Shiba Melissa Mazaza speaks to South African pioneer DJ Lag about his debut album 'Meeting With The King' and a series of encounters that shaped his path in music and life Aggressive, poetic, artistic ...

Styles like afrohouse, gqom and amapiano are thriving – but with ‘half-baked white kids getting a lot more airplay’, South Africa’s inequalities still hold the dance scene back Many people got their ...

Gqom is a South African house genre that's taking the coastal town of Durban by storm. In The FADER back in 2013, Jumping Back Slash described it as "a more broken sound, a lot more minimal than ...

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 ...

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 ...

DJ Tira Set to Ignite Muze Club Tonight as Nairobi’s Gqom Fever Hits Peak ...

Before amapiano we had gqom. What a time it was to be alive. A newer take on kwaito that was interwoven with elements of House music, this genre and its proponents had the nation in a chokehold but ...

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 ...

South Africa's electronica scene throws up killer new scenes every few years. There was kwaito house – led by DJ Mujava's Township Funk monster – and then the footwork-y highlife sound of Nozinja's ...

The TL was left a bit chaotic over whose genre it is after Shimza claimed Dlala Thokzin’s hit Phuze (Remix) is an Afro-house music song. The fight between the Afro-house, amapiano and gqom genres ...

Kwaito and house music legends were honoured at the fourth annual Mzansi Kwaito and House Music Awards (MKHMA) held at Carnival City’s Big Top Arena. Uhuru’s opening performance set the mood for the ...