Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom (born 7 March 1986), known professionally as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (or TEED), is a British electronic music
producer
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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
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, Oxford. A classically trained musician, he attended the Junior
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke ...
in London. Orlando began listening to electronic music in his early teens, through borrowing audio tapes from his older siblings.
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."
Musical career
On 11 June 2012 TEED's debut album ''
Trouble'' was released by
Polydor Records
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