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, ...

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 ...

The pulse of Durban’s streets has hit the global stage once again with the release of “New Wave”, a 16-track album crafted by Dankie Boi, Blacks Jnr and GoldMax. More than just a collection of songs, ...

As a pioneer of Durban Gqom, he has been a driving force in the genre for over 20 years. With a career spanning decades, he’s known for his commitment to nurturing emerging talent. He has consistently ...

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 ...

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 ...

State OFFF demonstrates how there is "gqom everywhere" for this spine-tingling edition of The Mix, and tells Megan Townsend about how trading on his 'Hard Currency' helped him bring an array of global ...

Durban is celebrated as the vibrant epicentre of Gqom, the city that has given rise to iconic figures such as DJ Tira, Lady Du, Babes Wodumo, and the late Mampintsha. In this pool of talent, Lwazi ...