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Woman gave a gqom dance tutorial in Sweden, taking Durban’s sound to a global stage

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 ...
The Guardian

Gqom, the foot-stomping new sound of South Africa's townships

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 ...
Mixmag

Gqom is the explosive South African sound bursting into Europe

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 ...
Daily Maverick

Gqom phenomenon Mr Thela hoists SA flag on world dance music stage to international acclaim

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 ...
Mixmag

DJ Lag is the South African Gqom artist making an Impact

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 ...
The Guardian

The alternative city guide to Durban, South Africa

The fourth of our alt South Africa city guides zooms in on the surfers’ beaches, homegrown ‘gqom’ dance music and the restaurants and fashion popular with locals in this subtropical metropolis ...
Times LIVE

Meet the 'unsung heroes' behind gqom music: Rudeboyz

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 ...
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Gqom - The New Underground

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 ...
Mail & Guardian

Surfing the Gqom Wave to oblivion

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 ...
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Dladla Mshunqisi opens up about leaving DJ Tira’s Afrotainment

Gqom star Dladla Mshunqisi parts ways with DJ Tira's Afrotainment to launch Mshunqo Records, marking a new chapter and a ...
Pitchfork

The Sound of Durban Vol. 1

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 ...