
On Great Tunes, a 400-strong online music swapping group Brian Piñeyro started back in the early 2010s, there was a popular thread entitled "Tears On The Dancefloor." Members of the group — house heads, experimental musicians, music obsessives from various scenes and generations — posted dancefloor tracks imbued with a dreamy, bittersweet quality, a wistful feeling that, not coincidentally, courses through the ambient reggaeton music Piñeyro makes as DJ Python. Originally inspired by the dembow rhythms emanating from souped-up Honda Civics during his teenage years in Miami, Piñeyro's first forays into electronic music production were influenced by reggaeton. Already well-versed in house, IDM, dnb/jungle and downtempo, Piñeyro came up with a dreamier dembow varietal that was softer around the edges, integrating the headspace and soulful atmospherics of ambient and deep house. While Piñeyro had already made beloved records under other aliases — like "Song For Masahiro," under his house