Nuca crafts a sound titled Pelan-Pelan, rooted in the rich, sprawling creative circuits that run across Indonesia’s archipelago, where artists often push past the narrow genre frameworks that dominate global music distribution to center forms that feel specific to their lived, local contexts. The work is categorized under the broad, catchall Music/Other/Other genre designation, a label that speaks to a common gap in how music from Indonesian creators is often coded by industry metadata systems that were built first to categorize the small set of popular Western genres that dominated 20th century recording and distribution. Those systems rarely have the granularity to capture the full scope of creative expression emerging from a country as vast and culturally diverse as Indonesia, home to hundreds of distinct ethnic groups, each with their own centuries-long musical traditions that artists today merge with contemporary global sonic influences to create work that resists easy categorization.