Thanks to the contrasting sounds of gqom and Amapiano, South African’s club experiments have rightly been held up as some of the best things to have happened to our dance floors. As Abantu boss Charisse C showed us in her debut sessions for NTS, there’s plenty more to the country’s thriving and constantly-evolving club culture. At time soothing, at others percussive and invigorating, it’s a solid gold distraction from the encroaching cold.

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Benteki’s long-standing slot on Reprezent usually fits around the core elements of grime, garage, funky (and a few extra bits), but here he teams up with Night Slugs and AP Life boss Bok Bok to raise the tempo with some more club-focused sounds. There’s B’more, ragga, speed garage, breaks and some wild remixes and bootlegs to keep the adrenaline pumping.

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Oblig’s Friday night show has been an essential part of the week for fans of grime, drill, rap and club music. A master at finding unexpected connections between them all, his show marks the official start of the weekend. Riding solo this week, Oblig steamed through two straight hours of freshness from M1llionz, Rocks FOE, and Duppy, before throwing in a dubplate that really does need to be heard to be believed.

Croydon FM stalwart Nammy Was has had an unreal year. His weekly radio show’s gone from strength to strength and we’ve also seen what he can do in the studio, first with the Paradise South collection of instrumental drill on AP Life, and then again when he teamed up with MIC to produce the You Can Achieve Anything EP. The latter still held a lot of those drill elements, but it also mixed in the kind of futuristic electronics, grime and club textures that make his Croydon FM slot such a wild and constantly surprising ride.

Criminally, there are still some people out there who know Dillinja only as the guy who did “Grimey” and “Twist Em Out”. Whether you fall into that category or you’re already familiar with his three decades of excellence, this two-hour deep dive is a treat. Dev/Null takes the first hour, running through his early ‘90s output before DJ Persuasion picks up the baton to take us up to 2002. Touching on material from aliases like Capone, Cybotron, Suburban Knights, Basic Influence and the rest, it’s an exhaustive and thrilling journey.

An absolute menace on the decks, Tim Reaper has been cutting through for a while and often held up as one of the leading lights in the so-called ‘jungle revival’. Whether jungle ever went away in the first place is a debate for another day (it didn’t), but thanks to sets like this, which smudge the lines between jungle, breakbeat and classic UK hardcore, the scene is in incredible shape.

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Ever since Brighton producer Rikki van Berkel switched from RVB to Drumwork, there’s been a noticeable uptick in his energy. The name change brought with it a focus on UK funky and, as the name suggests, the more percussive elements of sound system culture. This latest mix is the first in a planned series of to sit alongside his Front Left events. In the future, he says, the series will include live sets and mixes from himself and likeminded artists. To get the ball rolling, this inaugural edition pulls together a bunch of the records he’s been playing out this summer and it’s a set he says will set the tone for

Thankfully, the multi-genre approach is becoming more and more widespread and it’s yielding a tidal wave of new talents finding unexpected connections across the aisles. One producer and selector who’s always championed that approach is Bristol native OPR8. His monthly radio show prides itself on slamming jungle against piano house, acid against reggae, and sticking plenty of curveballs in between. It isn’t just that they’re such wildly differing sounds, it’s that he finds a way to make them all work together in harmony.