How did Pixel Mixers become associated with the r/VGCovers subreddit?

Back in the days when the albums and contests on Gametabs were still doing well, we were joined by Ro Panuganti who participated in our Zelda and our Boss Battle albums in 2015, and also in some contests.

During this time, he created the VGCovers subreddit and offered to also share the contests and albums there. However, due to the issues mentioned previously, the website had to close (temporarily). That’s when Ro offered us shelter on the VGCovers subreddit so we wouldn’t have to stop our activities. We moved the gametabs crew, the contests, and also the freshly-started FFVIII Tribute Album project to Reddit.

As it made no sense to keep on calling ourselves and our projects “gametabs”, we voted for a new name, and that’s how we went from Gametabs to Pixel Mixers.

How has Pixel Mixers grown over the last few years?

We went from a bunch of buddies to a 500+ people community in 4 years. I’m more than happy about it and am still amazed to see people joining our projects just for the love of making VGM Covers. I still don’t fully realize it sometimes, and it’s not always easy for me to switch to a more “professional” attitude than before, but I’m trying to improve and also share more responsibilities with others.

This year Ben (Bullicann) has been in charge of the Contests (previously, it was Subversiveasset), and I can now count on other people to organize (Dewey Newt with MMX) or co-organize (Bullicann with our future Zelda MM+OoT) albums.

I think it’s for the best, and I hope to keep going in that direction. They all did a great job with those responsibilities, and I’m really thankful that they agreed to help.

Who created the website for Pixel Mixers?

Me, with the help of a friend to set it up at first (cause I’m a noob). Now, I’m dealing with all the album-related articles and with how the website looks. Also, Kain White writes the monthly articles to highlight the top 5 most-upvoted covers from the VGCovers subreddit, and Danilo Ciaffi writes articles about the original albums from some of our members and articles about where to find to cool freebie VSTs.

What are some of your favorite PM albums?

I’m a Nobuo Uematsu and Mitsuda fan boy, so all our FF albums and our XenoGears album are amongst my favourites. If I had to pick my favourite, I’d say FFIX, mostly because of the source.

Now, if you ask me which one has the best production in general, I’d say our Ecco the Dolphin one. The album is very coherent in terms of quality from song to song, and I hope we manage to keep on slowly raising the bar.