Pop Levi is an English

English people

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 singer, multi-instrumentalist

Multi-instrumentalist

A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...

, record producer

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 and filmmaker. Pop Levi's career started in Liverpool

Liverpool

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. He was the founding member, along with Snap Ant and Loka

Loka

Loka is a Sanskrit word for "world". In Hindu mythology it takes a specific meaning related to cosmology.-Hindu tradition:In the Puranas, and already in the Atharvaveda, there are fourteen worlds, seven higher ones and seven lower ones , viz...

, of Super Numeri

Super Numeri

Super Numeri are an experimental instrumental group based in Liverpool and signed to the Ninja Tune label. The band was created by Pop Levi, Snap Ant and Karl Webb, who have recruited several other musicians in their recordings and live performances...

, and has played bass for Ladytron

Ladytron

Ladytron are an English electronic band formed in 1999 in Liverpool, Merseyside. The group consists of Helen Marnie , Mira Aroyo , Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu .Their sound blends electropop with New Wave and shoegazing elements. Ladytron described their sound as "electronic pop"...

 both on record and on tour. Pop Levi was listed as one of Lauren Laverne

Lauren Laverne

Lauren Cecilia Fisher , known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, television presenter, author and singer...

's favourite artists to make it big in 2007 on BBC Two

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's The Culture Show

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. He released a solo album

Album

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, The Return to Form Black Magick Party

The Return to Form Black Magick Party

The Return To Form Black Magick Party is the debut full-length album by musician Pop Levi , released on February 2, 2007.-Track listing:#"Sugar Assault Me Now" - 3:00#"Blue Honey" - 4:03...

in February 2007. 2008's single

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 "Dita Dimoné" was made BBC Radio 6's 'Record Of The Week' and Levi's second solo album, Never Never Love, was released in August of the same year on Counter Records.

2008 also saw the emergence of Levi's World Empire, Inc. film and music production company. In September, the 37th Festival Nouveau Cinema in Montréal

Montreal

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 held the world premiere

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 of You Don't Gotta Run, a surreal 37-minute featurette

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 directed by auteur Lucky Beaches and starring Pop Levi.

Levi's song "Sugar Assault Me Now" was used in the trailers for the 2010 film, Get Him to the Greek

Get Him to the Greek

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and his music has also been featured in numerous television shows including Chuck

Chuck (TV series)

Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central...

, Entourage

Entourage (TV series)

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 and 90210

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.

Solo

• 'Rude Kinda Love / Clearly Dearly' 7" (UK) (2004, Invicta Hi-Fi)
• 'Reindeer In My Heart / Hayley Square [Instrumental]' 7" (UK) (2004, Invicta Hi-Fi)
• 'Kissed Her Sister / Supermarket Woman' Promo-only single (UK) (2005, Invicta Hi-Fi)
• 'Blue Honey / Mournin' Light' 7" (UK) (2005, Invicta Hi-Fi)
• 'Blue Honey
  Blue Honey
  "Blue Honey" is the first single from debut full-length album by English musician Pop Levi and was released on September 4, 2006.It is also included in the Amorphous Androgynous compilation, A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 1...
  
  ' 7"/10"/CD EP (UK/US) (2006, Counter Records)
• 'Sugar Assault Me Now' 7"/10"/ (UK) (2007, Counter Records)
• 'Pick-Me-Up Uppercut' 7" (UK) (2007, Counter Records)
• 'The Return to Form Black Magick Party
  The Return to Form Black Magick Party
  The Return To Form Black Magick Party is the debut full-length album by musician Pop Levi , released on February 2, 2007.-Track listing:#"Sugar Assault Me Now" - 3:00#"Blue Honey" - 4:03...
  
  ' LP (UK/US) (2007, Counter Records)
• 'Never Never Love' 7" (UK) (2008, Counter Records)
• 'Dita Dimoné' 7" (UK) (2008, Counter Records)
• 'Never Never Love' LP (UK/US) (2008, Counter Records)
• 'Police $ign / Terrifying (For Kenneth Anger
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  )' 7" (UK) (2009, Counter Records)
• 'Smack Musick' Unreleased LP (UK/US) (2010, Counter Records/World Empire, Inc.)
• 'Levitation Vol. 1' Mixtape (2011, World Empire, Inc.)
• 'Motorcycle 666 / Rock Solid' Digi-single (UK) (2011, Counter Records)

w/ Super Numeri

• 'The Electric Horse Garden' 7" (UK) (2002, Ninja Tune
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  )
• 'Great Aviaries' CD/LP (UK/US) (2003, Ninja Tune)
• 'The Coastal Bird Scene (Parts 1, 2 & 3)' 12" (UK) (2003, Ninja Tune)
• 'The Enochian Way' CD (JP) (2005, Counter Records)
• 'The Welcome Table' CD/LP (UK/US) (2005, Ninja Tune)

Filmography

• 'You Don't Gotta Run' Documentary directed by Lucky Beaches (2008, World Empire, Inc.)

Filmettes

The following are the short films directed & produced by Pop Levi.

Year	Film	Cast	Notes
2011	Skipper Does Inglewood	P. R. Nelson
2008	You Don't Gotta Run Premiere Souvenir	Pop Levi, Cocoa Rigal, Bunny Holiday, Lucky Beaches	Filmed at 37th Montreal Film Festival
2008	Play Bunny	Bunny Holiday	Music by Bunny Holiday
2008	Charm Harp Boogie	Cocoa Rigal, Bunny Holiday	Music by World Empire, Inc.
2008	Black Boys Are Flowers Are Too	Bunny Holiday	Music by World Empire, Inc.
2008	You Don't Gotta Run (Performance)	Pop Levi, Cocoa Rigal, Bunny Holiday, Lucky Beaches
2008	Fountain Of Lies (Performance)	Pop Levi, Cocoa Rigal, Bunny Holiday, Lucky Beaches
2008	Welcome Song	Pop Levi, Cocoa Rigal, Bunny Holiday, Lucky Beaches	Music by World Empire, Inc.
2008	The Rah Rah Star Sound Thief	(Animation)	Music by World Empire, Inc.
2008	Listen, Listen, Listen	Pop Levi, Bunny Holiday	Music by World Empire, Inc.
2007	Bambi (Dutch)	Pop Levi
2007	Magnum	Pop Levi, Cocoa Rigal, Lucky Beaches	Directed by Pop Levi & Lucky Beaches
2007	Do You Know What I Mean?	Pop Levi
2007	Dita Dimoné Demonstration	Pop Levi	Music by Pop Levi
2007	Penniman Heaven	Little Richard Little Richard Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...	Filmed at Long Beach Blues Festival
2007	Tiptoes	Pop Levi	Music by Pop Levi
2007	Accordingly Affirmative	Pop Levi
2007	Next To You	Pop Levi
2007	New Born Blues	Pop Levi
2007	Goose Operator	Pop Levi
2007	All Yours Baby	Pop Levi
2007	Adult Hitler	Pop Levi
2007	Roosie Splash-Out	Pop Levi, Lucky Beaches	Filmed at Roosevelt Hotel (Hollywood)
2007	Coming To America	Pop Levi
2007	Green Card	Pop Levi
2007	Shangri-Later	Pop Levi
2007	Sandy's Medicine	Pop Levi, Lucky Beaches, Dita Dimoné, Sandy Calderon
2007	Harmony's Letter	Pop Levi
2007	Figueroa Blow-Up	Pop Levi, Dita Dimoné
2007	Nippon Connection	Pop Levi, Lucky Beaches, Domino, Marius Simonsen
2007	Dogs Or Dragons	Pop Levi
2007	Oui We Oui	Pop Levi	Filmed during Montreux Jazz Festival
2007	Ex-Jazzer	Pop Levi	Filmed during Montreux Jazz Festival
2007	The Hex	Pop Levi	Filmed during Montreux Jazz Festival
2007	Cutie Patootie	Pop Levi
2007	Hollydog	Pop Levi
2007	Star Jumping	Pop Levi
2007	Isolett Blues	Pop Levi
2007	Won't Home	Pop Levi
2007	Austr-Aliens	Pop Levi	Filmed in Australia & New Zealand
2007	Capitool Re:cunts	Pop Levi
2007	Magick Mountain	Pop Levi, Dita Dimoné	Filmed at Mount Wilson Observatory Mount Wilson Observatory The Mount Wilson Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson, a 5,715 foot peak in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, northeast of Los Angeles...
2007	The Making Of Semi-Babe	Pop Levi	Filmed by Domino
2007	A Child Can Dance	Pop Levi, Domino
2007	Otteh G. Piks	Pop Levi

Music Videos

The following are the music videos starring and/or directed by Pop Levi.

Year	Song	Artist	Director	Label
2011	Motorcycle 666	Pop Levi	William Overby	Counter Records
2010	Chyna Girl	Bunny Holiday	Pop Levi	World Empire, Inc.
2010	Teach Me How To Bunny	Bunny Holiday	Pop Levi & Bunny Holiday	World Empire, Inc.
2010	Let's Hit The Beach	Arabian Prince Arabian Prince Arabian Prince is the stage name of Mik Lezan , a rapper and hip hop producer, best known for being an original member of the rap group, N.W.A.-Biography:...	Pop Levi & Bunny Holiday	Stones Throw
2010	The Look	Bunny Holiday	Bunny Holiday & Pop Levi	World Empire, Inc. for Vans Vans Vans is an American based manufacturer of sneakers, skateboarding shoes, BMX shoes, snowboarding boots and other shoe types.- History :On March 16, 1966, at 704 E. Broadway, in Anaheim, California, brothers Paul Van Doren, James Van Doren, and three other partners opened up their first store...
2010	Tender Young Flesh	Bunny Holiday	Pop Levi & Bunny Holiday	World Empire, Inc.
2010	Tender Young Flesh (Live Cam)	Bunny Holiday	Pop Levi & Bunny Holiday	World Empire, Inc.
2009	Terrifying (For Kenneth Anger Kenneth Anger Kenneth Anger is an American underground experimental filmmaker, occasional actor and author... )	Pop Levi	Dylan Mulick	Counter Records
2008	Everything & Finally	Pop Levi	Auntie Mum	Counter Records
2008	Semi-Babe	Pop Levi	Aaron Willmer & Martin Dobson	Counter Records
2008	Dita Dimoné	Pop Levi	Neil Mclean	Counter Records
2008	Mai's Space	Pop Levi	Auntie Mum	Counter Records
2008	Never Never Love	Pop Levi	Neil Mclean	Counter Records
2007	Pick-Me-Up Uppercut	Pop Levi	Mox & Pop Levi	Counter Records
2007	Pick-Me-Up Uppercut	Pop Levi	Brian Harty	Counter Records
2006	Sugar Assault Me Now	Pop Levi	Brian Harty	Counter Records
2006	Reindeer In My Heart	Pop Levi	Pop Levi	Invicta Hi-Fi
2006	Blue Honey	Pop Levi	Christian Swegal	Counter Records
2005	Blue Honey	Pop Levi	Jackie Passmore	Invicta Hi-Fi
2004	Rude Kinda Love	Pop Levi	Good Times	Invicta Hi-Fi

External links

• Pop Levi at World Empire, Inc.
• Pop Levi at YouTube
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• Pop Levi at MySpace
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• Pop Levi at Exclaim!