Cloud NI9E is a Japanese producer who released his debut album in 2014. He collaborated with local and Western underground artists such as Cise Starr, Justin Murta, and Pumpkin. His production style involves using juicy keyboard samples and sometimes adding expressive brass instruments. Cloud NI9E believes that alternative music should be beautiful and easy to perceive. This post is part of a series on jazz, soul, and hip-hop artists who create music that is not only influenced by these genres but also has a fifty-fifty balance between them.