| Condition | Sealed |
| Manufacturer | Italy |
| Format | EP, Reissue, 45 RPM |
| Date of release | 2000/2022 |
| Barcode | 2929670068371 |
The UK chart’s first No. 1 single of 1981 was the saccharine ‘There’s No One Quite Like Grandma’; in 1991, it was Iron Maiden’s turbo-charged ‘Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter’. But to kick off 2001, neither a slice of school-choir sentimentality nor a slab of aging rock-god theatrics would do. After all, this was the dawn of a new millennium, technically speaking, when we were all supposed to be zipping around in space. We needed the aural equivalent of a sleek, chrome-plated rocket ship.
That song was ‘Touch Me’, a collaborative track by producer and DJ Rui Da Silva, and North London vocalist and songwriter Cassandra “Cass” Fox. Released on Da Silva’s own Kismet label, the track is almost minimalist in construction, basically serving as a skeletal framework for Fox’s yearning lyrics and bluesy vocals. At its core, it’s little more than a two-chord minor-key pulse, with various bits of filigree introduced at various points to add a bit of dynamics. It was absolutely massive, eventually reaching sales of 400,000.
