Mix Up Look Sharp: The Best Mixes Of The Week

Carnival grime, '90s rave and positive vibes.

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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, bass, grime, trap, techno and R&B—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.

Spooky's 'A Carnival Affair' Mix

"The sort of set I would kinda play on a carnival float or something," he wrote in the description on SoundCloud, "not that I've ever been booked to play a set at carnival. But w/e. Enjoy the vibes." 

Someone get Spooky his own float at Notting Hill Carnival this year. Seriously. Make it happen.

Earl Jeffers' Mix For Hyponik

In the wake of his recent EP Gloria on Ten Thousand Yen, Cardiff producer Earl Jeffers mixes up relative unknowns with more seasoned veterans like Louie Vega (who closes the mix with his iconic collaboration with Alexander Hope, "The Elements Of Life"), Mike Delgado and Bugz In The Attic.

Mr. Mitch's 'Devotion' Mix

It's been just over a year and a half since Mr. Mitch released the genuinely game-changing Parallel Memories album and we've still got half the album stuck in our heads. While we're most definitely hankering for a follow-up, his brilliant Peace edits and live sets have just about sustained us in the interim. If you're as keen as us for more Mr. Mitch productions, give this new mix a whirl to get a load of some mind-melting cuts from the likes of Logos, Murlo, Gundam, Finn, Yamaneko and a couple of his own productions to tide you over. And make sure you catch him at the next Boxed party at Phonox on Aug. 5.

Dro Carey's Mix For Tobago Tracks

Taking his turn contributing a mix to the ever-growing series from club experimentalists Tobago Tracks, Dro Carey uses the opportunity to explore the a range of experimental club sounds that could loosely fit into the slightly mercurial category that is the hardcore continuum. Ultimately, what that means is a fluid, constantly evolving collection of atmospherics, heavy bass and clattering percussion—perfect Tobago Tracks fodder.

Bianca Oblivion's Mix For Eros Mortis

Inspired by "QT internet vibe[s], lots of synths, pitched-up, girly vocals", Club Aerobics' Bianca Oblivion has just delivered an adrenaline rush of club mayhem, the likes of which surge through the veins of her sets and those of her CA family (see: fellow CA co-founders Ducky and Suspect Bitch). Featuring dancefloor sledgehammers from Charlie XCX, GRRL, R3ll, Distal and Carpainter, if you haven't found yourself sweating yourself inside out at a Club Aerobics night then c'mon, a flight to L.A. doesn't cost that much.

Martyn Flyn (LuckyMe)'s Mix For Resident Advisor

We can't give LuckyMe and their extensive family enough credit for what they've done for electronic music in the UK, so it's heartening to see them spotlighted by Resident Advisor. With co-founder Martyn Flyn handling mixing duties, we're taken on an atmospheric journey through eccentric club tracks, hi-definition pop weirdness and all-out bangers, with plenty of label exclusive to boot. Keep an ear out for beasts from Lunice, Inkke, Claude Speeed and Baauer.

Rushmore's Mix For Dazed

With his debut album, Ours After, right around the corner (July 29), Trax Couture bossman Rushmore has wheeled out this brand new mix of club trax. It's predominantly a Rushmore affair, with his own productions forming the bulk of the tracklist, but in between that he's brought in cuts from DJ NK, Liquid City Motors, DJ Mika and a couple of collabs between Pininga and Venus X, and Deadboy and Santa Muerte. If you ever made it down to the House Of Trax club night he ran with Fools in London then this should go some way to filling the void it left behind.

Thee Mike B's '90s Rave' Mix For IHEARTCOMIX

Ahead of his appearance at IHEARTCOMIX's next show at a secret location (presumably somewhere in L.A.) tomorrow night (July 30), party-crushing lunatic Thee Mike B has dipped into the raving days of yore for a hedonistic, hands-in-the-air hour of power that includes Fat Boy Slim, early Daft Punk, DJ Funk and Planet Soul's "Set You Free"—because how could you not?

Vibe Positive's 'Music To Change Negative Vibes Into Positive Ones' Mix For i-D

Sydney's Vibe Positive giving us precisely what his name suggests with more-or-less the complete gamut of house music, from soulful vocal tracks to techy minimalism and tribal thunder. It's all here and all blended effortlessly for a true DJ journey.

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