RudeBoyz are one of the pioneering production crews behind the South African dance music style gqom. Building on its slowed down, spaced-out beginnings, the Durban group have developed a tauter, ...

Shiba Melissa Mazaza speaks to South African pioneer DJ Lag about his debut album 'Meeting With The King' and a series of encounters that shaped his path in music and life Aggressive, poetic, artistic ...

Over the last two years there has been an upsurge of the house music sub-culture called Gqom in provinces such as KZN, Eastern and the Western Cape. While the other provinces are far ahead with ...

Jeremiah Asiamah mixes the biggest party tunes from around the world. Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 1Xtra.

Bhizer is gqom’s supreme penman. For evidence of that, one only has to listen to the 26-year-old’s hit, Aw’ Kodwa, which has now been co-opted by the award-winning kwaito group, Dbn Nyts. The song is ...