From Groningen in the Netherlands, Noisia brought together Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger. The trio began making music around 1998–99, initially experimenting with music software for fun before turning their attention to drum and bass. They met at high school and were among the few students there interested in the genre. The name came from an upside-down videotape: “VISION”, read in reverse, became “NOISIA”. The trio broke through in 2003 and became known for drum and bass, neurofunk and detailed sound design. Their music also drew on dubstep, breakbeat and house, with a dark style of drum and bass associated with the group. In 2004, they released the single Hub Cap / Backdraft on Subtitles Music.
Noisia’s production process involved Cubase, which the trio used for most of its work, alongside synthesizers and chains of plugins to build sounds. Their albums include Split the Atom, released in 2010, Outer Edges, released in 2016, and Closer, released in 2022. The group also put music out through OWSLA, mau5trap and Roc Nation, and developed the labels Vision Recordings and Division Recordings. Noisia also owned Invisible Recordings. Its work extended beyond club music to projects including the game DmC: Devil May Cry. The 2019 single non-responsive appeared on Neosignal Recordings. In 2021, Noisia collaborated with josh pan and Dylan Brady on Supersonic (My Existence), released through OWSLA/Atlantic with Skrillex. Vision Recordings released the 2023 album The Resonance VI, and the group released Hideous with LeStR that year on Blackout Music NL.
With Foreign Beggars, Noisia formed I Am Legion, a separate project that released a self-titled album in 2013. The trio also worked with New Zealand duo The Upbeats on the Dead Limit EP, a set of four collaborative tracks. Noisia took on production work under the name Nightwatch, contributing to projects with Alexis Jordan, Hadouken!, Wiley and Wretch 32. The group produced Hadouken!’s album For the Masses, which reached number 19 on the UK Albums Chart. After its last show together on August 21, 2022, the group split up; its return was announced on September 17, 2026.
