SPECIAL REQUEST 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Mad-heads, rave veterans and lovers of having their brains rewired by previously unexplored sonic realms unite, because here comes the first of four, yes four, new albums from the fantastic freak of nature that is Special Request. His 'What Time Is Love? Sessions' arrives in several different formats this month and across six sizzling tracks that re-wire the KLF's hit of that name, he taps into everything from "ephemeral ambiance to barnstorming hardcore, pummelling house to pointillist trance" and does so with a mix of the surreal and the psychotic, the psychedelic and the downright ridiculous. It's mental, and we love it.

Review: As you know if you have followed the work of Special Request aka Paul Woolford, it often comes in huge bursts and across several releases at once. So it is that this year the one-man production machine is to drop not one but a four-album run over the next 12 months, all independently. Quite what he runs on we do not know but we need some because once again on this limited clear vinyl version of his 'What Time Is Love? Sessions' he taps into the future as he rewires the musical DNA of rave, techno, bass and jungle into tracks that make your brain fizz and your body move. Unreal work once more from this unstoppable force.

Review: You've got to love Leeds hero Paul Woolford aka Special Request. When everyone says the album format is dead he simply laughs and says 'hold my beer'. Not for the first time, he has announced that he is releasing more than one full length in one year and all in quick succession. This is a limited gatefold purple galaxy vinyl double album version of the 'What Time Is Love? Sessions' which saw him re-imagining the KLF's cult hit of that name. All his various experiments with it feature here and span brain frying cosmic techno turbulence, bowel-emptying bass mutations, warp-speed rave and plenty of hard-to-define sounds in between. All hail the Woolmeister!