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Touch and Go
12+ albums
acid jazzchilloutjazzelectronictrip-hop
about
Touch And Go is the progeny of an unholy alliance between television composer David Lowe, veteran radio presenter and music journalist Charlie Gillett and co-founder of Oval Music, Gordon Nelki. Charlie and Gordon have wide-ranging tastes in popular music and a fondness for something just that bit different. Paul Hardcastle’s 19 was one of their earlier successes. Having worked together on the Dreamcatcher project, the trio conceived a new concept based around largely instrumental jazz-based tunes with an ‘economical’ use of lyrics — quite unconventional by today’s chart standards. Influences for the project ranged from The Champs’ Tequila and Mongo Santamaria’s Watermelon Man to Louis Armstrong’s Dippermouth Blues. Within a few days, Dave had put together Would You…? using a sampled vocal clip and trumpet jazz licks played by James Lynch, over a Latin rhythm. Released in October 1998, Would You…? reached number 3 in the UK charts, remained in the top ten for a month and subsequently became a hit all over Europe and many other parts of the world. The single sold half a million copies worldwide, and was included on literally hundreds of compilations whose total sales exceed ten million copies. Touch And Go’s album, I Find You Very Attractive followed up the success of Would You…? and included three more singles Straight To Number One, So Hot, and Tango In Harlem, all of which are widely played on radio throughout Europe, especially in Eastern Europe where Touch and Go is o
top songs
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Straight To Number One
37,0492Tango in Harlem
31,1753Would You...?
28,0824Straight To... Number One [Dreamcatcher's Remix]
18,5685Would You Go To Bed With Me
14,4146Straight To...number One
12,4947Would You... ? (Trailermen Go To Rio Mix)
12,1458Would You... ? (Radio Edit)
12,0639Life's a Beach
10,92610Straight To...number One (Dreamcatcher's mix)
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