SIDEPIECE is the brainchild of Dylan Ragland (Party Favor) and Ricky Mears (Nitti Gritti). At only three years old, SIDEPIECE has already racked up some of the most prestigious awards in dance music, being nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 2021, as well as having the #1 most supported dance record in the world in 2020, and achieving platinum and gold certifications in a dozen countries for their breakout hit "On My Mind." The duo has rapidly become one of the most sought after house acts in the industry, playing some of the most iconic venues and festivals around the globe like Lollapalooza, EDC, Tomorrowland, Bonnaroo, HARD Summer, and more, and racking up over half a billion plays across their catalogue on streaming platforms to date.
Highly esteemed producers in their own right, Party Favor and Nitti Gritti came together in 2019 to form SIDEPIECE and saw them unite their styles and help them earn a reputation for sliding between genres on the electronic music spectrum, whilst keeping firm footholds in the bass and trap worlds. Party Favor is Ragland's genre-bending bass project counting over 400 million streams and multiple chart toppers to his name globally, having collaborated with the likes of Gucci Mane, Baauer, Dillon Francis, A$AP Ferg, and more, and just released his sophomore artist LP RESET through Ultra featuring K.Flay, Lil Gnar, Elohim, Marc E.Bassy, and more. Whereas, Nitti Gritti is a 12x platinum, Latin Grammy Award and a Latin Billboard Music Award winning producer for his work on Bad Bunny's album 'x100pre' and the song "200MPH," along with recently being given the #14 spot in the '2020 Best Producers' ranking.
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While Dylan Ragland and Ricky Mears meant to start a side project, they weren't totally expecting to create SIDEPIECE, the GRAMMY-nominated house duo that's clocked more than 537 million global streams since its inception.
The two producers - Ragland makes music as fan favorite Party Favor and 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 side piece had been born.
"It started out as a fun passion project because we both love and care about house music," says 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," aggregated more than 222 million Spotify streams and earned the trio a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Recording. A flurry of hit singles have followed, with SIDEPIECE carving out a signature sound rooted in catchy vocals - "the most important element," says Ragland - and the ever-intoxicating bump and grind house groove. Spanning tech house, bass house and beyond, tracks including "Acrobatic," "Temptation," "Sextacy" and their latest -- the dancefloor banger "A Milli (SIDEPIECE Remix)," their remix of the iconic Lil Wayne track -- are quintessentially SIDEPIECE: party-starting club records with a pop-lean and serious sex appeal.
"Huge streaming numbers are cool," says Mears, "but seeing people in the crowd singing along to the song, that makes it all feel real."
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Highly esteemed producers in their own right, Party Favor and Nitti Gritti came together in 2019 to form SIDEPIECE and saw them unite their styles and help them earn a reputation for sliding between genres on the electronic music spectrum, whilst keeping firm footholds in the bass and trap worlds. Party Favor is Ragland's genre-bending bass project counting over 400 million streams and multiple chart toppers to his name globally, having collaborated with the likes of Gucci Mane, Baauer, Dillon Francis, A$AP Ferg, and more, and just released his sophomore artist LP RESET through Ultra featuring K.Flay, Lil Gnar, Elohim, Marc E.Bassy, and more. Whereas, Nitti Gritti is a 12x platinum, Latin Grammy Award and a Latin Billboard Music Award winning producer for his work on Bad Bunny's album 'x100pre' and the song "200MPH," along with recently being given the #14 spot in the '2020 Best Producers' ranking.
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While Dylan Ragland and Ricky Mears meant to start a side project, they weren't totally expecting to create SIDEPIECE, the GRAMMY-nominated house duo that's clocked more than 537 million global streams since its inception.
The two producers - Ragland makes music as fan favorite Party Favor and 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 side piece had been born.
"It started out as a fun passion project because we both love and care about house music," says 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," aggregated more than 222 million Spotify streams and earned the trio a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Recording. A flurry of hit singles have followed, with SIDEPIECE carving out a signature sound rooted in catchy vocals - "the most important element," says Ragland - and the ever-intoxicating bump and grind house groove. Spanning tech house, bass house and beyond, tracks including "Acrobatic," "Temptation," "Sextacy" and their latest -- the dancefloor banger "A Milli (SIDEPIECE Remix)," their remix of the iconic Lil Wayne track -- are quintessentially SIDEPIECE: party-starting club records with a pop-lean and serious sex appeal.
"Huge streaming numbers are cool," says Mears, "but seeing people in the crowd singing along to the song, that makes it all feel real."
SIDEPIECE is the brainchild of Dylan Ragland (Party Favor) and Ricky Mears (Nitti Gritti). At only three years old, SIDEPIECE has already racked up some of the most prestigious awards in dance music, being nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 2021, as well as having the #1 most supported dance record in the world in 2020, and achieving platinum and gold certifications in a dozen countries for their breakout hit "On My Mind." The duo has rapidly become one of the most sought after house acts in the industry, playing some of the most iconic venues and festivals around the globe like Lollapalooza, EDC, Tomorrowland, Bonnaroo, HARD Summer, and more, and racking up over half a billion plays across their catalogue on streaming platforms to date.
Highly esteemed producers in their own right, Party Favor and Nitti Gritti came together in 2019 to form SIDEPIECE and saw them unite their styles and help them earn a reputation for sliding between genres on the electronic music spectrum, whilst keeping firm footholds in the bass and trap worlds. Party Favor is Ragland's genre-bending bass project counting over 400 million streams and multiple chart toppers to his name globally, having collaborated with the likes of Gucci Mane, Baauer, Dillon Francis, A$AP Ferg, and more, and just released his sophomore artist LP RESET through Ultra featuring K.Flay, Lil Gnar, Elohim, Marc E.Bassy, and more. Whereas, Nitti Gritti is a 12x platinum, Latin Grammy Award and a Latin Billboard Music Award winning producer for his work on Bad Bunny's album 'x100pre' and the song "200MPH," along with recently being given the #14 spot in the '2020 Best Producers' ranking.
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While Dylan Ragland and Ricky Mears meant to start a side project, they weren't totally expecting to create SIDEPIECE, the GRAMMY-nominated house duo that's clocked more than 537 million global streams since its inception.
The two producers - Ragland makes music as fan favorite Party Favor and 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 side piece had been born.
"It started out as a fun passion project because we both love and care about house music," says 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," aggregated more than 222 million Spotify streams and earned the trio a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Recording. A flurry of hit singles have followed, with SIDEPIECE carving out a signature sound rooted in catchy vocals - "the most important element," says Ragland - and the ever-intoxicating bump and grind house groove. Spanning tech house, bass house and beyond, tracks including "Acrobatic," "Temptation," "Sextacy" and their latest -- the dancefloor banger "A Milli (SIDEPIECE Remix)," their remix of the iconic Lil Wayne track -- are quintessentially SIDEPIECE: party-starting club records with a pop-lean and serious sex appeal.
"Huge streaming numbers are cool," says Mears, "but seeing people in the crowd singing along to the song, that makes it all feel real."
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Highly esteemed producers in their own right, Party Favor and Nitti Gritti came together in 2019 to form SIDEPIECE and saw them unite their styles and help them earn a reputation for sliding between genres on the electronic music spectrum, whilst keeping firm footholds in the bass and trap worlds. Party Favor is Ragland's genre-bending bass project counting over 400 million streams and multiple chart toppers to his name globally, having collaborated with the likes of Gucci Mane, Baauer, Dillon Francis, A$AP Ferg, and more, and just released his sophomore artist LP RESET through Ultra featuring K.Flay, Lil Gnar, Elohim, Marc E.Bassy, and more. Whereas, Nitti Gritti is a 12x platinum, Latin Grammy Award and a Latin Billboard Music Award winning producer for his work on Bad Bunny's album 'x100pre' and the song "200MPH," along with recently being given the #14 spot in the '2020 Best Producers' ranking.
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While Dylan Ragland and Ricky Mears meant to start a side project, they weren't totally expecting to create SIDEPIECE, the GRAMMY-nominated house duo that's clocked more than 537 million global streams since its inception.
The two producers - Ragland makes music as fan favorite Party Favor and 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 side piece had been born.
"It started out as a fun passion project because we both love and care about house music," says 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," aggregated more than 222 million Spotify streams and earned the trio a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Recording. A flurry of hit singles have followed, with SIDEPIECE carving out a signature sound rooted in catchy vocals - "the most important element," says Ragland - and the ever-intoxicating bump and grind house groove. Spanning tech house, bass house and beyond, tracks including "Acrobatic," "Temptation," "Sextacy" and their latest -- the dancefloor banger "A Milli (SIDEPIECE Remix)," their remix of the iconic Lil Wayne track -- are quintessentially SIDEPIECE: party-starting club records with a pop-lean and serious sex appeal.
"Huge streaming numbers are cool," says Mears, "but seeing people in the crowd singing along to the song, that makes it all feel real."
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