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 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 ...
During August, Mr Thela took on his second international gig at The Clapham Grand in Birmingham, UK in partnership with Skyy Vodka. He joined the likes of Uncle Waffles, Major League DJz and a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you are a fan of TikTok dance challenges, you've likely experienced the infectious rhythm and captivating choreography of the “Vathela” challenge. This vibrant dance has quickly become a global ...
South Africa (as I covered in a previous profile of House producer Black Coffee) has cemented its place as one of the world’s most innovative producers and exporters of dance music. By now, the ...
The thing about music is that it evolves beyond the location it was established in or its brainchild. Take Hip Hop for instance, it was founded in the mid-70s in Brooklyn, New York, by black youth, ...
Dancing is a lifestyle in South Africa. People are defined by it, by their chosen style… Or by the style that chooses them. It comes as naturally as breathing - people aren’t told how, when or where ...
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 ...
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