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After Dark: The New Sound of the Suburbs
Backyard sessions are quietly becoming the most important rooms in African music. We spent a night inside one.
By Lebo Pitsizw·16 June 2026·10 min
In a quiet cul-de-sac in Sandton, a generator hums into life. By midnight, fifty people are packed into a garden, listening to a producer most of them have never heard of. By morning, three of those people will have signed her.
This is the new circuit: not clubs, not festivals, but private gardens, rooftops and garages where the continent's next sound is being built in real time.


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