Solardo x Paul Woolford – Tear It Up Feat. Pamela Fernandez [Ultra]
British dance music icons Solardo and Paul Woolford have joined forces on new single ‘Tear It Up’, also featuring Chicago singer-songwriter Pamela Fernandez, out now on Ultra. Bringing together three of the UK’s most respected producers, ‘Tear It Up’ is a feelgood, hands-in-the-air rave anthem, combining euphoric piano chords, soaring diva vocals from the legendary Pamela Fernandez, and a chunky bassline to devastating effect.
Solardo have carried their domination of the scene into the new decade after a 2019 that saw them deliver one of the songs of summer with the mammoth ‘XTC’. A collaboration with Eli Brown, the track received support from Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 as well as club favourites Richy Ahmed, Denis Sulta and Carl Cox. They also linked up with Chicago house legend Marshall Jefferson on ‘Move Your Body’, a single that has amassed over 12 million Spotify streams. More recently the boys had been hosting a weekly ‘Saturday Night Live’ stream series during lockdown and found themselves a key part of Tomorrowlands ‘Around The World’ project. Looking ahead, the duo are due to host a Beatport x Sola livestream on August 20th from Mayfield Depot, Manchester and are also throwing a number of parties in Club Revelin in Croatia as part of their ‘Higher Weekender’ series across the August bank-holiday.
A legendary DJ and producer in his own right, Paul Woolford is surfing a wave of success around his collaboration with Diplo & Kareen Lomax ‘Looking For Me’. The song has been streamed over 11m times in the last 2 months as well as picking up Annie Mac’s Hottest Record, Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune, BBC Radio 1 Record Of The Week, as well as rocketing to Number 1 in the USA Dance Radio chart & entering the Official UK Top 40. Woolford also releases more underground-influenced music under his Special Request moniker, and recently collaborated with R&S Records and omni-present design polymath Virgil Abloh. Special Request released no fewer than four albums across 2019.
