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To encounter a Mix that emerges from the Philippines is to step into a sonic space that refuses to be boxed into the narrow boundaries that often define recorded sound, one that pulls at the threads of every influence that has touched the archipelago’s creative communities to form something that feels entirely of its moment, unmoored from any expectation of what a recording from the region should sound like. Mixes as a form exist to reject categorization, to hold the messy, interconnected, often contradictory layers of creative expression that don’t fit neatly into preordained genre boxes, and this work, titled Burnout, carries that ethos in every layer of its construction, refusing to lean on any single established mode of sound-making to communicate its core, instead weaving together a range of sonic textures that feel both rooted in the specific context of the creative circles that spawned it while speaking to the universal strain of experience that the title alone brings to the surface.
