Noisia
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Noisia (the word VISION rotated 180 degrees) is a Dutch drum and bass trio consisting of members Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger from Groningen, (The Netherlands). The trio has also released music under the moniker Drifter and Hustle Athletics.
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[edit] Biography
The members met through the small graffiti community in the school they all attended, with Nik and Thijs making friends in 1998 and soon beginning to make music together. Soon after their first encounter with drum and bass, they started making drum and bass music themselves, and it gradually evolved into a serious obsession with the style.
After a few fruitful collaborations with Martijn, who had been involved in music (hip hop production/classical piano) for quite a while before he hooked up with Nik and Thijs, Martijn was added to the Noisia team.
After a while the Internet was discovered as a great way to acquire musical knowledge and to get feedback on productions. Also, the first noisia tune that received interest from a real label (mayhem's shadow-law recordings) was found on a production message board, this interest was a big motivation to improve the sound of Noisia's productions. An investment in studio-equipment and a dedication to sound design, mixdown and arrangement got things moving, and February 2003 saw the birth of the recording that was going to be the first released noisia tune; "Tomahawk" by Noisia & Mayhem on Paul Reset's Nerve Recordings imprint. The flip of that was "silicon", which was written in the hangover-days after Mayhem's short but productive stay. Silicon/tomahawk was released in August 2003, and after that things gradually started rolling.
They have started their own imprints: Vision Recordings and Division
[edit] Releases
Noisia has released music on well-known labels such as Teebee's Subtitles, Rob Playford's Moving Shadow and Renegade Hardware. They have also collaborated with well-known drum and bass artists, such as Cause 4 Concern, Teebee and Bad Company UK. They have remixed Konflict's anthemic Messiah, and have been remixed by artists like Teebee and Matrix.
As DJs Noisia have performed in every major Dutch city. They have played in many cities around the world, including London, Moscow, Budapest, Vienna, Oslo, and Berlin, amongst others, and July 2004 saw the first Noisia USA/Canada tour.
Noisia have also founded their own label imprint; Vision Recordings. Vision Records has seen several releases by Noisia and collaborative partners Teebee, MC Verse and Mayhem. Recently they have opened a sub-label called Division, which caters to breakbeat and house oriented tracks.
[edit] Other projects
Besides drum 'n bass, Noisia also have other musical projects, a downtempo album is in the making, they have done music for (short) films and there are a couple of releases of House and Breaks productions/remixes planned under their 'Hustle Athletics' guise. Recently more liquid / melodic tunes under the 'Drifter' guise have been signed to Metalheadz and Shogun Audio.
[edit] Assimilation
In 2006, Noisia announced that they would be dropping their 'Drifter', 'Frizz' and 'Hustle Athletics' aliases, and would produce under one single name 'Noisia'. They released a statement saying they wanted to embrace their musical flexibility and creativity rather than mask themselves under various identities.
