Gqom
latest news & developments“Inactive” youth, Sona’s panacea of digital skills and missed creative opportunities
If a commitment to youth-led initiative is to be taken seriously, it is imperative to include youth in decision making on where to direct investment, how to design curricula for…
Dj Lag: Music was my ticket to the world
DJ Lag, also known as the King of Gqom, has grown from strength to strength in his career
The Portfolio: HHP’s silver lining at Back To The City
Jabba’s Back To The City performance in 2016 was a late-career triumph for the visionary MC, but its promise would prove elusive
How Busiswa’s conversational story “wrote itself”
Busiswa: An Unbreakable Story unfolds like a conversation between Busiswa and the viewer.
The soundtrack to Dezemba
Every year people talk about the ‘song of the summer’, but it is so much more than that
DJ Lag: The gqom whisperer comes home
DJ Lag’s mission is still to explore the transmutability of gqom to other sounds around the world.
Queen of the beat just gets louder and louder
Party-diva Busiswa is a powerful mix of poetry and music, but the club celebration touches on sensitive issues
The muted thump of Gqom Nation
The genre is morphing from its roots in house into a mash-up, as artists try new ways to get released
Expanding gqom’s visual palette
Dancer Artchild’s colourful presence in music videos is just the first step in her expanding career
Mx Blouse and the new-age genre-busters
From the fringes, a different breed of musicians is disrupting established norms
Surfing the Gqom Wave to oblivion
Not just a genre, gqom is not being recognised in the industry as the cultural movement that it is
Welcome to the self-love club
FAKA is introducing gqom — most at home on Durban’s dance floors — to a new transgressive set
Babes Wodumo: The queen of gqom with dololo cares
She has no concerns but – as the new ‘Mercedes’ single suggests – the celebrity trap awaits her.
Bhizer adds more ingredients to his gqom mix
Will gqom’s precarious position in the kwaito food chain get the better of Bhizer?
Qoh and gqom: Music and ecstasy mix in Durban
Inanda has evolved its own nihilistic ecstasy scene, complete with a loopy music genre.