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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Duban based gqom producer Julz Da Deejay has been making beats since 2011 influenced by the sounds of corner house. Now signed to Gqom Oh!, a label aimed at showcasing the sounds of Durban, his track ...

The pulse of Durban’s streets has hit the global stage once again with the release of “New Wave”, a 16-track album crafted by Dankie Boi, Blacks Jnr and GoldMax. More than just a collection of songs, ...

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 ...

Gqom is a strain of South African dance music that wears its influences like passport stamps. U.K. funk, African polyrhythms, and the dizzying basslines of Chicago house have come together in a sound ...

Local gqom producers Zipho Mthembu and Thobani Mgobozi who are popularly known as Distruction Boyz have released their second album titled "From The Streets To The World". This is no ordinary album as ...

Omagoqa’s latest EP channels the sound of Durban’s underground across eleven unruly productions. We find out more about how it was made When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Before amapiano we had gqom. What a time it was to be alive. A newer take on kwaito that was interwoven with elements of House music, this genre and its proponents had the nation in a chokehold but ...

‘I pioneered Cape Town gqom’ — 24-year-old Simphiwe Sihawu from Samora Machel in Cape Town took the South African gqom sound to South Korea and the UK all in one year. Sihawu, better known as Mr Thela ...

Since the early days of gqom, inner-city minibus drivers have played the music over their massive sound systems as a way of attracting customers to their vehicles, earning it the label ‘taxi music’.