DJ Python releases ‘Dai Buki,‘ featuring elusive London MC Jawnino and unclassifiable songwriter Organ Tapes. Taken from his debut XL Recordings EP – i was put on this earth – which is released this Friday (28 March) marking his first solo music in over three years.
‘Dai Buki’ is the first time all three artists have created music together despite Jawnino and Organ Tapes having previously released music on DJ Python‘s Worldwide Unlimited imprint. Written and recorded in East London, the track blends their distinct backgrounds and skills while showcasing DJ Python’s take on the venerable UK post-rock tradition, drawing inspiration from Talk Talk to Bark Psychosis. It arrives alongside a video directed by Michelle Yoon that captures the song’s spontaneous, playful creation process—a reminder of art’s true expression.
‘Dai Buki’ follows last month’s release, ‘Besos Robados’ featuring Isabella Lovestory. The collaborations with Isabella, Jawnino, and Organ Tapes introduce the listener to i was put on this earth‘s bold new sound. Across the five tracks, DJ Python – aka Brian Piñeyro – gently forays into uncharted territory as a singer, producer, and collaborator; an evolution all the more impressive in light of his groundbreaking musical projects to date like Mas Amable, Angel, and Club Sentimientos Vol 2. The project retains the captivating melodies, atmospheric textures, and rhythmic innovation that defined Python’s earlier recordings while building on and shaping these signature elements into ambitious and addictive new songs.
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i was put on this earth EP
DJ Python
XL Recordings
Friday 28 March 2025
- Marry Me Maia
- Dai Buki featuring Jawnino
- Coquine
- Besos Robados featuring Isabella Lovestory
- Elio’s Lived Behind My House Forever
On ‘i was put on this earth’, DJ Python says “to whom it may concern…
Person 1:
Does it really feel good to do hard work?. Sometimes I feel I much prefer doing nothing, doing nothing at all. But is being lazy ‘bad’? I think doing nothing is poetic. As they say ‘sleep cures sleepiness’
Person 2:
Well what does the hard work lead to? So much of the work people do…it just leads to creating useless things.To consume?…I think hard work can lead to making something beautiful, beautiful and perhaps ‘useless’ and I think that’s something worth dedicating yourself to.
Person: I agree to a certain extent, but do we still consume beauty? Or can it just affect us, expand our mind, reframe how we think?
Person 2: I guess that’s completely up to you.
Person: I wish we could all just lay around, do nothing, talk about ideas that lead to nothing, not bothered by conclusion, not driven by production.
Person 2: Isn’t that what we’re technically doing right now?
Person: I guess you’re right. I guess beauty comes even without hard-work.
Person 2: Yeah – I guess it can just come from within, when the environment is right, when it’s pure – whatever that means.
Person: I just want to be GOOD so badly.
Person 2: We’re all a little good, we’re all a little bad. No one is the best thing they’ve done, or the worst thing they’ve ever done. Everyone is really just OK.
Person 1: Hm, yes, I see. I’ve worked hard, I’ve worked hard to be OK. I can do nothing, yet I can still make beautiful things. It is worth it to strive for beauty.
Even though you’re OK, I think you are so beautiful.
Person 2: I think you’re ok too, and find you very beautiful.
Person 1: When I watched Jodie Foster act in the beginning of Silence of the Lambs, I cried. I cried because she was so good she was doing exactly what she loved. It’s true human artistic achievement.
Person 2: Yeah, and everyone recognized it – she got recognized for something worth recognizing, and she forever will be.
It’s the dead of winter, and I walked past a tree, with all its leaves intact. They were completely black and it was 25 degrees. I don’t know if that’s work, or resilience, but it’s natural effortless beauty. Maybe someone could find it ugly, since it’s not green anymore.
But to me, the tree is beautiful. I’ve walked past it everyday, but yesterday I recognized how beautiful it was”
ABOUT DJ PYTHON
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DJ Python is the best-known alias of the Queens, NY-based DJ and musician Brian Piñeyro. A pillar of the Brooklyn/Queens-based scene via a long-running residency at Nowadays and affiliation with Anthony Naples and Jenny Slattery’s Incienso imprint, in recent years, Piñeyro has exploded into record stores, mixes and clubs around the world thanks to his innovative combination of deep house dynamics and latin rhythms. His last album, 2020’s Mas Amable, was a downtempo epic garnering album of the year honors from Resident Advisor and Boomkat, and he’s been on a tear since, dropping EPs like Club Sentimientos Vol. 2, a well-loved collab with Domino artist Ela Minus, a split with Nick León (with whom he hosts a Miami residency, suero) and records and mixes via his Perreo supergroup with Kelman Duran and Florentino, Sangre Nueva. In 2023, Python teamed up with ambient pop mainstay Ana Roxanne as Natural Wonder Beauty Concept for an album of moody, IDM-influenced pop songs and unusual instrumentals. That album, released by Mexican Summer, was again a mainstay on end-of-the-year list and led to live tours throughout Europe, the UK and North America.
In 2024, Python made his Essential Mix debut for BBC Radio 1 which included yet-to-be-released tracks and edits of music by the likes of Air, Alex G, Nina Simone, and Autechre. The mix picked up ‘Best Of’ accolades with Resident Advisor and Mixmag who declared “xxxx”. A summer of festival live shows followed including a takeover of Block9’s epic IICON stage at 2024 edition of Glastonbury Festival, performing a highlight set to a rapturous response. The year rounded off with “Angel” being selected as Pitchfork’s #54 song of the decade (so far).. i was put on this earth is Python’s first release of 2025 and the ambitious EP sets the tone for the year ahead.
