The $200 title: The $200 Groovebox That Saved Me From Vegas

I’m stuck in Vegas for an extra day by myself. Totally miserable and bored. I debated bringing my Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II and, oh my loins, am I glad I did. This thing is so much fun. So entertaining. You can go round and round on it for hours. It’s got such groove. It is absolutely the spiritual successor to the old cash-register-looking Akai MPC3000 style MPCs. Don’t ever get one of those, by the way. They’re nothing but trouble unless you actually enjoy replacing floppy drives and troubleshooting old garbagy electronics instead of making music. The KOs are cheap and cheerful. What’s funny about Teenage Engineering is people yell at them for simultaneously being too expensive and too cheap and “making toys.” Given their product range, it’s ridiculous. Why can’t people just be happy? That being said, these things are like $200 on Marketplace, and you should go buy one today. They really do act like the old MPCs if you’re interested in old-school house music where you’ve…