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The framework of TulusCompany situates Manusia Kuat, an Indonesian sound rooted in the archipelago’s long, diverse history of creative cross-pollination that informs so many of the works emerging from the country’s vibrant, constantly evolving creative scenes. Because Manusia Kuat draws from such a wide range of stylistic, cultural, and structural reference points that it cannot be sorted into any of the standardized genre buckets that organize most music collections, it falls under the broad, inclusive classification of Music/Other/Other, a designation that signals work that resists easy categorization, that defies the expectations of what a sound from a specific region or creative lineage is supposed to be, that prioritizes creative autonomy over the need to fit into preexisting boxes that make cataloging and consumption simpler for mainstream audiences.
