London-based electronic music project Solid Wall — Argentine-born and London-based producers, multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Patricio Alvarez and Lucas Vedel — can trace the origins of their collaboration back to 2018: Alvarez and Vedel first met in Buenos Aires through mutual friend and mixing engineer Martin Sólimo.
What began as an impromptu studio collaboration quickly turned into an intense and virtual creative partnership with the pair writing and making music almost daily. The connected remained uninterrupted when Vedel returned to London in 2019, evolving across different cities and years of shared experimentation.
When Alvarez joined Vedel in London in 2020, the duo continued developing a deeply collaborative creating process, treating production, songwriting, engineering and performance as an intrinsic and inseparable part of that same process. After years of writing, producing and road-testing material through DJ sets and live improvised sets across London and Europe, the duo’s project Solid Wall emerged as a natural expression of heir lengthy journey together. And by 2023. the duo signed with PIAS, marking a new project while cementing a sound and approach that had been years in the making.
Built around the duo’s shared obsession with sound as both craft and language, Solid Wall sonically is rooted in alternative electronic music, but shaped by trip-hop, post punk, dub and left-field club culture. Their work together explores the space where physical movement meet emotional depth.
Last Friday, the duo released the five-song In-Phase EP through [PIAS] Électronique. Written and recorded between 2023 and 2026 between Hackney, London’s Godspeed Studio and Dalston, London’s 160DL Studios, In-Phase EP explores human connection through sound and movement, with music that blends elements of club culture and introspection. The EP’s songs were gradually released as standalone singles over the past three years. which allowed the EP to evolve over time.
To celebrate the release of the duo shared a live session directed by Argentine filmmaker Elias Heredia. The live session re-imagines EP songs through a live, immersive band setup, which features expansive renditions of the recorded tracks, showcasing a project that’s stepping further into a live band setup. The live session features three of the EP’s track “Let You Go” feat. Jelani Blackman, “Voice Notes Interlude” and “Find Me” feat. Ulfie.
“Let You Go” feat. Jelani Blackman is a is a swaggering mix of UK grime, post punk and house music, anchored around tweeter and woofer rattling thump, skittering trap-like beats and glistening synths that’s simultaneously club and headphone friendly that reminds me a bit of Parisian outfit DBFC. “Voice Notes Interlude” is a dreamy song featuring banal voice notes and messages beneath droning yet ethereal synths. “Find Me” feat. Ulfie may arguably be the most straightforward club banger of the live session. “Find Me” is a deep house banger built around Giorgio Moroder-like synth oscillations, tweeter and a Tour de France-era Kraftwerk-like motorik groove beneath Ulfie’s sultry and yearning delivery. Each of the live session’s songs convey a desperate need for connection with another –while showcasing the duo’s ability to craft hook-driven bangers rooted in introspection.
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