SIDEPIECE, the GRAMMY® Award-nominated dance duo comprised of multimillion-streaming DJ/producers NITTI (Ricky Mears) and Party Favor (Dylan Ragland) – are celebrating the end of summer by teaming up with soulful R&B songstress, writer and producer Midian (Beyoncé, Justin Bieber) for their new anthem, ‘Who Created Love (Feat. Midian),’ available now via Big Beat Records.
‘Who Created Love’
Written and produced by SIDEPIECE, ‘Who Created Love’ has quickly proven a show-stopping fan favorite during SIDEPIECE’s explosive live sets throughout the summer, including a special performance that saw them joined onstage by Midian at Los Angeles, CA’s HARD Summer. More than just a House track, the song captivates the essence of summer with an optimistic and euphoric approach. This leads to a massive sense of loving and caring on the dancefloor. The track marks the latest in a seemingly non-stop run of recent bangers from SIDEPIECE, including SIDEPIECE & Disco Lines’ euphoric ‘Give It To Me Good’ and the duo’s sizzling collaboration with Croatian house artist San Pacho, ‘Taka.’
SIDEPIECE is continuing to travel North America on an epic live schedule highlighted by headline sets, top-billed festival appearances – including EDC Orlando (November 8) – and much more.
SIDEPIECE
While Dylan Ragland and Ricky Mears meant to start a side project, they weren’t expecting to create SIDEPIECE – a GRAMMY® Award-nominated house duo that’s clocked more than 362M global streams since its inception. The two creatives – Ragland makes music as fan favorite Party Favor while Mears produces as dancefloor igniter NITTI – first linked via DM in 2019 to share track ideas. Sensing their musical chemistry, they jumped on Facetime. By the end of the call, they’d registered the @youasidepiece social handles and their own figurative sidepiece had been born.
“It started out as a fun passion project because we both love and care about house music,” says Dylan Ragland, “but it’s grown so much bigger than we originally planned.” Indeed, success came fast for the pair. SIDEPIECE’s second single, the 2020 Diplo collaboration “On My Mind,” proved a global smash, earning more than 225M global streams, Gold and Platinum certifications in a dozen countries around the world, and a prestigious 2021 GRAMMY® Award nomination for “Best Dance Recording.”
A flurry of additional hit singles followed, with SIDEPIECE carving out a signature sound rooted in catchy vocals – “The most important element,” says Ragland – and an ever- intoxicating bump-and-grind house groove. Spanning tech house, bass house, and beyond, tracks including “Acrobatic,” “Temptation,” “Sextacy” and “Reborn” are all quintessentially SIDEPIECE – party-starting club records with a pop-lean and serious sex appeal.
For the west coast fans, SIDEPIECE will be having their biggest show in LA yet with their X-Rated at the Torch show which takes place at The LA Memorial Coliseum on November 9. Joining them during the show are San Pacho b2b Joshwa, Kaluna, Aluna b2b Kaleena Zanders, Camden Cox, and Myles O’Neal.
Create new dance moves, in the name of love, with SIDEPIECE’s newest release ‘ Who Created Love’ :
