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 ...

A Durban dancer used a club space in Sweden to introduce gqom, showing how South African dance culture continues to move beyond local borders The moment highlighted how gqom, born in Durban, has grown ...

During August, Mr Thela took on his second international gig at The Clapham Grand in Birmingham, UK in partnership with Skyy Vodka. He joined the likes of Uncle Waffles, Major League DJz and a ...

After making her debut on TraTraTrax with a compilation documenting the emerging dance music scenes in South Africa, Hyperdub ...

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 thing about music is that it evolves beyond the location it was established in or its brainchild. Take Hip Hop for instance, it was founded in the mid-70s in Brooklyn, New York, by black youth, ...

Kwanele Sosibo and Chris Saunders travelled to KwaZulu Natal earlier this year to meet up with some of the pioneers of one of South Africa's most minimal, raw and exhilarating underground dance music ...

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 ...

Lelowhatsgood's new EP  Rebirth Is Necessary  pushes gqom into new sonic and linguistic territory across five tracks of experimental South African club music. G ...

To call it a wave or anything similarly short-lived is to undermine it. Watching the Gqom Wave documentary, a seeming accompaniment to DJ Maphorisa’s Gqom Wave compilation, one can’t help but notice ...