Mix Up Look Sharp: The Best Mixes Of The Week

Noisy R&B, a lot of grime and a mix from the guys behind the 'Stranger Things' soundtrack.

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.

Jamz Supernova's Mix For The FADER

Jamz Supernova

We've featured a Jamz Supernova mix before and we'll no doubt feature plenty in the future. The 1Xtra selector and Future Bounce boss is a consistent source of inspired selections. With the next Future Bounce night approaching (Oct. 7), where she'll be joined by Wize and Ozzie, dive into this mix of R&B-infused carnival bangers, including some unexpected edits of Beyonce, Kanye and Sampha.

Pixelord's Mix For i-D

Pixelord

Gameboy and Windows 95 enthusiast, Pixelord has been plugging away at his idiosyncratic sounds—a sound that hit the current climate right on the nose without following any one movement or scene. Now, with his second abum, Human.exe, out today, he's put together this teasing mix of influences like Aphex Twin alongside a few cuts from the album and one or two unreleased gems.

S U R V I V E's Mix For FACT

S U R V I V E

Everyone who watched Stranger Things rightly became immediately obsessed with the soundtrack. Weirdly, however, it's taken a minute for people to cotton on to who actually scored the '80s-drenched synth masterpiece. Well, S U R V I V E is that band and they were recently tapped up for a DJ mix. Inside you'll find a woozy, atmospheric roll-call of the artists who led them down their current path. From Electric Light Orchestra and the Beatniks to Legowelt and Yellow Magic Orchestra, it's a super well-informed delve into the finest synth music from the past few decades.

Teki Latex's '100% Radio Hits' Mix

Teki Latex

In Teki's own words: "It's a love letter to the bootleg days, the Hollertronix days, the Radio Soulwax days, the DJ Spinbad days, hope you like it. It's the feeling of listening to Radio Nostalgie in an Uber at night combined with the feeling of listening to Rinse FM on a Sunday in 2010."

Sir Hiss' Mix For Italdred

Sir Hiss

Consisting almost entirely of unreleased tracks, here's emerging DJ and producer Sir Hiss. It's an impressive list of dubs, including tunes from Gundam, Lemzy Dale, Wiley, Hi5 Ghost and more. Besides that there's refixes, bootlegs and remixes of Jammz, Murlo, Dot Rotten and more in what is a pretty out-there voyage through grime. Keen an eye on Sir Hiss.

GHSTGHSTGHST's Mix For Resonate Sounds

GHSTGHSTGHST

Rapidly ascending GHSTGHSTGHST packs a lot into this half-hour mix. Straight-up grime bangers and classics abound, this is why everyone wants him on their radio show.

Dviance's Mix For The Astral Plane

Industrial hip-hop, caustic dancehall, abrasive R&B and a track from the Final Fantasy X soundtrack, this Dviance shows the Lyon-born producer to be a somewhat of an outsider. Mix with that the elements of noise, hardstyle and even more experimental sounds and you can see why places like Halcyon Veil and Radar Radio's Absolute Zero have made such good fits for him.

Curses' Mix For The Ransom Note

Curses

It's hard not to love Luca "Curses" Venezia, the whole rockabilly vampire in Studio 54 vibe, the astonishing progression in his music and the clearly defined personality he pours into his music all go towards explaining why he's enjoyed such a fruitful career. From the early days, before even Trouble & Bass, when he was making glitch and breakcore as Drop The Lime, Venezia was marking himself out from the crowd, looking in the opposite direction. Now, a decade and a bit later, his Curses persona is adding a rare sense of narrative to house and techno. Take this latest mix, for example, the set's built more like a soundtrack than a DJ mix, building tension and flipping expectations throughout. DJs, take note.

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