Afro House Sets Worth Watching Right Now

Afro house travels badly as a single-track export. The swing, the vocal stack, and the slow build need the room. Strip those away and you get a groove without a place.

These fifteen sets sit in the Videojam Afro House All-Time Best canon. One argued line each. Press play and stay.

The picks

1. Black Coffee, Mixmag Live London. Three hours at Village Underground that still feel like the spiritual blueprint before the stadium years.
2. Black Coffee, Cercle at Salle Wagram. Seventy minutes in Paris's oldest ballroom, afro-leaning and cinematic without losing the DJ's hand.
3. Da Capo, Kunye Episode 6. Shimza's South Africa livestream series at home, Seshego-born deep afro house with nowhere to hide.
4. Keinemusik on Mayan Warrior, Burning Man 2022. &ME, Rampa, and Adam Port on the art car, two and a half hours of Berlin-meets-desert swing.
5. Sun-El Musician, Mixmag Lab Johannesburg. Rooftop Lab energy from the producer behind Africa to the World, daylight and patience.
6. Caiiro b2b Enoo Napa, Mixmag Lab Johannesburg. Back-to-back ancestral and techy afro house on the Venue Thirteen rooftop.
7. Keinemusik, EXIT Festival 2023. Closing the mts Dance Arena into the morning, festival-scale without dropping the groove.
8. Shimza, Cercle at Citadelle de Sisteron. Tembisa-born afro house inside a French fortress overlooking the town.
9. Culoe De Song, Boiler Room Stay True South Africa. Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, streamed live in 2015 when the format still felt risky.
10. Shimza, Mixmag Lab Johannesburg masterclass. Early Lab Johannesburg document of the DJ who later built Kunye so South African artists could film at home.
11. Black Coffee, Tomorrowland Belgium 2018. Mainstage afro house at festival scale, still readable as a set rather than a drop reel.
12. Themba, Brooklyn Mirage season close. The last hour supporting Black Coffee, South African swing in a New York warehouse.
13. Sparrow & Barbossa, Réciprocité live in Tulum. Album-as-live-band performance, keys and drums and vocals, not a standard DJ mirror.
14. &ME, Boiler Room Berlin. Keinemusik's &ME in the Boiler Room format, Berlin-floor afro house without the desert costume.
15. MoBlack at the Giza Pyramids for Zamna. Label-boss afro house against one of the only backdrops that can out-argue a thumbnail.

Where to go next

• Best Afro House Sets of All Time: the full unranked canon.
• Afro House: the genre hub for related videos and continuous play.
• DJ Sets: weekly chart when you want what is moving this week.

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