Chechnya reportedly bans all music outside of 80 - 116 BPM
This new restrictions will forbid vast amounts of pop music as well as dance genres such as techno, which typically exceed the 120 BPM mark.
Chechnya has reportedly banned all music outside of the 80 - 116 BPM range, effectively forbidding techno and other dance music genres from the Russian republic.
As Sky News reports, the region's culture ministry released a statement last week demanding that "all musical, vocal and choreographic works should correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute".
According to the Moscow Times, the leader of the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has ordered that all music in the republic must "conform to the Chechen mentality" and neither be too fast or too slow. Chechen Culture Minister Musa Dadayev Dadayev reportedly said that "borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible".
The ban in the region was reportedly announced following a meeting between the republic's ministry and local and regional artists. This new restrictions will forbid vast amounts of pop music as well as dance genres such as techno, which typically exceed the 120 BPM mark.
Artists reportedly have until 1st June to "rewrite" any music that doesn't fulfil the new tempo range otherwise it won't be allowed for public performance.
In 2017 and 2019, Chechnya’s conservative law enforcement and security officials carried out what Human Rights Watch described as "anti-gay purges", which resulted in the killings of at least two people and the beating and alleged torture of over 100 more due to their perceived sexual orientation.
