In the constant search for innovation and variety I've come to look at the now standard breakdown and wondered what can be done with it.

Maybe a bit of cross-genre influence is required? Most modern house tracks use a 24 or 32 measure break, all of which is implemented using filters on the existing elements rather than dropping and introducing new ones.

Has anyone tried this?

I've been contemplating this as well, I was thinking something like a tempo change or somethin else... But I think no matter what you do it will still just be called a breakdown haha.

By the way are you David West who made Carrier & Envy? That song is going on my upcoming mix

Last edited by crrrazydan on Jun-29-2005 at 09:02

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Originally posted by crrrazydan By the way are you David West who made Carrier & Envy? That song is going on my upcoming mix

No unfortunately.

I don't like the way they implement breakdowns in house music acctually. The best breakdowns, I think, are those in Tribal Music. You know all the samba-rhytms they get goingt there? It's cool ;D.

But I'm not all too tired of Trance breakdowns though. They are ussually quite good. And they create that Trancey feeling. But overall they are all too long and tiresome. It would be better if not all tracks had a 128 beat breakdown, twice. Just my 2 cents.

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I think 32 is about right. What I can't bear and comes acroll as lazy is a 64 where the same stuff just goes down and then up. The best ones are where the breakdown in actually in distinct three parts
that maintain interest.

Some of the worst breakdowns sounds like the old hi-energy breaks for the 80's. 64 bars of whack-boom, boom-whack!