German court declares techno is music

German Federal Finance Court (Bundesfinanzhof) has made two new decisions that declare techno is music and the DJ is a musician, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports. Entrance fees for techno and house concerts are tax-reduced to 7% from earlier 19%. According to the second decision, turntables, mixing consoles and CD players can also count as instruments, at least if they are “used to perform the piece of music and not just to play a sound carrier", and also to "perform their own new pieces of music by using instruments in the broader sense to create sequences of sounds with their own character”.