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.

Star.One's Mix For UMO

Grime duo and EDIT residents Star.One, responsible for this year's rousing protest anthem "The Saviour", have most definitely been on their mix grind since then. A joint tape with Jamz Supernova and K2RAH quickly followed the single, and now we've got this one. It's just Star.One taking control here, churning out grimey banger after grimey banger. 

Kidnap Kid's 'Moments' Mix For Clash

To mark the launch of his new label Birds That Fly, inventive house producer and DJ Kidnap Kid released his newest cut "Moments". And if that wasn't enough, he's put together a neat little house mix, featuring a smattering of his own productions mixed in with Pedestrian and Lancelot, as well as Four Tet's glorious CHVRCHES remix from the latter half of 2015.

Manara's Mix For The FADER

Night Slugs and Fade To Mind affiliate Manara has been making some powerful moves in the last 12 months. Having established BBC AZN Network alongside 2Shin and Sweyn Jupiter, she's also found a home at Radar Radio where she hosts a bi-weekly show covering the best, weirdest and most exciting club sounds around. If you still haven't acquainted yourself, tuck into this mix for a well-balanced selection of trap, grime, and Bollywood film soundtracks. 

JLSXND7RS' 'Skank!' Mix

Frequent collaborator with Trends and the producer behind Flirta D's "The Undertaker", JLSXND7RS comes with just under half an hour of devastating grimey bangers, including heat from Brakeman, Capo Lee, Sh?m, Rocks FOE, D.O.K, Teeza, Trends, Hi5ghost, Boofy, Jook, Rapture4D and more.

Plastician's Mix For Wavemob

He's known for championing a lot of different sounds, but for the past few months or so, Plastician's been flying the flag for a new sound called Wave, typified by dream-like electronics, a steady influence of hip-hop and, most importantly, no real desire that the music should be played in a club setting—meaning a lot of the tracks don't lend themselves well to mixing. Still, that hasn't stopped him putting together another selection from producers exploring the sound.

Dense & Pika's Mix For i-D

Dense & Pika, if you didn't know, are Hypercolour co-boss Alex Jones and Chris "Glimpse" Spero. Bound together by a steely, robotic funk that marches throughout the mix, Dense & Pika's brand of techno is at once dark, colourful, futuristic and loaded with primal groove, in spite of the pronounced industrial influence. For anyone (if such a person exists) that still has reservations about techno or just needs a way in, they'd do well to study this mix very closely and then make sure they acquire every single record included. 

Feloneezy's Mix For Get Some

Feloneezy, often seen behind the buttons with Jackie Dagger or DJ Paypal, first stepped into the footwork scene back when Planet Mu dropped their acclaimed Bangs & Works compilation. The story goes that after Teklife dons Spinn and Rashad played in Belgrade they were blown away by Dagger and Feloneezy's dedication to the Chi-town sound and immediately set about bringing them into the fold. As this mix shows, that was a very smart move.

Mark Radford's Mix For Audio Rehab

This week's final mix comes from Rinse regular Mark Radford with an hour of deep, bouncy tech-house with plenty of thump and enough melody to keep things interesting and thoroughly, thoroughly danceable. For more of this, make sure you catch him at Proud Camden over the Easter weekend.

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