TJ Monterde, an artist hailing from the Philippines, contributes the sound Ikaw At Ako to the growing archive of recorded work from creators across the Southeast Asian archipelago, a recording that carries the full context of its origin tied to the artist’s practice, even as it defies the narrow genre categorizations that many mainstream cataloguing systems rely on to group and frame recorded music. Within this catalogue, Ikaw At Ako is classified with the genre marker of Other across three categorical layers, a designation that reflects that the work does not fit neatly into any pre-existing genre buckets that would otherwise group it alongside sounds that share more widely recognized sonic, structural, or cultural markers.