Mix Up Look Sharp: The Best Mixes Of The Week

Our pick of the best mixes from the last 7 days.

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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.

Loom's 'Production' Mix For Mixmag

Last month, grime-inspired producer Loom released his European Heartache EP on Gobstopper Records—a five-track EP full of laid-back jams and layered, icy melodies. Since then, he's been tapped up to put together a retrospective mix of highlights from his back-catalogue. Besides featuring all five tracks from the EP, you can also hear his "Boy Racer" from Sound Pellegrino's SND.PE VOL.05 comp, a few other original productions (including the mysteriously titled "???", rounded out with some of his remixes for the likes of Letta and Becoming Real. And, as we'd all hope, "Rain Falls Hard Here" makes an appearance right at the end.

Ambassadeurs' Mix For Clash

If this week has been anything to go by, the weekend is going to be a literal wash-out. So, since you won't be venturing outside for the next couple of days, crank the central heating up and put this Ambassadeurs mix on repeat. With tracks from Four Tet, DJ Koze, DK, Radiohead, Jamie xx and Nathan Fake, this is heaven sent for days spent wrapped in your duvet with a cuppa in hand.

Santa Muerte's Mix For Bala Club

GHE2OG0THIK's Santa Muerte, aka Texan duo Sines and Panchitron, recently made an appearance on the debut Bala Club show on NTS. The mix they put together was an astounding start to the series, bringing together the latest and greatest gems from the outer reaches of club music. Unsurprisingly, for a duo whose name references the Mexican cult of Holy Death, there's a lot of darkness here, one of the few common elements in the mix. The tone and pace shifts and flows throughout as they blend together woozy R&B jams, grime and hip-hop, industrial club bangers and some more experimental cuts in an impressively cohesive hour of power.

DJ Reuckert's 'Classical Trax' Mix For Disc Mag

Classical Trax are going from strength to strength with no signs of slowing down any time soon. Since growing from a humble Facebook group, the collective (fronted by DJ Rueckert, otherwise known as Matt Lutz) has grown exponentially into a global outlet for progressive club music. This mix is the perfect summary of their ethos, bringing together dancehall, R&B, grime and whatever else they find in the deepest, most exciting recesses of the internet.

Poirier's Mix For Gilles Peterson Worldwide

Montreal-based Ninja Tune signee Poirier has always been a champion of venturing beyond Europe and the US for club music. From day one, Poirier's been venturing into the innumerable sounds and scenes of Africa and Central and South America. Though his music often centres around soca and dancehall, Poirier's always made it his business to venture beyond. Here he throws a couple of his own productions into a mix that features M.I.A., Face-T, Afrikan Roots and more, rounding off perfectly with a track he made with frequent collaborator MC Zulu, "Universal Peace".

Epoch's '3rd Chamber' Mix For Blacklist

Possibly one of the roughest, rawest grime mixes we've ever heard, Epoch delivers just under an hour of industrial drums, eerie melodies and jagged bass. It's not just the sheer power of this that impressed us, it's also that he was able to imbue the pure energy of a radio grime set, mainly through sampling some of the aggiest sets in grime's history.

Deadbeat's Mix For Function 16

Born in Sheffield and now residing in Brighton, Deadbeat's weekly show on Nasty FM has to be one of the most reliable sources of big, dirty basslines. Ahead of his show at Bath's Function 16, the Formula Records signee has put together 45 minutes of teeth-smashingly hard bassline and UKG, featuring more than a few of his own productions alongside some golden classics and brand new cuts.

Sam Tiba, FS Green & SIROJ's Mix For Klear Amsterdam

For the final mix in this week's retrospective, we picked something a little different. Sonically, it's straight-up house and club bangers, deftly selected and mixed by three of the best. What sets this one apart is the way in which it was put together. Of working with the two Dutch DJs (SIROJ and FS Green), Club Cheval's Sam Tiba explains that "each of us [were] sent a selection made by one of the others, and had to make a mixtape with this. SIROJ made a 20-minute mix of Sam Tiba’s selection (Ch.1). FS Green made one of SIROJ’s selection (Ch.2) and Sam Tiba made one of FS Green’s selection (Ch.3)." It's a simple concept, but we're not sure we've heard any other mixes put together in such a way. 

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