Title: Flow Mechanics
Artist: Jerome Hill
Label: Hypercolour
Cat Number: HYPELP022
Genre: Techno/Breaks/Acid/Electro Innit
1: Walk The Plank
2: Don’t Be Afraid
3: The Doctor Will See You Now
4: Deafening Lull
5: Brought Up Badly
6: Knob Jitter
7: Stax Had The Funk
8: I Don’t
Jerome Hill has a career in production that stretches into the 20th Century, so it’s a little surprising to discover that this is his first long player. Maybe it’s because of an emphasis on producing club-orientated bangers, which kind of describes this album. All very effective stuff. Wonky and fluctuating in all the right places, but hardly “a journey”. And that’s really heartening, because the last think anyone wants is depth for the sake of it. Talented as he is, I’m sure Mr Hill could put something out which hangs together and “tells a story”. Furthermore, it’s not to say that this collection doesn’t. However, it probably doesn;t set out to. What we do get is a collection of uncompromising floor fillers from across the rave spectrum, each expertly produced and observed, that want you to do nothing more than throw shapes. What’s more, their versatility ensures that they should be on any self-respecting cross-pollinator’s playlist. A Nod to electro, in the shape of ‘Deafening Lull’, garage, (‘Brought Up Badly’), acid breaks, (‘ The Doctor Will See You Now’), chugging acid, (‘Walk The Plank’), and Relief era Chicago in the shape of ‘Stax Had The Funk’, show an imaginative master in control of his machines churning out banger after bomb, and isn’t that what it really is all about?
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