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 ...

Omagoqa’s latest EP channels the sound of Durban’s underground across eleven unruly productions. We find out more about how it was made When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

DJ Lag is one of a cohort of producers in South Africa's Durban making gqom: a ruthless, minimalist, tensely percussive form of dance music. Over in London, the independent label Goon Club Allstars ...

Ntando Duma surprised Mzansi when she released a gqom track late last year but the presenter has revealed that she has big plans for the blossoming music genre and with the help of her new show she ...

When DJ Lag releases a track, the world listens. The Durban-born producer, widely regarded as the “King of Gqom”, is back with his latest single, “Woza”, featuring Sir Trill and Sykes - a track that ...

A South African woman in Sweden got an entire club dancing to Gqom music in Stockholm. The viral video had Mzansi celebrating ...

If we’re talking about energy in its purest form – we’re talking about Gqom. How must you listen to it and not move? We’re still looking for answers. One of the founders of the movement, DJ Lag, ...

Mzansi Magic’s new drama is a noir take on the music industry through the eyes of a gqom group, called Sgubu, from Alice, a small town in the Eastern Cape. The group faces a traumatic time dealing ...

Produced by DJ Maphorisa (who also released an accompanying track), Gqom Wave is a 15-minute documentary that sees a panel of producers and deejays discuss the importance of this new movement. While ...

For a lot of people over here, Gqom Oh! Is the extent of what they know about gqom but there’s so much more going on. People tend to say, "Good music are those tracks that make you travel without ...