Team Sleep started

Team Sleep started when Moreno and his friend Todd Wilkinson bought a cassette tape Portastudio -type four-track recorder in 1994. They continued this collaboration through the first two Deftones albums, though on a rather casual basis. Wilkinson said, “We were never going to make a record, or start a band … I was just sitting at home, playing guitar, and I started recording some stuff. It was never about trying to play shows, record in a studio, or anything of that sort. It was just bumming around. I had never been in a band, and I never wanted to be—we were just good friends.”