1.0 by Big Data

1.0, released on October 1, 2013, was the first EP from Big Data, the electronic project producer Alan Wilkis had begun recording in the summer of 2012. The name was a jab at the way sites like Facebook hoover up personal information, and his songs mostly circle around life inside the machine. The four here are "Dangerous", "Big Dater", "Bombs over Brooklyn" and "The Stroke of Return".

"Dangerous" is the one that broke loose, a nervy synth-pop strut with Joywave's Daniel Armbruster on vocals; early on, Wilkis wrote the music and Armbruster the words. Its interactive video, "Facehawk", turned a viewer's Facebook timeline into a picture of a hawk, and it went viral. Wilkis milked the moment with two remix EPs, 1.5 in December 2013 and 1.6 in September 2014, and the song eventually hit number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in August 2014 and went gold.

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