The leisure principle: why dance music is slowing down

Slow-mo hip-hop, drugs and the state of the world have altered dance’s bpm Related: Rae Sremmurd’s Perplexing Pegasus: a Laser Quest codeine nightmare For years commercial dance music has been hyperactive, its standard beat per minute (bpm) – punctuated by the success of Calvin Harris et al – resting around 128. Influenced by slow-mo hip-hop acts such as Rae Sremmurd, a shift from MDMA to prescription pills, and the general state of the world, however, that beat rate is s