SPEED

SPEED 速度 x Cat House at Solace A full venue takeover at .bar

Multiple rooms, multiple energies. Let the bar lure you in with deep, exploratory live and DJ sets downstairs with Cat House, then surrender to the unrelenting pulse of rave upstairs in the club. SPEED速度 returns.

Get ready to groove — Produce Vessa blends the raw drive of analog techno with Latin rhythms and emotive soundscapes in her powerful live hardware sets. Her music delves into themes of identity, technology, and emotion, creating an intimate and immersive sonic experience.

Fri 18 July 2025 | 8PM–3AM
Solace | 21–25 Croft Alley, Melbourne
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First Nations free.
FLINTA & BIPOC discounts.

Lineup (A–Z):
CaucasianOpportunities, Cloudy Ku, Eastern Distributor, Hedchef, Kate Miller, Løst Reflexion (Live), Vessa (Live), Yollks.

Vessa is a Naarm-born and based Chilean-Mauritian electronic artist whose sound marries the raw intensity of techno with latin grooves and the emotive depth of experimental soundscapes. Her music delves into themes of identity, technology, and emotion, creating an intimate and immersive sonic experience.

Drawing inspiration from analog techno, Vessa’s mixtapes and home recordings chronicle her journey through electronic experimentation, creating fleeting moments with emotional energy.

Her recent release, Separate on LAN Records is a blend of dreamy vocals and hard hitting synths with classic drum machine rhythms, all infused with an unexpected freshness that breathes new life into the genre.

Vessa has also explored the intersection of sound and visual art through her audio-visual collaboration with Rubyanna Edwards for various art showcases including debut collaborative work Baseline Narrative 2024.

Vessa’s cross-genre sound consistently pushes against the conventional, inviting listeners into a textured audio landscape where the analog meets the avant-garde. Her ability to tailor sets to events whilst retaining a distinct sonic palette has made her a key figure in Naarm’s live hardware scene, continuously redefining what club music can be and inspiring a new generation of gender and culturally diverse hardware enthusiasts.

SPEED 速度 x Cat House at Solace A full venue takeover at .bar

Multiple rooms, multiple energies. Let the bar lure you in with deep, exploratory live and DJ sets downstairs with Cat House, then surrender to the unrelenting pulse of rave upstairs in the club. SPEED速度 returns.

Get ready to groove to DJ/Producer Hedchef , who crafts breakdown-light, bass-heavy, stripped-back techno and UK rhythms with raw precision.

Fri 18 July 2025 | 8PM–3AM
Solace | 21–25 Croft Alley, Melbourne
🔗 in bio
First Nations free.
FLINTA & BIPOC discounts.

Lineup (A–Z):
CaucasianOpportunities, Cloudy Ku, Eastern Distributor, Hedchef, Kate Miller, Løst Reflexion (Live), Vessa (Live), Yollks.

UK-born, Melbourne-based Hedchef creates the kind of sharp, off-kilter club constructions that disorientate and delight the dancefloor in equal measure. Showing discipline to a militant ethos of pushing the envelope, futurism and point-blank rejection of nostalgia, irony and pastiche, Hedchef’s groove-based, breakdown-light arrangements align closer to classic techno and electro than dubstep or garage, whilst his razor-sharp sound design draws from influences closer to drum ‘n’ bass and the UK bass-driven music spectrum to add imaginative, gritty edges to the rolling flow.

Hedchef’s prolific back catalogue and wide-ranging DJ sets certainly tend to feature dark, heavy and abrasive sounds - but his approach to writing grooves, similarly to if they were guitar riffs or brass sections, brings an almost pop-adjacent catchiness that belies the leftfield, experimental nature of his rhythmic structures and warped sound palettes.

It’s this intricate musicianship which has seen Hedchef release on acclaimed labels including Scuffed Recordings in London, New York-based Worst Behaviour and Berlin’s International Chrome, with a stacked schedule of upcoming releases that continue the mission of expanding the boundaries of functional club tools. Most recently, his collaborations with cross-genre wizard Doctor Jeep have been a staple in the international club circuit.