Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
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| Birth name | Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom |
| Also known as | TEED |
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7 March 1986 London, England |
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| Years active | 2008–present |
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| Website | totallyenormousextinctdinosaurs |
Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom (born 7 March 1986), better known by his stage name Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, is a British electronic music producer, DJ and singer based in London.
Orlando is the son of Professor Edward Higginbottom, formerly conductor of the choir of New College, Oxford. He was educated at the Cherwell School, Oxford. A classically trained musician, he attended the Junior Royal Academy of Music in London. Orlando began listening to electronic music in his early teens, through borrowing audio tapes from his older siblings.
After buying records and DJing since the age of 13, and experimenting with music production for several years, Orlando launched Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs in 2009. The name was intended to oppose the often pretentious world of dance music and underground cool, and together with his stage persona, inject some fun and colour into the club environment.
Orlando commented to Spin that he was looking for a name that "couldn't be cool, couldn't be put into some kind of scene that gets hip for six months and then falls out of fashion."
TEED made his debut on Joe Goddard's Greco-Roman label in 2009 with the All in One Sixty Dancehalls EP, featuring a remix by British producers 2 Bad Mice. This was followed All in Two Sixty Dancehalls EP (featuring the single "Garden") and by Household Goods EP in November 2010.
In July 2011 Orlando was enlisted by Blur frontman Damon Albarn to take part in an album project connected with his work for well-known charity Oxfam. Kinshasa One Two was recorded over a period of six days in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the Oxjam music series and released on Warp Records in that year.
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