Lesser Of - I Hoped You Wouldn't Fade Me Out

music engraved in darkness

bochka / neo-bochka / experimental

co-founder @barrikade-bochka

Vex Noir crafts dark, dystopic, melancholic vibes, blending menacing industrial kicks with layered ambient noise, nature sounds, drones, and human cries—evoking sorrow, thirst for justice, anger, despair and grief.

For booking and collaboration inquiries – vexnoircontact@gmail.com






Vex Noir is an industrial dark techno DJ who began their journey into club music in Minsk's underground clubs and found their true sound in Berlin's industrial spaces. Influenced by EBM, dark wave, dark cinematic ambient, neoclassical, industrial (hypnotic, hard) techno, and Schranz, Vex Noir's sets are a powerful blend of rhythmic kicks and layered noise, creating an immersive and cathartic dance experience. Their performances, filled with melancholy, reflect a requiem for their childhood in a queerphobic society as a non-binary person. Vex Noir transforms the dance floor into a space for both deep reflection and liberation, pushing the boundaries of conventional club music.

Performances:
Subverted at Secret Location on 13.06.2025
SLAY at Axxon N. in Leipzig on 10.05.2025

Singing & exploring sounds…
eskalia (she/ her) is a Viennese mezzo soprano with Greek and Hungarian roots. She discovered her love for dramatic and sorrowful sounds early in her musical education, an affection that deepened during her vocal studies at University Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2024, she started exploring electronic music herself and since then, aims to pull each listener into an immersive tunnel of extraordinary music and deep emotion in her sets and performances. Among her favorite sounds are classical choirs, human cries and sobbing, harsh electric guitars, melismatic scales, dissonances and different sounds in nature such as bubbling water. 
However, her passion for art and culture extends beyond performing music. She favors artistic and cultural exchange and the synthesis of arts, as well as warm and communal atmospheres.

INDUSTRIAL and METALLIC like the hand of ANAKIN

SUBVERTED is a queer and trans-led label and event series focusing on drone and noise infused dark industrial techno - from ambient, atmospheric and hypnotic techno to raw and relentless hard techno. 

RESIDENTS: 
@eveschwarz > New and old Industrial
@fluid_music > Industrial & Hypnotic Techno
@hybral > Dark Haunting Industrial Techno
@jassass > Hard-Hitting, Industrial Sound
@laura_mrls > Dark Hypnotic & Industrial Techno
@lesserof > Experimental Noise Techno
@lord_mina > Doom-infused Electronic Music
@nicki-blackxx > Broken Dark Techno, Noise
@nnamael > Dark Atmospheric Hypnotic Techno
@parallel-transport > Hybral + Fluid

Resident Event at TRESOR

NEXT:
https://ra.co/promoters/100936/events

We curate queer sex-positive parties with equally queer line-ups, featuring mostly non-binary and trans DJs. Our aim is to platform artists with gender identities that are under-represented in the music industry, showing that it is possible to have more inclusive and diverse booking practices without a decrease in musical quality, but in fact with an increase by bringing new and previously unheard perspectives to the dance floor.

Discovering and nurturing new talent is at the very essence of SUBVERTED. We stand in resistance to the homogenisation and sanitisation to which the techno industry has been subjected in recent years via formulaic, easily-digested productions and repetitive line-ups, and intend to continue opening the industry's gates for a new generation of artists that are pushing their own unique and fresh take on dark industrial techno.

founded by @hybral