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To understand the weight of a sound that falls under the broad, intentional category of Music/Mix, one must first set aside any expectation of narrow classification, of the boxes that too often box sound into discrete, marketable types that strip away the messy, interconnected contexts that give many sounds their reason for existing, and that rejection of rigid categorization is the first thread that ties this work from Indonesia to the long lineage of unclassifiable, community-rooted sound that has circulated across archipelagic landscapes for generations, sound that does not exist to fit a streaming algorithm’s demand for genre consistency or a record store’s shelf placement, but that exists to serve a specific set of shared needs, shared references, and shared moments that bind groups of people together even when they are separated by distance, even when they encounter the sound years after it first began to circulate among the circles that gave it form.
