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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook South Africa (as I covered in a previous profile of House producer Black Coffee) has cemented its ...

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, ...

DURBAN gqom duo‚ Andile Gumede “Andile T” and Lionel Bonga Msabala “Massive Q” known as the Rudeboyz said fans should expect a summer vibe and a project following their latest release. The single ...

A Durban-born dancer shared a gqom tutorial in a Swedish club, showing how South African music and dance continued to travel ...

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, ...

Gqom (pronounced Gome) is a blistering variant of South African house which finds its roots in the coastal city of Durban. Like lots of the home-brewed genres of music in South Africa and beyond, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nan Kolè is back with his Gqom Oh! outfit for a new compilation EP and we've got the exclusive share of one of the tracks, DJ Lag's "Daisies". Using that all-important rolling gqom sound as the ...

It has been three years since the passing of Big Nuz member and gqom pioneer Mandla “Mampintsha” Maphumulo, and social media users have again taken to their platforms to remember the late star.