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, ...

Explore how Dankie Boi, Blacks Jnr and GoldMax are redefining gqom music with their latest album 'New Wave', a vibrant ...

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 ...

Each week, FACT trawls through the untamed world of free mixes, radio specials and live blends so you don’t have to. This week there’s some much-needed EU solidarity alongside a trip through Durban’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sultry city of Durban has produced musical talent that has gained local and international recognition, and in recent years, with the popularity of gqom, the city’s dance music scene has come under ...

DJ Lag has worked so relentlessly over the past few years - releasing across labels like Goon Club Allstars, Hyperdub, Good Enuff and touring in five continents (just South America to tick off) - that ...

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, ...