Still, he keeps his voice down - the ears of managers and influencers everywhere in this part of town (at one point, our conversation pauses for a courtesy hello to a pair of music industry bros). He’s an open book, laughing at himself and speaking freely about his qualms with the industry and past mistakes. When we meet at a café in Los Angeles’s Silver Lake neighbourhood, Higginbottom is wearing Tom Ford sunglasses and rocking a cool-guy moustache, but as soon as we sit down, he peels off the shades and transforms into a far more unassuming character.
But instead, it’s been a decade since the last Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs album, and Higginbottom is keeping his distance from DJ culture, even if it costs him. His once-peers now have residencies in places like Ibiza, Mykonos, and Tulum, where the lifestyle around dance music supersedes the music itself, and partiers check off a Bingo board of clubs to visit and DJs to take selfies with.
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Ed Sheeran to face copyright trial over ‘Thinking Out Loud’Ī path like that usually sets you up to be flying around the world, partying and collecting large fees to DJ to, as Higginbottom puts it, people in “wide brim hats with too much money”.He signed to a major label, Polydor Records, for his 2012 debut album Trouble, which won plaudits both within the electronic music scene (it was crowned DJ Mag’s album of the year) and outside of it (the BBC ranked it at number five in their end-of-year album poll). He toured extensively as a DJ, put out buzzy dance tracks, and released official remixes for the likes of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Sky Ferreira, and Disclosure. for short, an artist name he chose because it could never sound cool or trendy) in the late noughties, the Oxford-raised, Los Angeles-based artist quickly found himself in the middle of a career that many aspiring artists can only dream of. When he first debuted as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (or T.E.E.D. If anyone should know, it’s Higginbottom. I can’t believe we’ve bought into it for so long.” “It’s so absolutely run of the mill and uncreative. “There’s nothing cool about being a DJ anymore,” says Orlando Higginbottom, the man behind the electronic music project Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.
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