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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

South Africa (as I covered in a previous profile of House producer Black Coffee) has cemented its place as one of the world’s most innovative producers and exporters of dance music. By now, the ...

“With Southside, I wanted to celebrate where I’m from while showing where the Gqom sound is going,” says DJ Lag. “It’s for the people who’ve been with me from the start, and for everyone discovering ...

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 ...

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...

They are the Gqom duo making waves and making a significant impact in the music industry with their distinctive fusion of high-energy anthems. Hailing from Pietermaritzburg, South African DJ duo ‘The ...