DJ Fitzgerald will Roll Back time

There are few better producers of textured electronica than George Fitzgerald.

His 2018 LP, All That Must Be, is a stone cold classic collection of lower-tempo dance music made for home stereos, borrowing variously from the likes of Caribou, Boards of Canada, Jon Hopkins, Floating Points, Four Tet, and many other multi-faceted artists whose appeal stretches from the club to the sofa and into the dark nights beyond.

His music is soulful, melodic, tinged with melancholy and at its very best when teamed up with one of his many interesting vocal collaborators that include the likes of Tracy Thorn.

It wasn’t always this way mind, the young(er) George (right) having been raised in his native north-west London on a diet of garage and dubstep.

His fledgling DJ career preceded a move to Berlin in 2010 when he became a techno producer, releasing fit-for-purpose club bangers on Aus, Hypercolour and Hotflush and his progression from night to day took place over eighteen life-changing months in which Fitzgerald has left the much-invoked hedonism of the German capital to take up a life as a newly minted family man and producer in London.

Roll Back, Burns and Passing Trains are on permanent rotation on our stereos but the entire album is a summer-perfect soundtrack and well worth checking out.

George’s equally stellar reputation as a DJ can be tested on Friday September 17 when he plays for Shine at the Ulster Sports Club.

■ Tickets are on sale now from shine.net.