About

Suite Pastiche is Melbourne’s hi-fi dance party for the socially enagaged and sonically curious. We exist to bring people together through music.

The party germinated after years of exposure to kindred parties in the UK – namely All Our Friends and Beauty and the Beat – which trace back to the legendary Loft in New York. Knowing how much these parties positively impact the lives of people in their orbit, it felt like a social imperative to bring something similar to the other side of the world.

So, what started in 2022 as regular house parties evolved into public parties in 2024, when the living room simply couldn’t hold any more guests.

Over those years, we’ve been lucky to have bought, built, repaired, and refined a sound system that we think provides some of the clearest, mellifluous, and life-affirming sound in Australia’s party scene, with the central components being four Klipschorn loudspeakers.

Using the sound system as a vehicle, our musical hosts venture into musical waters wide, deep, and diverse. Anything goes; if something feels like the right slice of sonic energy for the party in a given moment, it’ll get played. For a more explicit taste of our musical predicilitions, listen back to previous parties.

But the sound system and the music are in service of the most important component of the party: the people. From the helpers and venue staff who lovingly bring things to life, to the artists whose music is played, to the guests who fill the dance floor…without these people, you don’t have a party.

Socially, we see Suite Pastiche as an inclusive and uniting third place, where status is left at the door, and where strangers inside are just friends you haven’t yet met. It’s a scaled-up house party, where the atmosphere is inviting, convivial, fun, and leaves you with more energy than when you arrived (helped along by the vegan buffet, chill-out zones, and non-fatiguing sound).

And while these parties happen regularly, each one is imbued with a sense of ichi-go ichi-e – a unique meeting of people, sound, and energy can’t ever be repeated, and should be cherished for that very reason.

We hope you’ll join us at the next party!