The first 20 loops are representative of the whole 154 tracks, there are no demo tracks, which jumbles them up even more, though as we're not given any kind of categories that's quite hard to prove. The loops range in BPM from a sedate 53 right up to a manic 199. Most though reside in the typical "dance" range of 90-125 range. The loops are in stereo and in many cases this is very effectively used - one of the advantages of the construction kit approach again is that you can easily alter the stereo balance of the loop if you want to achieve a different effect though.

The loops are generally 4-8 bars long and often quite busy and evolve, bar 1 just a kick fill, bar 2 the main loop, bar 3 and 4 the loop with some add in effects, vocals, bass etc. In some cases this does make the loop in full difficult to use as its presented, you'd need to sample and splice it up, but on the other hand gives you more loops for your money and gives you a better idea of how the samples can be used. I imagine that the majority of people who are attracted to this sort of sample CD won't be using the loops as a whole in any event.

The number of sounds per loop varies from 2- 24 most though are in the range of 5-8 sounds, so there is little in the way of plain kick/snare and hi-hat loops here. Most tracks contain some kind of extra effect be it a vocal, other percussion effect, scratch, rumble, guitar or something just to fill out the loop. Of course if you don't like the effect that the producers have used then you can replace it with something of your own. Perhaps in a couple of cases this fill effect has been taken almost too far, tracks like 20 are virtually a complete track, 10 percussion sounds and 10 effect sounds, just add vocal over the loop and you've a ready made track. Well, nearly.

The first CD contains 76 loops, and the second 78, although the packaging says that the CD contains 1500 samples, some of the sounds are repeated. (I think the cover is a tad misleading really, states "over 1500 loops and samples", on first inspection you might feel a bit aggrieved at only seeing 154 loops). Although you do still get a good variety of percussive effects, together along with the fill effects you can use in isolation should you wish within your own creations. Actually its quite interesting how often so many sounds have been used in constructing some of the loops, and how the producers have integrated these.

Tracks 1-20 contain a mixture of styles from funk to heavy industrial. I like track 8, speed it just a tad and could be Sigue Sigue Sputnik - anyone remember them ?, and track 20 despite being to comprehensive to be called a loop really is quite catchy, kind of sounds distantly familiar, wonder if someone's already had a hit with this one.