The Story
Jack McGeorge started mixing records in his bedroom in Medway, Kent, when he was ten years old. Not learning. Mixing. By sixteen he was playing clubs. By seventeen he had a weekly pirate radio slot — broadcasting drum and bass out of a bedroom setup to anyone in range.
He didn’t go through a music school or an A&R development programme. He went through SoundCloud.
In 2010, he started uploading tracks under the name Macky Gee. The following year he dropped his debut album, The Mad Man LP, entirely self-released. No label. No manager. No plan beyond making the music and putting it out. The internet did the rest — and the internet was paying attention, because jump-up DnB was exactly the sound that a generation of ravers wanted to hear and the tastemakers hadn’t bothered to make.
The output didn’t slow down. Sway in 2016 entered the top 20 across the UK and Europe. In 2014 he founded his own label, Down 2 Earth Musik, because waiting for someone else to release your music when you can do it yourself doesn’t make sense. Same year, SASASAS formed — a supergroup with DJ Phantasy, Harry Shotta, MC Skibadee, MC Shabba D, and Stormin MC. Their 2017 Rampage live stream hit 2.5 million views. When Stormin passed in 2018, the group returned as a tribute. Some things are bigger than a set.
Tour
The track that changed everything almost didn’t come out.
“Tour” was released in 2017 on Friction’s Elevate Records. Macky wasn’t that excited about it. It became UKF’s most-viewed drum and bass track of the year. 23 million views on YouTube. 97 million streams on Spotify. A BPI Silver disc — 200,000 units certified. The kind of track that plays at every festival, every club night, every warm-up set, for years after release. A track that defines a moment in a genre.
He could have chased that sound forever. He didn’t.
After “Tour”
Moments came in 2018 — 20 tracks, collaborations with Zinc, Skepsis, Ragga Twins, Murdock, Erb N Dub, Harry Shotta, DJ Phantasy. He also linked with DJ Fresh to help relaunch Breakbeat Kaos. The work was relentless.
It’s A Gee Thing in 2020 was a deliberate statement: 28 tracks across drum and bass, dubstep, house, bassline, and piano house. Not genre tourism. A producer saying, clearly: I’m more than one thing.
Danny Elfman is an influence. He grew up on garage before DnB. During lockdown, he went back to hip-hop and started incorporating MPC-style sampling. The public perception stayed locked on jump-up. The music kept moving.
In 2024, he released “I Miss The Old Macky” — a track that samples his daughter’s voice and holds a mirror up to the audience: you want the old sound, but I’m not that person anymore. Not angry, not defensive. Just honest.
Phases dropped in September 2025. Twenty tracks on the standard edition, thirty-five on the deluxe. The title says what it means.
Geeometric
In 2022, at Electric Brixton, Macky debuted Geeometric — a full audio-visual live show with custom stage design, 3D visuals, and music nobody had heard before. Not a DJ set with a screen behind it. A designed experience.
He called it “the next chapter.” A producer who’d built his career on club bangers building something closer to a concert. Closer to art.
EDC Las Vegas followed. The stereoBLOOM stage. The show crossed the Atlantic.
The Numbers
474 million Spotify streams. 37 tracks above one million streams. A BPI Silver disc. Booked worldwide through UTA — one of the largest talent agencies in the world. 792,000+ monthly Spotify listeners. Releases on Elevate, Crucast, Monstercat, and his own Down 2 Earth Musik.
Top listening cities: London, Prague, Perth. The reach is international but the roots are Medway.
Among jump-up DnB artists, these numbers are unmatched. Among drum and bass as a whole, only the crossover acts — Chase & Status, Sub Focus, Netsky, Dimension — are significantly ahead. And they have major label infrastructure behind them. Macky built this independently.
Now
DnB is experiencing its biggest mainstream moment ever — UK streaming grew 94% between 2021 and 2024, Gen Z is driving adoption through TikTok, and major EDM acts are incorporating drum and bass into their sets. Jump-up, the subgenre Macky defined, is at the centre of that wave.
He’s still in Medway. Still making music. Still running his own label. Still releasing tracks he “ain’t too mad about” that somehow end up with millions of streams.
Some artists become stars. Some stay artists. The difference is who’s still making music when the hype cycle moves on.
General: info@mackygee.com
Management: CTRLFRK — michael@ctrlfrk.co.uk
Booking: United Talent Agency (UTA) — worldwide