Over the past year, GameGrooves Music has released 9 albums and 100 tracks, featured over 200 artists, created over 6 hours of music, and generated over $300 for charity.

Pixel Mixers, the prolific community behind dozens of VGM cover albums, have released Sunrise and Moonfall An Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask Tribute Album.

While GameGrooves has evolved beyond what I initially envisioned, I still wanted a simple way to convey a style of music before the listener even pressed play. Enter the Elements.

For this article, I caught up with five musicians (TorbyBrand, 2 Players for Life, RichGC, Justin Thornburgh, and Fredrik Häthén) to ask about their experience with the Pixel Mixers/GameGrooves charity album Heroes.

One week ago, GameGrooves and Pixel Mixers released Heroes, a special album raising money for Child's Play Charity. Now, you can enjoy the entire album on YouTube.

While you might not recognize Valkyrie Profile 1 or 2, you’ve probably heard of the composer, Motoi Sakuraba, who composed for the Dark Souls and Star Ocean series among others.

It takes a special kind of person who can organize a community album. Today, I talk with one of those special people, Dewey Newt, who coordinated his first community album, Mavericks of Destruction: A Mega Man X Tribute Album for Pixel Mixers.

Hashel is a man that wears many hats—arranger, producer, fan, community leader. Most likely, you know him as the fearless leader of Pixel Mixers, but whatever the case, you know that he has passion for video game music and the community that surrounds it.