Akai MPC Live II | Reaper Tee

A collaboration with Akai: the MPC Live II, in red.

Akai is a Japanese electronics company, founded in Tokyo in 1929 by Masukichi Akai.

Its MPC, first made in 1988 with Roger Linn, became a basic tool of hip-hop production; J Dilla’s MPC3000 is now in the Smithsonian.

A collaboration with Sean Cliver: the Grim Reaper.

Sean Cliver was born in Wisconsin in 1969.
In 1989 he became an in-house artist at Powell-Peralta, and went on to draw graphics for many other skateboard companies.

He wrote Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art.
He worked at Big Brother magazine and went on to write and produce for Jackass.