Filmed live DJ set by Goldmax for Boiler Room Durban, released in 2026. The performance celebrates gqom, the electronic genre born in Durban over a decade ago, when producers fused Zulu traditions and a long legacy of South African electronic music into a movement that soon went global. Right up against the crowd, Goldmax unfolds a hypnotic set weaving the style’s recent mutations — iDombolo, isqinsi, sgubhu — through to the darker, harder edges of uThayela and ghost gqom. The capture, true to the Boiler Room format, restores the collective trance, the tribal basslines and the broken tempos that define this club music deeply rooted in South African culture. A global reference for sessions filmed for YouTube, Boiler Room here documents the vitality of a scene too rarely seen on international platforms. This live recording offers a sonic journey into contemporary world music, between Zulu heritage and electronic avant-garde. Filmed in Durban, the birthplace of the genre, the set stands as a vivid snapshot of a style that keeps reinventing itself while carrying the imprint of its South African origins.
Personnel & credits
- Goldmax — DJ
