some goa tracks manage to do this very well

cut the breakdowns out

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Ask Rebel9, he has this whole thread dedicated to it that is still going called "Some light in the trance tunnel" with a set by Nasa with you guessed it..NO breakdowns...it's psy trance. If you don't like the breakdowns in epic and some prog, psy is the way to go....

nothing wrong with breakdowns...but not all songs need to have a breakdown with everything dropping out, but a huge sweeping synth sound...

there are other ways to change things up...

check sander van doorn stuff, very creative breakdowns...
purple haze - rush, for example...

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Astral Projection used to do alot of tunes with very little in the way of breakdowns - Im thinking songs like Mahadeva, Nilaya and Trance Dance. Their album 'Another World' has all of those tracks in some form or other and is really worth checking out if you like dark and organic sounding.

Goa trance in general tends to have little in the way of breakdowns - usually just a short break near the end of the track before it tails off.

NASA and Vibrasphere and some Jaia records dont break down very much either (if at all). Worth checking them out, but in most cases, melodic and harmonic consideration is secondary to the beat and bassline.

You might like some of Protoculture's tunes like Silicon Sunrise - that tune has 1 short breakdown near the end and is really melodic towards the end. Theres a number of fuzzy monophonic saw riffs in there too. Also check out Cosma - Cusanam and pretty much everything off the album 'Simplicity.'

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Ask Rebel9, he has this whole thread dedicated to it that is still going called "Some light in the trance tunnel" with a set by Nasa with you guessed it..NO breakdowns...it's psy trance. If you don't like the breakdowns in epic and some prog, psy is the way to go....

Not strictly true. Psytrance has a tendancy just like trance to break and drop - some more recent examples of the form break and drop so much and wander off on some crazy, glitch tangent thats its debateable whether its even trance at all. Infected Mushroom is one example.

The Beathacker's song 'Transpose' is pretty much entirely made with 303 emulations and it has all the squelchy monophonic leads that characterise psy sounds but it breaks 4 or 5 times in 8 minutes, has 2 enormous buildups and it has irregular phrases. It is a total pain in the arse to mix. I love the tune but theres a distinction.

Stuff like NASA and Vibrasphere is more like progressive trance but with some organic psy sounds in it. Some people call it prog psy or psy prog or whatever. But its qutie different to psytrance, or at least modern psytrance anyway. Its worlds apart from full on psy these days.

Even psy and goa now tend to have really long breakdowns. I'd say look at older stuff.

check out a tune in the amateur producers called 'bongladesh' by ricky m, its brilliant, and basically has no breakdowns

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Prog Psy is the way to go if you want very little breakdowns.

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Breakdowns (even relatively long ones) can be quite good.. If placed well in a set. Having every other track having a breakdown of a minute and a half does not fit into this category.

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