Wednesday 2 December 2015

DJ Sadiq Gill - Nicole Moudaber

A true force to be reckoned with as a DJ and producer, Nicole Moudaber rise through the ranks of the DJ elite has been swift, purposeful and striking.

Propelled by her flawlessly executed, sleazy, edgy house and tough, soulful techno sound, she picked up no less than Carl Cox and Steve Lawler as early fans.

Carl snapped up her early tracks for INTEC and Steve featured her music on VIVa & iVAV.

Since then she supplied killer tracks for labels like 8Sided Dice, Kling Klong, Monique Musique and Waveform Recordings, while remixing names including Santos, Martin Eyer, Mauro Picotto and Fergie.

Pretty much a perfect start to an artist career that began relatively recently.

Hitting New York after a youth spent in Africa and the Middle East, Nicole initially explored her passion for electronic music as a promoter, bringing the NYC style parties she loved to Beirut for the first time, then booking huge acts for her Soundworx nights at London's legendary Turnmills club and running Southeast Recordings.

But it was the decision to dive in and start to DJ and make music herself that was proven the most important.

Once she unleashed her creativity, everything simply went boom.

Carl Cox identified her as exactly the kind of fresh talent he wanted to playing at his weekly nights at Space in Ibiza, where Nicole has since DJed regularly alongside him for the last 3 seasons.

Requests for guest mixes on both Carl and John Digweed's internationally syndicated radio shows followed, as did the endorsement of Pete Tong, who named Nicole a rising star on BBC Radio 1's Essential Selection.

Her tracks picked up the support of yet more DJ royalty like Richie Hawtin, Adam Beyer, Loco Dice and Danny Tenaglia, who was so impressed when he DJed with Nicole that the two of them have been working together both in the studio and on throwing an incredible outdoor party at Ushuaia in Ibiza.

With further residencies in Ibiza – the place she now calls home - and Cologne, plus recent high profile gigs at Ministry of Sound and the SW4 festival in London plus the Dance.Here.Now Festival in New York, her reputation for groovy main room mastery has really taken hold.

Meanwhile plans for a launching a label of her own, plus a mix and tour for the hugely influential Global Underground series are all under way.

Tuesday 1 December 2015

DJ Sadiq Gill - Knife Party

Knife Party were the single biggest breakthrough headline act of 2012, having rocketed from an unknown entity, to one of the most renowned dance acts in the world with a barely a moment to catch their breath. With just a few releases to their name to date, the duo’s list of achievements is phenomenal. They have racked up over 500,000 downloads of their first EP ‘100% No Modern Talking’ and seen their second EP, ‘Rage Valley’ achieve top 10 in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia iTunes charts and debut at No.1 and No.2 in both the Beatport and Trackitdown dubstep charts. They have over 800,000 Facebook fans, have had 7 million plays of ‘Internet Friends’ on YouTube alone, and have headlined shows and festivals to tens of thousands of fans the world over. Remixing Porter Robinson, Labrinth and Nero to name a few, Knife Party also collaborated with Swedish House Mafia on the phenomenal 2012 worldwide smash ‘Antidote’. From curating their own Earstorm stage at Future Music Festival, to playing the main stage at Ultra in Miami, touring their Haunted House show to sold out Arenas in the US, to festival sets across the globe this Summer, the Knife Party movement is both viral and global and this will come as no surprise to anyone that has witnessed their performances or heard the music!