Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow

Just a little bit too perfect? Burned for witchcraft

Sounds like a healthy form of governance. People can't be trusted to manage tempo on their own. They should do this for heart rates as well.

Straight to jail! Right away!

YMCA by Village People? We'll give it a pass ✔️

Why they're a 3min and a 7min version of sandstorm?

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.

Shocking.

No house, no techno?!

Suddenly a larger market for those sped up/slowed down ByteDance remixes, depending.

What if you are practicing? Can you start slow on the hard bits or do you have to get it right straight away?

Simple fix: change the time signature. Boom.

I could never live any place that banned Jungle.

April 1st was too fast for them so they opted to use April 8th.

I guess they only like the heavy metal remix.

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Isis and taliban do tho. Chechnya is primarily muslim. But yea, another sign russia has become a dystopian nightmare

I think you seriously over-estimate the level of tolerance of Nazi Germany. The Nazis persecuted Degenerate Music just like they persecuted Degenerate Art.

In Soviet Union, the rock genre was for a very long time existing underground due to the inability of artists to be properly published.

Only starting with the 1980s could the artists finally publish their songs officially. And even then Soviet government put a lot of measures to prohibit rock music in the country.

This resulted in the appearance of many beloved bands and artists, like

• Kino (tl. Cinema),
• DDT,
• Aria,
• Chaif,
• Grazhdanskaya Oborona (tl. Civil Defense),
• Mashina Vremeni (tl. Time machine),
• Sektor Gaza (tl. Gas Sector)
• Korol i Shut (tl. King and Jester)
• And many others

The history of Russian rock is actually quite fascinating. It was inspired by bard songs and often touched darker subjects as well as being satirical and judgmental of Soviet government.

Due to that, some artists, like Yegor Letov from Grazhdanskaya Oborona and Yuri Shevchuk from DDT, had troubles with KGB (Soviet FBI).

Nowadays, rock artists are still being persecuted for their views. For example, DDT is de facto prohibited from performing in Russia.

So did they do this to ban the Russian anthem intentionally??

Your logic isn't very patriotic. Please allow yourself to be escorted to the nearest window.

The Onion is over here crying because it's been having to low-ball reality for a decade.

There are so many movies that I've said, "that's stupid, it would never happen". I don't say that anymore.

My exact thoughts as well. Im like:

"Huhh wtf, this cant be true. Ahh it must be the Onion. Wait wat... This is not the onion..."

Yeah they were rounding up their own citizens for years

I don't know what you've read, but clearly not deep enough. As a "typical Russian" I find such comparison quite offensive.

I knew what this would be without question. Felt it in my bones. The old ways are still strong.

I clicked it... on purpose. Never Gonna Give You Up is such a banger

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Eastern Europe is going though it right now. One of my old Polish colleagues fled to the UK becuase the Church is slowly taking over and becoming totalitarian. Even if you have a miscarriage you'd be investigated to see if "it was done on purpose" or not.

(From what I remember, this was just at the tail end of covid)

Seriously, music is as much free speech as any spoken or written word and can be incredibly powerful. Banning it shows an absurd amount of fear and hatred for any sense of individuality.

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.

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Or redesign the calendar naming a month after his horse, as the first post-Soviet dictator of Turkmenistan did.

Are you a genius or a madman?

To fast? Jail. To slow? Believe it or not, jail. Over/ under.

It's also similar, though not quite, to the plot of Footloose. In that a town banned dancing, but this seems to be an effort to limit it to traditional folk dances.

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.

What kadyrovites do to their wives

You? Jail!

almost

Probably how they decided to draw the line

DragonForce is out, RIP through the fire and flames.

It’s beating the onion. But you can only do it 80 to 115 times a minute.

" I can't believe it's not margarine "?

I’m sorry, where did this come from? Where did this go?

Ironically a russian folk song.

Neither outros.

I think these guys need to hear a few words from our lord and savior Mick Gordon.

Bach was a known infidel

If it's a waltz conducted in 1, do they require that the big beat is within the tempo constraints or that the 3 beats in the measure comply with the tempo restriction?

Gabber/Gak. Man I haven't thought about these bands forever!

The shizit was my favorite band for a long time. And rotterdam terror corps.

"Holy shit lady, does it sound like I'm ordering a pizza?"

Rotterdam is in shambles!

Rip and tear, the music industry apart

No ambient or gabber

No! What will Hakari do?

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Oh thank god, so I can still strut down the street to "Stayin' Alive" on my next Chechnyan holiday.

TIL my car has been making speedcore every day for the last decade.

John Cage's As Slow As Possible is also right out.

The Skat Injector song in the article sounded like annoying noise. But I could actually vibe a little bit to the song by Gridbug.

But mostly it just sounds like noise and not actual music to me (Like my ears don't even seem to interpret it as music). Still interesting!

LPT: lower the volume before listening to anything on the link or risk losing your speakers.

At least it should do wonders for the singers' diction.

That's not how tempo works. The Music played is still at a tempo of 170 beats per minute.

You wouldn't win if you were pulled over going 50 mph on a 40 mph road by saying that you were stopped at lights for 10 minutes and thus your average speed for the last half hour or whatever is under 40 mph.

New York minutes only, sorry