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.

Given the timing of 2017's last TRENCH Radio, you'd be forgiven for expecting at least a couple of Christmas-themed mixes, but alas we've been spared. Instead, we got a gloriously irreverent mix of video game soundtracks from Shura; Kiddy Smile whipped up a frenzy of eclectic club sounds; Kelly Lee Owens (whose Sade remix seduced us all last month) delivered a smooth, laid-back selection of electronics; and dancehall dons Equiknoxx blew away the winter chill with some blistering Caribbean heat.

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