Side note: I've been rather tired lately, and to give you an idea just how tired, I spent a good five minutes trying to figure out what Akai meant by what I read as 'Tomorrow's S.O.U and N.D.S Today' in the top right corner of the ad-copy.

And, to put icing on the cake, I'm not even sure the hard-to-read squiggly ad-copy is even grammatically correct. The retro design, acrobats in leopard skin with Akai module racks for heads and those crazy hands playing the AX80 in the bottom right corner. And It all adds up to a stellar piece of work that keeps me chuckling.

Akai is obviously having fun with this ad - like they told the designer to just But those ads have nothing on this centrefold that appeared in the first ever issue of Sound On Sound magazine. Akai ME10D MIDI delay, ME20A MIDI arpeggiator and MM99 sound controller MIDI controlled effects 2-page advertisement from page 40 and 41 in Sound on Sound Magazine November 1985.Īkai had already been pushing musical gear for a while, especially the AX80.

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