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.

It's been a pretty good week for fans of Formula Records boss Champion. A guest appearance on Four Tet's stand-in show for Benji B saw him grab the spotlight with both hands as he churned out grimy club bangers with obvious flair. But before that, he put this mix together that featured a handful of his own tunes, more than a few Flava D cuts, topped up with big-hitters like Roots Manuva, D Double E, Capo Lee, My Nu Leng, Terror Danjah and the mighty Vybz Kartel.

Having put 50Weapons to bed last year, irreverent electronic duo Modeselektor are back as two thirds of Moderat alongside Apparat. The trio, which has been running for nearly seven and a half years, are about to release their new album, III, and, if this mix is anything to go by, it looks set to be a progression of the warmer, more expansive sounds from previous albums, but with a notable progression.

This year saw pretty much every MC everyone jump on Rude Kid's reworking of that classic riddim from "Wot Do U Call It?", a tough R&G chop up session that should be immediately recognisable to even the most casual grime fan. Ghetts (who did the first one), Stormzy, Chip, Ghostly, OG'z, Riko, Nick Brewer and more all took turns at making the track their own and, frankly, it's impossible to call which is the superior effort. So, in the interest of reflection, Triangulum boss DJ Cable has put together this comprehensive rundown.

Opening with some classic new wave sounds and fleeting through a range of club-stomping sounds, Slovenian producer Nightwave proves once more why her sets, eclectic as they are, also happen to be extremely reliable. In her own words, "I wanted to include a bit of everything I love—from Chicago house, Detroit techno, old electro and ghettotech, to grime, footwork and juke, all with a few of my own tunes thrown in," all blended gracefully and with the utmost attention paid to the mix's flow.

Acid house hero, ex-808 Stater and the man who claims to have put a voodoo curse on his former label, A Guy Called Gerald is a true pioneer and one whose career has seen him delve into pretty much every shade of rave there's ever been. Here is with a deftly balanced mix of house and techno, all with deep and warm Latin influences.

Even before grime's renaissance, Loom was making a name for himself crafting sounds that would eventually come to dominate London's most forward-thinking club scenes. Featuring mostly new and unheard material from the grime-adjacent producer and pals like Sound Pellegrino, Tarquin and Murlo, it's all further testament to just how ahead of the curve he's always been.

Who doesn't love exploring the sweet spot between grime and hip-hop? No one, that's who. And who better to take us on that journey than Jelacee and DJ Lukey, aka Stööki Sound.

Another grime mix (gosh, we're spoiling you this week), this time from J.Tijn. Absolutely rammed full of deep cuts, look out for some criminally underrated beasts from Skepta, Jammer, Wiley, Footsie, Geeneus and a boatload more. But that's only the half of it, the real beauty of this one is the element of techno he's introduced, finding a surprisingly effective way of seamlessly blending the two for a sound that we really, really need to hear more of. Do not sleep on this guy. Seriously.