Growing up in the slums of Davao City in the southern Philippines, Sherwin Calumpang Tuna found an early love for music and movement, becoming a DJ and choreographer by high school. What started as small sets in his community transformed over time as he turned to producing his own tracks with a distinct twist, bringing life to a new style to life: budots. Rooted in his love for both music and choreography, this high-octane dance genre marries thick bass with playful sounds - vibrant collages of synthetic beats, jeepney horns, sirens, and whistles that thump at 140 BPM, igniting a fun and carefree vibe.

On his Eastern Margins album Budots World (Reloaded), Tuna expands the genre’s boundaries even further, blending styles from bounce to techno and trap as well as the hard-edged budots mutation bomb-tek. Eschewing traditional song structure, verse and chorus are abandoned in favour of repetitive vocal samples and slapstick humor along with sounds from the local environment, embedding Davao’s natural energy and quirks within productions in a celebration of joy and community mischief.