Moving House Forward by DESCENDANTS with DJ Lag [UPSTAIRS]
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About This Event
Live event at Public Records
About Moving House Forward
Moving House Forward arrives at Public Records (upstairs) as a New York club-night study in South African electronic lineages. The Descendants collective treats the DJ set as a conversation between local floor habits and amapiano’s swing, afro tech’s glide, and gqom’s percussive force, with Vigro Deep anchoring the bill. There’s no stated NYC premiere history attached, but the booking reflects how these sounds have shifted from diaspora circulation into the city’s regular programming. One clear choice stands out: momentum and transitions are valued over spectacle.
About the Artists
Descendants
Descendants is an electronic DJ group that brings a contemporary club-music frame to New York City dance floors, including appearances at Knockdown Center. Their work is often presented in dialogue with South African sounds, sharing lineups with artists such as Dlala Thukzin and Vigro Deep.
Vigro Deep
Vigro Deep is the professional name of South African DJ and producer Kamogelo Phetla, associated with the early wave of amapiano’s rise in club culture. His sets move between amapiano’s rolling log drums and neighboring currents like gqom and afropiano, with a producer’s attention to structure and drop placement.
DJ Lag
Lwazi Asanda Gwala, better known as DJ Lag, is a South African DJ and record producer. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of gqom, a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010s in Durban, South Africa.