Faithless Insomnia – Disclosure’s 2025 Edit Still Won’t Sleep

I found out about the new Insomnia (Disclosure’s 2025 Edit) the way most good news lands these days: Faithless. Disclosure. Insomnia. Thirty years. Out now.

For a second I just sat there, staring at the words. You move flats, change cities, grow up, grow old, you swap clubs for early shifts and school runs – but that bassline still knows where the light switch is in your head. Insomnia is one of those.

And now Disclosure stepped into that room with their own tools. Live drums. Acid bassline. Glastonbury-tested edit. An official release made at the request of Sister Bliss herself. That is a whole chapter of UK dance history turning a fresh page.

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A 30-Year Loop That Still Feels Like 3AM

The original Insomnia landed in 1995, on Reverence, and quietly changed the music scene worldwide. It climbed from the UK Dance Chart to number one in Finland, Norway, Switzerland, and drifted into the global bloodstream.

Three decades later, the track is triple platinum in the UK, still high on “greatest dance tracks of all time” lists, still teaching younger producers what tension feels like when you actually earn it over eight minutes, not over eight bars. For me, that track is a time stamp. That line “I can’t get no sleep” was not a cute hook. It was a shared diary entry.

So when Disclosure touch Insomnia, they are walking into a room full of worldwide-spread memories. And they act like they understand that weight. Their 2025 edit started as a live tool – something built for their sets, debuted at Glastonbury with live drums tightening the groove and an acid bassline cutting through the familiar arrangement. The crowd reaction did the rest. Sister Bliss heard it, reached out, and the “one-off rework” suddenly became an official collaboration between generations.

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Disclosure’s 2025 Edit: Respect, Sweat, And An Acid Line

You still get the skeleton you know: the slow-burn arc, the vocal, the sense that something big is coming. But Disclosure push the drums forward – heavier, more live, more “you feel this in your ribs first, then in your thoughts.” They called Insomnia one of the greatest electronic music songs of all time and you can hear that reverence in how they keep the core intact while giving it the kind of low-end punch that belongs to now, not 1995.

Sister Bliss herself described the result as a great, funky tribute to Maxi Jazz and to the UK dance scene that raised both Faithless and Disclosure. She talked about how emotional it felt seeing their influence alive on stage with a new generation, how proud Maxi would be watching the track still fill fields and tents around the world.

As a listener who grew up with the original and now lives with more bills than hair gel, I hear something else in that too: this is how dance music keeps its memory without turning into a museum. There is also that quiet detail: the edit is released under Sony, with Faithless and Disclosure both credited, and pushed as part of the 30-year mark of Insomnia.

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Maxi Jazz, Underworld, Donna Summer, And The Ghosts In The Kick Drum

Maxi Jazz passed away in 2022, and everything related to Insomnia carries that loss now. The verses were always personal – insomnia, poverty, restless nights – and in hindsight they also capture a whole slice of club culture in the 90s.

Sister Bliss has spoken about the track’s roots: long nights with Underworld records, the shimmer of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love, the obsession with building tension and holding it. You can hear those ghosts in the new edit too.

I like to think of this 2025 version as a conversation between timelines. Maxi’s voice still leads the way, carrying lines that feel even heavier now that he is gone. Disclosure wrap that voice in a modern shell that lets a new generation meet the track in their own context – streaming platforms, festival livestreams, TikTok clips, the whole circus.

 

So I hit play again. And Insomnia keeps doing what it has always done: hold you awake in the best possible way.

If you’re reading this with wired eyes, half-empty mug and a brain that refuses to shut down – welcome back to the club. Faithless lit the sign above the door in 1995. Disclosure just changed the bulbs.