Data Romance is a

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based electro-indie duo started by Ajay Bhattacharyya, instrumentalist-producer, and Amy Kirkpatrick, singer/lyricist. Showcasing the modern direction of

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, the duo signed to 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", which has been featured in

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and

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s as well as the

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program. The duo has been likened to

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and

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. The pair are currently on indefinite hiatus.

History

Both

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natives, Ajay Bhattacharyya and Amy Kirkpatrick, aged 25 (in 2011), 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 unde
Robert Grieve
with mentoring fro
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

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. 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. Thei
follow up EP
self-titled, released in June of the same year debuts their single (and music video), "The Deep". The EP and single have been featured on NME, Filter and

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’s Radio 1 BBC program. On September 18th, 2012, Data Romance released their first single, "Caves", along with a remix bundle on iTunes. Data Romance released their first full-length album, "Other", on February 19, 2013. After the debut album was released, Ajay Bhattacharyya worked as an independent songwriter and record producer under his own stage name

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, away from the "Data Romance" project. His first major appearance was with

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on the song "LA Hallucinations", which was released on Jepsen's 2015 studio album, entitled '' E-MO-TION''. This sparked his collaboration with NAO on the song "Girlfriend", which was released off of her debut studio album, entitled '' For All We Know'', and with

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on the songs "Jealous" and "Wanderlust", which were released off of the duo's second studio album, entitled '' I Remember''. He then went on to produce majority of the tracks on Gallant's critically acclaimed debut album Ology.

Distribution Advancements

Data Romance showcases the utilization of new or existing technologies in unique ways, such as Bluetooth downloads at concerts, created by their marketing team a
The Found Group

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Soundtrack albums

Music videos

References

External links

Data Romance Official Website

"The Deep" Single

Data Romance Facebook

Data Romance Twitter
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