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upper90 High Emotion, Higher Frequency


There’s something unmistakable about an Upper90 set. It doesn’t just bang; it breathes. One minute you’re airborne on a sugar-rush piano riff, the next you’re sucked into a memory you didn’t know was still living inside you. His tracks don’t shout. They swell. His energy isn’t loud; it’s layered. And behind that subtle drama lies a very real person trying to survive in the world of dance music.


“I’m an emotional person,” he tells me. “I think my music reflects that.”


It does. From the first bars of his early singles to the more complex palette of his recent work, you can hear the transformation, not as a stylistic shift, but as a deepening.


“As life has become more complicated and challenging,” he says, “I’ve made a conscious decision to develop my production skills to give the music more depth.”


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AUTHOR: SERGIO NIÑO PHOTOGRAPHY: JONAS MANTAY


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