Get To Know Gqom, South Africa’s Slow-Burning Club Music

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“qqom is “house music with broken beats, sliced vocals or chants, high tempo and mostly with no bassline.” The word “gqom,” sometimes expressed as “qgom,” “igqom,” “gqomu” or variants thereof, derives from an onomatopoeic Zulu word signifying a drum”