February Countdown — 25% at Purple Disco Machine

Although the intoxicating blend of house, disco, and funk that Tino Piontek, a billion-stream disco behemoth from Purple Disco Machine, offers, the story of this agile producer, songwriter, and DJ goes back much further. Tino became well-versed in the enigmatic, exotic allure of music as a young boy growing up in what was then East Germany, where Western culture was largely outlawed: His father, who worked as a mild-mannered teacher during the day, would drive off at night under the cover of darkness in search of music on the black market. Purple Disco Machine would occasionally return after losing his cash at the border. However, he would occasionally return with contraband: vinyl or cassettes from prohibited rock bands. When Tino's family made their first trip to Munich after the Berlin Wall fell, he got his first real look at everything pop had to offer. When they entered a record store with cds and vinyl lining the walls, they was struck by the thought.