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If gqom has a CEO, it's probably DJ Lag. The South African artist has found enormous success since teaching himself to produce and DJ as a teenager in Durban, to the point that he famously worked with Beyoncé on the Lion King soundtrack. His style of gqom, a heaving, powerful type of club music, has become sleek and often catchy, growing from classic tracks like "Ice Drop" into thrilling hybrids like "Lucifer," his collaboration with amapiano artist Lady Du. 

Like so much dance music around the world at this point, DJ Lag's newest productions are informed by the red-hot, ultra-suave sound of amapiano, another South African-born genre. His long-awaited debut album, Meeting With The King, features plenty of flirtations with amapiano and house styles, working with some of South Africa's most talented artists and coming up with a sound he's christened Gqom 2.0. You can hear DJ Lag's expansive, exciting vision in his RA Podcast, an hour of cutting-edge South African dance music that lays out some of the sounds (and artists) you'll be hearing all year, from amapiano to Afrotech and Afro house and many intriguing things in between.

Read more including an interview with DJ Lag: https://ra.co/podcast/820

RA podcast

RA.820 DJ Lag

Free Download (gate): https://hypeddit.com/benaiah/ijustwannarock
Buy on Bandcamp (no gates): https://djbenaiah.bandcamp.com/track/lil-uzi-vert-x-thegqomboss-i-just-wanna-rock-benaiahs-gqom-blend

Lil Uzi Vert X TheGqomBoss - I Just Wanna Rock (Benaiah's Gqom Blend)

DJ Plead - 21 April 2025

C2C Festival with Devon Turnbull @ The Lot Radio 05-05-2025

rRoxymore - 14 May 2025

1 hour of my 4 hour set at the inimitable Canary Test in LA.

DJ Plead - 05 June 2025

Some percussive nonsense I'm guessing!

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DJ Plead b2b Baby Leo @ The Lot Radio 06-06-2025

AceMo @ The Lot Radio 06-24-2025

It was an honor to close out the alley this year. Unfortunately, the set got cut short 30 mins, but I'm grateful for what I get to share. Watching the sunrise touch the friends, after a night of total debauchery and anarchist joy, i played some deep techno tracks was a sight I'll hold in my memory for a long ass time.

Feral Alley Closing Set (Sunrise)

Party starter & dancehall connoisseur Lil C live in session.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/lil-c/episodes/lil-c-8th-august-2025

Pum Pum Power Hour w/ Lil C & Akanbi 080825

LIVWUTANG 12.8.25

Generic House Lyric

🎥WATCH FULL PERFORMANCE🎥 : https://bit.ly/31bhKfA 

🚨My live set features bops from @LRGROOVE, @RealDJLag, @TonyQuattro, @asemanual, @acemo, @ScratchaDVA & moi, @dj-swisha + more!🚨

KG | Boiler Room Festival | Day 3: Bass (OCT 2019)

Mez & Merky ACE - Babylon 3
Riko Dan & Scratcha DVA - Mak & Cheez Dub
KG & Scratcha DVA - B2L
Bamz & Scratcha DVA - Tell Dem Agen
Hagan - Ultra
KG & Scratcha DVA - Touch
Scotti Dee - RIA
Lady Lykez - Mega Wasp Vocal
KG & Scratcha DVA - Strings of Death
Killjoy - Dont Watch That
Bamz & Scratcha DVA - Hooliganz [Feat. Princess Nyah]
Scratcha DVA - X
Hagan - Ghana Step
KG & Scratcha DVA - Baga DMs
Griffit Vigo - Run
Lady Lykez & Lioness - Muhammad Ali [DJ Tess & Nan Kolé Dub Mix]
LR Groove & Toya Delazey - Fak' uSos Instrumental
Mak 10 & Bala Bala Boyz - Mad In The Fete
Scratcha DVA - Tapped

BBC Radio 1 -  Soundsystem Guest Mix / Toddla T Show

We delve into the driving mid-tempo grooves of South Africa's emerging Amapiano scene. Off the back of a new EP release, New York's DJ Moma delivers his unique R&B inspired take on the genre - while Sydney's Kristelle Morin mixes it up with other South African genres.

Thanks to @MOMANYC & @KRISTELLE-MORIN 

TRACKLIST!!
http://bit.ly/momakristelletracklist

INSTAGRAM.. 
https://www.instagram.com/djmoma/
https://www.instagram.com/djkristelle/

TRACKLIST

DJ MOMA & KRISTELLE MORIN | AMAPIANO MIX

Pre-order: https://cotchinternational.bandcamp.com/track/ngomso-feat-moonchild-sanelly-dj-lag-remix

@stiff-pap featuring @moonchild-sanelly's 'Ngomso' on @cotch-international gets an atmospheric remix from @realdjlag that packs strong percussive hits.

"It’s only fitting to wrap up a draining year like 2020 with the dark industrial sounds of gqom. This remix is the face punch to 2020 we’ve been waiting for. We hope everyone has a good 2021 and "ubumnandi abupheli”."

RA.820 DJ Lag

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