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.

Kllo's Mix For Good Manners

Last week, when we brought you news of Australian electronic soul duo Kllo's "Bolide" video, we were pretty besotted with Chloe Kaul's deeply emotive voice and her cousin Simon Lam's rich and textured production style, particularly the way the two reacted to one another. Here we get to see a different side to the two artists as they take us down more of an instrumental route—​including Devonwho, Jamie xx and Kowton—though one which compliments and presumably informs their own sound.

Dinamo Azari's Mix For Clash

With the release of the remix package of Dinamo Azari's astonishing debut album Estranged—featuring reworkings by more than capable names like Carl Craig and Horse Meat Disco's Severino—still fresh in our memories, here's a recent mix of whipcrack house music and pumping, sweaty techno. Grab the aux from your driver and use this one to announce your arrival at the club.

Ave Astra's 'Shine A Light On' Mix For The Ransom Note

Take in some truly eclectic sounds with Istanbul-based DJ Ave Astra, as he takes us on a tour of the myriad sounds that course through Turkey's veins, including folk, funk and disco. Sitting at the heart of a burgeoning electronica scene that focuses on inclusiveness and global influences, you'd do well to check out his contemporaries and allies Khidja, Mehmet Aslan and Red Axes, as well as Astra's own Roit Recordings.

Darkos Strife's 'Selecta Strife' Mix

Darkos Strife is making serious waves at the minute. Much-talked about appearances on Radar and Spooky's Grime Show on Rinse as an MC could maybe make you forget that he's also an accomplished producer and DJ. This week he dropped the first installment of a new series of mixes called Selecta Strife. A purely instrumental effort, look out for red hot and brand new riddims as well as a few reworked classics.

DJ TiGa's Mix For The FADER

Last week, New Jersey club monster and former Brick Bandits man DJ TiGa dropped his huge The Sound Vol. 1 mixtape on J-Cush's Lit City Trax. A heart-racing collection of choppy beats and thundering bass lines, The Sound Vol. 1 is making a lot of people sit up and take note of the name DJ TiGa. If you're not quite familiar with Jersey club and and how it differs from (and overlaps with) its sister styles from Baltimore and Philadelphia, you'd do well to check this one out as it spans all three cities with appearances from masters like Rod Lee, DJ Sega, KW Griff, DJ Tameil and, naturally, a few of TiGa's own remixes and bootlegs.

Betty's Mix For The Astral Plane

If you caught Betty Bensimon, alongside Teki Latex and Local Action boss Tom Lea, on Radar Radio last week (or on Boiler Room, Overdrive Infinity or Rinse France) you'll probably have an idea of what's in store. Or not, to be honest. Her collaborative set with the two TLs last week had so many twists, turns and curveballs you may very well have no idea what to expect (another spin of her new calling card, "Do The Bartman"?). To give you a rough idea, this time round she's dropping bass-heavy club monsters of a few different varieties, but always shrewdly selected and often from unexpected sources.

Sh?m's Mix For Fabriclive

In a very small space of time, Sh?m has been responsible for an impressive number of grimey bangers. First we had his soon-to-be classic instrumental "Slap", then he worked his magic on AJ Tracey's massive "Spirit Bomb" and then, just a few weeks ago, he came out all guns blazing with the Mob Boss EP, a personal favourite here at Complex UK. Naturally, his mixes are just as tough. In the producer's own words: "I make tunes with big build ups and grimey drops with disgusting basslines but I also make chill stuff with warm, lush sounds."

DJ Cable's 'The Best Of Kanye West' Mix

Triangulum boss DJ Cable may primarily be known as a grime DJ (owing to his regular radio appearances and tough-as-hell collabs with the likes of Goldfinger, Ghostly and Mez), but occasionally it needs repeating that the Essex-born producer is also a hip-hop encyclopedia with faultless tastes. So who better to give us a clued-up retrospective of Yeezy? Precisely. You know what's in store, so stop wasting time and dig in.

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