C418 - Minecraft: Alpha + Beta [2xCassette]

Release Date: 6/13/2025
Label: Ghostly International

Minecraft is a dreamscape, a limitless world where anything is possible. Minecraft is a tool, a means of bringing the imagination to life. Minecraft is a community, a platform on which inventive minds of all ages can share their creations and ideas. Minecraft, of course, is also a game, the most popular and best-selling video game of all time. Created in 2009 by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson, this cultural phenomenon speaks volumes of our current zeitgeist's love for virtual spaces, but it's unprecedented success couldn't be pinned on one factor alone. Countless layers of thoughtful artistry flow through Minecraft's singular experience, not the least of which is it's transportive soundtrack by C418, the project of German composer and musician Daniel Rosenfeld. Minecraft Volume Alpha, the first installment of a two-part OST, helped breathe life into the game's voxel-based universe. Upon release, fans and critics were universally enamored with C418's beatless, nuanced electronic pieces. Popular gaming site Kotaku named it among The Best Game Music of 2011, calling the music "remarkably soothing." The Guardian compared Rosenfeld's delicate piano and sparse ambient motifs to legendary artists Erik Satie and Brian Eno. Polygon distilled Volume Alpha to it's essence: "It's not bound by the retro aesthetic of Minecraft's graphics. It transcends them. The album is an attempt to uplift the combined game/music experience into the sublime."

Tracklist

1. Minecraft Volume Alpha
2. Key
3. Door
4. Subwoofer Lullaby
5. Death
6. Living Mice
7. Moog City
8. Haggstrom
9. Minecraft
10. Oxygene
11. Equinoxe
12. Mice On Venus
13. Dry Hands
14. Wet Hands
15. Clark
16. Chris
17. Thirteen
18. Excuse
19. Sweden
20. Cat
21. Dog
22. Danny
23. Beginning
24. Droopy Likes Ricochet
25. Droopy Likes Your Face
26. Minecraft Volume Beta
27. Ki
28. Alpha
29. Blind Spots
30. Mutation
31. Biome Fest
32. Aria Math
33. Taswell
34. Beginning 2
35. Moog City
36. The End
37. Kyoto
38. Chirp
39. Mellohi
40. Stal
41. Eleven
42. Far
43. Intro