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Touch Me (Rui da Silva song)

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Released
  
1 January 2001

Genre
  
House, trance

Format
  
12-inch single CD single

Length
  
8:36 (original mix) 3:40 (radio edit)

Label
  
Kismet Records/64 Records/BMG

Writer(s)
  
Cassandra Fox, Rui da Silva, Gary Kemp

"Touch Me" is a song by Portuguese house producer Rui da Silva and British singer-songwriter Cassandra Fox. The single is arguably Rui da Silva's most popular song, spending one week at the number-one spot on the UK Singles Chart, the first song by a Portuguese act to do so, lasting a total of 14 weeks on the chart alone and selling over 300,000 copies. The soulful vocal, trance chords, and deep house groove of "Touch Me" earned Rui an award for Best Single in the Muzik Magazine Dance Awards 2001, as well as a nomination for Best Breakthrough Artist at the Dance Star Awards.

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Background and writing

Vocalist Cassandra Fox wrote the song and co-produced the hit single with Rui (Cass writing the lyrics, Fox/Silva writing the backing track) hanging out at Silva's studio after the two met when he and a friend saw her performing in the West End.

Content

Da Silva told Billboard that the song originally contained a guitar part which was inspired by Spandau Ballet's "Chant No. 1". This part was removed after difficulties in getting clearance on the publishing. The removal of this part resulted in the record's release being delayed from Christmas 2000 until the beginning of 2001.

Versions

  1. "Touch Me" (Original Mix)
  2. "Touch Me" (Saffron Mix)
  3. "Touch Me" (Radio Edit)
  4. "Touch Me" (Double 99 Club Mix)
  5. "Touch Me" (Double 99 Dub Mix)
  6. "Touch Me" (Peace Division Higher Mix)
  7. "Touch Me" (Peace Division Higher Dub)

Cassandra Fox's version

Island Records released their own version in 2006, re-recording it with the backing track for her album Come Here. Information of the re-release was posted on her personal website. "4 years after the track was originally number one, the track written and sung by Cass with Rui da Silva is being re-released on October 30th. Remixes come from X-Press 2, Tom Neville and Spencer & Hill and have already been getting plays on Radio 1 (Judge Jules) and Kiss FM."

Cassandra Fox left Island Records, and decided not to move forward with the re-release of Touch Me. She went on the Faithless Tour instead.

Track listing

CD single
  1. Touch Me (Spencer & Hill Radio Edit)
  2. Touch Me (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep Vocal)
  3. Touch Me (Tom Neville Mix)
  4. Touch Me (Spencer & Hill Full Length Mix)
  5. Touch Me (Tom Elmhirst Radio Edit ) *Hidden Track
12"
  1. Touch Me (Spencer & Hill Full Length Mix)
  2. Touch Me (Tom Neville Mix)
  3. Touch Me (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep Vocal)
Download only (Via 7 Digital and iTunes)
  1. Touch me (Mike Koglin & Jono Grant Remix)

References

Touch Me (Rui da Silva song) Wikipedia
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