Earl Agustin, the credited artist behind the sound Minamahal, anchors this regional music note in the creative landscape of the Philippines, the country that forms the core contextual frame for this entry as part of a people-first archive of sound work from around the world. This approach to cataloguing and presenting sound works prioritizes the clear, unfiltered attribution of every creation to its credited creator, pushing back against decades of archival practice that often erased individual artists when documenting sound from non-mainstream, regional, or Global South contexts. Too often, sound works originating from countries like the Philippines were lumped into broad, oversimplified categories that stripped creators of their individual identity, reducing their unique output to a generic marker of “cultural sound” rather than centering the specific artist who dedicated time, skill, and creative vision to bringing that work into existence.