TRENCH Radio: 10 Of The Best Mixes This Week

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.

First up, DJ Ayaya joined Balamii resident ELISE for a two-hour session, starting with some warming R&B slow jams before flipping the script with some bumpy garage and funky classics; Uganadan selector Kampire threaded together a range of Afro-house, Amapiano and the club sounds emanating from East Africa; DJ Coco Em, once described as "Nairobi's Hardest Hustling DJ", threaded together a far-reaching mix of pan-African influences with a jumpy, 4x4 framework; the mighty Jamz Supernova shared her long overdue Essential Mix from last month, summoning the full gamut of her club palette, stirring in house music, UK funky, gqom and plenty more besides; Sarah Farina introduced us to what she calls 'Rainbow Bass', a high velocity cocktail of footwork, house music, D&B, electro and more; Berlin's Moodrich whipped up a storm of breaks, D&B, footwork, electro and threw in a couple of his own tunes for good measure; LCY doled out yet more surprises with a session that went from deep and moody beats to jazzy electro funk to hip-hop and back again; samuel RD blended grime, rap and drill, including a couple of woozy, head-spinning twists on some recent UK rap slammers; DJ Argue served up a pure grime set that leant into the darker, sludgier end of the spectrum; and, finally, dubstep veteran Youngsta took us back in time with 60 straight minutes of dubby, bubbly steppers.

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