In 2017, after watching an EPK named Gqomwave (the title of both Maphorisa’s and Rudeboyz’s releases; you can guess who coined it first), I wrote about how little that mini-documentary told us about ...
Ntando Duma surprised Mzansi when she released a gqom track late last year but the presenter has revealed that she has big plans for the blossoming music genre and with the help of her new show she ...
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 ...
“I was just trying to create something that sounded like hip-hop, but on a house tempo” is how DJ Lag tried to articulate his sound on our first meeting at his mother’s house in Clermont four years ...
It’s not every day that you get to tell musicians a supermodel loves their music. But I had the honour on Monday night, telling Durban musos RudeBoyz that British model Jourdan Dunn loves their song ...
Gqom, pronounced with a Zulu click at the beginning, roughly translates as the sound of a kick drum being struck. It’s also the name of a sparse, dark, hypnotic genre of electronic music. Made in the ...
DJ LAG is a few cities into Part 2 of his #GqomIsThePresent tour which includes Asian, African and European cities; the first time in some cities, but no stranger to Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul.