Orlando Higginbottom, the digital music artist who performs as TEED, on the sounds and influences behind his new album, ‘All the time With Me’.
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:
The digital music artist previously often known as Completely Extinct Huge Dinosaurs, Orlando Higginbottom, is now going by a brand new moniker, TEED. NPR lately caught up with TEED to speak about his new album known as “All the time With Me.”
(SOUNDBITE OF TEED SONG, “PIECE OF ME”)
TEED: I used to be pondering loads about my teenage years after I was making this file. I believe I used to be taking a little bit of a step again, and I used to be pondering loads about my summers as an adolescent and the music I used to be loving after I was an adolescent and the way that made me really feel to form of reminisce about now. And so now I used to be form of creating my very own soundtrack for these recollections at the moment.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “PIECE OF ME”)
TEED: (Singing) I want I knew the phrases. I am frozen, however I would let you know how a lot this hurts.
With this album, I actually used, like, my laptop and a microphone and one or two bits of {hardware} – one synthesizer, specifically, that I borrowed from a pal and, you realize, a quite simple studio, actually going again to form of, like, a bed room studio setup from after I was an adolescent once more.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DESIRE”)
TEED: (Singing) Within the silence of your eyes, I see the place I will be quickly, alone and away from you.
(Singing) “Want,” which is the primary monitor of the album – I began this music form of accidentally. I began simply singing with no backing monitor into my microphone and simply singing melodies, piecing collectively sounds with out actually any type of plan, and the music emerged fairly shortly from there.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DESIRE”)
TEED: (Singing) Ooh, I am prepared.
This was the music that, when it began to type, I felt like I had an album, that I may begin to construct all the pieces else round it.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DESIRE”)
TEED: (Singing) Ooh, I am prepared.
The title monitor is “All the time With Me,” and it is a instrumental that form of would not actually comply with a really conventional digital construction. It is type of rhapsodic in a manner.
(SOUNDBITE OF TEED’S “ALWAYS WITH ME”)
TEED: I needed it to really feel slightly bit like a reminiscence because it goes via its altering type, but it surely nonetheless looks like one expertise.
(SOUNDBITE OF TEED’S “ASCENT”)
TEED: This music, “Ascent,” is form of paying homage to the digital music I used to be listening to after I was form of 13 and 14, the place it was all about how sophisticated the drum programming could possibly be like early Squarepusher and Aphex Twin eras of digital music that was very a lot about the way forward for sound. And yeah, it is turned out to be one of many favourite tracks on the album from listeners.
(SOUNDBITE OF TEED’S “ASCENT”)
MCCAMMON: That was Orlando Higginbottom, who performs because the digital musician TEED. His new album, “All the time With Me,” is out now.
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