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Data Romance is a Vancouver based electro-indie duo started by Ajay Bhattacharyya, instrumentalist-producer, and Amy Kirkpatrick, singer/lyricist. Showcasing the modern direction of electronic music, the duo signed to Street Quality Entertainment,〔(【引用サイトリンク】Street Quality Entertainment )〕 the Canadian based record label, releasing a self-titled EP of four songs in June 2011. Having toured with the IDentity Festival, Data Romance has released a single titled “The Deep”,〔(【引用サイトリンク】"The Deep" Blog Feature )〕 which has been featured in NME 〔(【引用サイトリンク】Data Romance NME Feature )〕 and Filter Magazines 〔(【引用サイトリンク】Data Romance Filter Magazine Feature )〕 as well as the BBC Radio 1 program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Data Romance on BBC Music )〕 The duo has been likened to The xx, Bat for Lashes, Lykke Li 〔(【引用サイトリンク】Data Romance Blog Feature )〕 and Florence and the Machine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Data Romance EP Interview )〕 The pair are currently on indefinite hiatus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Data Romance Website )〕 == History == Both Victoria natives, Ajay Bhattacharyya and Amy Kirkpatrick, aged 25, have been playing together since 2009. They first met at the Lucky Bar, home to a bustling and tight-knit community of musicians and fans, where Bhattacharyya filled in as a drummer for Kirkpatrick when she was touring her singer/songwriter act throughout coffee houses in Victoria. After both moving to Vancouver, Kirkpatrick worked as a lighting technician at many well-respected clubs in the city while Bhattacharyya studied sound design for film under (Robert Grieve ), with mentoring from (Craig Berkey ). As a musical duo, Bhattacharyya and Kirkpatrick called themselves Names, but later rebranded themselves Data Romance, a name which was derived from a song by Berlin techno icon Ellen Allien. Together, their work experiences have influenced their music and live performances, adding to the “soundtrack-like” vibe and highly visual live show. Data Romance signed to Street Quality Entertainment in September 2010. The duo has put out all of its releases under the label’s name. The first is an original soundtrack called “(Life Cycles )” released in January 2011. Their (follow up EP ), self-titled, released in June of the same year debuts their single (and music video), “The Deep".〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Deep News Feature )〕 The EP and single have been featured on NME, Filter and Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 BBC program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Single Video Premiere )〕 On September 18th, 2012, Data Romance released their first single, "Caves", along with a remix bundle on iTunes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Exclaim )〕 Data Romance released their first full-length album, "Other", on February 19, 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Data Romance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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