Kill the Noise
American DJ and producer known for electronic and dubstep music.
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Jacob Stanczak, who performs as Kill the Noise, hails from Rochester, New York. His track "Recess," made with Skrillex, Fatman Scoop, and Michael Angelakos, debuted at number 57 on the UK Singles Chart and served as the title cut for Skrillex’s first album. He has appeared at major festivals such as Coachella, EDC, Lollapalooza, Ultra, Creamfields, Spring Awakening, Holy Ship, Electric Zoo, Electric Forest, Bonnaroo, and Tomorrowland.
Career
In 2006, Stanczak contributed a DJ mix to the Barcode Recordings compilation Shades of Black, which appeared on its CD version. The year 2011 saw Kill the Noise co-produce and appear on two tracks from Korn’s tenth studio album, The Path of Totality: “Narcissistic Cannibal” and “Fuels the Comedy.” The single “Narcissistic Cannibal” dropped on October 18, 2011, and the full album followed on December 6, 2011. On February 3, 2012, Stanczak joined Korn onstage for a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
2014
MTV Clubland named Kill the Noise’s song “Kill the Noise (Part I)” its “Video Pick of the Year”; that track came from his 2011 EP Kill Kill Kill, released through OWSLA. In 2013, MTV Clubland again selected Kill the Noise for its “Pick of the Year,” this time for “Black Magic (Kill the Noise Pt II)” from his 2012 EP BLVCK MVGIC. That same year, he launched his headlining North American tour, “The Black Magic Mystical Wonder Tour.” Kill the Noise then moved into major film soundtracks, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where he contributed the platinum-certified track “Shell Shocked” alongside Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, and composer Brian Tyler.
In October 2014, he and Feed Me put out the single “Far Away,” accompanied by a music video animated by Augenblick Studios, the team behind Adult Swim’s Super Jail. Also in 2014, Kill the Noise collaborated with Anjunabeats artist Mat Zo on the track “Kill the Zo, Pt,” which came with a tour of the same name. His first full-length album, OCCULT CLASSIC, arrived in 2015 through OWSLA, featuring contributions from AWOLNATION, Dillon Francis, Tommy Trash, and Madsonik.
2016
A headlining “Occult Classic Tour” across North America followed the album’s release. In April 2016, the music video for his single “I Do Coke” with Feed Me—taken from OCCULT CLASSIC—came out; it starred Tom Sandoval from Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules.
That album later spawned a 17-track remix collection called ALT CLASSIC, released on May 13, 2016, with remixes by REZZ, NGHTMRE, Snails, Gammer, and Slander. In 2016, he produced a remake of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax” for Zoolander 2, featuring A$AP Rocky, Nitty Scott, and Sam Sparro. Kill the Noise also performed at the Fuji Rock Festival on July 23, 2016.
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