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DJ Python’s Mas Amable is one of the most celebrated dance music LPs of the new decade, and with good reason. The producer’s second album for Incienso is an absolutely stunning listen, one that’s full of gorgeous textures but still manages to pack a consistent dancefloor punch.

Mas Amable flows more like a mix than an LP. After beginning proceedings with the scene-setting ambient number ‘Te Conoci’, unerring house-paced dembow rhythms proceed to run onwards throughout the rest of the tracklist. The unbroken flow of rhythm allows the listener to really sink into the album and makes it perfect for home listening, but remove any of these tracks from the flow of Mas Amable and their insistent beats will also be a boon to any DJ set.

The warm, wistful tones that DJ Python opts for above these rhythms are unfailingly lovely. The gentle pads and tinkling found sounds that adorn Mas Amable clearly owe as much of a debt to ambient and new-age music as they do to house, reggaeton or dancehall. When heard as a whole the sonic makeup of the record is not dissimilar to K-Lone’s Cape Cira, another recent LP which wowed for the way in which it imbued danceable beats with organic warmth.

Unfurling across fifty minutes, DJ Python’s Mas Amable LP is a delightful and welcoming demonstration of his “deep reggaeton” sound.