Seeed

Seeed
Seeed live in Karlsruhe
Background information
Origin	Berlin, Germany
Genres	Dancehall, Reggae fusion
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Downbeat Records
Associated acts	Peter Fox, Boundzound, Dellé, Tanya Stephens, Cee-Lo Green
Website	http://www.seeed.info/
Members	Percussion: Alfi Trowers Drums: Based Saxophone: Moritz Delgado Vocals: Peter Fox, Boundzound, Eased Disc Jockey: DJ Luke (until 2002: DJ Illvibe), Trombone: Jerome "Tchamp" Bugnon Keyboard: "Dubmaster" Reibold Guitar: "Rudeboy" Rudy Bass: Tobsen Cordes

Seeed is a German band from Berlin. Founded in 1998, they have become well known in Germany and its neighboring countries.

Seeed consists of eleven band members, including three singers, a horn section and a DJ. Seeed is recognized for their unusual use of horns. They have worked with Cee-Lo Green, Anthony B, Tanya Stephens, General Degree as well as other Jamaican artists and producers. Almost all of their music releases feature a popular guest experience.^[1] Seeed's lyrics are in German, English and Patois. Their biggest hits in the German Sprachraum were "Dickes B", "Aufstehn", "Ding" and "Music Monks". Although their lyrics are in English and German, most of the songs in German were completely translated into English for the international releases of the Albums Next! and Music Monks.^[2]

Their first smash hit was "Dickes B", an ode to Berlin. They won three ECHO Awards. With the international versions of Music Monks and Next!, they found broader success in Germany's neighboring countries, especially France. After their initial success with "Dickes B", in the year 2000, they released their first full-length album a few months later, in 2001: New Dubby Conquerors.

On September 2012 Seeed released their fourth studio album, Seeed, their first release in 6 years. In the mean time, members Peter Fox, Dellé and Demba Nabé (Boundzound) each released solo albums. The album Seeed went straight to number 1 at the German album charts. It was the first time an album of Seeed achieved the Top of the album charts.

Discography

Albums

Year	Title	Chart-Positions				Certifications IFPI
		GER	AUT	SWI	FR
2001	New Dubby Conquerors	17	34	-	-	GER: 1x Gold, 150,000
2003	Music Monks	4	12	15	-	GER: 1x Gold, 100,000
2005	Next!	2	3	11	71	GER: 1x Platinum, 200,000 AUT: 1x Gold, 10,000
2006	Live	3	4	26	-	GER: 1x Gold, 100,000
2012	Seeed	1	2	5		GER: 1x Platinum, 200,000

Singles

Year	Title	Chart-Positions				Album
		DE	AT	CH	EU
2000	"New Dubby Conquerors"	-	-	-	-	New Dubby Conquerors
	"The Tide is High"	-	-	-	-
2001	"Dickes B" (feat. Black Kappa)	27	68	91	-
	"Riddim No. 1"	-	-	-	-
	"Dancehall Caballeros"	44	-	-	-
2002	"Waterpumpee" (feat. Anthony B)	-	-	-	-	Waterpumpee/Music Monks
2003	"Music Monks"	27	28	81	-	Music Monks
	"Shake Baby Shake" (feat. Elephant Man)	-	-	-	-	Electric Boogie/Music Monks
	"What You Deserve is What You Get"	48	-	-	-
2004	"Release"	54	47	71	-	Music Monks
2005	"Aufstehn!" (feat. Cee-Lo Green)	5	14	28	20	Next!
	"Schwinger"	68	57	-	-
2006	"Ding"	5	4	27	13
	"Slowlife"	-	-	-	-
2011	"Molotov"	12	-	-	-	Seeed
2012	"Beautiful"	22	47	-	-
	"Augenbling"	7	12	15	-
2013	"Deine Zeit"	70	-	-	-
2014	"Cherry Oh"	16	41	64	-

EP:

• 2002: Waterpumpee
• 2003: The Electric Boogie
• 2005: Aufstehn!
• 2011: Molotov / Wonderful Life
• 2012: Beautiful

DVD:

• 2006: Live!

Riddims:

• "Rodeo" (2005 Germaican Rec.)
• "Rodeo Refix" (2005 Germaican Rec.)
• "High Noon" (2005 Germaican Rec.)
• "Curefix" (2004 Germaican Rec.)
• "Doctors Darling" (2003 Germaican Rec.)
• "Electric Boogie" (2003 Germaican Rec.)
• "Pharaoh" (2003 Germaican Rec.)
• "FrogAss" (2001 Germaican Rec.)

References

1. Seeed
2. Seeed – Listen free at Last.fm

External links

• Seeed's official website
• Germaican Records International the 45-Label of Seeed