Excursions

Excursions
Release date	2018-09-07
Genre	Ambient, Dance, Downtempo, EDM, Electronica, House, IDM, New Age
Running time	1:19:10
Bandcamp	$8 or more

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Excursions is an upcoming C418 major, full-length album. It will be released on September 7, 2018. The album is one of C418's first to receive significant press coverage across sites such as Billboard, Fact, and Variety.

Official Descriptions

This new project, Excursions, has been a trip down my own memory lane before Minecraft, when I aspired to create music I could hear on a commute to dance to. I’ve tried a few weird tricks for the entire record. For one, I’ve recorded the entire finished product through speakers to give it a roomy feel. Or, the mindset I’ve tried to have making each song. I started with 'Beton' as my first song, and then tried to recreate this very song over and over again, but in different locations and with wildly different mood sets. Angry, sad or happy. Turns out that creates completely different songs.

—C418, press release from Billboard

Tracklist

Excursions

Excursions
Length	5:47
Bandcamp	[1]

Cold Summer

Cold Summer
Length	8:10
Bandcamp	[2]

TXL

TXL
Length	2:18
Bandcamp	[3]

Trivia

• In June 2017, over a year before Excursions, the tracks Cold Summer and TXL were released on C418's Soundcloud as a single track called Six.
• The track name "TXL" also refers to Berlin Tegel Airport.

Tingle

Tingle
Length	6:40
Bandcamp	[4]

Trivia

• C418 collaborated with the musician Jukio Kallio on this track.

Beton

Beton
Length	7:48
Bandcamp	[5]

Trivia

• Beton was the first song created in this album, and was used to recreate all the other songs on the entire album, as stated by C418 himself:

I started with 'Beton' as my first song, and then tried to recreate this very song over and over again, but in different locations and with wildly different mood sets. Angry, sad or happy. Turns out that creates completely different songs."

—C418

• The song was released as a single on July 19, 2018.
• C418 uploaded the song to his YouTube channel the same day.

AMS

AMS
Length	2:38
Bandcamp	[6]

Trivia

• The track name "AMS" also refers to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Thunderbird

Thunderbird
Length	13:27
Bandcamp	[7]

Trivia

• At over 13 minutes in length, Thunderbird is the longest track of Excursions.
• The song was released as a single on August 21, 2018.
• С418 uploaded the song to his YouTube channel a day before.

Aviva

Aviva
Length	3:17
Bandcamp	[8]

Figure 8

Figure 8
Length	8:57
Bandcamp	[9]

Fake Triplets

Fake Triplets
Length	8:02
Bandcamp	[10]

Nest

Nest
Length	8:22
Bandcamp	[11]

Home

Home
Length	3:44
Bandcamp	[12]

Album trivia

• The album cover for Excursions features the same yellow border used for the Dief album cover, but the border is slightly thinner than Dief's
• An early version of Excursions containing unfinalized tracks was released on 12 July 2018 due to a clerical error.
  • Excursions first appeared on most platforms on 4 June 2018, available for pre-order with a scheduled release date of 13 July 2018. The pre-order never received any acknowledgement from C418, and within a few days the album had disappeared. On 12 July 2018 the album released on Spotify, Google Play, and a few other platforms, still receiving no acknowledgement from C418. Within a day the album had been taken down, and C418 revealed it had been released by mistake due to a clerical error. The album later was re-revealed amid press coverage and official statements from C418 on 19 July 2018, with its final release date set to 7 September 2018.