A Durban-born dancer shared a gqom tutorial in a Swedish club, showing how South African music and dance continued to travel and connect with global audiences.

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 ...

Let’s think for a second about the idea of the unknown. The unknown, surely, is inherently paradoxical. To know that something is unknown is to make it, well, known. I know, I know, Donald Rumsfeld ...

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 ...

DJ Twitty has come out guns blazing to defend gqom. This comes after DJ Twitty, whose real name is Philani Khuzwayo, was hosted on a Durban Network podcast where he gave his insights on the evolution ...

As a pioneer of Durban Gqom, he has been a driving force in the genre for over 20 years. With a career spanning decades, he’s known for his commitment to nurturing emerging talent. He has consistently ...