NVST

Swiss DJ and producer NVST emerged from Lausanne’s free party and illegal rave circuits, a background that continues to shape a physical, high-tension approach to club music. Her sets move through breakbeat, techno, acid and industrial without settling, driven by a sharp sense of structure and rupture, where intensity builds, collapses and reconfigures in real time.

Rather than navigating genres, NVST works the dancefloor as a space of friction and release, balancing precision with instability. This approach has taken her from underground scenes to major platforms, with performances at venues and festivals such as Tresor, Garage Noord, Dekmantel, Horst Arts & Music, Positive Education and Montreux Jazz Festival. Touring extensively across Europe, Asia and Latin America, she continues to expand her reach internationally, with a first run of shows in Brazil in 2026 and upcoming North American appearances including Nowadays in New York and MUTEK Montréal.

She holds a residency at C12 in Brussels and is part of the extended Tresor family in Berlin, while maintaining a regular presence on the airwaves with radio residencies on Kiosk Radio and Rinse FM. Alongside her artistic practice, she co-runs the label Big Science with Warzou, extending her involvement in the scene through curation and release work.

Alongside her DJ practice, NVST has developed a body of recorded work across multiple formats, including several solo and alias releases on labels such as Tresor, Dekmantel, Fabric Records, SSPB, Les Disques Magnétiques and Maloca. Her productions reflect the same tension as her sets, combining raw rhythmic structures with a controlled sense of space and progression.

In parallel, she has been progressively shifting toward live and hybrid formats. Through projects such as Drift Institute and Sixsixsevenfortyseven, she explores audiovisual performance as an extension of her club work, currently culminating in the development of her first solo live show in collaboration with visual artist Mika Oki. This new phase extends her practice beyond the DJ booth, opening up new ways of shaping sound, space and perception.

Across club performances, broadcasts and live formats, NVST builds a practice rooted in DIY culture while continuously pushing toward more complex and immersive forms.