[1] It was released on 18 September 2000 by Sasha's vanity label at that time, Excession, through Deconstruction Records.

[4] 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.

[1] The song was written with a tempo of 135 beats per minute in the key of F minor.

[5] On the topic of the song's composition, Sasha stated that "[it] just came together so effortlessly, [...] and it really captured a moment".

[1] 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.