Mix Up Look Sharp: The Best Mixes Of The Week

A carnival warm-up, a new project from Mr. Mitch and Yamaneko, and a ton of low end badness.

Mixes Of The Week
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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, 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.

Yaroze Dream Suite's 'Yaroze Dream' Mix

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For the past year, Mr. Mitch and the inconspicuous Yamaneko have been hard at work on their debut EP as Yaroze Dream Suite. With a release date now confirmed for October (via Local Action), this mix is the very first utterance from the duo and a primer for what's to come. Featuring a few tracks we're assuming will be on the new EP, as well as some edits of other artists, this should get you really excited for they have in store.

Late Replies' 'August Bank Holiday' Mix

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After tearing the roof off Egg last week, we had to share this latest one from Late Replies. If you're in London, chances are your bank holiday is going to revolve solely around dancehall, bashment, soca and every other form of music to come out of Jamaica. If that's not your thing, or if you just need a house and techno break, you'd do well to take this one in.

Tarquin's Mix For Acid Fantasy

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Close ally of Coyote Records' T_A_M, Tarquin's steadily building a reputation on the outer reaches of club music alongside affiliates and allies like T_A_M, Strict Face, Teki Latex and labels like Local Action, Boxed, Gobstopper and the rest. With a show at The Alibi in Dalston on Sept. 26 (alongside Mr. Mitch, Lloyd SB and the Acid Fantasy gang), get in the mood for a night in East with a selection of riotous, industrial club tracks with a more than a few sprinkles of bashment, dancehall and soca thrown in to make it really pop.

DJ Q's Mix For i-D

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With his t q d project alongside Royal-T and Flava D blowing up on a global level, we haven't heard that much from DJ Q on his own recently. Ahead of Croatia's Outlook Festival next month, where Q will be joined by Angel Haze, CASisDEAD, Zed Bias, Flowdan, AJ Tracey, Hatcha and Riz La Teef, he's put together this mix of low-end dancefloor mortars.

Cooly G's Mix For Data Transmission

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Producer, singer, DJ and Hyperdub stalwart Cooly G has been consistently turning out some of the most exciting and absorbing club tracks since day one. This time she's come with a predominantly house set laced with moments of techno and plenty of grooves. Roska, S.K.T., Chris Lorenzo, Carnao Beats and half a dozen of her own productions provide just some of the highlights.

Finn And Riz La Teef's B2B Mix

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Last month Finn kicked off his B2B series of mixes with UNIIQU3, a hyper-enegetic exercise in genre-bending. Now he's back with Radar badman and "acetate king" Riz La Teef. Featuring every possible shade of bleeding edge club music, from grime to bashment to R&B and several indescribable sounds in between, Finn and Riz throw in classics and deep cuts from Ruff Sqwad, Dizzee Rascal and even squeeze in an a cappella of "Shorty Swing My Way". Perfect.

Legowelt's Mix For Thump

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The intergalactic synth emperor that is Danny "Legowelt" Wolfers is back at it again with sleazy house, futuristic EBM, techno funk and plenty of global heat. One of his more varied mixes, which we don't say lightly.

Mixpak's 'In Session' Mix For Mixmag

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With Notting Hill Carnival kicking off this weekend, we had to put at least one dancehall mix in here—and who better to get you warmed up than Mixpak, the crew who demonstrated one of the most resounding victories in the history of Red Bull Culture Clash? In their words, "It's a hi NRG Caribbean-influenced mix (all above 120bpm), so a lot of Jamaican tracks but also some Trini, Dominican and UK vibes inside."

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