Review
Genre and Mood
Recable’s Big Jet Plane (Recable Remix) carries an indie folk favourite into deep house and electronic territory, a remix that keeps the song’s wistful heart while giving it a gentle groove. The mood is dreamy, uplifting and nostalgic, the feeling of staring out of a window and imagining being somewhere else entirely.
Song Summary
Big Jet Plane is Angus & Julia Stone’s song about the urge to fly away with someone, sung in their soft, close harmonies. A remix of it lives or dies by how much of that tenderness survives. Recable’s version builds a smooth, rolling house foundation under the melody, with warm bass and a steady kick, and lets the song’s daydreaming quality float above it. It is a remix for sunset sets and long drives rather than peak-time chaos.
Musical Breakdown
The remix follows a classic deep house arc, introducing its groove first and then letting the familiar melody take flight over it.
Intro
A soft kick and light percussion set a relaxed tempo, with airy pads drifting in to suggest open skies.
Build-up
The bassline arrives, round and warm, and the groove fills out while fragments of the melody begin to appear.
Main Section
The song’s vocal melody unfolds over the beat, its gentle, yearning quality preserved and lifted by the steady pulse beneath it.
Chorus
The title hook lands with a little more brightness in the mix, the most uplifting moment of the remix and the one that sticks.
Bridge
The beat drops away briefly and the atmosphere opens up, a weightless pause like a plane breaking through cloud.
Outro
The groove eases off gradually, leaving the melody to fade into the distance like a plane disappearing over the horizon.
Artistic Context
The original Big Jet Plane by the Australian siblings Angus & Julia Stone was released in 2010 and became one of their best-loved songs, topping triple j’s Hottest 100 that year. It has attracted many dance remixes since, from the Goodwill and Hook N Sling rework to later house versions. Recable’s take is collected on Traffic (Recable Originals and Remixes), a compilation of the producer’s own tracks and reworks.
Impact and Reception
Recable’s remix is one of the quieter entries in the song’s long life on the dancefloor, a version that found its way onto deep house playlists rather than the charts. It belongs on this playground because it treats the original with care, adding motion without losing the song’s softness. Put it on when you need a short escape and let it take off.
