It is very difficult to pigeonhole design and tech company Teenage Engineering. One minute it is making a choir of wooden dolls, created to serenade the listener with a repertoire of choral classics, and on the other it is working with Ikea to produce stylish, multi-use LED lighting and cute Bluetooth speakers.
Hailing from Sweden but often using kanji as its alphabet of choice, the slightly madcap but infinitely lovable company has just taken the wraps off its latest portable sampler, sequencer and composer in the form of the EP–133 K.O. II. And it looks very much like my next musical impulse buy to follow up the company's OB-4 radio, which is one of my favorite possessions.
