What the foq is gqom?

How the world is just waking up to South Africa’s most exciting dance movement5June 2015 If you’re in Durban, you know what gqom is; if you’re in London, there’s a chance you do, too. The broken-down, sparse South African house genre is a victim of that strange SA phenomenon Jumping Back Slash described so well in The Fader in 2013: where local music often finds international pockets of avid fando

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"Gqom was one such movement the Cape Town-based artist was referring to specifically: he referred to it as a more "minimal" and "raw" variant of South African house, most frequently heard blasting from teenagers’ Blackberrys. Evolved from Kwaito, tribal house and skeletal hip-hop influences"