Add up to five stems and you’ll have created a full song, perfectly in sync and, often, good enough to save to the game’s memory to be played back later. It’s a very neat system - the NFC chipped cards respond to being placed on the board near-instantly and, brilliantly, the game always knows which card is on top of a stack, meaning you don’t need to remove stems to place new ones. Add another card, and the two stems play together, automatically matching their key and tempo. Put them into one of the game board’s five slots, and a Bluetooth-connected device with the free DropMix app will start playing that stem. Jackson’, the drums from ‘It’s Tricky’, or the strings from ‘Call Me Maybe’. Every DropMix card is the “stem” of a song - say, the vocals from ‘Ms. Part-game, part-DJ deck, this Harmonix-Hasbro mixed media experiment is completely unique, and an absolute joy for anyone even vaguely interested in music - which makes it sad to say that a few questionable decisions in how to release the game dampen its appeal. Putting cards down onto a DropMix board is as close to magic as I’ve felt with a game for quite some time.
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