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 ...

For over five years, Bertuzzi has dedicated himself to Palm Wine, a project for which he surveys “post-global panorama with a specific eye for the movement of sounds and related imaginaries,” as he ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

In 2017, after watching an EPK named Gqomwave (the title of both Maphorisa’s and Rudeboyz’s releases; you can guess who coined it first), I wrote about how little that mini-documentary told us about ...

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 ...