Summary - Audio quality through out is very good. There is some noise in places. In some areas its deliberate and to be expected, for example in the dirtscapes and old movie extracts, though in a few other places I expect its been caused by the instruments being recorded rather than a defect in the recording process. You might want to use some noise reduction software though if this is a problem on a sample your using. I wouldn't say any sample is unusable because of this though.

I really liked this CD, there a lot of sounds here that are just a step away from the norm, something to introduce that something a little bit different into your tracks. For anyone making industrial, hard-core techno, hard dance or electronic music will find a lot of usable samples here. Even those on the fringe will find material that can be used, from Kraftwerk style blips and loops to anyone wanting to use a collection of vintage synth sounds or those B style movie extracts.

The loops are great, with quite a few differing styles offered by the various different sections. The guitar sections are excellent, and whilst the synth and percussive hits can't offer the variety of more dedicated sample CD's they're not bad and make for a diverse collection. Sections like the dirtscapes and movie extracts are probably an acquired taste, if you can make use of them then there is an excellent variety, if not then they don't take up much space. Throughout the samples in this whole collection are quite short so you get lots, no 8 identical bar loops, or 60 second pads here.

Probably the one area where the CD lacks is in having really powerful loops, that would fit in with the genre of music that this CD will appeal to most. You might want to layer a big kick drum to add a bit of bite.

Overall - Must have for anyone into hard edged sounding music - 9/10. For others a useful addition to a sample library with some different sounds 7/10.