Never one to do things in the most normal manner, Paul Woolford claims that he’s made the four (!) Special Request LPs that will drop in the coming months while dossing around in his pants. This claim is easier to believe when you hear Vortex, the first of the quartet to emerge on Houndstooth. This album is definitely the work of someone who had a lot of fun in making it. As is customary with the Special Request project we find Woolford dragging 20th Century rave sounds into the present day and bending them to his will. The resulting album is a twisted mix of electro, breakbeat, hardcore and devil-may-care electronics. We even find Woolford having a go at something close to gabber towards the back-end of Vortex - or at least the sort of warped hard-tech that has been coming out on Bjarki’s bbbbbb imprint these past few years. It’s one hell of a good time.