tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post6220610506833908070..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Comments About South Africa's Gqom Music From Four YouTube Discussion Threads Of Gqom Music Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-80824728237834273442018-08-07T09:49:11.779-04:002018-08-07T09:49:11.779-04:00That said, I've also read a number of comments...That said, I've also read a number of comments from South Africans who consider Gqom music as part of Afro House music. <br /><br />Here's a response to my question about Gqom music in the discussion thread for this YouTube video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wVpFCHeyM&lc=z22nu1ppxperwxm0facdp43bdbh2jnju0akkn15aie1w03c010c.1533559657448205" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wVpFCHeyM&lc=z22nu1ppxperwxm0facdp43bdbh2jnju0akkn15aie1w03c010c.1533559657448205</a> DJ Maphorisa - Midnight Starring ft. DJ Tira, Busiswa, Moonchild Sanelly<br /><br />Rocboy SA, 2018<br />"+Azizi Powell also afro house is an umbrella term for African house so gqom is a sub genre others include tribal house,afrotech, afrodeep, commercial house etc".<br />-snip-<br />The word "also" was included because RocboySA replied to my question about the meaning of the frequent mention of the month "December" in contemporary South African music discussion threads (i.e. "It's a December banger"). Rocboy SA explained that December is summer in South Africa, festive month because of Christmas and holidays. He also shared that a number of records are released that month.<br />-snip- <br />Thanks Rocboy SA for your responses to my questions.<br /><br />Btw, the word "banger" isn't used in the USA, but that word (which I think originated in Great British) means a hit (very good) record.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-77515532273868804332018-08-04T21:20:22.325-04:002018-08-04T21:20:22.325-04:00Here's an excerpt about Gqom from http://www.f...Here's an excerpt about Gqom from <a href="http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/05/gqom-feature/" rel="nofollow">http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/05/gqom-feature/</a> Gqom: A deeper look at South Africa’s new generation of house BY BEN MURPHY, JAN 5 2016 <br /><br />...“In Africa, electronic music is bubbling. Across the vast continent, fresh machine-generated sounds are popping off, sometimes drawing on outside influences, sometimes made within their own creative bubble. In Egypt, electro chaabi, the computerized update of urban folk music, recently caught the ear of Kode9 and other forward-thinking UK DJs. Afrobeats, with its hip-hop leaning, accessible 4/4 vibe, has travelled beyond its origins in Nigeria and Ghana to grow in the UK and beyond, whilst in South Africa, house and its many regional variants like kwaito have been popular for a long time. Its most visible house artist, Black Coffee, is a superstar at home and popular worldwide.<br /><br />Of all these exciting, recently unfolding forms, gqom could be the most outlandish. Emerging mostly from the townships of Durban, South Africa’s second most populous city, gqom is a raw dance music blueprint with a polyrhythmic bustle – part broken beat, part chrome-plated synth menace. Skeletal, robotic, unsettling and irresistible, it sounds somewhat influenced by UK sounds like grime and funky, but has nothing to do with them, says gqom producer Citizen Boy, part of the Mafia Boyz collective.<br /><br />"I think the style was invented when some unknown guy from elokishini, the ghetto, got hold of production software and began experimenting and making something he could dance to, and gqom was born,” says (brilliantly named) producer Emo Kid, but some reckon that it mutated from other previously existing styles. Gqom shares some similarities with the local house sound, despite its non-4/4 pattern, and it’s often blended at house parties by DJs playing a mix of gqom, sgubhu and hip-hop.<br /><br />“I think I heard about gqom music in 2012,” says Citizen Boy, who believes the style comes from “an old genre called Sgxumseni, which means ‘make us jump’.” He adds: “DJ Clock and DJ Gukwa used to produce it, then after a while Naked Boyz arose and they took the spot like it’s the genre gqom. It’s almost the same as gqom, but the difference is that Sgxumseni is a four-step and gqom is a broken beat — it can be a three-step or two-step beat.”<br /><br />“Gqom music relates a lot to house music but it is also slightly different from house music, it is very tribal and the kick drum has an unfamiliar pattern,” adds Emo Kid. “It is very easy to identify a gqom sound because it is unique.”...Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-57507925570829539052018-08-04T21:13:35.218-04:002018-08-04T21:13:35.218-04:00A number of comments that I've read from South...A number of comments that I've read from South Africans in YouTube discussion threads for Gqom videos are emphatic that Gqom and House music are two separate music genres.<br /><br />Perhaps it should be noted that some (most?) articles about Gqom don't make that distinction. For example, the very brief Wikipedia artile on Gqom indicates that "Gqom /ᶢǃʱòm/ (Igqomu)[pronunciation?] is a style of house music that emerged a decade into the 21st century from the city of Durban in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.[1] The style features wavy and bass beats produced with software such as FL Studio, and has gained prominence in London.[2][3] The word gqom, sometimes expressed as qgom, igqom, gqomu or variants thereof, derives from an onomatopoeic combination of click consonants from the Zulu & the Xhosa language that represents a hitting drum"... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gqom" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gqom</a>.<br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com