BUNT. — April 2026

Levi Wijk — performing as BUNT., pronounced with the period — was born in Stuttgart, Germany, the son of a Turkish immigrant named Levent Gülteki who worked at Porsche by day and DJed at Stuttgart nightclubs on weekends. His father met his future wife while performing behind the decks — a nightlife origin story that positioned music not as an industry but as a social world, the environment where real life happened. Growing up inside that context gave Wijk a relationship to DJ culture that predates any commercial ambition: music in the family was functional, emotional, and communal before it was a career.

BUNT. emerged in the mid-2010s as a duo formed with high school friend Nicolas Crispin in Stuttgart. The project name — German for 'colorful' — signaled a sonic ambition oriented toward inclusivity and warmth rather than the dark minimalism that dominated the German electronic scene they were adjacent to. The duo's sound combined festival house's melodic scope with folk instrumentation — banjos, Celtic tonalities, acoustic textures imported from outside the electronic music vocabulary — into anthemic dance pop that occupied a niche between the European festival circuit and the bedroom producer aesthetic that defined independent electronic music in the streaming era. The unusual instrumental palette distinguished BUNT. within a crowded festival house market and gave their tracks a distinctively organic quality — warm where their contemporaries were clinical, acoustic where others were synthetic.

The project signed with Geffen Records in 2019 and subsequently with Interscope Records in 2020, attracting major-label interest that reflected the commercial reach of their accumulated streaming catalog. Nicolas Crispin departed the project in May 2021, leaving Wijk to continue under the BUNT. name as a solo act — a transition that preserved the project's identity while consolidating its creative direction under a single voice. The name and sound remained consistent through the personnel change, and the catalog's streaming momentum continued building independently of the lineup shift.

In February 2023, BUNT. signed a global recording deal with Arista Records US in partnership with Columbia Records UK and Epic Records Germany — a three-label international arrangement that expanded the project's distribution reach into markets that the prior Geffen and Interscope deals had not fully activated. His Arista debut single 'Clouds' featuring Nate Traveller demonstrated the melodic pop clarity that the label backing brought to his festival house foundation, and the deal positioned Wijk for the festival headliner circuit he had been building toward since the project's formation. Rolling Stone profiled BUNT. as one of EDM's next breakout acts, situating him within a narrative arc explicitly connected to Avicii — the Swedish producer whose melodic electronic pop model defined the festival house template that BUNT.'s folk-inflected anthems most closely follow. The Avicii comparison acknowledges both the genuine sonic kinship and the commercial trajectory the Rolling Stone piece was projecting: a European producer whose melodic sensibility and crossover ambitions position him for the festival main stage rather than the underground club circuit.

His cumulative Spotify catalog surpassed 800 million streams, building audience across Europe, North America, and Asia through festival appearances and streaming-native single releases designed for the playlist algorithms that drive modern dance music discovery. The 2025 performance at LIV Beach in Las Vegas — on October 19 — marked his first significant Strip appearance and demonstrated the live energy his solo sets generate in a poolside format suited to his warm, festival-scale sound.

His 2026 Wynn Nightlife residency at XS Nightclub and Encore Beach Club marks his arrival as a Las Vegas Strip resident following the LIV Beach debut, committing him to a venue environment that rewards the broad demographic reach of his pop-infused festival house sound. At XS and Encore Beach Club, BUNT.'s warm, anthemic productions occupy the Friday and Saturday night programming, providing melodic pop energy for guests whose festival preferences span indie dance and electronic pop crossover territory. Guest list through NoCoverVegas for BUNT.'s XS and EBC appearances provides complimentary entry for qualifying guests. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunt_(DJ), rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bunt-edm-interview-coachella-1235527231/, edmidentity.com/2026/02/05/wynn-nightlife-2026-residency-lineup/