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.

Today sees the release of Terror Danjah's Mars / Mike Gully EP, a release which spurred the grime stalwart on to end the hiatus of his Hardrive imprint. Here, Terror Danjah sums up the past couple of years in grime heaters from Sir Spyro, Jme, P Jam and more, supplemented by some upcoming tunes from Dexplicit, Champion & D.O.K. If you only listen to one grime mix this week, you better make damn sure it's this one.

Kicking proceedings off this week is Hypercolour and Aus Music affiliate Huxley with a deep, dark and dirty selection of house and techno thumpers. Few have put in as much work as Huxley, whether its blowing roofs off with his DJ sets, stunning critics with his own productions—notably debut album Blurred—or cultivating the next wave of talent via his No Idea's Original label. That work's finally paying off and 2016 looks to be a very big year indeed.

Co-founder of Fools Gold (alongside turntable maestro A-Trak), Nick Catchdubs has been at the forefront of US club music for quite some time now. Often introducing our US brothers and sisters to the newest sounds before anyone else, his eclectic but fun-loving sets aren't to be missed and this new mix will show you exactly what we're talking about. It's quite a whirlwind, taking in grime, Jersey/Philly club music, house, UKG and a whole heap of sounds you couldn't classify. Take a listen below and you'll see why he's still on top. 

It doesn't get much better than this: house music icons Peter Heller and Terry Farley mixing together the cream of the rave crop for half an hour. Our only criticism? It could do with being about seven-and-a-half hours longer.

Coinciding with the release of his Voyage EP, instrumental grime wizard Sir Pixalot has put together this rugged-and-raw mix of grime-leaning mischief. Just like the EP, however, it's not just straight-up bangers; between the teeth-grinding bass and crashing percussion there are moments of gentle melody peppered in. A deft balance of club-ready bangers, subtle nuance and relentless power, Pixalot's done it again.

Can you honestly think of a better setting for a party than Brazil? If you're an acute FOMO sufferer, it might be wise to skip past this one from Nightmares On Wax. The pristine beaches and glorious sunshine ooze throughout this collection of Brazilian and global sounds. There's more than a healthy injection of house music to keep both the tempo and the energy at peak levels throughout.

An all-vinyl mix from one of the UK's finest exports, Ben "Breach" Westbeech. Supposedly inspired by the view from his Amsterdam apartment (and the nearby record shops, of course), there's an introspective tone to this mix. "It's kind of eclectic, and I feel like that's a reflection on my time here in Amsterdam as that's what the music scene here is all about," he explained. "I have learned about so many great records through the people in the scene and the clubs here." Don't let that fool you, though, because there's more than enough dancefloor ammunition in this one—definitely one for keeping the energy going at your party when the early hours set in. 

Having just released their debut album, Big Black Coat, Canadian twosome Junior Boys are already raring to go, wasting no time putting together this mix of peak-time house and techno rumblers. As is often the case, there's no tracklist to speak of, so instead just marvel at the almost orchestral approach to building the mix up to those heady apexes and breaking things down to the bare minimum.

First he was maniacal junglist Murderbot, then footwork-loving Chrissy Murderbot and now, as he delves deeper and deeper into house music, he is simply Chrissy. Fans of any of his incarnations will know that Chrissy's knowledge of the full spectrum of dance music—in all its myriad forms—is second to none. Now, in the wake of the release of his Growl EP on Freerange (which features vocals from Hercules & Love Affair's Shaun J. Wright), Chrissy's taken to the buttons to mix together some of the club classics that influenced the EP.

Chrissy guest mix for Freerange Radio by Chrissy on Mixcloud