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.

First up this week is Australia's Air Max '97 with a mix of atmospherics, club heaters and a few bits in between. Besides Daft Punk, a Kelela remix and Dreezy and DeJ Loaf's "Serena", most of this will probably be unknown, but with an actual tracklist to speak of, that just means you can sink a bit more of your wages into new music this month.

In between production work on Kelela's next album, Night Slugs co-founder Bok Bok has also started a new mix series: Essentials. This, the first edition, was made available for streaming and free download by a brand new website, so it's probably safe to say we'll be seeing a few more of these in the near future. The opening gambit doesn't disappoint either, taking in the myriad sounds from the bleeding-edge of club music that Bok Bok has always championed. It's cohesive, well-thought-out and, most importantly, gets the feet moving nice and quick. Make sure you keep an eye out for the next volume.

Between his duties as boss of Ten Thousand Yen, Doc Daneeka's found the time to put together a mix of tracks showing us where he's at creatively right now. Ostensibly house and techno, there's still a lot of character in this one, shown most vividly via his own productions, though contributions from compatriots Julio Bashmore and xxxy only add to the fun.

Late last year and early this year saw a burst of output from former Slew Dem button-pusher JT The Goon. Now, in 2016, he's got a full album (the incredible King Triton) and a few singles (the recent "Oil On Ice" ranks highly on our list) and no doubt a healthy stock of unreleased tracks to take his sets beyond. We say "no doubt", but he definitely does. You can hear a lot of them in this mix, which is almost entirely composed of his own productions (Edgem is him alongside Dullah Beatz and Boylan) so the only tracks that aren't Goon cuts are "One Chance" and "New Motive" from Dullah. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about, start here and pay close attention to the tracklist—you'll need it when you hit up the online music shops later.

Queens-based rapper Anik Khan's mix doesn't sound particularly "New York"—mainly because it's so global as to have no particular geographical root. Where else would you find Indian composer A. R. Rahman, Nigeria's Wizkid, Toronto's Majid Jordan, and our very own M.I.A all in the one place? If listening to this leaves you hungry for more of his work, you might want to track down his recent "Too Late Now" single produced by Soulection's Jarreau Vandal.

Often found playing B2B sets with Jackmaster, here Jasper James is stepping out on his own. The past 12 months have been pretty huge for James, with club promoters and festival organisers falling over themselves to have a set from the Glaswegian selector. It's been a long time coming too. Though it looks like a "meteoric rise", he's more than put the work in during the decade since he first started out. As is often the case, there's no tracklist here so this one goes out to all the track ID gods.

Generally speaking, DJ sets are at their best when the crowd and DJ are completely in sync; feeding off one another and pushing each other to the next level. This has never been so evident than in this set from Lotic. Within seconds of his first selection, the crowd is utterly besotted and in the palm of his hands. From there, he takes them (and us) on one hell of a ride, spanning the farthest reaches of club music, hip-hop and R&B. It's beautiful, weird, at times terrifying, but utterly thrilling. Special mention has to be given to the industrial remix of Britney's "Toxic" in the final 10 minutes.

Lorenzo BITW, occasional Classical Trax collaborator, has played a significant role in supporting the musical outlet, and for no other reason than because he believes in it. This passion, this drive to support music for music's sake, is soaked into everything the Italian DJ and producer does. This mix in particular is brimming over with enthusiasm, wildness and—of course—laudible ability. As this mix proves in spades, it's no surprise his rowdy selections have caught the ear of Marcus Nasty, Murlo and Keysound bosses Dusk & Blackdown.