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Raim Laode is the credited creator of the Indonesian sound Sang Badut, a work categorized as Music/Other, a classification that serves a critical purpose in global music catalogs by holding creative audio works that do not align with the narrow, often rigid set of genre labels that structure most mainstream spaces for recorded sound. The Music/Other category is far from an afterthought or a generic holding space for uncategorizable oddities; it is a necessary framework that centers the vast diversity of global musical creation, pushing back against the Western-centric origins of most standard genre labels, which were developed primarily to categorize 20th century popular and classical works from Europe and North America, and which fail to account for the thousands of distinct musical traditions, innovations, and fusions that emerge from every other region of the world.
