Mix Up Look Sharp: The Best Mixes Of The Week

Cosmic disco jams, mutant grime and unashamedly joyful '80s classics.

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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.

Faze Miyake's Mix For Best Before C4

With the "Ice Cold" video still fresh in our minds and an appearance at Disclosure and Rudimental's WILDLIFE Festival this weekend, here's a new mix of predominantly grimey bangers, though most of them have been fed through Faze's icey sci-fi filter.

Illum Sphere's Mix For Dekmantel

Illum Sphere's Manchester-based Hoya:Hoya night has a well-earned respect in electronic music as one of the wildest, unpretentiously fun club nights the UK has ever seen. So too is its impressive stock of residents that have over the years included Jon K, Krystal Klear and LEVELZ button-pusher Jonny Dub. This one's as eclectic as ever; gloomy, happy, light, dark, cold, sexy—it's quite a ride.

Alia Loren's Mix For Boiler Room

Up there with the best, Alia Loren's Tuesday afternoon show on Radar Radio has become a must-listen for grime heads, especially those wanting to hear from the new generation of MCs. She's well versed in her grime history too (listen out for Crazy T's "Singalong"), but the star of this mix is the chopped-up grime mix of "This Is How We Do It". Aside from those two classics, the spotlight is definitely on the new generation—producers and MCs alike.

Mall Grab's Mix For i-D

Since summer is upon us, in all its unpredictable but mostly blisteringly hot glory, everyone's starting to lighten up a bit and we're starting to hear some more upbeat mixes. One producer who's responsible for such mixes is Mall Grab, whose sultry single "Can't (Get You Outta My Mind)" is getting a lot of attention at the moment, and with good reason. This mix essentially collects together a lot of the sounds that must have inspired the single: disco, jackin' house, funk, minimalism and new wave. Save this for when the very hottest point of the day.

Slimzee's Mix For Dazed

Slimzee's reputation proceeds him. Countless words have been written about his tremendous influence in grime. Right from the very start of his career, Slimzee has been the DJ of choice for any MC lucky enough to work with him. A patron of the new school as much as the old, he readily pairs up with the likes of Big Zuu and AJ Tracey just as much as the Wileys and P Moneys of the world. Check this one out ahead of his appearance at Field Day this weekend.

Low Steppa's Mix For This Ain't Bristol

Ahead of an as-yet-untitled upcoming EP for German label This Ain't Bristol (we got a taste this week with the Bot-featuring "This Is"), Low Steppa delivers yet another inscrutable collection of bass-heavy house. It sounds like such a simple formula but it really is a beautiful, beautiful combination. 

Will Saul's Mix For Solid Steel Radio

Will Saul, the man behind Simple Music and AUS Music, is here with the first two hours of a recent warm-up set he performed at Culture Box in Copenhagen. Think cool, uplifting funk and disco slowly mutating into light and breezy house music. This one's definitely heaven-sent for the crazy sun we've been having, less so for the rain. "Despite it being recorded in a sweaty dark room," he said. "I think the vibe is pretty summery..."

Inkke's Mix For Turban

At just over 20 minutes, it's a quick one from Inkke this time. Limiting himself to just nine tracks, the Glaswegian producer uses every single one perfectly, book-ending the mix with two AJ Tracey vocals: Silk Road Assassins' remix of Last Japan and AJ's "Ascend" and Dave and AJ's "Thiago Silva". Sick as they are though, it's Katie Pearl's vocal version of "Ghetto Koyote" that wins out.

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