PAM meets Menzi at the 2021 Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht. A gqom pioneer and Durban native, Menzi is empowering the dance music cultural underground with his dark and energetic mixes.

Menzi features in this new PAM Club episode. In a new mixtape, he delivers half an hour of dark and visceral gqom, the style that first forged the South African DJ and producer’s personality. “The […]

Pioneer of the Gqom movement, the South African DJ and producer Menzi makes his debut on the Hakuna Kulala label. 27 Year old Menzi Shabane from the Umlazi township of Durban South Africa was one of […]

This is a story of explosive creativity, diehard cultural exchange, and avant-garde community from Kampala to Hamburg, with Nyege Nyege and Afropollination.

Every month, PAM browses the pan-African scenes to offer a selection of ten fresh releases.This April we’re dancing to DJ Danifox’s rhythms, vibing to Mau from Nowhere’s lyrics and time travelling with Les Abranis.

PAM sat down with Scratcha DVA aka Scratchclart aka Scratcha before his b2b with Durban native Menzi for the first edition of Boiler Room fest to talk about the outsider essence of the gqom, grime connection. 

Passionate ambassador of noisy and experimental sounds, the Kenyan Makossiri offers us a dark and abrasive PAM Club that brilliantly reconciles industrial techno and East African rhythms, just like her productions. At the beginning of […]

This year was more electric than ever. From Lagos to Dar el Salaam, London, Durban and Kampala, here’s our selection of electronic albums that shook the dancefloors are broke our speakers in 2022.