Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
80 to 116 BPM. I actually chuckled audibly that the BPM was specified, I assumed it would be extremely vague.
They couldn’t even make it higher than the DAW defaults at 120bpm. So you have new musicians that have never recorded accidentally producing music at 120 and breaking the law. This is the dumbest shit I’ve seen since last week. I don’t typically put anything together that is below 120. Looks like I’m on my way to being a Chechen fugitive.
Simple fix: change the time signature. Boom.
exactly. quarter note at 200bpm is eighth note at 100bpm.
I could never live any place that banned Jungle.
Shocking.
No house, no techno?!
Suddenly a larger market for those sped up/slowed down ByteDance remixes, depending.
Phonk producers with normal, slowed and speedy versions of their songs were already prepared for this.
This is memeable, yes; but usually when news like this starts coming out a nation shit’s definitely gone sideways for it.
It just feels like a conservative one party government trying to fill in time before the next election with busy work.
Nothing pleases social conservatives more than cracking down on that weird music their kids listen to.
Music too fast? Straight to jail.
Music too slow? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
The Russian national anthem is 76 beats per minute lol….
Which is banned
RIP the Chechen Drum n Bass scene 😢
DragonForce is out, RIP through the fire and flames.
Ideas for the revolution
Vaporwave incoming
Goldilockswave
darude sandstrom ✖️
careless whisper ✖️
never gonna give you up ✔️
BPM between 80 and
130116 are allowed. Their own national anthem is almost criminally low!almost
Probably how they decided to draw the line
Was trying to figure out why this felt so familiar, then I remembered it’s literally a plot point in the game Beholder 3, a game about an excessively oppressive surveillance government. Wild.
More than just that one game has this plot point, I’m sure. During the early 90s, when Joe Leiberman and Tipper Gore made “Violence in Music/Movies/Games” their cause celeb, we got a glut of artists producing dystopian prophecies of hyper censorship.
