Mix Up Look Sharp: The Best Mixes Of The Week

Local Action's Yamaneko, Jersey Club Kween UNiiQU3 and Bad Taste Records boss Lean Low all tested the limits of club music this week

Mixes Of The Week
Complex Original

None

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, bass, grime, trap, techno and R&B—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.

 

Yamaneko's Mix For Boiler Room

Yamaneko  (Credit: Arianna Power)

Every set at Boiler Room's recent Local Action-curated event was a journey, making it difficult to pick out a clear winner. For us however, Yamaneko pulled out in front with a set that mixed underground club heat, UK garage and genuinely stunning ambient sections. Check it out below and look into the rest of the night's sets, including Murlo, D∆WN, Machinedrum and label boss Tom Lea.

UNiiQU3's Mix For i-D

UNiiQU3

There's no tracklist for this one from Jersey Club Kween UNiiQU3, but the opening Jersey club remix of Khaled's "I Got The Keys" sets the tone firmly for just under a half hour of choppy breaks, frenetic rap bangers and lots of underground club edits.

Sebastian MDH's Mix For Housekeeping

Sebastian MDH

Ahead of the next Housekeeping event at Koko at the end of the month, resident Sebastian MDH put together this mix of relentless, thumping tech-house. Once again, there's no tracklist so put that desire for a track ID out of your mind and get lost in this hour-long session.

Lean Low's 'ILL' Mix For Discobelle

Lean Low

The releases of Bad Taste Records boss Lean Low are pretty difficult to pin down. Zelda's Werkout featured heavy doses of 8-bit grime and it's predecessor, She Shoots To Kill, was a spectrum of underground club sounds, and before that was Medina, a brutal assault of heavy grime instrumentals. This latest mix here is no different, spanning dancehall, footwork, grime, bashment, kuduro and a slew of edited sounds from across the globe.

Brenmar's 'Grey Zone Vo. 4' Mix

Brenmar

Brenmar's Grey Zone mixes have proved consistently brilliant sources of surefire bangers. Each volume has straddled the worlds of hip-hop, grime, R&B and trap with noticeable cohesion. Consider each one a sort of 'Best of Right Now' mix. This one, for example, features some of the biggest bangers alongside new and slept on cuts that are waiting to do similar damage, with tunes from Quavo, Murder He Wrote, Cashmere Cat, UNiiQU3, Mura Masa & A$AP Rocky, and our very own Donae'O.

Latest in Music