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.

Hipsters Don't Dance, aka Kazabon and Hootie Who, have become infamous for their unpretentious, well-crafted events as well as their ever-brilliant Radar show. If you've somehow managed to miss them, take a listen to this cocktail of Afrobeats, soca, dancehall and anything else that knocks in a club, all under the banner of what they call World Carnival, for a taste of what you can expect from them on radio and in the club.

A scant number of DJs do funk quite like Sound Pellegrino don Teki Latex. Here we see him mash together happy hardcore, trance, techno, '90s dance classics and—in a fit of brilliance—​Glaswegian comedian Limmy's hilarious and brain-fudging remix of the Benny Hill theme (check that out around the 16:21 mark).

Snoochie Shy, host of Radar's breakfast show, has put together this mix (with its own personal artwork designed by Xyrenn Maddox) of the kind of slap-a-smile-on-your-face bangers that you can hear on her show and in her club sets. As she explained, "this mix is all about feeling good. Having a dance, feeling positive about life! If you're feeling stressed—this one's for you!" Take a listen to hear Young Thug, Soulja Boy and Murlo's very, very excellent remix of AJ Tracey's "Naila".

Mexico's Lil Tantrum, whom you may remember from Classical Trax's Jamz Vol. 1, really ought to be your favourite producer/DJ by now. Her "Aggressor" was a taut, menacing bit of club music and a solid taste of what she's capable of, but getting to hear her on deck is truly something else—which is precisely why she's been featured in this very column several times. Nothing is off limits, everything bangs and she has an uncanny knack for jamming your rap and R&B favourites through the meat grinder only to emerge with something far superior to the original. Dembow remixes of R&B classics, a muddied Busta Rhymes and a very generous serving of dancehall sounds and reworkings—including a genuinely beautiful reworking of Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx's "I'll Take Care Of You".

If you're in London for P Money's Originators night at Fabric tonight (July 22), you're no doubt beyond gassed for the weighty line-up. Naturally, you can expect hours upon hours of grimey badness from P Money and the OGz, as well as Logan, Spyro, Capo Lee, Sian Anderson, Splurgeboys, A.G. and more. But it wouldn't be an Originators night if they didn't throw in a bit of jungle (see: Remarc) and D&B to keep the crowd at a frenzied high. Remarc will be bringing the former while Turno (assisted by Eksman) will bring the latter.Unsure of what that means? Take a listen to this grinding, pulsing act of D&B aggression and get ready for the heart palpitations.

Guttural low end, piercing metallic synths and all the manic, clattering club weapons you could possibly hope for from a Loom set.

Manchester's Trus'Me has, very clearly, been enraptured with classic house and techno (particularly that which emanates from Chicago and Detroit of course) for the longest time. You can see it for yourself in the Dreamscape-esque artwork for his fourth album Planet 4 and you can hear it in the painstakingly loving and respectful way he brings in Donna Summer's iconic "I Feel Love", stretching out Moroder's techy arpeggios for as long as is conceivably possible. Stretching out a single sound like that, focusing in on its nuances and making it arguably the mix's centrepiece has all the hallmarks of a DJ well-versed in the house and techno canon.

And now for this week's shamelessly exciting, hands-in-the-air moment: the latest mix from Rotterdam's Moods. Classic house, disco and funk all feature—by way of Kerri Chandler, Max Graef, Deee-Lite and Omari T—but special mention has to be given to his thoroughly elating remix of the Jackson 5's "Shake Your Body" effortlessly warped into Mr. Scruff's classic "Get A Move On".

Setting you up perfectly for that Ibiza holiday you probably can't afford but will go on anyway, the Eton Messy boys serve up a mix of house bangers sourced from their recent YouTube uploads. Look out for scorchers from Richy Ahmed, SYV, KC Lights, Pedestrian and Bodhi.