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 ...

Head of the Gqom Oh! label, Nan Kolè has been undertaking a massive project over the past few months. Allying with Rome-based radio station Crudo Volta, Kolè has been travelling around South Africa, ...

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.

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 ...

Over the last year, the Gqom sounds emerging from Durban have garnered considerable attention thanks to a series of EPs and compilation released by various labels, most notably Gqom Oh! With some of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Durban-based Griffit Vigo is an innovator of the gqom sound that began his journey in 2004 and is perhaps best known for his anthemic “Ree's Vibe” as well as his “DJ” EP. With his tracks appearing in ...

“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 ...

If you are a fan of TikTok dance challenges, you've likely experienced the infectious rhythm and captivating choreography of the “Vathela” challenge. This vibrant dance has quickly become a global ...