Durban mourns Gqom pioneer DJ Boonu, the 'uSwidi Wodwa' hitmaker who passed away following a short illness.

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 ...

The minimalist house music that comes with its own unique dance style, bhenga, that’s Durban’s answer to Chicago footwork Raw, cutting-edge electronic music, made on cheap drum machines and uploaded ...

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 ...

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 ...

DJ Lag is one of a cohort of producers in South Africa's Durban making gqom: a ruthless, minimalist, tensely percussive form of dance music. Over in London, the independent label Goon Club Allstars ...

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, perhaps no more than other forms of music, is a testosterone-driven genre where the record of female participation can sometimes go missing. For example, Bhejane might take credit for uBaba ka ...

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 ...

Distruction Boyz enjoyed a brief flash in the pan with hits like Omunye, which sparked many social media challenges and burnt its way into the minds of all who heard it as a quintessential ear worm.

South Africa (as I covered in a previous profile of House producer Black Coffee) has cemented its place as one of the world’s most innovative producers and exporters of dance music. By now, the ...

Styles like afrohouse, gqom and amapiano are thriving – but with ‘half-baked white kids getting a lot more airplay’, South Africa’s inequalities still hold the dance scene back Many people got their ...