Many say amapiano has taken over the music scene, thanks to DJ Maphorisa, but he still thinks gqom is a bomb genre. Maphorisa, who has been hailed as a musical genius and noted for turning everything ...

When Distruction Boyz dropped Omunye in 2017 they solidified the presence of gqom in SA and went on to become one of the most recognisable names but now, the gqom fever has 'died' down but they are ...

Local gqom producers Zipho Mthembu and Thobani Mgobozi who are popularly known as Distruction Boyz have released their second album titled "From The Streets To The World". This is no ordinary album as ...

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 ...

MTV Base dives into the New Year with its continued commitment of bringing audiences local content productions that resonate strongly with viewers by announcing the sequel of the bass-filled show Gqom ...

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 ...

Gqom pioneer, DJ Lag, and songstress, Shekinah release Anywhere We Go. Photo: Supplied Gqom pioneer, DJ Lag, and songstress, Shekinah have been teasing their collaboration Anywhere We Go for a while ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

“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 ...