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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 ...
The Guardian

'It speaks to an ancient history': why South Africa has the world's most exciting dance music

Styles like afrohouse, gqom and amapiano are thriving – but with ‘half-baked white kids getting a lot more airplay’, South Africa’s inequalities still hold the dance scene back Many people got their ...
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 ...
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 ...