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“Back then, liberation was about breaking through barriers, external ones, but also the ones I placed on myself,”


That fight forged her voice and her uncompromising stance. It also came at a cost. Over time, resistance turned into something more internal, more refined.


“Today, freedom is a choice. It’s trusting my instincts without hesitation. It’s saying no without guilt and yes without needing permission.”


This shift from confrontation to discernment marks her most significant evolution. Strength no longer announces itself. simply exists.


It


Her authority was never given. It was built through consistency and refusal. That required sharp edges.


Longevity introduces


a different challenge: how to remain powerful without staying hardened. Her evolution shows a reconciliation between force and softness. The fight did not disappear. It transformed.


Freedom now is practical. It is the ability to choose collaborators, control pace, curate environments. To take up space without explaining why it is deserved.


The word collective matters here. After years of solitary endurance, the focus turns outward. “It’s about stripping away ego and creating something bigger than any one person,” she explains.


MoodCollective was not a reinvention. It was a recognition. Nicole was already


moving


between worlds: techno and house, intimacy and spectacle, physicality


and introspection.


The imprint simply gave language to a reality she was already living.


“This year I found myself moving fluidly


between techno and


house,” she says. “I realised I was already living in both worlds again.”


The hesitation was never doubt but from listening too closely to external voices. When she stopped listening to it, the


decision was obvious. “The moment I stopped listening to the noise and turned back into myself, everything clicked.”


Trusting instinct has always defined her


carries a quieter


path. Now it confidence.


MoodCollective is less about change and more about return. A return to intuition after years of managing expectation.


The project functions as both a musical and psychological space. Permission is no longer sought. The momentum behind it feels less like a launch and more like confirmation. This is


what alignment looks like when strategy steps aside.


MOOD remains foundational.


MoodCollective simply acknowledges that identity is fluid. Sounds overlap. Phases coexist. Nicole’s choice to honour that publicly reflects a maturity many artists never


reach: the


confidence to let multiplicity exist without explanation.


Her understanding of freedom was shaped under pressure. Early on it meant survival. As a woman in a male-dominated industry, resistance


was structural.


Connection replaces opposition. Groove replaces defence. The dancefloor becomes a shared release rather than a statement.


MoodCollective is unapologetically physical. Nicole wants music that is felt, not analysed. Music that moves bodies. “You feel it in your body, not just your head.”


That instinct shaped her collaboration with ZLATA. Born from a chance moment and a shared sense of humour, Report to the Dancefloor chemistry


captures through contrast.


Different angles meeting in the same physical space. Driving. Emotional. Direct.


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