Timo Garcia

Timo Garcia

Timo Garcia is a UK DJ, producer and engineer working in electronic music. He builds a career across club-oriented house and techno contexts, with releases on a wide range of labels including Yoshitoshi, OFF, Compost, Skint, Southern Fried, 303 Lovers, Nervous, Audio Therapy, Dieb Audio, Cr2 and Toolroom.

Releases and production work

Garcia’s debut artist album is Wonderlust Bug, which draws support from Sasha, Laurent Garnier, Timo Maas and M.A.N.D.Y. A later release on Sharam’s Yoshitoshi imprint spends more than five months in the Beatport top 10 Tech charts and appears on Defected’s In The House Brazil ’11 compilation. In 2010, a double CD of his album material appears with remixes by DJ Pierre, Onionz, Eric Kupper and James Harcourt.

He also remixes a broad range of artists, including Leftfield, Justice, DJ Pierre, Louie Vega, Robert Owens, Coldcut, Danny Howells and Ian Brown. In addition to this work, he records a 14-track ambient album under the name T_Mo.

Collaborations and performance

Garcia collaborates with X-Press 2, Jerome Sydenham and DJ Pierre, with those releases appearing in 2011. He also DJs internationally and works behind the scenes engineering and mixing other artists’ projects from studios in London and Brighton. His live appearances include the main stage at South West Four in London, along with festival headline slots in Brazil and India.

Profile

He is ranked number 235 in the weekly Muso global top 1000 DJ poll at the start of 2012. His profile places him between underground club culture and larger dance floors, with an output that spans DJing, production, remix work and studio engineering.