The return of dance floors in Sydney and my first sets at Loose Ends.

Part 1 of 2.

Loose Ends EASTER SUNDAY [Early Set], Oxford Art Factory, 4.4.21

Lagöon - Gradient (Drama In the Sauna Remix)

Recorded at Midsumma Carnival 2022, closing out the T-Dance Stage.

Tseba featuring electric fields - must be love 
Bro.Valentino - ah wo (Baka g Love remix)
The establishment - love like this 
The chemical brothers - go 
James Daron & Sulene Fleming - best thing
3kelves & Dylan c. Greene - get up, get out
Mint Royale - sexiest man in Jamaica
Florence and the machine - spectrum (say my
Name) (Taito Tikaro And Flavio Zarza Remix)
The presets - this boys in love (lifelike remix)
Boys Noize - Yeah
Underworld - always loved a film
Format:B - chunky
The bee gees - you should be dancing
D:reems - things can only get better

SWEATY, Midsumma Carnival [Closing Set], 23.1.22

Pavlova Bar, Club 77, Gadigal/sydney, 10.4.22

After having DJ Steely Ann on the show in July 2023, I decided to do my first all-wax mix (in quite some time!), pulling out lots of 80s electro, hip-hop, new wave and indie stuff. 

I've always had a very soft spot for this kinda music, when I was asked to play a similar set at a bar in Fitzroy a few months ago, it spurred my interest in playing 12"s out again!

A lot of these 12" are incredible "strictly for the DJs" compilations, unheard of edits and remixes that you cannot find elsewhere, and I suspect, a bit not 100% above board! They were cheap and I loved the cover when I went record shopping a few years ago, and just picked them based on the art! 

firecracker - todd terje and the olsens
IMINXTC - denise motto
that beat(extended) - unitedeye
follow for now - sway and tech
its your nite - the homeboys
that todd terry mega mix - double trouble
i’m house - the elect
i gave my love (gerd gansen rework) - move d
fascinate - red baron
expo2000 (kling klang mix 2000) (45 rpm) - kraftwerk
let the music play - shannon
im the dj - vince lawrence’s z factor
emergency (club mix) - kool & the gang
burn for you (extended mix) - INXS
nummern/computerwelt - Kraftwerk
new body rhumba (from the film ‘white noise’) - lcd Soundsystem

Bookings: nickspurwaydj@gmail.com

RE AU Mix Series 004 [Vinyl Only New Wave]

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Rushall [Drop the Towel]

Brand new mix up for RE MIX SERIES! 135bpm + all 90 mins

went fast and more upbeat for this one...

looking for love - disclosure
somewhere nearer the south - skyed
all i need - mario penati
high-2 - enrico dragoni
close - eli murphy & tuff trax
oh my boy - ray hurley
midnight express - chouba -

baby baby floor plan 
this feelin’  abdc 
heinous fly trap - franklel & harper
broken dub - jordan brando
spare change - ben hauke
sirine - chris stussy & s.a.m
the epiphany - dharma
x-trak  1 - percy x
nice weather for ducks - lemon jelly

RE MIX SERIES 007 - 135+ bpm

Transenergy last night was a beautiful, fast and most importantly, a FUN event to play at. I auditioned for it with a mix at 135bpm, keeping the speed high but the aggression less so. I had never played at Revolver before, nor Transenergy, it’s all new territory for me. 

What happened is one of the more intense sets I’ve played, it’s up there with the better mixed and wildly dynamic sets I’ve done. The crowd was heaving and giving me all this energy to rinse tunes they left me covered in sweat and doing several thousand steps for the hour I played. 

I’m really proud of this mix, captured live at Revolver for Transenergy. I’m also stoked this was my first set at one of Melbourne’s more infamous clubs. I loved every second and can’t wait to come back. It was borderline cathartic, sweating out how rotten 2023 was and looking ahead to 2024 with a positive and more fun outlook. 

Special thanks to Sophie Forrest for inviting me to play. Sophie also gave me advice, guided me with straight up honesty and set the stage for how to approach this party. I couldn’t be more deeply appreciative. I’m still reeling!

I couldn’t have asked for a finer and more satisfying debut at Revolver. 

STB_04 - Axone / AX_1 
Proper Shelving Technique - Bullant
The Unforbidden Track - Nicolas Duque
Acithicc - Sophie Forrest
Timebomb (808 Tape Mix) - 808 State
Heard This Calling - Cassettes For Kids
Go the Distance - Disclosure
The Message - Ray Hurley
g-town euphoria (luna) - KETTAMA & Underworld
Lifetimes - Slam featuring Tyrone Palmer
Spare Change - Ben Hauke
Civil War 2013 - Detroit Grand Pubahs
Move It - Floorplan
Sunshine (KiNK Remix) - Unit 2
Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Remix) - DJ Mehdi

Transenergy, Revolver Upstairs 29.12.23

Stream/buy here:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dramainthesauna/tongue-twister/

Out now on Drop the Towel.

Check out my newest track, 'tongue twister'.

Latest single is coming out quick and fast! Written, produced and mixed in the last 3 days, a massive change to how long my previous releases took!

Arrangement, writing, composing, mixing, mastering & cover art all by me

tongue twister [Drop the Towel]🌪️👅

Stream & Buy here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dramainthesauna/its-funny-2

All the red flags just look like flags...

The latest cut from Drama in the Sauna is angry, fast and charged, reflecting a period of turmoil and personal upheaval in 2024, expressed only through the best way possible: art.

Composer & Engineer: Nick Spurway, 5-28 June 2024. 
Artwork: Nick Spurway
Photo: James Morgan, May 2023

Out on Drop the Towel, 2 August 2024

It's Funny [Drop the Towel]

All nite long down in Fitzroy, recorded live at Avalon Bar.

Avalon Bar Fitzroy (All Night Long), Naarm/melbourne, 20.7.2024

PRESAVE/PREORDER HERE: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dramainthesauna/its-funny-jo-christys-funny-flip

Presenting the self-described 'flip' of 'It's Funny', by one of Naarm/melbourne's most expressive producers/DJs: Jo Christy. 
https://soundcloud.com/jochristydj

The long distance flip/remix/rework evolved from Jo 'just needing the song to revolve around that lil bass fill that I froth' and the resulting tune is a bouncy, thrilling marathon that focuses intently on the guttural bass of the original and discards almost everything else, a perfect counterpoint to the maximalist OG cut.

Jo tells me 'I got so carried away and didn’t wanna get rid of too much! But, once I was stuck in, I was STUCK IN' and I am stoked that the tune ended up this way.

Composer & Engineer: Nick Spurway, 5-28 June 2024.
Remixer & Additional Production: Jo Christy
Artwork: Nick Spurway
Photo: James Morgan, May 2023

Out on Drop the Towel, 16 August 2024

It's Funny (Jo Christy Funny Flip) [Drop the Towel]

Danielle Moore 1971-2024

Like a lot of you, I was devastated to hear of Danielle Moore's passing earlier this month. 

Crazy P meant and mean a lot to me and are one of the 3 pillars that make up my DJing and music life. Danielle was an amazing talent, a soulful wonder and mischievous. 

I can't process my grief sitting here, so I made a 90 minute megamix, of Crazy P through my journey with them, using as many of her vocals-led tunes as I could (with some sampled mistaken vocals), in chronological order from 2002-2022, pretty much my favourites from classics to deep cuts. In a poignant twist, my last radio show, one day after her passing, ended with their latest tune 'Any Signs of Love', a much more sad and surreal placement of that tune. 

I hope you enjoy.

Vale, Danielle.

Image: Taken by me at Harvest Festival, November 2012, Parramatta Park, Eora/Sydney

Tracklist
You Started Something (2002)
Music's My Love (2005)
Kicks (2005)
In & Out (2008)
Stop Space Return (2008)
Love On the Line (2008)
Future Beat (2011)
Heartbreaker (2011)
Like A Fool (2015)
Witch Doctor (2015)
Clouds (2013)
In My Hands (2017)
Allow Me (2018)
Is This All It Seems (2019)
Kari (2019)
People (We Can Transform) (2022)
There’s A Better Place! (2002)

RE AU 015 [Crazy P Megamix Tribute]

Ducking up to Eora/sydney as Sophie Forrest celebrated 20 years of DJing at Club 77 with a marathon six hour set that ended up being a very long SWEATY b2b, so here it is in all of its six hour glory. 
Performing once again in one of our favourite spaces in Sydney, where the tiny club lifts the roof off time and time again, Sophie ran the gamut of her two decades of DJing, from breaks to psytrance to funk to disco and hip-hop.

This mix features many of the tunes we played at Tropical Fruits with some musical excursions that the crowd was not expecting at all; they heaved and went mad for it. I was sincerely so delighted by the response from everyone, each person was there in the moment, reacting to everything we played. 

There were so many fun little moments, my favourite being a young woman who was an Underworld stan like me, so I asked her what tune to play and we agreed on Dark Train. For ten minutes we shared a lovely moment and she was overjoyed. 

Thanks to Club 77 for having us and congrats to my gal Sophie for slinging a madcap, decade spanning set that left us all dying for more.

SWEATY / 20 Years of Sophie Forrest @ Club 77, Gadigal/sydney, 28.12.24

SWEATY returned to the decks after a two year absence, making our Tropical Fruits debut at Galore ‘24, New Year’s Eve 2024. 

Playing fast and furious to the queers welcomed to Bundjalung country, SWEATY kicked off 2025 with a bang, with breaks, techno, house, psytrance, booty, funk, electro and big beat cutting between each other for 2.5 hours. It was a heaving sweatbox and we’re finally landing back to earth.

Thank you to all who danced and especially Tropical Fruits for having us. ✨

SWEATY @ Tropical Fruits Festival GALORE ‘24, Bundjalung/lismore, 31.12.24

A homecoming at the Red Rattler Theatre, six years in the making, at OFFBEAT. A gorgeous crowd and fabulous deco. 

Special thanks to OFFBEAT for having me, enjoy the mix and have a dance!

tracklist: 
wallace - breaking up
dirty secretz - eternity
lindstrøm - de javu
mekon & roxanne shante - what's going on? 
black legend - you see the trouble with me 
par-t-one vs inxs - I'm so crazy
talking heads - girlfriend is better
crazy p - kicks
mighty dub Katz - let the drums speak
muthafunkaz & dj spen - gotta hold on me
demi requismo - this is the limit
future self - can't sleep (drama in the sauna remix)
starjunk 95 - spectra ocean dream circuit
SG lewis & tove lo - HEAT
karizma - work it out 
Fatboy slim - first down
808 state - bombadin (barta mix)
prodigy - charly (alley cat remix)
chemical brothers - got to keep on
kyodai - breaking
mr. natural - that green Jesus
the Juan Maclean - happy house
caribou - can't do without you
lcd sound system - new body rhumba (from the film white noise)

ODDBEAT (fka OFFBEAT), Red Rattler Theatre, Gadigal/sydney 7.2.25

https://dramainthesauna.bandcamp.com/album/joy-liberation

"Fascism has rotted our brains to associate liberation with the absence of joy. When liberation is joy."

Are we tired? Yes.
Are we angry? Yes.
Are we frustrated? Yes.

Are we scared? Hell no!

I first heard the Reverend Kevin R. Johnson's fiery sermon at Abyssinian Baptist Church in the days following the 2024 US Presidential election. 

It stuck with me ever since. It speaks to me in such deep ways, in that in this current climate we can feel all the things, but are we scared? Absolutely not. Queer spaces and nightclubs are permanent areas where queer folx can be free of being scared and be themselves. We may be tired, angry, exhausted, frustrated, weary and outraged, but on a dance floor we are never scared. When we have our chosen family, we are never scared. When we stand together, we are never scared.

Download at Bandcamp.

The voice you hear is Reverend Kevin R. Johnson.

Production, mixing, mastering & artwork by Nick Spurway.

Joy Liberation [Drop the Towel]

https://dramainthesauna.bandcamp.com/album/joy-liberation

This is a bonus dub mix created by accident in the final hours of mastering. I muted some tracks in Logic and out came this. It is untouched except for those random tracks being muted.

It feels like deep late night cut, so play this one at 3am.

The voice you hear is Reverend Kevin R. Johnson.

Production, mixing, mastering & artwork by Nick Spurway.

Joy Liberation (3am Accidental Dub) [Drop the Towel]

Finally! A new mix now I’ve settled into my new place. All new tunes, all new location.

This mix was featured on Radio Electronica Australia August 2025 (1st show)

Canblaster - Clockworks
Inland Knights - Talk About Soul
Cataract - Wiretap
Saison - Sugar
Midnight City - Funnyfilterfreak
Tiger Stripes - Time For Peace
Nima Gorji & Octave (RO)	 - Voyage	
Voices - Can You See the Light? (K.O.T. Classic Mix)
Medlar - Can’t Stop
Austin Ato - Heat
RIP Productions - You Cheated
Archie Hamilton feat. HQA - Let the Light In (Extended Garage Dub)
Tony Lionni - Sweet Love
Madoka - Cabaret (Hudson & Hubert's Private Mix)
KIODINII - NAW BABY
Intense - Let the Rain Come Down (Down Pour Mix)

RE AU Mix Series 018 - All Settled In (July ‘25)

Welcomed back onto the airwaves at FBi Radio Gadigal/Sydney & with a guest mix for Sunset with Simon Caldwell.  

prins thomas - xsb
The revenge - your life
Koji ono - inner rhythms
Peter palace - lovahman
Motor city drum ensemble - raw cuts #3
The black madonna - stay
Francis inferno orchestra - sun up
Simple symmetry - too much fun at the temple of doom
Drama in the sauna - tongue twister
Shilungu - shilungu
Voices - can you see the light (K.o.c. classic mix)

Guest Mix: Sunset with Simon Caldwell, FBi Radio 94.5FM, 28.7.25

Setting up the end of winter with a preview of September 2025's RE AU mix: louder, funkier mix that goes darker toward the end... 

This mix aired on 27 September 2025

Tracklist: 
The rainbow song - art of tones
Done my best - Nebraska
Sugar - saison
Wanna Touch Me - F.A.Z.E. 1
Big shot (pace osuna remix) - AVISION
Tu destino - Cristian Viviano 
Bad words - Eddie c Feat. Mister joshooa back 2 the wild (gordon city dub) - basement Jaxx
Piano banger - big Miz & best 
Like dat - floorplan
The drums - victor Calderone
Bombadin (barte mix) - 808 state
Self service - CFCF
Music play’s - galfyn owens
The real life (Fatboy slim remix) - raven maize

RE AU MIX SERIES 019 [September 2025]

Mode Festival 2025 brought up a lot of techno related tuna I’ve not played much of recently. 

After the festival I powered up the decks and hit record with no idea what I’d even start or end with, unusual for how I plan sets. This is the first take of that. 

This was broadcast on RE AU Australia in October 2025.

KiNK - Five
Alexiskyspirit - rendition II 
Ken Ishii - Reality Tunnel (DJ Jock Remix) 
Pearson Sound - XLB
2000 And One - Kawasaki 
DVS1 - Black Russian
Floorplan - Wall To Wall
Noisedock - We Live For The Night
Luca Agnelli - 7 O' Clock (Marco Faraone Remix)
DJ Sly (IT) - For the Kraftwerk (Rework)
Future Self - Field Generation
Ross From Friends - Love Divide (Phonox Mix)
Alden Tyrell - Wurk It
Drama in the Sauna - Joy Liberation (3am Accidental Dub) 
Underworld & Ø [Phase] - Border Country

RE AU MIX SERIES 020 [Techno?]

Returning to Shandy up in Queensland for the first time since 2022, always a blast, had a banger of a time start to finish on this one.

Recorded live at The Tivoli.

Tracklist:
Moonbootica - Work Your Body
XXXY - TPW
Superfunk - Bangalter
Flight Facilities - Run
Mike Sandcastle - When I’m With You
The Chemical Brothers feat. Halo Maud - Live Again
Friend Within - Set You Free
Floorplan - Made Up In My Mind
Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh (Kneedeep Club Mix)
Georgia - About Work The Dancefloor (Locum Remix) 
Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket

Shandy 8.11.25, The Tivoli, Meanjin/brisbane

On the decks again for Fur Coat Club's Birthday Extravaganza! 

Recorded live at The Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville

Tracklist:

Maceo Plex - Your Style
Basement Jaxx - Back 2 The Wild (Gordon City Dub)
Mylo - Otto’s Journey
Move D - I Gave My Love (Shan & Gerd Jansen Edit)
Dave Lee & Foremost Poets featuring Johnny Dangerous - Beside Myself (Dave Lee Cowbell Party Mix)
DJ Sneak featuring Bear Who? - Fix My Sink (Basement Jaxx Work Skip Dub)
Marc Cotterell - Quicksand (ZAV Club Piano Mix)
KC Lights featuring Marlo Rex - CHOOSE LOVE
Kepler - Flavour
Ralphi Rosario Energy Flavour - All Right Now! (Extended Glee Club Version)
Downtown Party Network - Disco Ball Drama
Maceo Plex - Dexter’s Flight
Michael Mayer & Gui Boratto - State of the Nation 
Fatboy Slim & The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction Skank

Fur Coat Club 19.12.25

Re-record of my opening set at House of Mince this year & my birthday! (30.1.92)

Thanks to House of Mince for having me!

floating lands - tell
there for me - jack fell down
attention seeker - iron galaxy
moving day - david august
it's only (dj doze remix) - herbert
dirty epic - underworld
can't sleep - huxley
tale of us - the backing band
arp3 - floating points
seagulls - bicep

House of Mince pres. Efdemin [Opening Set], ARQ Sydney, 30.1.16

talking bout my baby (midfield general disco reshuffle) - fatboy slim
lividup - disclosure
people - MLiR
just to make me - vhyce 
the rainbow song (original mix) - art of tones
dra te haelvete (todd terje acid remix) - beranek
alright this morning (original mix) - the black madonna
valentine's groove - kink
jiffy pop - brett johnson
ghetto bounce - HR & ski
don't you feel (crackazat remix) - moullinex
main vein - jamiroquai

Surveillance Party Lockout 12.11.16

Opening for Something Gay at The Bunk3r in Sydney!

the world - hunee
if reality calls, hang up - amateur dance
evening call - project pablo
over falls - bruce trail
the sunrise in her eyes - route 8
to the disco ’77 - move d
waiting - hidden spheres
downtime - paper music issue #1
invisible spectrum - chaos in the cbd
mover - lancelot
emotinium - roy of the ravers
the world will come around - mathew jonson
full custody - brame
my beat (swag’s spiritual mix) - blaze
unblock - tucillo
KHLHI - percussions
stay - the black madonna

Something Gay [Opening Set], The Bunk3r Sydney, 10.6.17

Recorded live opening for Bicep at Oxford Art Factory. 

A little wobbly, a little nervous, opening for such a huge act!!!

Audio is a bit choppy during a Move D track, apologies!!

The Mixtapes

BICEP [Opening Set], Oxford Art Factory, 2.3.18

First live set as SWEATY {Nick Spurway X Sophie Forrest) featuring Lyndon Franks on live sax 

Recorded at Tokyo Sing Song, Newtown

SWEATY CHC 2nd Birthday, Tokyo Sing Song, 15.9.18

Recorded live at Gaytimes 2019

The Whip (Cody Currie Remix) - Christian James
Roy Keane - Brame & Hamo
Last Nite (Erik Bo Remix) - Inland Knights
Any Time or Place (Mix Fairbanks Edit) - Azoto
Your Body - Birdie & French Toast
Got To Keep On - The Chemical Brothers
I Want Your Sex (Stereogamous Bath House Version) - George Michael
Love at First Sight (Kid Cremé Vocal Dub) - Kylie Minogue
Oderberger - Cody Currie
Crescendolls - Daft Punk
Illusions (12” Version) - DJ Dove
Sandy Shackles - Karoy
Funkosphere - Peter Brown
Sweet Dynamite (Todd Terje Edit) - Claudja Barry
Get Down (Alternative Mix) - Groove Armada
The Bomb - Big Miz
“Ah” - Bellaire
Who Do You Think You Are (Morales Club Mix) - Spice Girls
Melo - Pryda
Go West (2001 Remastered Version) - Pet Show Boys

SWEATY, Gaytimes Festival, 17.2.19

BOOKINGS: nickspurwaydj@gmail.com

MUSIC: @dramainthesauna
DJ: @nick__spurway / SWEATY (w/ Sophie Forrest)
PARTY: @furcoatsydney
RADIO: @radioelectronicajena

Nick Spurway builds his sets under the ethos of “less chin stroking, more dancing”, having no trouble flipping between thumping techno, high energy disco and pumping, swingy house within the hour. Nick established his reputation as a killer DJ in his early twenties, playing for numerous parties in Eora/sydney along Oxford Street and deep in Marrickville warehouse party territory, cutting between pitch perfect, vinyl-only opening sets and late-night banging closers.

Across the last ten years, Nick has shared his sound at straight techno nights and day-long queer festivals, from tiny basement parties to 10,000 festival goers. He’s been invited to play for some of the best local and national institutions including Something Else, Loose Ends, Dark Mofo, Midsumma, SASH and the infamous Pavlova Bar parties, playing up to six hours at a time. Being continually booked at a wide range of events has helped Nick create and refine his sets; tying together his long established love of the “holy trinity” of house, disco and funk, with techno, ambient, breakbeat, dance-punk and new wave thrown in for good measure. 

By the time he moved interstate to Naarm/melbourne, Nick had teamed up with fellow DJ, producer and activist Sophie Forrest, forming the duo SWEATY, culminating in a triumphant and well-received closing set at Midsumma Carnival 2022 and co-founded Fur Coat, a "gender-bender discotheque for queers and their peers", with Sophie, Matt Jay and SVEN, throwing parties in the inner west of Sydney with a final, 8-hour party before the pandemic hit, for Sydney Mardi Gras 2020. Both these collaborations continue to the present day. When he's not throwing his own parties, Nick is seen playing alongside some of the very best of local and international talent, such as Simon Caldwell, Move D, Bicep, JNETT, Ayebatonye, Stereogamous, Efdemin, Jane Fitz, Lorna Clarkson, Art Simone, CC:DISCO! and Gavilán Rayna Russom, to name a few.

With spectacular timing, Nick moved himself south to Melbourne in 2020, before lockdowns sent everyone inside for almost two years. Undeterred by this and with no clubs to play at, Nick expanded his talents elsewhere: elevating his music production with one to one mentoring from production legend Red Rack’em as part of his groundbreaking ‘How I Program’ music production community in 2020; hosting and producing a monthly radio show ‘Radio Electronica Australia’, since 2021, and releasing his first original track in 2022.

He kept his DJ chops fresh with live streams from his living room and guest-appearances on fellow DJ’s radio shows. Instead of dropping these pandemic-era habits when clubs re-opened, Nick continues to participate in all of the above, with his popular radio show celebrating four years on the air, in February 2025, with no signs of slowing down.

When Nick began to release his first tracks, he decided to separate the DJ from the producer and a new project was created: Drama in the Sauna. His first completed track, a remix of ‘Gradient’ by Eora/sydney artist Lagoon, was released in 2021, followed by his debut EP on Blur Records in 2022, entitled ‘Hot Water Laundry Service’. In December 2023, Nick released his second EP, 'Rushall', in time for summer, with self-produced tracks 'tongue twister' and 'It's Funny' dropped in 2024 and 'Can't Sleep', produced with frequent collaborator Future Self, released on Self Control Records in January 2025.

After five years down south, Nick moved back to Eora/Sydney in early 2025, reconnecting and establishing his love for the city that made his DJing, bringing with him producing, collaborations and radio, to begin a new phase of his career as it approaches its 20th anniversary.

Nick Spurway • Drama in the Sauna • SWEATY

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