Hiribae started out as a trumpet player in his school orchestra which left it's mark on his sonic direction. With airy synthesizers and smooth brass riffs, Hiribae crafts wistful soulful compositions, often sampling classic jazz standards and adding background crackle for that vintage touch. As a teenager, Hiribae spent hours listening to his dad’s jazz collection, discovering the likes of Afro-Cuban jazz pianist Omar Sosa but later got introduced to electronic music via an mp4 player he was given as a gift. Meeting the rest of the EA Wave crew was the final nudge for this producer to bridge his love of classical, jazz, and electronica.