On May 9, 2024, Team Sleep released the Deluxe Edition of their eponymous record, including official mixes of previously unreleased tracks “Kool-Aid Party” (retitled “Kool Aide”), featuring Mike Patton, and “Let’s Go,” featuring Mary Timony.
In October 2014, a new Team Sleep lineup recorded a live album in front of an audience at Applehead Recording studio in Woodstock, New York . The members included Moreno, Wilkinson, Verret and DJ Crook as well as bassist Chuck Doom (also of Moreno’s Crosses ) and drummer Gil Sharone…
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Team Sleep was finally released on May 10, 2005, to mostly positive reviews. “The best part about it is having completion of something you’ve been working on, and having it done right,” Moreno said in a statement. “It’s fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time…
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Team Sleep’s record was originally scheduled for release in November 2004, but Maverick Records were reportedly so impressed by the album that they postponed the release until mid-2005 to allow for promotion. The debut album contained only five of the original tracks; three of those were heavily reworked. In October…
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A full album’s worth of material was finished in 2002–03, but not officially released. The instrumental song “The Passportal” was included on The Matrix Reloaded: The Album , the April 2003 soundtrack album for the film The Matrix Reloaded .
Team Sleep performed a number of live shows on the West Coast of the United States in late 2001 and early 2002, with Moreno, Wilkinson, DJ Crook (aka CrookOne), Verrett (of Tinfed ), Zach Hill ( Hella , later of Death Grips ), Dan Elkan (Pocket for Corduroy/Them Hills), Sonny…
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DJ Crook, or CrookOne, a long-time friend and roommate of Deftones turntablist/keyboardist Frank Delgado , added beats and turntables to “Teenager”, a song featuring glitch and trip hop influences. Originally intended as a Team Sleep song, “Teenager” was ultimately included on White Pony (2000), the third Deftones album.
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…
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