Holy crap! New Seeed stuff for the first time in like 7 years!!! This is officially the most exciting day evar! Got a real live band feel to it, with frenetic drumming and a massive guitar & horn riff. Peter Fox has definitely also fed some of his solo project into the Seeed sound which is an excellent plan. Quite a change from Seeed's usual style but what better way to return after such a massive break... boom!

As I've said many times, I love Peter Fox. His album Stadtaffe is quite simply one of the finest ever made, his live shows succeed in taking live hip hop to the stadium scale more successfully than almost anyone else, his band Seeed is responsible for some of the best reggae of the last ten years - not just in Germany or Europe, but on the world stage. He's my freakin hero OK?

With that in mind it's no surprise that I'm loving this mashup, taking Peter's vocal from its original dramatic context to somewhere much more mellow, the chord structure of the riddim lending it a kind of melancholy feeling...

Mashup-Germany - Guten Morgen Berlin by MashupGermany

My friend Kasey from Brazilian Beats and all sorts of other Bristol-based places where you can hear grooovy global beats asked me to record a demo mix for his World Beatz night, but "go easy on the Balkan"... which was a bit of a No Stairway! Denied! moment, but actually had loads of fun doing this little mix, dunno if it fits in with what you want Kasey but here it is for y'all to check out...

andykisaragi - No Stairway mix

tracklist follows...

I've mentioned it before: i totally love everything Peter Fox does.

So I'm very excited by this:

Peter Fox is basically my hero... I don't think I've ever managed to do a set or record a mix without playing a tune from his band Seeed or one of his solo efforts. Not only is he a great MC (although - according to a native german speaker - not lyrically, but I can't understand the majority of what he's actually saying, and in terms of delivery he's spot on) but an amazing producer as well, behind a bunch of Seeed's best work - Doctor's Darling riddim anyone? y'know... Tanya Stephens - It's a Pity... yeah that was him! Who'd have thought one of the biggest riddims of the decade was German??