8 years after his first vinyl release Georg Levin can already be described as a long-time yet unlikely member of Berlin’s electronic music scene. With both his solo project and his production outfit Wahoo he is definitely too much on the soulful side to be a typical representative of the techno and rock sound the city is known for. However, it may be this supposedly alien surrounding that gives his compositions and productions a distinctive blend.

Georg grew up in a small town at the river Elbe in Lower Saxony, Northern Germany, playing keyboards and saxophone in various local bands in his teenage years. After a four year stint at university in London and a music tv channel that actually showed video clips at that time he moved to Berlin in the late 90s and began to work in film production companies.

Filled with musical ambition and, at the same time, dissatisfaction with his professional career, Georg teamed up with his later to become Wahoo partner Dixon at the beginning of the decade to produce his first single „When I’m With You“ for Jazzanova’s Sonar Kollektiv label. Three further singles (the often compiled club hits „I got somebody new“, „In your car“ and „You know what you want but you won’t get it“) followed before the release of „Can’t hold back“ in 2003, Georg’s debut album.

After a tour around Europe, the US and Japan, Georg and Dixon set up their „Wahoolia“ studio in Berlin and started to work on an album for their joint venture Wahoo alongside their remix work for other artists. Originally conceived as an easy going affair, the album project mutated into something very ambitious that took them almost three years. After the club hit singles „Make em shake it“ and „Holding You“ the long-awaited Wahoo-LP „Take It personal“ finally surfaced in 2007 on Fine/Sony Music, featuring a long list of guest musicians and vocalists as diverse as house legend Robert Owens, breakbeat rapper Capitol A, Bukovina-soul songstress Miss Platnum or Basement Jaxx’ Felix Buxton. Three further singles were released: „I’m your lover“, „Damn (you’re here)“ and „Get another girl“, the latter two still having some serious airplay.

Georg’s second solo album „Everything Must Change“ is his answer to a dance and pop music world going generic and arbitrary with Autotune, loudness wars and cheap sequencer software. It was mainly recorded with his newly formed band and is due to be released in March 2010 on British Soul/HipHop/House label BBE. An EP („Falling Masonry“) with three selected tracks of the album is already available on itunes.

www.myspace.com/georglevin
www.myspace.com/wahooberlin
www.soundcloud.com/georglevin

Jazzthing, Germany
“One of the best albums of the year!”

Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany
Album of the Week – “Simply Tasteful”

XLR6R, USA
“With this guy around Jamiroquai needs to jump in his car and get outta town.”

Journal Review, USA
“Georg Levin is what happens when God decides to give a white man soul.”

Intro, Germany
“An elixir that is professionally realised and that is in need today. Blessed with intensity!”

Debug, Germany
“Here, soul really remains soul. Levin has a vision shining through every song.”

Flavorpill, USA
“Levin’s debut succeeds where many fail. ‘Can’t Hold Back’ unites both club kids and soul lovers with a sound collecting everything from P-Funk and Prince to Dwele, Maxwell, electronica, and beyond… Face it: It’s the soul music of the future.”

Philadelphia Weekly, USA
“Impressively jaw-dropping. Georg Levin sounds like the love child Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen and Walter Becker never had – and I mean that with the utmost sincerity.”

IDJ, UK
“The whole album is a superbly-crafted journey through breezy soul. And a very good album is it too.”

Uncle Sally’s, Germany
“Soul music like you have never heard coming out of Germany: Funky and elegant, groovy and smooth…. gives the listener deep comfort by letting him/her melt away while waiting for the next D’Angelo album.”

Georg Levin: Vocals/Keys/Fx
Hans Hermann: Drums
David Günther: Guitar/Perc
Achim Hilgert: Bass

Georg Levin’s ability to merge danceable rhythms with accomplished songwriting makes his music compatible for both club dancefloors and music venues. On his shows he plays his new as well as his old material as well as some of the songs he did with Wahoo.

The band consists of Berlin based musicians with whom he also recorded his newest material: David Günther, Hans Herrmann and Thomas Barnstedt. Both David (aka Noema) and Hans (aka Hans Blitz) are also respected DJs in Berlin’s club scene and spin regularly at Cookies, Watergate, Tape or Picknick. They usually play a few introductory tracks before Georg’s live performances but can also be booked for full length sets before or after the show.

Check Georg’s soundcloud page for his latest mixes. For Live PAs he brings one further DJ (Noema) along.

2010 Georg Levin – Everything Must Change, CD + Vinyl Album, BBE
2009 Georg Levin – The Better Life Remixes, Digital EP, BBE
2009 Georg Levin – Falling Masonry, Digital EP, BBE
2008 Wahoo – Get Another Girl, Single, Fine/Sony
2007 Wahoo – Take It Personal, CD Album, Fine/Sony
2007 Wahoo – Damn (You’re Here), 12“, Fine/Sony
2007 Wahoo – I’m Your Lover/Don’t Take It Personal, 12“, Fine/Sony
2006 Georg Levin – Keep On Making Me High / Leisure Suit, 12″, SK
2005 Wahoo – Make ‘Em Shake It, Defected
2005 Wahoo – Holding You, 12″, SK
2005 Wahoo – Diamond Wedding, 12“, F.U.N., Fine
2004 Wahoo – Take Over Me / Make ‘Em Shake It, 12″, SK
2004 Georg Levin – Heaven EP, 12″, SK
2003 Georg Levin – Can’t Hold Back, CD Album, SK
2003 Georg Levin – You Know What You Want But You Won’t Get It, 12″, SK
2003 Georg Levin – (I got) Somebody New (MAW Mixes), MAW
2003 Georg Levin – In Your Car, 12″, SK
2002 Georg Levin – (I Got) Somebody New, 12″, SK
2001 Georg Levin – When I’m With You, 12“, SK

Remixes

2008 Milton Jackson – Cycles (Wahoo Mix), Freerange
2008 Kings Of Tomorrow – Can’t Stop (Wahoo Mix), Defected
2008 Nick Holder – Time (Wahoo Mix), NRK
2007 Elektrons – Classic Cliche (Wahoo Mix), Wall Of Sound
2007 Rodney Hunter – Wanna Groove (Wahoo Mix), G-Stone
2007 Will Saul – Mbira (Wahoo Mix), Simple
2007 Sharee P – Now You’re Calling (Wahoo Mix), Yoruba Soul
2007 Miss Platnum – Mercedes Benz (Georg Levin’s Wahooligan Mix), Fin e
2007 Ben Westbeech – Hang Around (Wahoo Mix), Brownswood
2007 Louie Vega faet. Anané – Standing in Line (Wahoo Mix), Vega
2006 Voom Voom – Oggi (Wahoo Mix), G-Stone
2006 Three Kings – Shake Dat Booty (Wahoo Mix), Defected
2005 Milke – She Sais (Wahoo Mix), Fat
2004 Solar System – Careless Butterfly (Wahoo Mix), Sonar Kollektiv
2003 Victor Davies – Runaway Train (Wahoo Mix), Compost
2002 Atjazz – Harmony (Dixon Mix), Mantis
2002 Brooks – Colour Me Bad (Wahoo Mix), Mantis
2002 Jazzanova, That Night (Wahoo Mix), JCR