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Omagoqa - a trio creating new wave gqom with the artistic intention to always let the masses feel the indigenous authenticity of sound. Their music showcases a version of gqom coined as ‘uThayela’, which translates literally as “corrugated iron” and is used to describe “a rougher sound with a harder bassline that it is made for clubs”. It's a proud testament to a love of South African creativity and music. The group is made up of Andile Mazibuko (stage name Ma_A), Franco Makhathini (stage name KB) and Njabulo Sibiya (stage name Chase). 

The trio has been together for over 7 years and are a collaborative team that have worked alongside the likes of DJ Lag, Que DJ , Zvri, Jimbo Soundz, Cultivated Soulz, Scelo Gowane, Madanon & Newlandz. Omagoqa plays a raw sound, it can be aggressive and dark, but there isn’t a moment when the crowd isn’t giving it all back. They pull elements from EDM , Electronic & Dance/House to bring their unique music to life.

Omagoqa is cementing their name in the music industry, they’ve performed at events like Ballantines Boiler Room and their sound and energy already has a solid reputation in the South African music and nightlife scenes. It's difficult not to have a good time at their performances, if you didn’t come to dance, the night isn’t going to go to plan. The collective's ambition is international and they’re planning on pushing that agenda aggressively with the soon to be released EP - Feel The Bass.

[FREE DOWNLOAD] Strago & Snooks - SUBPAC Theme (Omagoqa Remix) *EXCLUSIVE*

Written, produced and mixed by Toxicated Keys
Mastered by Bertrand Härdi
Artwork Simon Bernheim
℗ & © 2022 PSSNGR

Following the release of "Zaka Zaka" and “Monate Ke Monate”, please welcome From Thutlwane to the World, Toxicated Keys’ debut album.  

If you haven’t yet heard the sound of South-African “Rough Amapiano”, today’s greatest new dance genre, be ready: this LP is a spectacular nine-track showcase of what makes this new trend of Amapiano so vital and exciting. 

Toxicated Keys are two very young producers (18 and 19) from the township of Mamelodi East, in Pretoria, one of South Africa’s biggest cities. They work on FL Studio and received academic training in a music school. These last years, they’ve been building a new style of Amapiano, mostly focused on freaky drum programming and the fascinating sound of the “clunk bass” preset they use heavily.

The two musicians kept some of the basic principles of classic Amapiano : mid-tempo BPMs, syncopated beats and energetic, party-oriented vocals. But they stripped out the warmth and sweetness of the original version and made room for robotic vibes and an eerie feel of never-ending pressure.

This album is clearly not your average electronic/dance album from 2022 : you won’t hear any ambient, lo-fi, deconstructed or downtempo tracks, nor find spoken-word segments or real instruments playing. There’s no manifest interest in trying to explore unexpected genres and repertoires.You probably won’t find the production luxuriously detailed or rich with nuance and depth : this is 100% straight-up dance music made by two teens, physical and functional. But these nine tracks are radically experimental though, thanks to their sheer freshness and boldness.

This is bold and experimental because the cult of clunk bass, log drums and off-beat percussion is a very serious thing here : all the tracks begin with low-key intros that slowly get the floor ready for the moment where the clunk drops. And when it drops, it’s like hearing a robot dancing, humming and building something at the same time. Something from another world lands on the dancefloor, speaking a new language.

Singers and rappers come along, sometimes with full lyrics, but also just to hype up the place, using voices as percussive instruments over the obsessive rhythm section. This is futuristic music made with a very matter-of-fact attitude, verging on aural abstraction while staying fun and popular. And we bet you won’t hear better dance tunes this year.

Style-wise, the tracks navigate from deep house to pure mental techno and crypto-soulful vibes, from Ibiza-ish big room anthems to echoes of older South-African genres. But all these influences are never standing on their own : they always fuse and blend into the Rough Amapiano groove. This is almost like a musical monster, eating and digesting every external reference to remodel it in its very own machine.

So please, before everyone plays it, do pay attention to the world’s most thrilling music right now, and move your body and soul to the sound of Toxicated Keys.  

Etienne Menu

Toxicated Keys - Me Now

Written, produced and mixed by Toxicated Keys, GemValleyMusiQ and Tupla Double 0.7
Mastered by Bertrand Härdi
Artwork Simon Bernheim

℗ & © 2022 PSSNGR

Please hear a future classic, straight from Mamelodi, Pitori : this is "Shiki" (Piano Anthem) by South African producers Toxicated Keys Feat. GemValleyMusiQ & Tupla Double 0.7. A team effort inspired by the old school barcardi vibe as well as the Rough Amapiano sound previously championed by Toxicated Keys and GemValleyMusiQ on the PSSNGR label this year. The title says it all : what you have is a piano anthem, coming with crazy vocals, shiny pads and jittery percussion. Another mad tune from the young Amapiano scene!

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Toxicated Keys feat. GemValleyMusiQ and Tupla Double 0.7 - Shiki (Piano Anthem) [PSSNGR005]

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Hear a menacing Gqom remake of A$AP Ferg's 'Shabba' by South African production group Mafia Boyz...

Featured here: hyponik.com/features/first-listen-mafia-boyz-shabba-gqom-remake-gqom-oh/

‘The Sound Of Durban’ is out July 24 on Gqom Oh! Pre-order it here: bleep.com/release/61809-various-artists-gqom-oh-sampler-ep

First Listen: Mafia Boyz - 'Shabba (Gqom Remake)' - (Gqom Oh!)

recorded in one take at spacelab, Montreal.

Acid She Said

GQOM 005 - TLC FAM - ISBETHELO SEGQOM
Pre-Order: gqomoh.bandcamp.com
RELEASE: 19TH JUNE 2017
VIDEOCLIP : www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_P3ixfLeW0

From the sounds of Dominowe in Newlands East in Durban, South Africa, we are now going to the opposite side of the hill in Newlands West with TLC Fam!
For those who are not familiar to the crew, TLC Fam are a crew from the township of Newlands West formed by 23 members.
All the members have different roles in the crew and showcase different talents such as DJ’ing, Producing, Dancing, MCing, Promoting and taxi businesses. TLC fam was established in 2011 as a dance group until 2014 where they met distribution boys " they helps us with gqom tracks production since we were dancing with their gqom music." Dj Magic and Resto tried to learn to make their own TLC gqom in 2014 until now as TLC gqom hosts.
Their sounds represents a strong, powerful Zulu culture from the sounds, lyrics of the songs to the song titles as well.
The main producers Resto and Dj Magic created a very unique and original style of gqom, the strength of TLC is being as a real family where everybody help each others. TLC fam gqom is loud and powerful it can break your speakers which is why they play this out to packed dance floors till the early morning. TLC fam are the originator/creator of the “Taxi Kick” style of Gqom which has a very particular distorted multi layered hard kick made with some specific techniques on fruity loops. The kick is made specifically for taxis in the townships and quickly became viral with the new generation of gqom and core tribe producers in Durban. "Our Gqom is so different from others cause we got our personal style where we put more vocals in our tracks and we got our own kicks [Taxi kick] and our own type of gqom where we came with hard kicks which you can play them in taxis and big speakers ".
"We were just making music just for fun and fan cause here in Durban they didn't take gqom music as real music but now we saw lot of changes in the local scene"
" What we need now is too see gqom music pay world wide and we need to be well known in other countries as we are the one of the gqom kings in South Africa"
As usual here at Gqom Oh! we’re super proud to put out this psychedelic hardcore gqom LP called Isbethelo seGqom which in Zulu means 'The Gqom hit'. It will be released a in a very special limited edition 12” in collaboration with HB production with special 3D graphic designs on the cover which you can check out with the glasses we have provided in each vinyl.

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Isbethelo seGqom

Da Power (main mix) feat. Bhunu da Deejay

Durban’s 23 year-old producer Emo Kid has announced he is to release eight-track debut EP, ‘Gqomtera’, through Gqom Oh! on October 27th.

Although titled ‘Gqomtera’, which Emo Kid explains is a slang term he and others use for the music, the record actually explores Sgubhu — another strain of South African dance music that shares many stylistic parallels with Gqom, though is always written with a 4x4 beat. Like DJ Lag before him, an artist widely considered the king of Gqom, Emo Kid is also considered a pioneer in Durban; “Some people call me the Sgubhu king, but I'm just happy they're enjoying my music”, he says.

Based in Inanda, in the Etafuleni area township in Durban, Emo Kid’s house looks out over an area called Isandlwana — the spot where the Zulu army famously defeated the British Army in the Battle Of Isandlwana in 1879. It is from this backdrop that he has written the majority of his music over the last few years, including new record ‘Gqomtera’. He has also spent time producing for well-established South African artists like DJ Tira, a DJ who has been tipped to win an upcoming Red Bull Culture Clash in Durban.

At eight tracks long, ‘Gqomtera’ provides a comprehensive overview of the Sgubhu sound, with the aim of taking the listener on their own ‘Durban Journey’. “I wanted to show the uniqueness of my own style which I would describe as more musical”, Emo Kid explains, “you can feel the music when you listen but it still hits hard with that Gqom flavour.”

That Gqom flavour, powered by hard, fast, uncompromising drums, provides a solid core from which everything else functions. Bright, shimmering trance synths feature on ‘Futuristic Gqom’, while on ‘Enkwarini’ — “another word for a party or fantastic get together” — vocalist Fawell skips over light, playful Sgubhu rhythms. There’s also space for harder, deeper cuts like ‘Ground Shaker’, cut with a twinkling melody line, the charging pace and power of ‘Insimbi Yase Dubane’ and the anthemic ‘Asbambeki’ featuring local crew TLC Fam, translating loosely to being unstoppable; “It means you can’t catch us basically”, Emo Kid says proudly, “On the dance floor, you can’t touch us, we’re on fire.”

Capturing the raw, street sounds of his city, Emo Kid is the latest Durban artist to take the music global and with ‘Gqomtera’, put Sgubhu firmly on the map.

Gqomtera EP

Emo Kid - Ground Shaker

Brazilian Funk edit of the gqom anthem Omunye from Chief Boima in advance of Foreigner's Dosage event with DJ Lag, Saturday Nov. 10 in Los Angeles.

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Cette semaine, le PAM Club invite Gafacci, l’un des ambassadeurs les plus féconds de la scène électronique ghanéenne. Il nous offre un set propre, fougueux et dans l’air du temps, en lâchant quelques inédits.

Article : https://pan-african-music.com/pam-club-gafacci/

TRACKLIST
1. Beyonce x Gafacci – Formation (Antoine LM Remix)
2. Chefbanku x Gafacci – Haligopter 
3. Gafacci – Dance Plug
4. Gafacci – Azaa (Branko Edit)
5. Gafacci – Welcome to the Party Edit
6. Dj Doraemon – Makhe
7. Nan Kolė x Jakhal – Show
8. Alpha Aura – Ony33 Ohele
9. Modulo TGB – Dumbeemii feat Arrow
10. Nufrika – Bye Bye,Viens feat Gafacci & Voodoo
11. AVI S x MASTIKFUNK feat Taty Agressivo
12. Kensaye – Vas-y
13. Jowaa – Okwe M3B8 Remix
14. Lua Preta – Quero Mais (Jowaa Remix)
15. Chefbanku – (Unreleased)
16. Chefbanku – (Unreleased)
17. Chefbanku – (Unreleased)
18. Chefbanku – (Unreleased)

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