Nicole Moudaber

Nicole Moudaber
Nicole Moudaber at Mayday 2014
Background information
Birth name	Nicole Moudaber
Born	1977 (age 40) Lagos, Nigeria
Genres	Techno, electronica, deep house, house, tech house
Occupation(s)	Producer, DJ, promoter
Years active	2008–present
Labels	8 Sided Dice, Area Remote, Azuli Back Catalog, Intacto, Intec, iVAV Recordings, Kling Klong, Leena Music, Monique Musique, Monique Speciale, MOOD Records, Plastic City. Play, Rawthentic Music, VIVa Music, Waveform Recordings, Yellow Tail
Website	nicolemoudaber.com
Notable instruments
Traktor Pro, Kontrol X1, Pioneer

Nicole Moudaber is a Lebanese-Nigerian music producer and DJ born in Nigeria. In 2009, Carl Cox described her as "the most underrated DJ" to DJ Magazine, which helped to launch her career. Her 2013 debut album Believe was Number 1 for a month on the Beatport techno, tech house, and deep house charts. Moudaber has teamed up with techno notables such as Carl Cox, Adam Beyer, etc. and she also launched MOOD Records imprint in 2012.

Moudaber was raised in Nigeria. She moved to London, England after graduating from Richmond College with Social Sciences BS degree.

When she was living in Lebanon, Moudaber was one of the first people to bring dance music to Beirut. After the war in 1996 her "Trashy Renaissance" party in Beirut was the first rave event of its kind and prompted her to bring out international DJs, including Paul Van Dyk and Anthony Pappa for the first time to the Middle East. Moudaber describes her first party as: "I threw [it] in the middle of Beirut city was in the vicinity of a mosque and a cathedral, it was meant to defy the notion of hatred and prove we can do it together (the new generation) through music. It was a total success."

One of Moudaber's all-inclusive electronic music parties was detailed in the media and resulted in her being summoned by the police:

"At the time Syrians were heavily involved in Lebanon and I had started putting on parties. One happened to be around Halloween and as a result, all the gays took advantage and came dressed up as drag queens and other outrageous stuff—all in the name of fun. It turned out that undercover journalists were scouting the party. They took photos and it ended up being a five-page spread in the Middle Eastern equivalent of Cosmopolitan talking about homosexuality and perversion in the Middle East—my party being heavily featured within this article. Five months down the line I was asked to go down to the police station because the authorities had some questions for me. When I got down there, they were treating me like a terrorist, asking me all sorts of questions about my affiliation with homosexual people and whether I had seen them doing things. It was a really sad and outrageous situation, but luckily I had connections and therefore didn’t stay long. It was enough to persuade me that I was wasting my time out there and that these people would never get that sense of ritual and community I was trying to bring within these events, so I very much stuck to London and Europe from there onwards."