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.

Ghosts On Tape's 'April 2016' Mix

San Francisco's Ghosts On Tape new mix, just like his own productions (particularly tracks like "Only Now" and "Snake Box"), is built primarily around rhythm. Primal though it sounds, the pulsing rhythms are as cerebral as they are danceable. If this gets you going, check out his Icee Hot label for more brain-tickling beat productions from the likes of Lando Kal, Vin Sol and Matrixxman.

Walton's 'WALTONMIX002'

Responsible for some stellar releases on some of the finest labels Britain has to offer, Hyperdub, Tectonic and Keysound, Walton's key strength is the precise balance of house and techno with bass-led sounds like UKG and instrumental grime. Feeling at once painstakingly arranged and utterly free, this is a selector in his prime.

Chaams' Mix For GetMe!

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When we first told you about French producer Chaams it was to bring you his Eski-tinged Achieve The Balance EP. But, as this percussion-heavy mix shows, Chaams has a crazy number of strings to his bow. Sure, there's still a healthy dose of grime, but alongside that sits bassline, hardcore, Baile funk, hip-hop and a whole heap more. 

Teddy Music's 'Checkpoint 1' Mix

Hopefully the "1" means this will be the first of many, because this showcase of up-to-the-minute grime bangers is utterly spot on, with a balance of unknowns and grime legends. If Teddy Music does continue with a Checkpoint series, we're sure he'll have more than enough material to work with. A reminder, if one were needed, of just how incredible grime is right now.

Ital Tek's Mix For Solid Steel Radio

It was a tough call choosing between this and this week's counterpart from Mike Paradinas, but Brighton's Ital Tek just won out with his driving rhythms, glowering atmospherics and taut balance of laser focus and wild experimentation. Fans of Planet Mu, Warp, Hyperdub and the like would do well to check this one out.

Double Clapperz's Mix For The Astral Plane

Heavyweight duo Double Clapperz, aka Shintaro Yonezawa & Kodai Ukawa from Tokyo, could be the city's best kept secret. That's not likely to be the case for long because, alongside Trekkie Trax and the Butterz Japan outpost, they're making some serious waves both in Japan and abroad. If this has left you itching for more, start with "Say Your Prayers VIP", their tropical-tinged contribution to Trekkie Trax's second Top Billin comp "Last Nite Boogie", or basically any of their live sets—trust us, they're beyond wild.

Endgame's Mix For FACT

If you don't know Endgame, Bala Club co-founder and host of NTS Radio's Precious Metals show, you really ought to. Concerning himself primarily with the slower end of the club spectrum, that's about the only restriction he imposes upon himself. Here he draws together 100BPM heaters from very disparate worlds (you're unlikely to hear Nelly Furtado and Lotic in the same mix for a while) to give us a club-ready, industrial hip-hop blend.

Drokkr's Mix For FatKidOnFire

Possibly the heaviest of this week's picks—heavier, even, than the Double Clapperz mix—comes from Cork's Drokker. Only the darkest grime and dubstep cuts made it into this one from the Irish DJ and producer, but there's a large serving of breaks and just about anything else with noisy low-end. Look out for head-splitters from Starkey, Murlo, Darq E Freaker (with Danny Brown), Northbase, J:Kenzo, Plastiican and more.

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