July 1 is the new release date for Reggaeman, the first album by singer/musician Wormbass. Initially set for an early 2016 drop, he said production hitches forced the pushback to summer.

The lanky Wormbass (real name Delroy Niven) recently returned from the United States and Mexico where he did the promotional rounds. He does not believe the delay will hurt the 15-song set.

“It’s a timeless thing. We took five years to do the album so if we wait another year it doesn’t matter ’cause what we have is a timeless thing”, he said.

Wormbass and his management are currently promoting the title song and its video.

While he did slots on Caribbean radio in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Philadelphia, it is the emerging Mexican market that has his interest.

According to Wormbass, he did the rounds in Cancun, traditionally one of Mexico’s strongest tourist markets. It is an area which he is familiar with, having played there with the Original Heat Band for a year in 1992.

“The whole place change; there is a lot of development. Some of the people I knew have moved away but a lotta dem still there so I think great things can happen,” he said.

He is tentatively set to perform in Cancun in October at the resort’s Caribfest event.

Wormbass — known to dancehall fans as the hyperactive leader of the Blaze Band which backed Beenie Man for eight years — recorded most of Reggaeman with his Ball A Fyah band. Its lead song, Only You, was released last year.

The album also contains the weed anthem, Homegrown; and Funky Reggae, a spin on Toots And The Maytals’ Funky Kingston, which features Sly and Robbie and Caymanian singer Sabina.

He collaborates with Beenie Man on Bring Back The Paradise. Another combination is Sell Out, which he did with singer Norris Man in 1994.