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 ...
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, ...
Each week, FACT trawls through the untamed world of free mixes, radio specials and live blends so you don’t have to. This week there’s some much-needed EU solidarity alongside a trip through Durban’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
If we’re talking about energy in its purest form – we’re talking about Gqom. How must you listen to it and not move? We’re still looking for answers. One of the founders of the movement, DJ Lag, ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s almost impossible to keep on top of everything that SoundCloud, Mixcloud and online radio has to offer. In our monthly column, FACT guides you through the must-hear mixes of the last 30 days, ...