Saturday morning in Durban, 2am, and both of Club 101’s dimly lit dancefloors are juddering to hypnotic electronic music that has been forged in the city’s surrounding townships. Upstairs, the ...

To call it a wave or anything similarly short-lived is to undermine it. Watching the Gqom Wave documentary, a seeming accompaniment to DJ Maphorisa’s Gqom Wave compilation, one can’t help but notice ...

It’s just past 7 AM on a weekday and the taxi drivers and conductors of Durban, South Africa are hustling for the morning rush, picking up commuters from the side of the road and packing them into the ...

Distruction Boyz enjoyed a brief flash in the pan with hits like Omunye, which sparked many social media challenges and burnt its way into the minds of all who heard it as a quintessential ear worm.

While Babes Wodumo’s Wololo may have been the song that kicked down the walls to expose the big sound that is gqom, the sound itself has been thriving underground from as early as 2011 and it was once ...

The minimalist house music that comes with its own unique dance style, bhenga, that’s Durban’s answer to Chicago footwork Raw, cutting-edge electronic music, made on cheap drum machines and uploaded ...

Lvovo made a bold claim on a podcast that the late Mampintsha was the one who invented Gqom music The statement sparked heated debate online, with many music fans disputing the timeline of the genre's ...

Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...

Shiba Melissa Mazaza speaks to South African pioneer DJ Lag about his debut album 'Meeting With The King' and a series of encounters that shaped his path in music and life Aggressive, poetic, artistic ...

As a pioneer of Durban Gqom, he has been a driving force in the genre for over 20 years. With a career spanning decades, he’s known for his commitment to nurturing emerging talent. He has consistently ...

From its underground roots in Durban, the sound of gqom music is now spreading across Africa and beyond. But what is gqom? How did it start? How did it spread? And how do you pronounce it? Emily Dust, ...

Kwanele Sosibo and Chris Saunders travelled to KwaZulu Natal earlier this year to meet up with some of the pioneers of one of South Africa's most minimal, raw and exhilarating underground dance music ...