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.

Kicking off with Kingdom's triumphant return single "Shox", quixotic DJ GRRL keeps the vibes hot and heavy throughout with some tough cuts from mostly unknowns. We say it's mostly "unknowns", but keep an eye out for a conspicuous appearance from Night Slugs affiliate Helix towards the end. And, with a tracklist you can peep on SoundCloud, you can fill your record bag with some of that heat instead of trying to guess like normal. 

Mode FM staple and the man behind the shockingly underrated Green Phlegm EP, J Beatz will be bringing his radio cohorts to Motion this Sunday at The Nest. Joining him will be Jampak, Spooky, Sir Spyro, Capo Lee, MicTy and OGz spitter P Money. Delve into this one while you get your raving gear on for bangers from Stormzy, Kano, Ghetts, Jammer and a couple from J Beatz himself.

Featuring Damian Lazarus, Tiga, Stefano Ritteri, Kris Davis, COLLECTIVE MACHINE, this fourth edition of Jonas Rathsman's bi-monthly Elements series is a masterful exercise in subtlety and invisible blends. Sadly, as ever, there's no tracklist yet so best of luck to your Shazam.

Do we really need to give you a reason to listen to this? It's Spooky for goodness sake! Ugh, fine. Starting off with some infernal bars from west London's Jay Amo and then kicking it into overdrive for the next 30 minutes with classics from Jammz, Rebound X, JME and Skepta, this is just one of many reasons to catch the Spartan at his next rave. Credit has to be given for mainly including tunes that reference him or shout him out (or manipulating them so they do).

L.A.'s DJ Carisma is overflowing with precisely the quality her name suggests. Instantly recognisable tunes with Chris Brown, DeJ Loaf and Torey Lanez (as well as her show on Power 106) have already caught a lot of attention. Here, however, she crafts a breakneck mix of hip-hop and R&B bangers, with every track imbued with a dash of her own personality.

This Friday, LEVELZ party instigator Chimpo will be hitting Fabric. Here he is mixing Sugababes, Vince Staples and a slew of dancehall, trap, grime and more together into a glorious, fun-filled hour of bangers.

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, it is technically spring, with summer on the way. With that in mind, here's Birmingham's DJ Surgery—who unsurprisingly cites Heartless Crew and DJ EZ as influences—with a dual between UK funky and straight up house, with just a dash of UKG for good measure.

Here comes J(ay).A.D. with possibly the hardest mix of the week. When the footwork sections are considered to be the intro, or even one of the mix's calmer moments, you know you're in for a heavy duty one. From there we get frantic jungle and hardcore breaks, caustic bass lines and thundering kick drums. Expect jungle, techno, acid, grime and all manners of bass music courtesy of J:Kenzo, Chimpo, Machinedrum and Congo Natty. No surprise, then, that Cosmic Bridge boss Om Unit brought him into the CBD fold.

Tonight, Triangulum boss DJ Cable will be going B2B with Dullah Beatz at Fabric for the BDL takeover with Big Narstie. Warming us up nicely in advance, Cable begins with his Ghostly collab "In 'Ere" (with the MC also closing the mix with "Bits"), moving swiftly through bangers old and new, including Narstie's "BDL Anthem", Darkness' "Arrogant Stance" posse cut, Ghetts' "Ya Dun Know Already" and more. To be quite honest, every last tune is a highlight so we'll leave it there or we'll be here all day. Just pree below, please.