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.
Really maybe to you but not to the fans of the music that you are referring to.
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.
Again really interesting
The only people I have come across that have no soul were dead at funerals. Not pleasant. Every living person has soul and each of them given music that hits home with them will show you their soul.
Frogman nailed it.
