17 August 2006
I Never Knew That Was A Cover Version: An Occasional Series. The chorus and title of Cascada’s ‘Everytime We Touch’ are taken from a 1992 soft rock hit on the continent (number one in Norway!) for Maggie Reilly, who featured here a long time back as the singer of Mike Oldfield’s 1983 Irish chart-topper ‘Moonlight Shadow’. That’s smart business by Cascada: borrow a proven hit from a different genre so it still sounds fresh and new for your target audience.
Cascada, I should add, isn’t the name of the singer on the cover (above). That is a Natalie Horler; Cascada is the name of the German Eurodance act comprising her and two DJs. It’s better than not being included on the cover at all, as befell Reilly on ‘Moonlight Shadow’. Indeed, it’s right and proper that Horler now equals Cascada, since she’s this record’s money-maker: her energy lifts it above the massed ranks of generic Euro-techno. You can also catch in its depths that squelchy, scuzzy electro bassline, making this what our American friends call EDM. Rather than an EDM build and drop, though, ‘Everytime We Touch’ drops out completely for its schmaltzy romantic verses before crashing back in with thumping beats and airhorn synths for the chorus. Was your local nightclub now doing the slow set and the floor-fillers in the space of one track? I suppose no one comes to feel-good Euro-rave-ups like this for the subtlety.
