Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...

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 ...

A South African woman taught Swedish clubbers how to dance to Gqom music at a club in Stockholm The video showed people of all ages following her moves and enjoying the South African beats Mzansi ...

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 ...

South Africa's electronica scene throws up killer new scenes every few years. There was kwaito house – led by DJ Mujava's Township Funk monster – and then the footwork-y highlife sound of Nozinja's ...

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 ...

Goon Club Allstars x Been Trill 2015 Mix: A deft mix of gqom, grime, and rap bootlegs courtesy of the London music collective and #BEENTRILL.

Hold onto your hyperlinks, Red Bull Music Academy’s H∆SHTAG$is back and exploring how musical subcultures are going global thanks to the information superhighway ...

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 ...

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 ...