It’s the South African dance sound that’s come from the townships and is taking over the world. Time to bone up on gqom.

Get To Know Gqom, South Africa’s Slow-Burning Club Music The Durban-born electronic music style incubated on MP3 sites, file hosting platforms, and Facebook groups.

BBC Global Beats has produced a showcase of gqom. Host Emily Dust meets some of the South African scene's originators including Naked Boyz, DJ Lag, Griffit Vigo and Distruction Boyz in an exploration ...

Spotify released numbers which reveal that young listeners on the platform are flocking towards Afrikaans Gqom.

DJ Lag, the South African "Gqom prince" born Lwazi Asanda Gwala, got a boost after being sought out by Beyoncé and included on her soundtrack, The Lion King: The Gift.

DJ Lag's mission is still to explore the transmutability of gqom to other sounds around the world.

Listen to a selection of tracks from some of the pioneers of one of SA's most minimal, raw and exhilarating underground dance music movements.

The sounds of gqom were discovered and developed by teenagers in these Durban townships (apparently often using cracked copies of FruityLoops production software) and spread in a labyrinthine network ...

Gqom (pronounced “gom” with a clicking sound on the “g”) is a raw mutation of South African kwaito that has evolved in the Zulu-dominated neighbourhoods surrounding Durban’s city centre.

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 ...

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 ...