"Scorchio" is an instrumental by Welsh DJ Sasha and English musician Darren Emerson, credited mononymously as Emerson. It was released on 18 September 2000 by Sasha's vanity label at that time, Excession, through Deconstruction Records. The song peaked at number 23 on the UK Singles Chart in 2000, and reached number 1 on the UK Dance Chart. The song also charted in the Netherlands, and has been included on numerous compilations.
Background and composition
The collaboration had started after Sasha and Emerson met at a show in Uruguay that they had both been performing at, shortly following Emerson's departure from electronic music group Underworld. The song was co-written by Sasha, Emerson and Spooky member Charlie May, the latter performed song's main riff, on a Roland Jupiter-8 synthesiser.
The instrumental was named after a recurring sketch in the BBC comedy sketch show The Fast Show.
The song was written with a tempo of 135 beats per minute in the key of F minor. On the topic of the song's composition, Sasha stated that "[it] just came together so effortlessly, [...] and it really captured a moment".
Reception In the liner notes of the Kiss mix album Kiss House Nation 2001, Mixmag music editor Matthew Kershaw named "Scorchio" among 2000's "uncategorisable" club tracks, highlighting how it "managed to have the most outrageously sunny, Ibiza-fied main riff but also a dark, progressive edge."
Formats and track listings
Charts Chart (2000) Peakposition UK Singles (Official Charts Company) 23 UK Dance Singles (Official Charts Company) 1 Ireland (IRMA) 26 Netherlands (MegaCharts) 88
See also List of UK Dance Singles Chart number ones of 2000
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