Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: a fun, powerful, and expensive instrument
Teenage Engineering is a design firm as much as it is a musical instrument company. Its devices rarely look or behave anything like what you’d buy from a Korg or a Moog. The best distillation of its identity remains the OP-1, a quirky groovebox that garnered as much attention for
The Attention Alchemists: crafting gold from social engineering
We live in a world where a new breed of alchemist has emerged. These modern-day sorcerers aren’t toiling over bubbling cauldrons or searching for the philosopher’s stone. Instead, they’re mining the most valuable resource of our age: human attention. The world of social engineering isn’t just about exploiting people for
Teenage Engineering teases the tape recorder of my dreams, only it’s digital
The kooky geniuses at Teenage Engineering are back with a new gadget that is guaranteed to make you salivate until its price tag smacks you back to reality. The maker of drool-worthy synthesizers just announced the TP-7, a teeny portable recorder that features a “motorized tape reel” that spins as
