Crafted for the gritty, supernatural landscape of Netflix’s anime adaptation of Trese, Paagi anchors the series’ official soundtrack as a pop work rooted in the Philippines’ most influential independent music community, brought to life by UDD, the electronic act formerly known as Up Dharma Down. The trio, composed of Paul Yap, Carlos Tañada, and Ean Mayor, has spent years cementing their status as one of Manila’s most boundary-pushing acts, earning high-profile industry acclaim that has pushed their work far beyond Southeast Asia’s regional music circuit. Mark Coles of BBC Radio once dubbed UDD “the Manila band most likely to cross over to the lucrative Anglophone market of North America,” a prediction that has aligned with the project’s streaming success, which has racked up over 300 million streams on Spotify to date.