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 ...

“I was just trying to create something that sounded like hip-hop, but on a house tempo” is how DJ Lag tried to articulate his sound on our first meeting at his mother’s house in Clermont four years ...

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

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 ...

State OFFF demonstrates how there is "gqom everywhere" for this spine-tingling edition of The Mix, and tells Megan Townsend about how trading on his 'Hard Currency' helped him bring an array of global ...

The late Alexander Shulgin, “the godfather of ecstasy”, was more than just a Harvard-educated chemist with a penchant for MDMA. Over the course of his long, trippy life, he methodically documented his ...

The service cites the explosion of African electronic genres including afrobeats, amapiano and Gqom as a major driver behind the increase. By Katie Bain DJ mixes from Africa have tracked massive ...