Pop Levi (born Jonathan Pop Levi in London) is an English singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and filmmaker. His career started in Liverpool were he was a founding member, along with Snap Ant and Loka, of Super Numeri, and he has played bass for Ladytron both on record and on tour
Pop Levi is kinda small and reedy and darkly, hairily handsome, and, far more important, the maker of an odd brand of music that is sort of like a combination of every kind of pop ever heard all at once, yet it manages to stay original.
Pop Levi's career started in the fogs of Liverpool. Somewhere along the line, he got the opportunity to play bass for electronic-rock artists Ladytron, and then the guy who wrote the songs for Ladytron heard Pop's solo stuff and put it on his own label, Invicta HiFi, and then the estimable DJ-type post-post-electronic label Ninja Tune heard that.
Pop took a long time recording his solo stuff because he needed certain sounds. He also needed to octuple-track guitars, pan them insanely, hire mini-orchestras, etc.
His song Sugar Assault Me Now can be heard in trailers for the 2010 film Get Him To The Greek.
From Wikipedia:Pop Levi (born Jonathan Pop Levi in London ) is an English singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and filmmaker. Pop Levi's career started in Liverpool. He was the founding member, along with Snap Ant and Loka, of Super Numeri, and has played bass for Ladytron both on record and on tour. Pop Levi was listed as one of Lauren Laverne's favourite artists to make it big in 2007 on BBC2's The Culture Show. He released a solo album, The Return to Form Black Magick Party on February 2, 2007. 2008's single Dita Dimoné was made BBC6 Record Of The Week and Levi's second solo album, entitled Never Never Love, was released in August of the same year on Counter Records.
2008 also saw the birth of Levi's World Empire, Inc. film and music production company. In September, the 37th Festival Nouveau Cinema in Montréal held the world premiere of You Don't Gotta Run, a surreal 37-minute featurette directed by auteur Lucky Beaches and starring Pop Levi.
His song "Sugar Assault Me Now" can be heard in trailers for the 2010 film Get Him To The Greek.