplifting, are our reading; no review of the track was found, so this page leans on its credits, which say more than most.
Song Summary
Music In You is the first of thirteen tracks on Soulmatic, the debut album of Tino Piontek, the Dresden producer behind Purple Disco Machine. Sweat It Out released it on 20 October 2017, and the track runs four minutes 30 seconds. The album credits name Lorenz Rhode as featured artist and as its producer, arranger, performer and talk box player, and Rhode and Piontek as its writers. Monte mixed it at Trigonomics in Hamburg. The video followed on Purple Disco Machine’s channel on 8 January 2018.
Musical Breakdown
No source describes this track part by part, so this breakdown points to what the credits promise and leaves the rest to your ears.
Intro
As the album’s first sound, the opening is a greeting. Listen for what arrives first, the beat or the talk box.
Main Section
The credited talk box is the feature to follow: notice where it carries the melody or the words, and how the groove leaves room for it.
Outro
How the track ends is not described anywhere. Notice whether it closes like a song or hands over to the next track.
Concepts in Focus
A <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&B and dance music.“>featured artist is usually a guest voice. Rhode’s credit goes further: writer, producer, arranger and player of the instrument at the centre, the talk box. A talk box sends the sound of an instrument through a tube into the player’s mouth, where it is shaped like speech and picked up by a microphone; German Wikipedia calls the talk box with a synthesizer Rhode’s specialty. Compare the machine voice of Daft Punk – Around the World.
The music video came almost three months after the album, keeping the opener in view. A remix by David Penn later appeared on The Soulmatic Remixes.
Artistic Context
Piontek, born in Dresden in 1980, began producing in 1996 and released his first productions in 2012; a 2023 Grammy for his remix of Lizzo’s About Damn Time came later. Rhode, who grew up in Remagen, has led the Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Ehrenfeld since 2016 and worked with Jamie Lidell. The pair met again on Up & Down and At The Disko.
Impact and Reception
No chart place or review of Music In You was found. Its credits tell the story of a collaboration that lasted. Press play and listen for the talk box.
