We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Seanny Georgie. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Seanny below.

Alright, Seanny thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

I have a story about taking risk, I remember around 2006 whenever I first started taking the electronic music I made seriously all I had was a computer that my mom bought me at Walmart at the time with all the money we had at that time which was about 160 bucks combined. Many people told me I needed a laptop or to buy CDJs etc. which sadly I couldn’t afford at the time. So I would literally bring a CRT monitor I bought at a thrift store and my whole computer setup to the venue because it was all I had. I got made fun of but they kept asking me to DJ more and more shows of different genres and more because I always kept the crowd moving. Eventual at MJQ which I used to DJ alot at the time a man named Murphy told me I should go by DJ IRS because of my setup I laughed because it was actually funny and never went by that name btw because he loved my DJ sets so I knew what he meant came from a place of care and just fucking around. Instead of letting others that laughed at me bring me down I showed them up with a shitty Compaq from Walmart. After 2 years of playing places in ATL I noticed I wanted to do more with music outside of what was going on in ATL at the time. So one day my friend Clint calls me up and tells me this guy is playing music on a game-boy at a pizza shop in Cabbage town that doesn’t exist anymore but yeah I ended up going to the pizza shop and meeting the guy that made that music changed my life forever. I know if I was like the people that made fun of me for not being rich and having the best equipment starting off I would never have met Rob. Rob played music which is considered Chiptune music which usually you can use older 8 bit chip sound chip devices to make OG tunes with. I had an old gameboy lying around and was beyond excited that you could even do such a thing! That day Rob invited me back to his spot and showed me what was called nanoloop and gave me an cart which taught me how to make music on my gameboy and was something else I could use to play music with live. I started making the music then realized there were more people that made such music and ATL and met them also the scene for that was extremely niche and non existent at the time but it was great. I would say I kept at making chiptune for then 2 years later I got into an genre of music called witch house I decided to make a track with my gameboy that was a darker vibe versus the happy music you usually hear from chiptune music and at the time. I had a friend named Pablo which he told me about a site called soundcloud I gave it a try and posted 3 songs on there and next thing a promoter from NYC hit me up about a show to play. I took the chance and was able to get an old laptop from an job I had at the time repairing PC’s and played this show. That show introduced me to people I would have never met in ATL at the time and also people thinking way outside of normal societal standards. I also met some popular artist making ground breaking music at the time and still till this day. I then just kept really putting more work into my sound after that bigger and bigger artist hit me up and asked me to do remixes and more for them. Those opportunities then lead to labels and companies giving me a chance and bring me to where I have been able to meet and become friends with people I thought I would have only seen on TV at that time. I can say that even though I am thankful for everything I still eventually figured out that some of those people and companies were not good and took advantage of me and my friends. I then knew I needed to figure out something else. This all happened during the pandemic after I got back from Japan. With all the protest and more happening around me it made me think that my friends and I needed something more outside of what the music industry had to offer something that was real and felt like actual community. I can at least say even though it felt like things would be hard and I had people who wanted to control me still I stood strong and stayed true to myself and the others around me. I also realized that the community was already there we just needed to connect it. Which brings us to today I now get to tour and see the world with my music and have people of all ages and backgrounds listen to the real shit I have to say it is nice and so real wouldn’t change it for anything.

Seanny, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Seanny Georgie aka me began my journey in music playing instruments in several punk noise bands, I currently fucks with the energetic sounds of jungle, drum & bass footwork music and much more. For me, the danceable rhythms of those genres felt familiar to those I grew up with, spending hours around my Trinidadian family listening to Soca; and I ambitiously bring those inspirations all together with each track. NO EYES is my life. I also have been sponsored by Moog, Ableton, Native instruments and many more companies. I usually still use old video game systems like the OG DMG gameboy, random sampling with my phone or OP1, live instruments, a 4 channel interface to record to my computer and more to make music. What I love people can take away from my music is the most is a sense of joy and wanting to experiment and see more of the world themselves. I want to people know not only are they human but also they can be free to be themselves versus being worried about only trying to make share holders more money and profits.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Whats most rewarding for me as an artist is seeing people from all walks of life be inspired by and hopeful because of music and art that I made to express how I feel about the world around me. I definitely appreciate all the other aspects also but I can say that I definitely say this is more rewarding then anything else it makes me feel real empathy and human connection.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

I think it is hard for them to do things for themselves and not for share holders or for monetary reasons. Like which I feel like we all struggle with this and I feel like it isn’t completely intentional because people are just trying to survive. For some of us expressing how we actually feel it is so important it is detrimental to our survival to do so. I also think alot of people who are considered not creative to societal standards is only because of money and other so called “status” issues. I know we could change things if dismantle capitalism.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noeyesmgmt/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@nintendopowerXXX
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/no-eyes

Image Credits

It will be easier for me to tag some of these people whenever this gets posted Mac Demarco might be hard to tag but that was a tour picture of us hehe