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, Aberdeen's Vagrant Real Estate pulled together the very best of Channel U's golden era; rap encyclopaedia El Train delivered a calmingly soulful mix of classic hip-hop and R&B; style-oriented Dr. Banana served up an hour of stone cold garage classics; producer and selector J-One gave us a snapshot of some of his own 130-focused productions; LA/New Zealand pair Truth reminded us why proper dubstep is the gift that keeps on giving; Paris-based Chams gave us an exhilarating hour of free-flowing and adventurous club cuts; Glasgow's Rapture 4D ran through the full spectrum of everything grime can be; Reme of Chilean collective Martirio got us hot and sweaty with an hour of percussion-heavy Latin thunder; Madrid's Brava got us intimately familiar with the flourishing Perreo scene; and, finally, Peach Discs boss and NTS regular Shanti Celeste (pictured) took us to the outer reaches of the dancefloor with a dizzyingly energetic two-hour session.

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