SoundCloud (while it still lives) can be an impenetrable, infinite stream of music, often of varying quality. You need a soundtrack to start your weekend right, but you don't have the requisite lifetime to trawl through the week's new DJ mixes. To help you out, we've done the busy work for you. We'll be running this series every single Friday of every single week to bring you the very finest in house, grime, techno, bashment, R&B, trap, D&B and no doubt a bunch of extremely trendy stuff that doesn't have a name yet.

Kicking things off this week is Ralph Hardy's NANG Girls with an eclectic mix of club sounds from rap to jazz and a few bits in between; dubstep and UKG legend EL-B dropped some speaker-blowing ammo; First Word label boss DJ Gilla collected together a colourful selection of R&B, house music, hip-hop, disco and more to brighten up our weekends; Cosmic Bridge boss and Metalheadz affiliate Om Unit sent us through the darkest recesses of his record bag; and finally, multi-disciplined Brooklynite Abyss X fused together ambient, techno, noise, hardcore and more for a thrilling trip through oblivion.

This is TRENCH Radio's best mixes of the week.