Cascada: Songs and Collaborations
Cascada filled dancefloors with euphoria for 17 years; Everytime We Touch is famous, but their real story goes much deeper.
The euphoric moment
Play 'Everytime We Touch' and you're straight back into 2006. That's Cascada's trick: massive, euphoric Eurodance hooks built to fill a room, delivered by a German trio who turned pop trance into a genuine global export. Natalie Horler is the voice, DJ Manian and DJ Yanou built the tracks from 2004 until 2021. In that time they sold around 30 million records and became the third-most successful German act of the 21st century.
How they got the name and how they broke
They started as 'Cascade' until a legal scrap with producer Kaskade forced a rename to Cascada. That name went on to sell 30 million records. 'Everytime We Touch' broke them worldwide in 2006 (UK #2, US #10), then the hits kept landing: 'Miracle' (2005, UK #3), 'What Hurts the Most' (2007, UK #10, US #52), and finally their first and only UK number one, 'Evacuate the Dancefloor' in 2009. In 2013 they represented Germany at Eurovision with 'Glorious'. By then Cascada wasn't just a club act, it was a national pop institution.
The sound that held together
Big trance builds, pop songwriting, and a chorus built to be shouted rather than sung quietly. If you like Kaskade, Beam or Trance Allstars, you already know the shape of this. The real depth lives in the singles, not the deeper cuts.
What happened after the trio
The group's last release together was 'One Last Dance' in 2021, after which Cascada continued as Natalie Horler's solo project. She's kept the name alive and the sound moving. 2024's Studio 24 was produced with Christian Geller and is proof the story isn't finished.