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The collaborative pairing of Oncho FLash and Diva Aurel, two creators based in Indonesia whose work converges in the sound titled Dendang Minang Timur, produces a piece that resists placement within any of the music industry’s standard genre categories, reflected in its triple classification of other, other, other that positions it outside of the narrow buckets most often used to organize and market musical works. For creators working across Indonesia’s vast, culturally diverse archipelago, the space to create work that doesn’t fit into pre-existing genre boxes is not an anomaly, but a reflection of the depth and breadth of creative practice that emerges from the hundreds of distinct ethnic, linguistic, and cultural communities that call the nation home.
