The CD is in two parts - "Full Grooves" and "Loop Bitz" -

The Full Grooves section has full sounding loops, with both percussive and some other elements, bass, synth, fills, and even the odd vocal. Though not all are present in every loop and not in every loop all the time. Also these fill in sounds aren't overdone, its an element here, element there, and I can't think of a single loop where I thought "well what can I actually add to that".

Each of the loops is around a minute or so long, and isn't just a straight repeating loop. Each of the loops mutates through its duration, generally not that radically, but enough to produce several variations together with an intro, outro a few fills and transition effects.

The advantage of this of course is that by careful cutting and splicing of the samples you'll be able to produce a number of loops, with variations and fills and build a complete drum track that maintains interest for the listener. The disadvantage being is that its not a 5 minute job, and takes some careful work to splice up a minute or longer sample, into maybe 8 or 10 segments.

The cover makes mention that the CD is "the most DJ friendly ever", and to this end the full grooves are ideal for this purpose, the length of the loops would ease their use in this context, similar in thinking to the Loopism's series of CD's that readers may be familiar with.

Well I expect by now your wondering what the loops actually sound like. Well the loops originally started life as a live loop played by Dave Ruffy, and then they have been processed, the end result, they ROCK ! If your looking to produce dance music with a subtle undercurrent of a percussive track then this isn't for you... the sounds are quite exceptional. No doubt aided with a lot of compression and EQing the drums sounds are extremely powerful, punchy and tight. The no doubt powerful playing originally has been beefed up further to produce huge drum sounds that will cut through even the most muddy of mixes.

Despite the loops originally having been played live they often bear little resemblance to a straight live kit being played, additionally there is a fair variation in the drum sounds. The fill effects are pretty sensible, and in most of the loops there is an element without them so if you like the loop but not the fill then you can just extract that, mostly though its confined to scratches, blips, the odd chord, bass element or vocal ad lib that kind of thing.

The loops vary in BPM from 75-161 though the majority are in the 95-120 bracket. Most of the loops I'd describe as being latter day Prodigy/Depeche Mode/Gary Numan like of acts you may have heard of, though maybe more rhythmical and more upfront. Generally very solid beat, big kick drum and tight, often slightly metallic sounding snare.