If you have ever argued with friends about whether Daft Punk counts as house or French touch, there is now a board game that lets you settle it at the table. Track Quest, a new Kickstarter from Barcelona-based music education organisation Aulart, turns six decades of electronic music history into a competitive timeline game where knowing your Kraftwerk from your Krautrock actually matters.
Players take turns placing tracks onto a chronological timeline using audio clips and hint cards. Your opponents, meanwhile, can mute your hints, steal cards, and trigger "panic timers" to throw you off. It is part music quiz, part hand management, and part sabotage, which sounds like a recipe for exactly the kind of chaos that makes game night memorable.
The game covers a sprawling range of genres, from disco and Krautrock through to house, techno, drum and bass, dubstep, trance, and even newer sounds like hyperpop, Afro-house, and IDM. Track Quest also includes 200 expansion cards that let players customise the experience by picking their favourite sub-genres and building what Aulart calls a "mix-like playlist." So if your group lives and breathes minimal techno, you can make that your entire game.
Aulart is better known as a music education platform, which gives them serious credibility when it comes to the musical content. Whether this translates into a slick tabletop experience remains to be seen, but the concept is fresh enough to stand out in a crowdfunding landscape dominated by fantasy and sci-fi themes. The campaign is live now on Kickstarter. If your game nights already have a soundtrack, Track Quest might be the next logical step.
Sources: DJ Mag | Kickstarter
