Best Purple Disco Machine Collaborations
A Grammy, a Chic legend, a vocal breakthrough: here's where Purple Disco Machine's best work comes from.
The trophy moment
In 2023, Piontek's remix of Lizzo's "About Damn Time" won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical. That's not a side hustle validation. That's the highest recognition for remix work, period. It's a completely different skill from writing your own tracks: taking someone else's song and finding a remix angle that adds real value rather than just speeding it up. Hearing this back to back with "Hypnotized" shows you the full range of what he brings.
The vocal that broke through
Sophie and the Giants' feature on "Hypnotized" did exactly one job perfectly: turned a club production into a proper crossover anthem. That 2020 release became number two on the Italian Singles Chart and double platinum certified there. The pairing worked because it was never mismatched. Piontek's bassline and the vocal are doing the same work, not pulling in opposite directions.
Perfect pairings
"Heartbreaker" with Chromeo (2024) is the proof that Piontek picks collaborators who already share his sonic world. Two acts built on funk-disco foundations, filtering them through modern production. Then there's "Honey Boy", pairing him with Nile Rodgers and Benjamin Ingrosso. That's nearly a full-circle moment: Rodgers, as one half of Chic, is one of the direct ancestors of the whole nu-disco sound Piontek works in. Hearing them on a track together is hearing the genre's history collapse into the present.
Other collaborators worth knowing
Beyond the main circle sit collaborations with Kungs on "Substitution" (featuring Julian Perretta), and remix work for Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga and Kylie Minogue in 2020. That's the evidence of a producer trusted equally by dancefloor purists and pop royalty, a combination that's genuinely rare.