Career
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 NOISIΛ 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 NOISIΛ'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 NOISIΛ tune; "Tomahawk" by NOISIΛ & 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.
For a time between 2005 and 2009, NOISIΛ also released tracks under the name "Drifter", encompassing the lighter side of Drum and Bass known as Liquid Funk, as well as releasing a EP under the name "Hustle Athletics" on Love Break Recordings. They later decided to go back to releasing all their music under the name "NOISIΛ" so as to not confuse the audience and to avoid being "pigeon holed" into different genres with different names.
NOISIΛ have released music on major Drum & Bass labels such as Teebee's Subtitles, Goldie's Metalheadz, Rob Playford's Moving Shadow, Ram Records, Virus Recordings and Renegade Hardware. They have also collaborated with well-known drum and bass artists Cause 4 Concern, Teebee, Phace, Black Sun Empire, Bad Company UK, Dom & Roland, and The Upbeats. They have remixed Konflict's Messiah, Pendulum and The Freestylers' Painkiller and have been remixed by artists like Teebee and Matrix, in addition to other remixes.
The Dutch collective has also received extensive airplay on BBC Radio 1, a notable example being their House/Breaks track Gutterpump (released on Passenger Records).
Eventually Robbie Williams showed interest in working with NOISIΛ, asking them to remix his cover of Manu Chao's Bongo Bong and Je Ne T'Aime Plus, which they turned into a hard-hitting House track soon to be released on the major record label EMI. A Drum and Bass remix of Moby's 'Alice' has also been released to critical acclaim and to a good reception from Moby himself - "We've had some really good remixes done for 'Alice' one of my favourites is the drum and bass remix done by NOISIΛ."
Early 2007 saw the release of Tasha Baxter's Colour of Me, an album entirely produced by NOISIΛ. They met Baxter and bandmate Andre Scheepers on the internet, and after conjoined efforts on the first demo's, the two-member band was signed to EMI South Africa. It took more than a year to complete the project, the end product being a pop flavoured album carrying many different musical influences, like Reggae, Drum & Bass, or regular Pop.
In June 2008, they released FabricLive.40, a mix CD on the fabric label that includes many of their own tracks. The mix spans several genres and tempos.
NOISIΛ completed a remix of 'Omen' for The Prodigy to accompany its release in February 2009.
In Summer 2009, NOISIΛ produced Hadouken!'s second album, For the Masses, released in 2010.
In recent times, NOISIΛ have remixed Skrillex's Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, as well as deadmau5's Raise Your Weapon.
NOISIΛ have also written music for short films as well as various video games, including Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, Wipeout Pulse, Wipeout HD, and Wipeout HD Fury. They also produced "The Tide", which was featured on Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2 and "Stigma" intro of Gran Turismo PSP. Their song Groundhog was featured twice in DJ Hero, first as a Mashup with Motörhead's Ace of Spades '08) then later as a beat juggle by the Scratch Perverts. A remixed version of Groundhog can also be found in the soundtrack of MotorStorm: Pacific Rift. The group also collaborated With Klaus Badelt, to provide a series of remixes for the MotorStorm: Apocalypse soundtrack. The 16 Bit remix of "Machine Gun" was featured in the "Stranded" Trailer for the upcoming video game Far Cry 3, and "Could This Be" and "Machine Gun" was used on SSX.
On February 27, 2012 Noisia released a special edition of their album Split the Atom on Deadmau5's acclaimed label mau5trap.
On June 27th, 2012 NOISIΛ posted a sample on their Facebook page, and YouTube channel from the upcoming DMC (Devil May Cry) soundtrack. They confirmed that they had been working on it for a while, and that so far, they have produced over 3 hours of audio for the game.