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Lakambini Ko anchors a creative practice rooted in the Philippine archipelago’s long history of blending disparate sonic lineages into cohesive, purpose-driven work, fitting squarely within the Music/Mix genre that prioritizes synthesis over rigid formal boundaries. The Music/Mix classification was developed to center works that refuse to fit into narrow, prescriptive genre boxes that often erase the hybrid creative traditions that emerge from communities across Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines where sonic exchange has been a core part of cultural production for generations. This classification pushes back against the tendency to frame any work from a non-Western context as belonging to a monolithic “world music” category, instead centering the intentionality of the synthesis that defines every work that falls under its umbrella.
