Red Bull Music Academy’s H∆SHTAG$ returns this week for a second series – and one of the music genres that gets the deep-dive treatment this time round is gqom. Watch it below – or scroll down to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Impact is a series that's dedicated to profiling raw talent that's about to turn dance music on its head. Next up: DJ Lag In the middle of a WhatsApp conversation with DJ Lag, he sends me a 15-second ...

Gqom music—a sound emanating from the South African city of Durban—has been on the come-up for a while now. Appropriately for a sound that is both impactful and subtle, gqom's road to success has been ...

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 ...

There’s a paradox at the heart of how we consume and perceive music in the internet era. We can instantly stream or download almost anything. It’s so much easier to tap into any era, artist or genre.

“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 ...

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 ...

Record producer Lwazi Asanda Gwala, popularly known as DJ Lag, is credited as being one of the founders of gqom. The 25-year old DJ speaks to us about what it takes to make it and the importance of ...

Mpilo ‘Soldier’ Ralarala, a young school lad from Langa, reckons that he does not really want much from life, apart from the girl of his dream and filling up the dance floor. He sings Gqom. Soldier,17 ...