The Manila-based electronic trio UDD, formerly known as Up Dharma Down, has spent their career refining a sound that weaves together local Filipino creative roots with the broad, borderless appeal of global pop and electronic music, a throughline that defines every release they put forward, including the Filipino pop recording Pag Agos. Composed of members Paul Yap, Carlos Tañada, and Ean Mayor, the band earned early critical acclaim that set them apart from their peers, when BBC Radio’s Mark Coles named them “the Manila band most likely to cross over to the lucrative Anglophone market of North America” — a prediction that has been borne out by years of growing commercial and cultural success that extends far beyond their home country. To date, the band has racked up more than 300 million streams on Spotify, a metric that reflects the wide cross-cultural resonance of their work, which has drawn consistent comparisons to some of the most influential names in modern electronic pop.