Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs |
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Their MySpace page features a long list of dinosaurs in the space for band members' names. But whatever Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs might tell you about going back in time to collect prehistoric dubplates made of granite from those soon-to-be-extinct creatures, there are only two of them and they are almost certainly human. The big electronic noise they create makes it easy to get confused.
Their debut EP, 'All In One Sixty Dancehalls', was released earlier this month via Greco-Roman.
We caught up with them to find out more. |
Q1 How did you start out making music?
I started out on pots and pans with wooden spoons.
Q2 What inspired your latest EP?
Each track is very different, and sometimes there is no specific inspiration, you just sit down and write because that's what you want to do. However 'Sickly Child' on the EP was inspired by the Calpol sessions of younger years.
Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
Usually a great surge of excitement when it sounds like it could end up being our best track ever and then disappointment when, having spent another hour on it, it clearly isn't.
Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Really it's all about how the people dancing react. Of course artists influence the music but it will just be little moments and sounds, not whole albums and careers.
Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Tissue?
Q6 What are your ambitions for your EP, and for the future?
I hope that people get to hear it and that they enjoy it. That's what it's for. Oh, and that they then come and see a live show. The future is all about buying a hovercraft.
published june 2009
