Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs has spoken about his battle with the Scottish folk mafia.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs have a way with a sample. Fresh from his new EP 'Household Goods' the producer has proved that Jungle loops can be mixed with just about everything.
At one point, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs even borrow from a old Scottish folk song. 'Waulking Song' is a joyous yet somewhat bizarre mixture of Gaelic singing and fresh, bouncing electro beats.
Speaking to ClashMusic, the producer revealed his battle to secure the vocals. "My mate was bringing round some records and he brought some of his mum’s records and there was this Scottish folk LP in there” the producer explains.
“We stuck it on and I thought “oh my fucking God that it amazing”. He took it away and the next day I walked into Oxfam and there was this record. I picked it up immediately. I’ve always been a fan of folk music in its more raw, original sense. Not modern day twee folk, but people just singing songs about their lives in pubs. I think that’s pretty amazing music.”
However Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs faced a battle with the folk mafia. “It was some old ladies and then I had to re-record it because the old ladies weren’t cool with the sample” he laughs.
“Amazingly, I came up against the Scottish folk mafia. They said no, you can’t have it. I got a couple of girls together and said ‘try and work out how to sound Gaelic!’”
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Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs are set to support Darwin Deez on the following shows:
February
24 Manchester Academy 2
25 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
26 Glasgow Garage
27 Leeds Metropolitan University
March
1 Norwich Waterfront
2 Birmingham HMV Institute
3 London Koko
4 Bristol Anson Rooms
5 Brighton Concorde 2
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