RudeBoyz are one of the pioneering production crews behind the South African dance music style gqom. Building on its slowed down, spaced-out beginnings, the Durban group have developed a tauter, ...

Bhizer is gqom’s supreme penman. For evidence of that, one only has to listen to the 26-year-old’s hit, Aw’ Kodwa, which has now been co-opted by the award-winning kwaito group, Dbn Nyts. The song is ...

This collaborative mixtape between Gqom Oh! and the Rome-based Crudo Volta collective showcases some of the best music that gqom—a raw, brash dance music coming from Durban—has ever produced. Save ...

DJ Lag is on the cover of Mixmag. Read the cover feature here and check out his Cover Mix below "I chose these tracks for the Mixmag Cover Mix as they represent the different genres we have in ...

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 ...

If we’re talking about energy in its purest form – we’re talking about Gqom. How must you listen to it and not move? We’re still looking for answers. One of the founders of the movement, DJ Lag, ...

The late Alexander Shulgin, “the godfather of ecstasy”, was more than just a Harvard-educated chemist with a penchant for MDMA. Over the course of his long, trippy life, he methodically documented his ...

Award-winning DJ and producer turned businessman, Mthokozi 'DJ Tira' Khathi, says he's bringing back Gqom in his latest album which drops on Friday, 25 June. Titled Rockstar Forever, an ode to his ...