Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom (born 7 March 1986), known professionally as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (or TEED), is a British electronic music

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, DJ and singer-songwriter based in the United States.

Early life

Orlando is the son of Professor

Edward Higginbottom Edward Higginbottom, DPhil (Oxon), BMus (Cantab), (born 16 November 1946, Kendal) is a music scholar, organist, choirmaster and conductor. Most of his career has been as organist at New College, Oxford, where he led their choir for more than 35 ...

, formerly conductor of the choir of New College, Oxford. He was educated at

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and Cherwell School, Oxford. A classically trained musician, he attended the Junior

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in London. Orlando began listening to electronic music in his early teens, through borrowing audio tapes from his older siblings. Orlando commented to ''

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'' 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."

Musical career

On 11 June 2012 TEED's debut album '' Trouble'' was released by Polydor Records. The album was well received, with favourable reviews from several well-respected music publications including the '' NME'' ("One of the UK's most exciting young producers"), '' Pitchfork'' and the BBC.

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UK named ''Trouble'' as their 'Debut Electronic album of the year', was DJ Magazine's 'album of the year' and it was number 5 in the BBC's end of year album poll. ''Trouble'' was also voted 'Best Album' in DJ Magazine's Best of British 2012, with TEED also picking up the award for 'Best Live Act'. On 8 July 2013, Crosstown Rebels released ''Get Lost VI'', a compilation of music curated and mixed by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. ''Get Lost VI'' featured tracks from Underground Resistance, Tiga, Breach
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and more. It was voted 'Best Compilation' in DJ Magazine's Best of British 2013. On 14 August 2014, TEED launched Nice Age, a cross-platform label. The first release, "Feels Like", is a collaboration between TEED and Anna Lunoe. TEED released an EP titled ''The Distance'' in 2021. On 30 March 2022, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs announced his second album ''When The Lights Go'', which was supposed to be released on 22nd July 2022, but it was delayed to 9th September 2022 and was released on his own label, Nice Age.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

*''All in One Sixty Dancehalls'' (2009), Greco-Roman *''All in Two Sixty Dancehalls'' (2010), Greco-Roman *''Household Goods'' (2010), Greco-Roman *''Prehistory'' (2011), Greco-Roman *''Prehistory II'' (2011), Greco-Roman *''I Can Hear the Birds'' (2020), I Oh You *''The Distance'' (2021), Nice Age

Singles

As lead artist

Featured appearances

Other albums

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Songwriting and production credits

Remixes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 1986 births Living people People educated at Abingdon School DJs from London Electronic dance music DJs English DJs English electronic musicians English house musicians English record producers Nu-disco musicians Remixers