Nicky in his early life fronted sydney digital pop auteurs Van She and has toured alongside indie royalty such as the yeah yeah yeahs, bloc party and phoenix. Under the van she tech alter ego he spun remixes for empire of the sun, tiga, feist, the presets and daft punk. Also singing the song Vanished by Crystal Castles. 
 Nicky is also responsible for the huge ibiza 2017 anthem ‘real life’ (81 million spotify streams) with gorgon city & duke dumont, his group NAATIONS followed up the success of the track with their own single ‘want me more’, which propelled itself into the top 20 uk shazam dance chart following a wave of huge support from bbc radio 1 & 1xtra, with plays from pete tong, danny howard and mistajam. 
 Co writing hayden james single “ Nowhere to go”, also produced and co wrote elderbrooks singles “Capricorn” and “Numb” and a NAATIONS ep, nicky has also recently managed to put some time aside create some dance floor heaters for the likes of Anti Up, Chris Lake and Chris Lorenzo, Ali love, Breakbot, Shift K3y, Anabel Englund, Bob Moses, Ar/CO, Uffie, Boynsoise, whilst also running his label disco imprint Music To Dance To Records and being A&R for Sweat it out Music.