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, 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.

Sturdy, reliable and not the least bit predictable: it's Murlo, back with another wad of bangers.

Last night DJ Haram played her debut set in London, spinning the kind of club-crushing, genre-melting weapons you can find inside this mix. A Philly native, naturally there's a gluttonous portion of her native club music, but mixed in with that is noise, techno, funk and—because Haram's tastes are impeccable—a Whitney Houston edit.

Anyone who gets the stamp of approval from Enchufada and The Astral Plane is as close to a safe bet as you can get. If you like your club music with an Angolan or kuduro swing, you urgently need to get to know Londoner Mina. As with her Kabala EP, this one's a glorious bend of clattering percussion, hands-in-the-air melodies and gut-punching bass. Extra props for the "Drunk In Love" bootleg too.

Coming out of the rich creative hub that is Glasgow, Rapture 4D is one of the city's few grime DJ/producers—though he still carries the profound affinity with all forms of boundary-pushing club music. While he steadily makes a name for his productions, keep in mind his DJ mixes. This one, for example, features all instrumentals—a lot of which are the good, solid kind of stuff you'd expect—but in between that he's thrown in Underworld's "Born Slippy". Because why not?

Brutal, concrete club experiments here from Switzerland-based SHALT. Having only released his debut EP, Acheron, in January of this year, SHALT's done a remarkable amount to craft a unique identity with his music. This mix, for example, shows an artist fully confident in his sound and direction. Pushing the very definitions of club music, SHALT's latest mix does at times sway more towards abrasion and noise, but there's still some super hard dancefloor moments courtesy of Air Max '97, Endgame and Celestial Trax.

Throughout Ben Sims' two-decade career, he's become predominantly known for uncompromising techno sets, taking the sound to its limits in every direction. What's less known about Sims, however, is his deep, burning love for roots and reggae. Here is spinning together his favourite dubs and versions.

Forget the papers, this year's Notting Hill Carnival was incredible. The weather (pretty much) held out, the rum flowed and the music was better than ever. If like us you're still not over it, take in this lethal dancehall and bashment mix from Kingstonian duo Equiknoxx.

Safer At Night boss and Berlin resident Curses has always been an outlier in dance music. Always taking the road less travelled, Luca Venezia has gone from breakcore to glitch to grime to electro to house, with a few other stops in between. With his new EP Death Of Fear out now, Curses delivers a synth-heavy voyage through the '80s (via a couple of tracks from this year) in an hour-long mix that should surely scratch an itch or two for those currently going mad for the glorious Stranger Things soundtrack.