Rhythm is perhaps a foundation of music but not a "location" of soul of it. And much music actually lacks anything that could be called that.
As for turntables being machines made by humans, well, first of all people are machines too just of a very different type and second exactly because things are made by people they have soul too, or they don't.
As for turntables being machines made by humans, well, first of all people are machines too just of a very different type and second exactly because things are made by people they have soul too, or they don't.