Gqom is South African rhythm tradition shaped by the social reality of neoliberalism under a corrupted ANC, after Mandela having had to make major concessions to foreign pressure, unable to carry out the land and property reforms that were central to his post-independence program --- high crime rates, high levels of social tension and conflict, high levels of discontent and anxiety.As manic, brooding, and heavy as the best doom metal, but you know, FUNKY. Some real scrunch-face type stuff with relentless energy; most definitely not for the faint of heart.The structure and form is drastically different from "conventional" dance music of the Afro-American tradition: almost no straight 4/4 patterns, instead, all triplets like house-tempo Juke/Footwork; sometimes there are major sound events that happen only once in a track; the drum rolls are often placed at the BEGINNING of bars rather than the end; the highs most often keep a rigid repeating pattern, while the drums and bass do variation underneath (flips the scrip completely). 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘