"Sons of a silent age/Stand on platforms blank looks and note books," sings David Bowie, in a 1977 quasi precognition of the contemporary OP-1, engineered as it is for silent, nomadic musicians.

This is Teenage Engineering’s amazing OP-Z, a tiny, TV-remote-size synthesizer and sequencer that has no screen, and yet manages to pack in a range of features that make users of “real” music hardware ...