George FitzGerald

It's been some two years since Shackled, George Fitzgerald's last outing on Hotflush and it's fair to say the landscape both occupy has shifted some in that period. Both artist and label are fully entrenched in the current UK house explosion and Fitzgerald's return to Paul Rose's label with Thinking Of You seems primed to reverberate across festivals, Croatian beaches and warehouse spaces as the summer months roll on. A prominent track in Fitzgerald's recent Essential Mix, ''Thinking Of You'' sees the producer continue to refine an approach to forthright house music shown on recent dalliances with Aus Music and Hypercolour and feels almost proto fidget in execution. The techier B Side accompaniment ''Nighttide Lover'' is drawn from a similar fist pumping palette and features rolling vocal manipulation reminiscent of Switch in his heyday.

• 1 Thinking Of You
• 2 Nighttide Lover