Noisia (the word VISION rotated 180 degrees) consists of three guys; Nik Roos (21), Martijn van Sonderen (21) and Thijs de Vlieger (22) from groningen (Holland). Acquainted through the small graffiti community in the school they all went to, Nik and Thijs made friends in 1998 and started making music to kill time and have a laugh. Soon after their first confrontation with drum 'n bass, they started digging into it, and gradually making music just for fun evolved into a serious obsession to make good dnb.

After a few fruitful collaborations with Martijn, who had been in music (hiphop 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 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 get the tunes to sound better. 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 tune that was going to be the first released noisia tune; "tomahawk" by noisia&mayhem on paul reset's "nerve" imprint. The flip of that was "silicon" 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.

Right now Noisia have got releases out and forthcoming on well-known labels such as Teebee's Subtitles, Rob Playford's Moving Shadow and Renegade Hardware and they've done collaborations with well-known dnb artists 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 DJ's Noisia have touched down in every major dutch city and in London, Moscow, Budapest, Vienna, Oslo, and Berlin, amongst others, and july 2004 saw the first Noisia USA/Canada tour.

Besides drum 'n bass Nik Martijn and Thijs 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 productions/remixes planned. Recently more liquid / melodic tunes under the 'Drifter' guise have been signed to Metalheadz and Shogun Audio with more to come...