As someone who actually has spent time making a few hundred, 2 minute long audio clips of McProg, anthem house, eurotrance, hardstyle, and any number of other types of tunes with obnoxiously long breakdowns, builds, and drops, let me tell you many of them are almost factory designed to be unwieldy as such. You either end up showcasing the lead-up, then fading out during the breakdown, or start during the breakdown, giving only a small taster of the track's peak, sometimes which is half as short as the lead-in. But you almost always are forced to include some part of that got'dang beakdown/build/drop, always taking up at least 2/3rds of the track.
Of course, if the track has a 2 minute long breakdown/build (eg: Rank 1's Airwave), then I'd just use that for the whole clip.
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