Noisia Split on September 17, 2019. They Just Reunited on the Same Date, Seven Years Later.
The Dutch trio posted their breakup on September 17, 2019. On September 17, 2026, they posted again: they're playing Amsterdam's Melkweg in December. No album, no five-year plan, just a show.
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Seven years ago today, Noisia posted a breakup letter. Two decades of making drum & bass together, gone, effective the end of 2020. On September 17, 2026, the same date on the calendar, they posted again. They're making music together. They're playing a show.
Dates: December 4, 2026, first confirmed show back Venue: Melkweg, Amsterdam, their first show together since the farewell tour closed in 2022 Tickets: Presale opens September 23, general sale September 25, via noisia.nl
There's no album attached to this. No five-year plan, no forty-date arena run. Just one show, in the city where Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger met as teenage graffiti artists in Groningen in the late nineties, for the venue picked for their first show back.
What Actually Ended in 2019
When Noisia announced their split, they didn't blame burnout or a bad contract. "It's a risk we're taking, to put an end to something we've built for two decades," the trio told Billboard at the time. "We took time to think about it. It's painful, but it is absolutely the right thing to do." The farewell tour, billed as their last, dragged into 2022 because of the pandemic. It closed that August at Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands.
They didn't vanish. Roos kept building his Sleepnet project and launched Ring Noord. De Vlieger scored films and dance pieces as Thys and worked with Amon Tobin. Van Sonderen kept Zonderling going and produced under the name NSR. All three stayed close enough to Skrillex, who has called Noisia his mentors, to co-write 'Supersonic (My Existence)' on his 2023 album Quest For Fire. It spent 11 weeks on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. Noisia's own 'Tommy's Theme' had done 18 weeks there back in 2014.
No Grand Statement, Just a Room and a Feedback Loop
Ask the three of them separately why now, and you get three different, oddly modest answers. "What do I want to do? Something I can't do on my own," van Sonderen says in the reunion press release. "Getting a rough idea from the guys and letting my own ideas loose on it. That already feels exciting again." Roos credits the farewell tour itself: "It planted the seed of the idea that Noisia can be what we want it to be, not what we think it has to be." De Vlieger frames it as unfinished business between friends: "It's really exciting to redefine this relationship and this friendship on new terms that align with who we are and who we want to be."
The reunion didn't come out of nowhere. On September 10, Noisia released Vlucht, a 27-minute documentary directed by Farhad Khodadadzade that follows the trio and their manager through the farewell tour and the quiet years since, using birdwatching as an odd, recurring parallel to the band's own migration back toward each other. Watch it and the reunion announcement a week later reads less like a surprise and more like the last shot of a film you already knew the ending to.
What This Has to Do With Bangkok
Drum & bass barely registers as a genre tag on this site, and that's the point. Southeast Asia's scene is small, young and almost entirely self-built, which is exactly the shape Noisia's own story took before anyone outside Groningen cared. Kryptonite, the Bangkok crew founded by producer and DJ Sean Fortune, started the same way Noisia did: block parties nobody outside the city knew about, run on word of mouth starting in late 2023. Three years later Fortune has played EDC Thailand, London's DnB Allstars and Jungle Cakes in Brixton, and Kryptonite now books rooms on both sides of that flight path.
Nobody's booking Noisia for Bangkok off the back of one Amsterdam date, and nobody should pretend otherwise. But a genre gets a lift every time its biggest names remind the world it's still worth building a career in, and that lift travels. It's the same current that keeps Bangkok's after-hours circuit running once the main rooms close, and it's worth watching whether it pulls a heavier international drum & bass booking toward the region's scene in the next year. For now, the date to actually put in your calendar is a lot closer to Groningen than Sukhumvit: December 4, Melkweg, presale September 23.
Cover photo: Farhad Khodadadzade, Noisia's official press photo.
