Picture this: you’re deep in a smoky Ibiza club at 4 a.m., the bassline is throbbing like a second heartbeat, and suddenly those unmistakable Temper Trap vocals soar over a rolling, piano-laced groove. Yeah… that actually happened all summer at Pacha, and now the rest of us finally get the studio version. Solomun’s remix of “Giving Up Air” is here, and it’s pure old-school house magic.
The Temper Trap don’t need much introduction. Three albums, two ARIA #1 records, over 2 billion streams worldwide, and “Sweet Disposition” still soundtracking every coming-of-age montage known to man. After a few quieter years, the Melbourne boys kicked off their new chapter with “Lucky Dimes” and now “Giving Up Air” — an absolute euphoric anthem that was already climbing charts and racking up millions of streams in weeks. Enter Solomun, the Bosnian-born, Hamburg-based king of soulful, deep, melodic house. The man who’s flipped tracks for Depeche Mode, Lana Del Rey, and Interpol doesn’t just remix songs — he rebuilds them from the dance floor up.
And rebuild he did. Solomun takes the soaring, stadium-sized emotion of the original and drags it straight onto the floor with a chunky, warm, early-2000s-style house groove. We’re talking crisp hi-hats, a rubbery bassline that bounces like it’s 2004 again, and those classic piano stabs that make you throw your hands in the air whether you want to or not. He keeps Dougy Mandagi’s vocal completely intact (smart move), letting that huge, yearning hook float over the beat like it was always meant to live there. It’s peak-time energy with just enough melancholy to remind you this is still The Temper Trap under the hood.
Anyone who caught Solomun dropping this at Pacha this summer already knows — the crowd reaction was insane. Phones in the air, strangers hugging, full-on communal euphoria. Now that the remix is officially out, expect it to dominate club sets, festival closing slots, and every “melodic house & techno” playlist on Spotify for the foreseeable future.
The timing couldn’t be better either. The Temper Trap are in full comeback mode: sold-out Australian east-coast tour locked in, plus huge shows lined up in London, Toronto, New York, LA, and a New Year’s Eve headline slot at Beyond The Valley festival. “Giving Up Air (Solomun Remix)” feels like the rocket fuel they needed to blast this new era into the stratosphere.
If you love your house music with soul, big pianos, and vocals that give you goosebumps, you need this in your life right now. Old-school house heads, melodic techno lovers, and indie kids who secretly rave — this one’s for all of us.
Stream it, rinse it, lose your mind to it.
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What do you think — does Solomun’s remix top the original for you? Or are you team piano-house forever now? Drop your thoughts below, I’m dying to know!
