Noisia are back in motion, with new music and an Amsterdam return confirmed

Noisia have started making music together again. Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger confirmed the move on their official site this week, using deliberately simple language: the trio are “in motion again”. The announcement is paired with the first concrete live date of the new phase, a show at Melkweg in Amsterdam on 4 December 2026.

That wording matters because Noisia did not drift into inactivity. In 2019 they announced that the project would end, explaining that after almost two decades the three members no longer wanted exactly the same things from the group. The farewell was then stretched by the pandemic before their final run of shows eventually reached its conclusion in 2022. At the time, the split was framed as a conscious decision to preserve what the project had become rather than force it forward.

A return that starts in the studio

The new announcement does not present the comeback as a nostalgia exercise or a one-off reunion. The important detail is that Noisia are working together again. For a group whose reputation rests as much on microscopic sound design as on records built for very large systems, that immediately puts the focus on what the three producers might make with several years of separate work behind them.

Since Noisia stopped touring as a unit, the three members have remained active across production, labels and adjacent projects. Their shared history also never disappeared from the surrounding ecosystem: VISION continued as a central outlet for forward-facing drum & bass and bass music, while the group’s catalogue remained a reference point for producers interested in the technical end of club music. The new phase therefore begins with continuity around them, even if the trio itself had been paused.

Why the catalogue still carries weight

Noisia’s influence is unusually easy to hear in production culture. Split the Atom and Outer Edges pushed a version of drum & bass in which engineering, spatial detail and distortion were treated as compositional tools rather than finishing touches. Their work also moved freely outside the genre: they scored games, collaborated with rap projects through I Am Legion, remixed acts far beyond drum & bass and built a studio identity that producers still dissect years later.

That breadth is one reason the comeback is more interesting than a standard legacy reunion. Noisia were already pulling apart the borders between drum & bass, halftime, electro, soundtrack work and experimental bass before they stopped. The production landscape they return to is now full of artists who grew up with those records as technical benchmarks, while software, spatial audio and live systems have moved on considerably since the trio’s last full cycle.

Melkweg is the first confirmed marker

For now, Noisia have not announced an album, release date or wider tour. The confirmed facts are narrower: they are making music together again and they will play Melkweg in Amsterdam on 4 December. That makes the Amsterdam show the first public marker of the return rather than the end point of a fully mapped campaign.

It is also a suitably close-to-home starting point. Noisia were formed in Groningen and built much of their studio and label infrastructure in the Netherlands. Their final years became increasingly international, but the project’s working identity always remained tied to that Dutch base.

The next useful signal will be the music itself. Noisia have confirmed activity, not a finished record or a full touring schedule. Until those details arrive, the most important change is already clear: a project that once described itself as completed has reopened its studio door.