Vexento is a Norwegian electronic music producer known for melodic, uplifting tracks that blend elements of EDM, chillstep, house, dubstep and piano music.

Real name Alexander Hansen, Vexento began releasing music online in 2013 and gradually built an international audience through platforms including YouTube, SoundCloud and Spotify. Today, his catalogue includes tracks such as Masked Raver, Masked Heroes, Digital Kiss, Dream Catcher, Trippy Love and Where We Belong.

Who is Vexento?

Vexento is the stage name of Alexander Hansen, an electronic music producer originally from Norway who is now based in Canada.

He was born in Norway on 25 July 1997 and began the Vexento project while still a teenager. His YouTube channel was launched in 2013, around the same period that he started sharing his music more widely online.

Rather than building his career around one narrowly defined genre, Vexento has consistently experimented with different styles.

His music has moved between complextro, chillstep, dubstep, house, melodic electronic music and even standalone piano compositions. Vexento’s own artist biography describes music as a form of emotional expression rather than something that needs to fit into a particular genre.

That approach has become one of the defining characteristics of Vexento’s music.

How did Vexento become popular?

Much of Vexento’s early growth came through YouTube and the online electronic music community of the mid-2010s.

At the time, a new generation of producers was building huge audiences outside the traditional record label system. Electronic music channels, gaming videos, YouTube creators and royalty-free music communities became important discovery platforms.

Vexento fitted naturally into that ecosystem.

His melodic instrumentals could work equally well as standalone electronic tracks or as background music for YouTube videos, gaming content and other creator projects.

Songs including Masked Heroes and Masked Raver helped introduce Vexento to a much larger audience, while tracks such as Dream Catcher, Digital Kiss, Trippy Love and Where We Belong became some of the most recognisable releases from his catalogue.

His YouTube channel has subsequently accumulated hundreds of thousands of subscribers and well over 100 million views.

What type of music does Vexento make?

Trying to place Vexento into one genre is difficult — largely by design.

His music has included:

  • EDM
  • chillstep
  • house
  • complextro
  • dubstep
  • melodic electronic music
  • ambient and chill music
  • piano compositions

His productions often place melody ahead of aggression.

Even when Vexento is making relatively energetic electronic music, there is normally a strong melodic hook underneath the production.

That has helped give his catalogue a particularly recognisable feel.

Rather than simply following whatever style of electronic music happens to be popular at the time, Vexento’s releases often feel built around a mood or melody first.

What are Vexento’s most popular songs?

Vexento has released a large catalogue since starting the project in 2013.

Some of the songs most closely associated with Vexento include:

Masked Heroes

Released during the early years of Vexento’s career, Masked Heroes became one of his breakthrough tracks and remains one of the most prominent releases in his catalogue.

Masked Raver

Masked Raver followed and became another major Vexento track. Released in 2016, it helped strengthen his position within the online EDM and creator-music scene.

Dream Catcher

Dream Catcher is another popular Vexento release from 2016 and showcases the melodic electronic style that became closely associated with his music.

Digital Kiss

Digital Kiss is one of the songs regularly associated with Vexento’s rise and remains an important part of his early catalogue.

Trippy Love

Released in 2016, Trippy Love has also become one of Vexento’s better-known tracks.

Where We Belong

Where We Belong is another early release that helped Vexento build an audience through SoundCloud and YouTube.

Vexento and YouTube

YouTube has played a particularly important role in Vexento’s career.

Unlike artists who primarily used YouTube to upload official music videos supporting releases elsewhere, Vexento grew alongside a generation of independent electronic producers who treated YouTube itself as a major distribution and discovery platform.

This allowed listeners, gaming creators and video makers from around the world to discover his music.

It is also one reason older Vexento songs continue to be discovered years after their original release.

Is Vexento still making music?

Yes.

Vexento has continued releasing music long after the initial EDM and YouTube boom that helped establish his audience.

His more recent catalogue includes releases such as Northwind, Drifting Away and Valhalla in 2024, Borealis in 2025 and Raven’s Call in 2026.

Spotify currently lists Vexento with around 120,000 monthly listeners, showing that his music continues to attract a sizeable audience more than a decade after the project began.

Why is Vexento’s music so popular with creators?

One of Vexento’s strengths has always been making instrumental music that works outside traditional listening environments.

Bright melodies, relatively clean arrangements and memorable electronic hooks mean many of his tracks work naturally alongside:

gaming videos, travel content, tutorials, montages, livestreams and social media videos.

That creator connection helped artists such as Vexento reach listeners who might never have discovered the music through radio or traditional music media.

It is an early example of a model that has now become a major part of the independent music industry: artists building audiences because their music travels alongside millions of pieces of online content.

Vexento’s influence on independent electronic music

Vexento emerged during an important period for independent electronic music.

YouTube, SoundCloud and creator-focused music channels made it possible for producers working from bedrooms and home studios to reach audiences around the world without needing traditional label infrastructure.

Vexento is a particularly good example of that generation.

More than a decade later, he is still releasing music, while songs first published during the mid-2010s continue to attract listeners.

For anyone discovering Vexento for the first time, tracks such as Masked Heroes, Masked Raver, Dream Catcher, Digital Kiss and Trippy Love provide a good introduction to an artist whose career has been built around melody, experimentation and the internet.