Produced by	Back in Time
Time	76:28
Tracks	63
Audio Released	1995

Technopolis is from the German sample CD company Back in Time Records, we've already reviewed a number of their other sample CD products. Mediterranean Instruments, Minimoog Classics, Korg Universe Volume 1 & 2 & Electravox. Technopolis is somewhat of a departure from these products being mainly a loops CD with additional sounds as well.

The promotional words are few indeed both on the packaging and on the website, except that the contents are Drumloops, Basslines, Sequence Loops, Trance SQ, Electronic Loops, Filtersweeps, Industrial, SFX vocoder, Hardware and impact subbasses, short sequence notes, portamento fx, machines, arpeggios, chord & hit shots, guitars, vinyl fx, metal loops, stylistic loops, PC Speech, analogue and digital synthesiser multisamples. As you might have guess from the name, the contents are very much geared to the "Techno" school of dance tracks.

Technopolis has been put together by Klaus-Peter Rausch and Klaus Schron who are behind most of the other Back in Time Records collections also which have been distinctive for their high quality of production so we have high hope for this release too.

Technopolis is a slightly less than full price release, pitched at 99DM so somewhat in-between what we would class as a budget sample CD and a regular priced collection. Available in an audio format only.

Technopolis Inlay Card

The documentation is to Back in Time Records usual high standard, running to 8 pages of detail. Each track is listed out within a sub section, then within each track each sample is listed out with a number, duration, descriptive title and where appropriate a BPM. There is also a page of notes at the end.

Oddly there is no licence agreement at all, beyond a © 1995, all rights reserved. So what your allowed to do with the samples is as good a guess as mine. In fairness to Back in Time this is something that have been tightened up in latter day releases.

There is 3 minute demo track, noted for being held in 16Mb of sampler memory though not terribly exciting otherwise, there is no test tone.

On to the sounds...