Touch Me (Rui da Silva song)

"Touch Me" is a song by Portuguese house producer Rui da Silva and British singer-songwriter Cassandra Fox. The single spent one week at the number-one spot on the UK Singles Chart, the first song by a Portuguese act to do so, and sold over 400,000 copies, earning a Gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry. The song also reached number one in Ireland and Silva's native Portugal while peaking inside the top 10 in Flanders, Greece, and Spain. In the United States, it reached number seven on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart.

"Touch Me"
Single by Rui da Silva featuring Cassandra
Released1 January 2001
GenreProgressive house[1]
Length
  • 8:36 (original mix)
  • 3:40 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Rui da Silva singles chronology
"Touch Me"
(2001)		 "Feel the Love"
(2002)
Cass Fox singles chronology
"Touch Me"
(2001)		 "Out of My Reach"
(2005)
Music video
"Touch Me" on YouTube

The soulful vocal and deep house groove of "Touch Me" earned Rui an award for Best Single in the Muzik magazine Dance Awards 2001.[2] It was the first progressive house song to reach number one in the UK.[1]

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 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.[3]

Critical reception

Bob Stanley of The Guardian reflected that, although the first UK number one of 2001, the song was what he imagined as a child the first number one of the 2000s would sound like, saying he "knew it would be electronic, and may involve a certain amount of silver lurex." He further commented of the song: "The sound of the future had arrived in that most cosmic of years, exactly as it might have been imagined by Stanley Kubrick: spacy, disembodied, oddly beautiful."[4] He did however comment he did not remember the song from when it was a hit,[4] a point reinforced by Dom Passantio of Stylus Magazine, who called it "easily the most forgotten number one of the decade."[1]

Track listings

Charts and certifications

Cassandra Fox's version
"Touch Me"
Single by Cass Fox
from the album Come Here
B-side"Touch Me" (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep vocal)
Released30 October 2006
Genre
Length4:01
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Rollo Armstrong
Cass Fox singles chronology
"Little Bird"
(2006)		 "Touch Me"
(2006)

Island Records released their own version in 2006, re-recording it with the backing track for Cass Fox's 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 30 October. 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."[43]

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 listings

UK CD single[44]

  1. "Touch Me" (Spencer & Hill Mix)
  2. "Touch Me" (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep vocal)
  3. "Touch Me" (Spencer & Hill Full Length Mix)
  4. "Touch Me" (radio edit)

UK 12-inch vinyl[45]

A. "Touch Me" (Spencer & Hill Full Length Mix)
B. "Touch Me" (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep vocal)

Digital download[46]

  1. "Touch Me" (Spencer & Hill radio edit) – 3:27

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