Chechnya to ban music not between 80 and 116 BPM

[Orang Utan]

Chechnya to ban music not between 80 and 116 BPM · News ⟋ RA

The ban means that most forms of dance music would be outlawed by the Russian republic.

ra.co

How’s that gonna work?

Are they gonna send musicologists out to every party armed with metronomes?
It’d be funny if it wasn’t happening in such a brutal regime.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Amusing that bans their own national anthem.




This video brings up the parallels with the UK law on repetitive beats.

 

[Knotted]

Edit : snap

 

[prunus]

This is great news for musicians. Music will now have to be written in 3/4 time at about 93 beats per minute, with the crotchets all tupletted at 4:3; this is quite complicated to play and will increase the demand for trained musicians.

 

[pesh]

maybe they'll end up with a huge hip hop scene

 

[skyscraper101]

It's part of their whole purge on 'western' stuff and overall return to draconian times along with their anti gay purges

Amusingly 'Relax' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood is only 115 BMP so technically falls within the legally allowed guidelines.

 

[Orang Utan]

There’s club nights and labels dedicated to sub-120bpm ‘chuggers’ - the late great Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston’s A Love From Outer Space being the prime example, but I’ve a feeling an ALFOS tour would not be welcome in Chechnya, now would Sean want to endorse the regime by playing there.
But I wonder if this will create a new music scene, as constraints such as this can inspire much creativity. Though I doubt it would be encouraged by the state, given that they also state ‘Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible’ in the cited announcement

 

[Silas Loom]

I hope that we can introduce this measure here before Chechnya chickens out, or it will be the age-related cigarette ban all over again.

 

[Pickman's model]

Chechnya to ban music not between 80 and 116 BPM · News ⟋ RA

The ban means that most forms of dance music would be outlawed by the Russian republic.

ra.co

How’s that gonna work?

Are they gonna send musicologists out to every party armed with metronomes?
It’d be funny if it wasn’t happening in such a brutal regime.

glad to see this won't affect bach's stately sarabande

 

[RevolutionSound]

Weatherall could have done ALFOS there