Chechnya 'bans music that is too fast or too slow'
news.sky.com
The Russian republic is said to have ruled that all music should "correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute" - meaning all western rave and techno music would be banned.
  • tuckerm@supermeter.social
    18·
    3 months ago

    Cultural crackdowns, motivated by religion or nationalism, are terrible. (In Chechnya’s case, it’ll be religion and nationalism.)

    That being said, this means they just created the genre of ILLEGAL BEATS, which sounds like absolute 🔥🔥🔥. Like, the illegal beats lineup at Chechella this year is going to be sick.

  • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
    11·
    3 months ago

    Officer noooo! I swear it was in 4/2 time with a tempo of 80 and not 4/4 with a tempo of 160! Don’t take me away!!!

  • Stepos Venzny@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    “Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible,” Mr Dadayev reportedly said.

    Then ban that?

    I’m not saying the goal here is in any way acceptable, obviously, but mostly it weirds me out how indirect and ineffectual this method is. So much of the outside world’s musical culture makes it through this filter.