Noisia Reunite After Seven-Year Hiatus

Dutch trio Noisia are reuniting after seven years apart.

The group, consisting of Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen, and Thijs de Vlieger, announced Thursday (Sept. 17) that they are reforming the project. A press release about the reunion states that after spending the last seven years focused on their respective solo projects, the three members missed the exchange of ideas between them and the feedback loop that begins when their music meets a crowd.

Noisia will play its first show back on Dec. 4 at Amsterdam’s Melkweg, where they performed during their farewell tour, which extended into 2022 due to the pandemic. Information about additional shows will be announced in time.

The trio also teased their reunion with the Sept. 10 release of a 27-minute documentary titled Vlucht and directed by Farhad Khodadadzade. Watch the documentary below.

“It’s a risk we’re taking, to put an end to something we’ve built for two decades,” the trio told Billboard in a joint 2019 interview about their breakup. “We’re saying it now, because we have made the final decision only recently. We took time to think about it. It’s painful, but it is absolutely the right thing to do.”

Over the last seven years, Roos continued developing his bass project Sleepnet, launched Ring Noord with Former, and worked across projects including the house duo Body Ocean, production, scoring, and audio technology. De Vlieger continued his work as Thys through collaborations with Amon Tobin, composing for film, contemporary dance, and fashion, and writing for instrumental ensembles and electronic music projects. Van Sonderen continued with the duo Zonderling, alongside writing and production work across house, melodic techno, pop, and hip-hop under his producer name, NSR. The members will continue working on these respective projects alongside the Noisia relaunch.

“What do I want to do? Something I can’t do on my own,” van Sonderen says in a press release about the reunion. “Getting a rough idea from the guys and letting my own ideas loose on it. That already feels exciting again. Maybe exactly because it doesn’t have to feel exciting.”

“For me, doing the farewell tour actually planted the seed of the idea that Noisia can be what we want it to be, not what we think it has to be,” adds Roos. “When the subject surfaced again, it felt much lighter and surprisingly fun to talk about. Feeling the others’ excitement about it is what really fuelled that for me.”

“What I’m most excited about,” continues de Vlieger, “is to see what the relationship, what the meeting of minds, can bring creatively again. It’s really exciting to redefine this relationship and this friendship on new terms that align with who we are and who we want to be.”

Roos, van Sonderen, and de Vlieger met in the late 1990s in the northern Dutch town of Groningen, starting out as graffiti artists before working together on electronic music. The trio gained prominence with their drum and bass productions before expanding into electro, house, pop, and other genres, earning recognition for the complexity and meticulousness of their music. In 2014, their track “Tommy’s Theme” spent 18 weeks on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, peaking at No. 44.

They also appeared on the same chart during their hiatus with “Supersonic (My Existence)” from Skrillex’s 2023 album Quest For Fire. Created by Skrillex, who was mentored by Noisia during his rise, alongside Josh Pan, Dylan Brady, and the trio, the track expands on Pan and Brady’s 2019 song “Supersonic” and spent 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 13.