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Bukan Aku emerges as a sound work rooted in Indonesia’s vast, interconnected creative landscape, its classification as Music/Mix reflecting a longstanding commitment within the country’s artistic communities to centering fluidity over rigid categorization. This genre tag was not created arbitrarily; it grew out of a decades-long push among Indonesian creators to carve out space for works that cannot be neatly contained by the narrow, siloed genre labels that long dominated mainstream music ecosystems across the country. Long before the Music/Mix category became a widely recognized classification, creators across Indonesia’s archipelago found themselves constrained by labels that forced their work to fit into pre-existing boxes, ignoring the vast range of cultural, stylistic, and regional influences that shaped most experimental and cross-traditional work.
