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Back in 2013 we launched the Upper Cuts free download series, where every two weeks we gave away a new global anthem from some of Enchufada’s favourite artists and welcomed lots of new additions to our growing family. After every six months of releasing free singles from all across the club music spectrum, we gathered these tracks into compilation volumes documenting the best tunes being made for the world’s dance floors. Now that four years have passed since its debut, we take a look at the Upper Cuts catalog and select the 22 most important tracks of this vibrant series on this new compilation, including tracks by Branko, Dotorado Pro, King Doudou and Rastronaut that will be coming to digital stores for the first time ever.

Enchufada Upper Cuts: Four Years of Global Club Anthems synthesizes this groundbreaking series and fully represents Enchufada’s global-minded ethos, where the compelling rhythms of afro-house coexist with the frantic beat explosions of kuduro, baile funk, gqom and the many styles that make up the Global Club Music movement. Venture inside our homage to the always-evolving soundsystem culture, where we draw inspiration from the age-old practice of cutting your own exclusive dubplates, and decided to invert that logic to fit the Internet age.

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Enchufada Upper Cuts: Four Years of Global Club Anthems

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After the Venezuelan Tuki masters Pocz & Pacheko kickstarted Upper Cuts Season 2 with the heavy-hitting techno bomb Taladro, our journey now takes us further down the jungles of Latin America to Peru, where the mysterious masked duo Dengue Dengue Dengue! can be found revolutionizing the cumbia scene. 

Drawing inspiration from the thriving and psychedelic cumbia scene of the 70s, Filipe Salmon and Rafael Pereira have been fusing these traditional rhythms with modern techno beats, with a twist of Jamaican dancehall swagger and dub ambiance, creating a unique and mesmerizing sound in the process. Their amazing debut album 'La Alianza Profana' has wowed critics and listeners alike, which coupled with their surreal videos and audio-visual live shows has won them countless fans the world over, making them one of the most impressive new acts in the tropical electronica scene. 

In Lokumba they momentarily break away from the expected cumbia template and favor a choppy, bass-heavy hip-hop-influenced beat, splashed with haunting synths and their unmistakeable mystical vibe with a tropical flair. If releasing tracks like this one doesn't honor our commitment to bringing you the hottest electronic music made south of the equator, we don't know what will.

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Upper Cuts Volume II

Lokumba

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Dengue Dengue Dengue! - Lokumba

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NYC-based producer Henry Cardenas aka Cabo Blanco has been hard at work pushing the Big Apple's hip-hop legacy by fusing it with tropical-flavored electronica and house beats, with excitingly hybrid results. From dembow 2Pac bootlegs to neon R&B and straight-up trap beats for the club, Cabo Blanco's got it all.
 
In Santo Diablo the tropical heat is turned up to 11 as the producer samples and cuts his way through Caribbean music, layering these festive Latin sounds over the hard-hitting trap beats that are filling up dancefloors across the globe.
 
If you're looking for that extra spice to season your 140bpm sets or just searching for the latest exciting hybrid coming out of the tropical bass melting pot, then look no further. Cabo Blanco's got you covered.

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Santo Diablo

Cabo Blanco - Santo Diablo

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If you ever wondered what happened in Angola after the kuduro boom, this is it. The crown prince of Luanda's thriving afro-house scene Djeff joins Enchufada's Upper Cuts series with a deep rhythmic cut called Kissange. Heavily focused on the dancefloor's needs and wants, the Angolan producer crafts a slow-burning tension-filled track perfect for making the transition from the sunset beach party to the late-night club.

Djeff aka Afrozila seems to effortlessly incorporate the classic house vibe with the warm, percussion-heavy and syncopated African rhythms, creating a warm sound that resonates out of the Angolan capital and is making everyone from Johannesburg to Lagos go wild on the dancefloor. 

As every big dance craze in Luanda eventually penetrates Lisbon's nightlife, Djeff's colorful beats begin to inspire dance moves in the European clubs, and we bet that Kissange won't be an exception.

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Kissange

Djeff - Kissange

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After bringing you cutting edge tropical sounds from established global bass artists like Buraka Som Sistema, Branko or Dengue Dengue Dengue!, it's time for the Upper Cuts series to bring you something completely new. And by new we mean really new. 

We were sitting in the office going through the mountain of promos in our inbox, when we found an email by a British producer named Castro. We opened it, not knowing what to expect, and what we found was Toot Toot, one of the most addictive zouk bass tunes we've heard since the whole craze started in the Boiler Room. We just had to have it here and now. 

Join us in welcoming Castro, a British producer whose background as a percussionist and love of ethnic rhythms gives his tracks a distinctive bounce, which he complements with an extensive knowledge of the dancefloor's demands. In the latest track on the Upper Cuts series, Castro pairs up heavy drums with vibrant synths and colorful melodies, all under the hypnotic 90bpm pace that Buraka helped to popularize, with some moombah elements and vocal samples thrown in for good measure. 

Besides having one of the most addictive beats we've heard in months, Castro's first single Toot Toot is one of those tracks that just inspires us to have a good time. Let's play this one loud and bring the fun back to the dancefloor.

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Toot Toot

Castro - Toot Toot

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The almighty Buraka Som Sistema join the Upper Cuts free download series on a mission to give the world yet another musical genre to dance to. The tropical downtempo madness of first 15 minutes of their now legendary Boiler Room set marked the introduction of Zouk Bass, a brand new tropical hybrid born from the meeting of the French Antillan rhythms of zouk - and its Lusophone relative kizomba - with the bass-heavy styles of the UK underground. 

Zouk Flute is the name of the track that brings the slow and sexy zouk rhythms to the 21st century clubs. A mischievous and downright hypnotic melody instantly puts you in the mood for dancing in dimly lit rooms, giving the style's tropical heritage a dangerous modern edge. While the charming synths reel you in, the heavy slow-paced beats and thick sub-bass pressure promise to keep you nailed to the dancefloor, ocasionally breaking the spell to ask the DJ for yet another rewind. 

As it happened all those years ago with the fast-paced Angolan rhythms of kuduro, yet another tropical revolution in electronic dance music can be traced back to Buraka Som Sistema's studio. While the beats radically change this time around, the need to make people dance their troubles away stays the same. Because dancing is always the best remedy, why not do it a bit slower? 

Additional vocals by Myriiam

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Upper Cuts Volume I

Zouk Flute

Buraka Som Sistema - Zouk Flute

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After Branko kickstarted the Upper Cuts series with his stunning Njena Reddd Foxxx collaboration and Buraka Som Sistema contributed with the genre-defining Zouk Flute, now it’s time for another Buraka founding member to enter the series. We’re talking about Riot, the eclectic DJ and producer who started the global kuduro revolution with Branko and the rest of the crew, and is still turning heads on the Portuguese drum&bass and dubstep scene.

Since it was up to him to close the first Upper Cuts season in style, he decided to surprise everyone with a personal take on the fresh Zouk Bass genre by fusing slow Caribbean-influenced beats with the fast-paced rhythm of drum&bass. This unlikely blend has produced some amazing results and is already finding its way into the digital DJ bags of several prominent artists such as DJ Zinc, Toddla T, Brodinski, Nick Catchdubs, Dave Nada and Astronomar, among many others rushing to show support.

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Keep On

Riot - Keep On

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