About this Song
The decision to create a dedicated Music/Mix category for sonic works originating in the Philippines emerged from years of work by the catalogue’s curatorial team to address the limitations of standard genre classification, which has long failed to capture the full breadth and complexity of creative practice across the archipelago. For decades, global music catalogs forced Philippine sonic works into narrow, often stereotypical silos, separating traditional forms from experimental work, regional practices from those developed in urban centers, and works that blended multiple influences into ill-fitting categories that erased the context of their creation. The Music/Mix designation upends that history, creating a space for works that draw from any combination of cultural, sonic, and creative lineages rooted in the Philippines, without forcing creators to shrink their work to meet external expectations of what a Philippine sound should be.
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