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The practice of categorizing recorded sound that defies easy alignment with singular, rigid genre frameworks has long been a core part of cataloging Indonesia’s sprawling, multivalent creative music scenes, where sonic traditions and experimental impulses weave together to create works that slip between established labels to craft something entirely unplaceable in narrow taxonomic lines. Kedanan, the sound recording at the center of this note, is one such work, a piece that emerges from the deep well of Indonesian creative output that draws from so many overlapping sonic traditions, regional influences, and experimental approaches that it can only be accurately grouped under the broad, inclusive Music/Mix classification, a category designed specifically to hold works that cannot be contained by the limited boundaries of single-genre tagging.
