Noisia are back. The Dutch electronic trio of Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger have reunited, are making new music together again and will play their first comeback show December 4 at Amsterdam’s Melkweg.
The return comes seven years after Noisia announced plans to end the project in 2019 and four years after their delayed farewell run finally concluded. Noisia’s official site now says the group is “in motion again”, with the trio describing a reunion that developed gradually as their personal and creative relationship changed during the years apart.
This is not being positioned simply as a chance to revisit the catalog. New Noisia material already exists, and the group plans to bring unfinished music into its upcoming sets before deciding exactly where those tracks go next.
Noisia Started Making Music Before Planning a Reunion
The path back to Noisia appears to have begun in the studio rather than with an offer to play another show.
When the trio announced its breakup in 2019, creative differences had made continuing increasingly difficult. The pandemic then disrupted what was supposed to be a final run of performances, stretching the farewell period until August 2022, when Noisia played its last show at Lowlands in the Netherlands.
The members continued working separately, but they never completely disappeared from one another’s creative orbit. Their individual studios remained inside the same shared building, leaving an everyday connection in place even after Noisia itself had stopped.
In the group’s account of the reunion, difficult memories surrounding the breakup gradually gave way to more positive ones and a renewed appreciation for what the three had built together. Eventually, conversations about making music again became actual studio sessions.
DJ Mag reports that new material came before plans for a live return. Once Roos, van Sonderen and de Vlieger were enjoying the process of working together again, the possibility of putting that music in front of an audience followed.
For a group whose reputation rests heavily on production and sound design, that sequence makes the comeback more interesting. Noisia are not starting with a greatest-hits tour and figuring out the creative part later. They started making sounds together again first.
The First Noisia Show Back Is December 4 in Amsterdam
Noisia’s first performance since the farewell tour will take place Friday, December 4, at Melkweg in Amsterdam, returning the trio to a venue already connected to its history.
Melkweg hosted the final Amsterdam edition of Noisia Invites during the farewell period. This time, the venue lists the reunion show in its MAX hall, presented by VISION and Melkweg.
- Date: December 4, 2026
- Venue: Melkweg, Amsterdam
- Room: MAX
- Start: 11:59 p.m.
- Early tickets: €28.75
- Regular tickets: €34.50
- General sale: September 25 at 10 a.m. CEST
Ticketmaster lists a four-ticket purchase limit for the Amsterdam date. Noisia have also indicated that more performances are coming, although the remaining dates have not yet been announced.
New Noisia Tracks Will Be Tested in Front of Crowds
The most intriguing part of the reunion is what the trio intends to do with the music already taking shape.
Rather than completing a new album privately and then taking it on tour, Noisia plan to mix works in progress into sets alongside music from their existing catalog. The trio intends to use feedback from those performances while continuing to work on the new material, according to DJ Mag.
That approach is particularly suited to Noisia. The group became known for dense bass design, sharply controlled percussion and unusually detailed electronic production, but much of that music was ultimately built to hit through large club and festival systems.
A track can behave differently in that environment than it does inside a studio. Low frequencies interact with the room, transitions become more obvious in a DJ set and moments that look perfect on a timeline can feel completely different when hundreds of people are standing in front of the speakers.
Putting unfinished tracks into sets gives Noisia an opportunity to hear the new material in the environment where much of their music has historically made the most sense.
It also means the first shows back could contain music that changes substantially before listeners ever receive finished versions.
This Reunion Comes With Different Expectations
Noisia formed in Groningen around the turn of the millennium and became closely associated with the technical evolution of drum & bass and neurofunk, while repeatedly pushing beyond either label.
The group’s catalog includes Split the Atom and Outer Edges, alongside the I Am Legion project with Foreign Beggars, soundtrack and scoring work, and releases connected to its VISION and Division labels.
The trio’s production became particularly recognizable for precision. Noisia records could be aggressive without sounding uncontrolled, with intricate percussion and heavily manipulated bass carrying as much identity as conventional melodies or hooks. That approach made the group influential well beyond its own releases, particularly among producers interested in the technical possibilities of bass music.
But the history matters here mainly because Noisia had already given itself a deliberate ending.
The 2022 album Closer was presented as the final Noisia album, and the farewell tour ended later that year. The group’s own website still hosts a page titled “Last Ever Noisia Show” from that period.
The new announcement does not pretend that ending never happened. Instead, the trio describes returning under different circumstances after several years spent developing separately.
Melkweg describes Roos, van Sonderen and de Vlieger as returning to Noisia “on new terms”. What those terms ultimately mean for recording, touring and the long-term future of the group has not yet been spelled out.
The Comeback Starts at Melkweg
There is no new Noisia album announcement yet. The trio has not revealed how much music it has made, which tracks might eventually receive official releases or when listeners will hear finished versions outside the live shows.
A larger run of performances is also expected, but Amsterdam is currently the only announced date.
That leaves the reunion unusually open-ended. Noisia have confirmed enough to establish that this is a functioning creative project again without laying out a conventional album-and-tour campaign months in advance.
For now, three things are clear: Roos, van Sonderen and de Vlieger are producing together again, new Noisia material will be played in front of audiences, and the first opportunity to hear what the reunited trio has been building comes December 4.
Tickets for the Melkweg show go on general sale September 25 at 10 a.m. CEST, with Noisia directing listeners to its official site for presale registration. Additional dates and details about the new music have yet to be announced.
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