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Timo Garcia - Wonderlust Bug

Tim Belcher aka Timo Garcia has released a fantastic debut Prog House album titled Wonderlust Bug on the Berwick Street Records label.

Timo has captured sounds and influences on his worldly travels as a top club DJ from London’s Ministry Of Sound to Brazil and Russia.

By day, Tim Belcher champions up-coming (D-Dub, Hauswerks, Le Crunch) and established artists (Lutzenkirtchen, Yousef & Smokin Jo) alike on his Berwick Street Records imprint. The label is concerned with nurturing originality and releasing quality music, no matter the name of the genre.

Wonderlust Bug is a beautiful album, a window into Timo Garcia’s world, and a document of his thoughts and travels put to music.

“I get to see a lot of places I wouldn’t otherwise get to being a DJ, and I am thankful for that. The album’s inspired by so many things, from buskers on the South Bank to acoustic bands playing on the beaches of Brazil. I felt the need to help spread the vibes of things like the Hang Drum into the dance music fraternity. I wanted to use and promote the sounds I hear around the world, as well as use some older ideas I’ve had for a while and been desperate to use somehow!”

Wonderlust Bug builds from the soft feet shuffle of the opening track, Boom and the brilliant Hang Drum Track, which introduces the unique talents of Manu Delago who’s sonorous drum/bell percussion instrument rings out in waves and creates an enchanting, light trance.

Magic Roundabout deepens the trance and funky groove, while Wonderlust fuses electronic glitch with the gently building rhythms.

With the seventh of ten and my favourite track, The Bug, the tempo is turned up a couple of notches and the album comes out of the shadows and onto the dancefloor; and by the time the album reaches the dark disco of Deadly Grooves with its electro, skewed synth and its driving pulse-like bassline, you will no doubt agree with me, this is one heck of an eclectic awesome debut album that takes Progressive House to several levels and back again.

Wonderlust Bug by Timo Garcia looks like it is going to make my best albums of 2009 list.