Between SoundCloud, YouTube, Mixcloud and everything else, it can feel like we’re being overwhelmed by an impenetrable, almost 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 house music, grime, techno, bashment, R&B, trap, D&B, Amapiano, and no doubt a bunch of stuff that doesn’t have a name yet.

Dive into TRENCH Radio’s best mixes of the month below.

Yuseemi was back on the SWU airwaves this month, this time dialling into a predominantly dancehall-driven set. Into that he stirs grimey bangers, rollers and a bunch of stuff that’s harder to pin down. Packed into its two-hour runtime, we’ve got firecracker slammers from Scratcha DVA, Sam Interface, Ganz and Killa P, God Colony, and a timely salute to the late, great Terror Danjah and his Jamakabi collab “Juicy Patty”.

Tim Reaper is a regular fixture in this column and would most likely be included every time if not for the sake of fairness, but this month we couldn’t not feature him. It was a rare change of pace for Tim who swapped his usual brutal flavour of jungle for an hour of big bouncy skankers in this B2B with dubplate king Riz La Teef. The pair recently collab’d on a Future Retro x NLDC night at Corsica Studios and this UK funky team-up was the perfect way to round it all off.

Back in December, the artist formerly known as Oh Annie Oh—wrapped up 2025 with a landmark change. Dropping her old moniker in favour of Sooyeon, her Korean-born name, the change symbolised an honouring of who she really is or, as she put it in a recent Mixmag profile, “I am going to give that little girl a voice and make her feel proud”. And she’s certainly done that. She launched the new chapter in her career with a tireless run of radio appearances and DJ sets, but she officially christened her new era with a firecracker double A-side, “In The Club We Are All Dissociating / “More Than A Friend”. This latest set for Seoul Community Radio touches on similar territory to the snappy, bassy sounds of those two tracks

King of the bassy bouncers, Sammy Virji took over Radio 1 this month for his four-part residency. Joined by a different guest every week, each episode showcased a different side of Virji. On this fourth and final week, he was joined by one of the most important and influential figures in garage, MJ Cole, the man responsible for some of the biggest underground and mainstream garage classics of all time. Billed as a tribute to the old skool, Virji and Cole dug deep into the 2-step shufflers, from the ‘90s onwards.

One of the latest to join the Hyperdub fold, Chicago’s Heavee has been a vital force in footwork’s evolution of the last decade plus. His technically-minded, high-energy, video-game-inspired approach has been lauded for its vivid imagery and use of colour. In fact, his Unleash album released this time last year on Hyperdub, took all of that even further with an online video game that arrived alongside the LP. With Tropical Waste boss Seb Wheeler on hosting duty and backed by members of Creation, Afterwerks, and Chicago Footwork UK, Heavee digs deep into the footwork canon, including

The Palestinian-Armenian DJ and producer originally hails from Detroit but now calls Chicago her home. Between those two Mid-Western hubs and her own Arab/SWANA (SouthWest Asian & North African) background, dance music is in her blood. Bringing those two strains of her heritage together has become something of a signature for Nanoos and this recent Elevator set is a pretty good jumping off point for newcomers. Fusing the sounds of North Africa and the Levant with ghettotech, juke, hip-hop, Jersey Club, UK garage, dancehall, and house music.

We got a rare treat this month when Odeal jumps on the decks alongside DJ and host Jermz2shoo, a familiar face for anyone who’s ever caught Odeal live. Capturing that same party energy they whip up on tour, this latest set pushes the energy that bit higher. Taking turns on the wheels, the pair swap R&B, Afrobeats and hip-hop bangers. Expect smokey groovers and sizzlers from J-Hus, Cleo Sol, T-Pain, Asake, Wizkid, Davido, and a tonne of late ‘90s/early 2000s hip-hop and R&B classics from Biggie, Brandy, Nelly and the like.

Ahead of the next Dig Deep, Resident Advisor’s pop-up charity record fair, on April 5, Tash LC stepped up for a mix with a difference. The theme of this set was to mix tunes sourced exclusively from records donated to Dig Deep. Effortlessly rising to the occasion, Tash whipped up an hour of techno and electro leanings, packed with groove, colour and bass. It’s a little different from her usual territory, but there’s plenty of magic and recognisable Tash LC flair, including gems from DJ Plead and rRoxymore, Marcel Dettmann, Lorenzo_BITW, Amadeezy, Dubfire and more.

Following last month’s riotous session with Renz and Elf Kid, SI*BL had Renz back on his monthly show for another round, this time with Cheshire’s finest, Oskar. Grime and funky rib-crackers abound, plus a joint they recorded over one of Oskar’s own productions. As one of Travs Presents’ key players and residents, SI*BL’s been a driving force behind what’s become known as Grime 3.0. Regardless of what you think of that title, SI*BL’s status is undeniable and you need look no further for proof.

Everything about Silva Snipa screams classic jungle. A true blue scholar of the cruddiest end of the sound, Silva Snipa’s DJ sets, particularly her shows on Kool FM, are catnip for those of us who grew up on the late ‘90s/early 2000s sound. All of that is dialled up to 1000 on this 100% vinyl mix. The hip-hop influence, by way of sampling, B-Boy jazziness and scratching that started to creep into that era are folded in perfectly, without pushing it too far. Best of all, she keeps it from throwback nostalgia with fresh takes and a new-gen dynamism. Listen out for crackers from Alibi & Leo, Swan-E, Prisoners of Technology and more.