New Zealand's Gasp Just Dropped Some 90s House Knowledge With "YouKnow"

Located on the South Island of New Zealand, the city of Dunedin's musical output is synonymous with the jangly guitars emanating from the mighty Flying Nun stable since the late 70s, but rising producer Gasp, AKA Eden Burns, is flipping the script by releasing some of the finest house that country has to offer, sending steadily increasing ripple waves from his Kiwi base. His latest track, "YouKnow," is a dead-set monster loaded with huge, dynamic beats.

Gasp gained worldwide attention last year with the release of "Lagoons." Around that time Gasp spoke to us about the New Zealand dance climate and served up an exclusive mix. "YouKnow" charts a more direct course to the dancefloor than "Lagoons," stepping into a darker, more direct territory, away from a sense of ambient warmth while still retaining an affinity for electronic inflection—bot tonal and compositional—of the 90s.

It's a sign of bigger things to come for Gasp, with "YouKnow" getting a US release later in the year on Tessier-Ashpool Recordings.

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Lachlan Kanoniuk is the editor of THUMP Australia/New Zealand. He is on Twitter.