{{Short description|English synthpop band}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = DATA | image = | caption = | image_size = | origin = London, England | genre = Synthpop | years_active = 1980–2009, 2015-Present | label = Polydor, Illuminated, Virgin, Sire/Warner Bros., Proto, Eternity | associated_acts = | website = | past_members = Georg Kajanus<br />Francesca "Frankie" Boulter<br />Phillipa "Phil" Boulter }}
'''DATA''' was an electronic music band created in 1980 by Georg Kajanus,<ref name="Larkin2006">{{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-A0KAQAAMAAJ|date=20 November 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4}}</ref> creator of such bands as Eclection, Sailor and Noir (with Tim Dry of the robotic/music duo Tik and Tok). After the break-up of Sailor in the late 1970s, Kajanus decided to experiment with electronic music and formed DATA, together with vocalists Francesca ("Frankie") and Phillipa ("Phil") Boulter, daughters of British singer John Boulter.
The classically orientated title track of DATA’s first album, ''Opera Electronica'', was used as the theme music to the short film, ''Towers of Babel'' (1981), which was directed by Jonathan Lewis (director). Jonathan Lewis and starred Anna Quayle and Ken Campbell. ''Towers of Babel'' was nominated for a BAFTA award in 1982 and won the Silver Hugo Award for Best Short Film at the Chicago International Film Festival of the same year.
DATA released two more albums, the experimental ''2-Time'' (1983) and the Country & Western-inspired electronica album ''Elegant Machinery'' (1985). The title of the last album was the inspiration for the name of Swedish pop synth group, elegant MACHINERY, formerly known as Pole Position.
In 1995, ''Accumulator'' was released, a compilation album containing the complete albums ''2-Time'' and ''Elegant Machinery'', and the track "Fallout" from ''Opera Electronica''.
==Discography==
===Studio albums=== *''Opera Electronica'' (1981) *''2-Time'' (1983) *''Elegant Machinery'' (1985) *''Accumulator'' (1995, compilation album)
===Singles=== *Over 21 ・"Fallout" b/w "Politics" (1980 & 1981) *"Fever of Love" b/w "Talk" (1981) *"Cuckooland" b/w "Talk" (1981) *"Star" b/w "Talk" (1981) *"Living inside Me" b/w "A-O (No Bungalow)", "Data Plata" (1983) *"Stop" b/w "Blow" (1985) *"Blow" b/w "Blow", "D.J." (1985) *"Blow", "Fallout" b/w (1985) *"Ricocheted Love" b/w "In Blue", "D.J." (1986)
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==External links== * [http://www.sailor-marinero.com/related_data.htm Sailor Club info about DATA] * [http://www.kajanus.com Georg Kajanus Web Site] * {{IMDb name|12526664}} * {{discogs artist|Data (2)}} * [http://www.myspace.com/georgkajanus Georg Kajanus at myspace.com] * [https://www.youtube.com/kajanusmusic DATA videos at youtube.com]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Data}} Category:English synth-pop groups Category:Electronic music groups from London Category:Sire Records artists Category:Virgin Records artists