Where to Start with Purple Disco Machine
Start with Hypnotized, then hear the Grammy remix, then deeper: four steps into Purple Disco Machine's exact sound.
Step one: the breakthrough
Press play on "Hypnotized", featuring Sophie and the Giants. This is the track that made Tino Piontek's name well beyond the dance-music crowd, and it's still the best introduction to what he does. Sophie and the Giants' vocal gives it a huge, singable hook. The production underneath is pure nu-disco, that Daft Punk-influenced, Chic-inspired bounce he's known for. It peaked at number two on the Italian Singles Chart and went double platinum there. You're hearing why it connected so widely.
Step two: the Grammy side
His remix of Lizzo's "About Damn Time" won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical, in 2023. It's a completely different skill from writing his own tracks, which is exactly why hearing both back to back matters. You get to see the full range of what Piontek brings: not just a producer who writes hooks, but a remix strategist who understands how to rebuild a song from inside out.
Step three: the solo tracks
"Bad Company" (2023) shows his productions holding their own without a feature vocal. "Heartbreaker" (2024), with Chromeo, pairs him with another act built on the same funk-disco foundations. Together, these two tracks give you a fuller sense of where he's been taking the sound since "Hypnotized", without the safety net of a big vocal hook.
Step four: go album by album
Once the singles have sold you on the sound, the albums are where you settle in properly. Soulmatic (2017) is the sound before the breakthrough. Exotica (2021) is the record that followed "Hypnotized". Paradise (2024), released alongside the double album Club Paradise, is where he stands now. That's release order, and it's the path that makes most sense of his thinking.