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.

Primarily know for his fruitful partnership with Kahn and as one quarter of Bandulu, Neek's talent as a selector in his own right is now to be ignored. Featuring a few from the Bandulu camp (including some enticing cuts from the next two O$VMV$M EPs), Rabit, Ishan Sound and Dean Blunt, this one's a laid-back, thoughtful mix of hip-hop, grime, out-there electronica and club experiments.

According to Oki-Ni, the full title of the mix should ready "The Redemption of Josey Wales: A hustler's hallucinogenic journey to the black land and beyond." Gaika explains that this mix was designed to follow the brilliant (though he calls it cliched) tradition of DJ mixes taking you on a journey. We're told the mix lays out the story of renowned outlaw Josey Wales as a sequel to the classic western The Outlaw Josey Wales. Well, not quite. It actually picks up Wales' story 150 years on as he awakens to find himself in the trap and "forced to regulate all over again", all told via hip-hop, R&B and grime. He concluded: "I wanted to accompany this with a $0 budget film using my phone and some cool hats, but I haven't got time. I hope someone does, preferably after-hours somewhere", which would be frankly amazing.

Here's your peak moment everyone: 45 minutes of house and techno from Croydon don Hatcha, building up gradually towards a punishing 4x4 crescendo.

Sound Pellegrino frontman (and former TTC rapper) Teki Latex has always nestled himself in the outer reaches of dance music. Even at the height of the French electro goldrush, Teki always resisted making mainstream bangers, opting instead to immerse himself in the fringes. That appears to have paid off as, long after the scene's downturn, Teki Latex is here and sounding stronger than ever. In this latest mix, the French DJ/producer brings together house, techno, Miami bass, grime and the weirdest club music possible in a glorious union.

Here's one to get you fired up for the weekend: nearly two and a half hours of Bronx house dons The Martinez Brothers spinning a wide and varied range of house, funk and disco rumblers (including a generous helping of Michael Jackson), all recorded live at the recent launch party for their New Era collaboration.

At just eleven tracks in 30 minutes, Mexican DJ Omaar's mix is certainly brief, but that just gives the music the chance to breathe and for that vast low end to expand into the farthest reaches of your brain. Like his own productions, Omaar takes influence from grime but places a greater emphasis on space, throwing in a couple of devil mixes in along the way for good measure. It also leaves absolutely zero room for anything but the best tracks at his disposal—hence the inclusion of Breakage's recent collaboration with Newham Generals and David Rodigan as well as three cuts from Asa & Sorrow. 

A few figures stand at the vanguard of Jersey club—figures like DJ Sliink, R3ll and the originator, DJ Tameil. When Jersey club first broke out in the late '90s DJ Tameil and his Brick Bandits crew were right there at the earliest stages, showing everyone what could be done with a drum pattern and vocal loop. Now that Jersey seems to have stood the test of time, Tameil's brand of fast-paced club music is more popular than ever.

Following the release of the Stopwatch EP, it didn't take long for Murder He Wrote to be tapped up for a mix. To say it's chock-full of bangers would be an understatement; UK garage sits alongside weapons-grade bassline, tropical house, UK funky and more. There's no track list yet, so make sure you head to SoundCloud to pester him into posting one.