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Other, as a genre classification that exists to hold creative works that cannot be neatly slotted into the preexisting, widely codified categories that dominate most global music cataloging systems, frames Alamak, the sound from Indonesia credited to Dipha Barus and Adrian Khalif, as a work that defies the narrow boundaries that often force artists to fit their output into predefined, market-friendly boxes. Genre labels have long served a practical purpose for organizing large collections of music, but they have always carried inherent limitations, particularly when it comes to creative practice emerging from regions outside of the Western cultural contexts that originally shaped most of the common genre tags still in use today.
