Mix Up Look Sharp: The Best Mixes Of The Week

Here at Complex, we understand the grind of listening to the best music each week. There's so much new music uploaded to every single platform, every single day, that following just one of your streams can become a dizzying, life-consuming task. To help you out on at least one front, each and every Friday, our music team will trawl the depths of the internet to bring you the best mixes from the past week. House, hip-hop and bass, grime, trap and techno—it'll all be represented in our picks to get you warmed up for the weekend. So let us do all the hard work; click through below and enjoy.

Mixing house, UK garage, tech-house and everything in between, Jamie George blends a pretty spot-on mix to get you energised for the weekend but it's the liberal use of his own vocals that make this mix stand out. And who doesn't love a good sing-song when they're steaming?

Having killed it at StreetFest last weekend, Hannah Faith is already back with a brand new mix. It's a pretty jazzy affair and not necessarily ideal for pre-party madness, but when you get home and your ears are still ringing, pop this on and get ready to feel better about the world.

It's quite staggering to think about how relatively new Eli & Fur are to the dance scene, but my god have they made up for lost time. They've already got a string of successful sets at Creamfields, Bestival, Leeds and Glastonbury (and countless Ibiza sessions) under their belts, and later this year, they'll be heading out on a 10-city US tour in support of the Space Ibiza compilation they curated. Dip into some disco-tinged house and techno and make sure you catch them before their ticket prices surpass the cost of a speedboat.

You may not recognise their names but if you liked dancing around to electro/indie amalgams in brightly-coloured hoodies, then you were no doubt a fan of The Rapture. Having demonstrated their house/hip-hop crossover chops on a Jungle Brothers reflip, Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi serve up a mix of incredibly uplifting, percussive takes on house, techno and club music. 

Something of a change of pace here; expect jazz, soul, trip-hop, funk and just about every other sound that reminds you there's some good in the world. There's even some J Dilla in there, too. Nice one, Submotion Orchestra.

It's Plastician. The event was called "rumpshakers". At this point, I really shouldn't have to explain what you need to do now...

"And now it's Kozee time."

Kozee doesn't get nearly as much love as she should. She's been pushing grime in all corners of the world, long before it was deemed "cool." This mix for the Moveltraxx show on Nasty FM is a nifty example of what can be done if you go out of your way to explore something new. Pairing the aggy, fast-paced bars of BBK and other such grime royalty with slow, foggy house beats was a stroke of genius and one that should be played around with a lot more.

Current favourite of Terrorhythm and Boxed, JD Reid strikes a deft balance between ravey bangers, hip-hop and R&B jams, and esoteric knob-twiddling. It's no mean feat balancing such disparate sounds and vibes, but Reid's been finding that balance for a little while now and this mix shows he's gotten pretty damn good at it. For all its club-friendly moments, this one might actually be better suited to curling up in a ball and pretending the whole world hasn't gone completely insane.

Purveyor of all things dub, techno and grime (yes, there is an overlap), Neil Landstrumm can always be relied on to deliver something unexpected. Albums like Bambaataa Eats His Breakfast, Restaurant Of Assassins and Lord For £49​ cemented his place in our hearts as someone who experiments in countless genres and masters them all. His latest mix predominantly features his own productions with a few Modini cuts thrown in for good measure. And since this is Landstrumm, the fact it's mostly his own work means it's as eclectic as anyone could have mustered with an infinite record collection.