Artist: Nicole Moudaber feat. POSITIVV
Title: 'She Loves My Music / Think About You'
Label: MOOD Collective

This one came out of an email. A vocalist called POSITIVV sent Nicole Moudaber a couple of takes, she found out he was from Ibadan, and that is the Nigerian city she was born in herself.

Moudaber: "I've always wanted to connect with Nigeria through my music, but I was waiting for it to happen in the right way. Then Olabode sent me an email with a couple of vocal takes. When I found out he was from Ibadan, the city where I was born, and heard the vocal, it felt like a sign. We had to make something together. There's something special about reconnecting with where you come from through music, and this felt exactly like that."

POSITIVV has said the same thing from his side, that watching her take the original idea somewhere else and keep the vocal intact was the part that got him. Two tracks here, and 'Think About You' is hers alone.

Moudaber has been doing this a long time. She ran parties in Beirut through the nineties before moving to London and learning to DJ at Point Blank. MOOD Records arrived in 2013 and built its name on the harder end of techno. Her radio show In The MOOD has run since 2014 and goes out on FM stations in dozens of countries.

MOOD Collective is the newer of her two labels, and the house and tech house end is its whole purpose. This release puts her own productions back at the front of it.

Out now. Beatport is the place, and the label's own link covers the rest.