The 10 Best DJ Mixes of 2017

In dance and electronic music, DJ sets play a role that has no real analog in other genres: an invisible layer stretched across the face of the music, an alternate dimension where disparate tracks are cobbled together into a form that may transcend the individual parts. The best DJs play a curatorial and even a critical role, making sense of the surfeit of new music available and forging connections between novel sounds and antecedents buried deep in the canon.

Dawit Eklund – Loose Joints, Vol. 1 https://soundcloud.com/dawiteklund/loose-jonts-vol-1

Avalon Emerson – Live at Printworks London https://soundcloud.com/avalonemerson/avalon-emerson-live-at-printworks-london-march-2017

Josey Rebelle – Stone Through a Window Mix https://soundcloud.com/honeysoundsystem/hnypot-235-josey-rebelles-stone-through-a-window-mix

Courtesy – RA.579 https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra579-courtesy

Laurel Halo – Discwoman https://soundcloud.com/discwoman/discwoman-27-x-laurel-halo

Minor Science – Absent Friends 2 https://soundcloud.com/blowinguptheworkshop/minorscience

Sold – B.U.T.W. 79 https://soundcloud.com/blowinguptheworkshop/sold

Teki Latex – Bérite Club Music https://soundcloud.com/teki-latex/beriteclubmusic

Young Marco – RA.571 https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra571-young-marco

Zola Jesus – FACT Mix 631 https://soundcloud.com/factmag/fact-mix-631-zola-jesus-dec-17