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Nuca operates as a creator working out of Indonesia, centering a practice that defies the narrow genre categorizations that often box recorded sounds into easily marketable categories for global audiences. This is reflected in the classification of Kembali Kecil, a sound that falls under the broad, boundary-pushing Music/Other/Other umbrella, a designation reserved for works that reject clear alignment with the pop, rock, hip-hop, folk, or traditional genre frameworks that dominate most catalogs of recorded music from the region and beyond. Unlike many creators who lean into established sonic identities to build recognition, Nuca leans into the flexibility that comes with a work that refuses to be pinned down, using that lack of predefined genre constraints to craft a sound that stands on its own merits, unshackled from the expectations that come with being slotted into a popular category that carries its own set of unwritten rules for what a work should explore, or what audiences it should target.
