Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom (born 7 March 1986), known professionally as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (or TEED), is a British electronic music
producer, 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
Abingdon School
Abingdon School is a day and boarding independent school for boys in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The twentieth oldest independent British school, it celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2006. The school was described as "highly ...
and
Cherwell School
The Cherwell School is a secondary school with academy status on the Marston Ferry Road in Oxford, England. The current school site was built in 1963 as a secondary modern school, later becoming the main comprehensive school for North Oxford, ...
, Oxford. A classically trained musician, he attended the Junior
Royal Academy of Music
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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 ''
Spin
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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
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Film and television
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* ''Trouble'' (1933 film), a British comedy film
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'' was released by
Polydor Records
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. The album was well received, with favourable reviews from several well-respected music publications including the ''
NME
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'' ("One of the UK's most exciting young producers"), ''
Pitchfork
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'' and the
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.
'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