Nicole Moudaber returns to The Concourse Project for the first time since 2023

The techno DJ, producer and In The MOOD host comes back to the same Austin warehouse on Friday, Feb. 26, nearly four years after her last set there.

The last time Nicole Moudaber played Austin, it was May 19, 2023, at The Concourse Project. She's coming back to the same room. Moudaber headlines The Concourse Project on Friday, Feb. 26, 2027, with the night starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are $55 through See Tickets. The date was announced Oct. 27.

For Austin's techno crowd, a nearly four-year gap from a DJ of her standing is a long time, and a return to the same 3,000-capacity space is a statement in itself. It says the first night worked, for her and for the room.

If you only know the name, here's the short version. Moudaber is a techno DJ, producer, promoter and radio host, born in Ibadan, Nigeria, according to her Wikipedia entry, with Lebanese roots. Techno Airlines credits her with helping build Beirut's club scene in the late 1990s. Her break as a DJ came later, and loudly: in 2009, Carl Cox, a close friend and mentor, told DJ Mag she was "the most underrated DJ" around, as Wikipedia recounts. The two later released "See You Next Tuesday" together in 2014.

She built her own infrastructure from there. Her label, MOOD Records, launched on Feb. 25, 2013, with her *In The MOOD* EP, and has served as a home for her own records and for artists whose percussive, deep, dynamic style fits alongside hers. Her track "Breed" from 2015 won Best Tech House/Techno Track at the 2016 International Dance Music Awards, per Wikipedia. And the label hit a milestone this year, with its 100th release slated for March 2026, according to Resident Advisor.

Then there's the radio show. *In The MOOD*, her weekly show, won Best Online Music Show at the 2016 Online Radio Awards (Music Connection), and it is still going strong. Her SoundCloud has been posting episodes recorded live around the world this year: #639, recorded at Sunset Park Rooftop in New York, went up July 28; #638 came from Kappa Futur Festival in Turin with Paco Osuna; #636 and #637 were both recorded at Academy in Los Angeles; and June brought sets from KOKO in London and an In The MOOD night in Toronto. For anyone heading to the Concourse in February, that archive is the best preview there is of what a Moudaber set sounds like right now.

A return to the same 3,000-capacity room says the first night worked.

The Concourse Project has become Austin's address for nights like this one: big enough to bring in DJs who play festival main stages, built for the long-form sets that techno needs. A 9 p.m. start on a Friday means this is a full night, not a quick stop on the way somewhere else, and $55 for a headliner with Moudaber's history is a fair price for a room this size.

There's something specific about seeing a DJ come back to a space she already knows. She'll remember the sound of the room, and some of the crowd will remember her last set in it. The gap has been long enough that a lot of new faces will be there too. On Feb. 26, they'll find out together whether the second time hits as hard as the first.

Sources: Nicole Moudaber (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Nicole Moudaber (Techno Airlines) (technoairlines.com); Breed (Traxsource) (traxsource.com); Serum: Nicole Moudaber (Resident Advisor) (ra.co); Hit the Decks! It's Nicole Moudaber (Music Connection) (musicconnection.com); Nicole Moudaber (SoundCloud) (soundcloud.com); Tickets (See Tickets) (prod-nts-api.seeticketsusa.us)