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Tracks
Key
opens
key is the song that sort of introduces you to the album, whereas door is a little bit of a small medley that welcomes you to the world of Minecraft.
—C418
Connections
Door
Welcome!
Subwoofer Lullaby
Imagine a forest with a subwoofer on overdrive...
Subwoofer Lullaby is a song I named that way because I always imagine a big speaker somewhere far far in a forest blasting this odd little melody.
—C418
Connections
Death
Totally worth it though
Living Mice
Yes, I mean you.
Living Mice, or the opposite would be deadmau5, hah. Joel did help me a bit with making this album, so there’s that reference.
—C418
Moog City
Imagine that!
Moog City is a fun track. Moog actually contacted me on it, telling me how much they liked it. I’m glad they never found out I actually didn’t make it with a Moog device. I kinda created this song because I ordered a Moog, but I didn’t have it yet.
—C418
Connections
Haggstorm
MHG MHG MHG
Minecraft
The very first and last song.
Minecraft is by far the most minimalist song and also the first song I created for the game. It’s purely pentatonic in scale, builds up very slowly, and then slowly fades away. This is kind of what I built the entire soundtrack around on.
—C418
Connections
- Technically predated by its first remix, Minecraft is acid, though this track made its first appearance in a video on 2009-06-07 testing sound in the game Minecraft. The version shown is Classic 0.0.14a_08, from 2009-05-28.
- It also made an early and very brief appearance in a 2010 preview of the Minecraft soundtrack.
- Remixed on this album as Beginning.
- The theme also appears on this album in Door and Chris.
- Remixed on Minecraft - Volume Beta as part of Alpha and The End.
- It was also remixed directly there as Mutation.
- Remixed by extension in Beginning 2.
- The theme also appears towards the end of Far.
Oxygène
Accidental reference obviously.
“Oxygène” and “Équinoxe” are naturally references to Jean Michel Jarre.
—C418
Équinoxe
No reference in here!
“Oxygène” and “Équinoxe” are naturally references to Jean Michel Jarre.
—C418
Mice on Venus
Or mars.
Mice on Venus, or Mouse on Mars. MOM is a definite inspiration for me, and this album directly. It’s a highly experimental German musician duo that has been super active in the late 90’s and early 2000’s and I obsessed over their work. The song started as a piano solo, but as game development went on, I added a kind of, uh, addendum to it. A little cheeky piece that kind of says, Minecraft is also quite silly.
—C418
Dry Hands
Yep!
Wet Hands
And cold too.
Clark
<3
Chris
He likes it.
Thirteen
No human was harmed in the making of this recording.
Thirteen is a creepy little record you can find in Minecraft. I always wanted the player to find it somewhere deep within a cave, because it’s being played by a device, creating a creepy atmosphere. But it turns out it’s just a creepy song being played. We never actually did that in the game though.
—C418
Excuse
...
Excuse was originally intended to be a song for Minecraft’s hell world, the “Nether”. However when I started creating this album, I wanted it to be more than just carbon copies of what’s in the game. I wanted to give people more. So I ultimately decided that Excuse would be one of several exclusive songs only to be found on this record.
—C418
Sweden
Wonderful country
Sweden is by far the most popular song, and I think it’s because of it’s very minimalistic chord progression that you can follow very easily. It is also based on the principle the song Minecraft is built on. Slow buildup, slowly fading away.
—C418
Cat
You know what they say - curiosity killed the cat.
Cat is a whimsical little track. People seem to like it a lot! I don’t know why!
—C418
Dog
I don't know about dogs though...
Danny
All his fault
Trivia
- The song was named after Danny Baranowsky.
Beginning
All his fault
Beginning because the end is always just the beginning. And with Minecraft, now we do know that this is not the last album and there is more to discover. That’s why I named it that.
—C418
Trivia
Droopy likes ricochet
Featured in the video on minecraft.net
Droopy Likes Ricochet and
Droopy Likes your Face are both songs from
life changing moments seem minor in pictures. It’s a song I haven’t created for anything in particular, but the first Droopy song ended up in the first official Minecraft game trailer. I get a lot of questions on what Droopy says. To be fair, I don’t know. It’s a sample library that you receive if you buy Kontakt. As far as I know, it’s a toy you could buy in the 80’s or 90’s which says random phrases about itself.
—C418
Droopy likes your face
Not featured in the video on minecraft.net but nontheless completes the song
Vinyl tracks
The vinyl version has a different tracklist to the main release due to limitations of the format.
Side A
- Subwoofer Lullaby
- Living Mice
- Moog City
- Haggstrom
- Minecraft
- Clark
Side B
- Mice on Venus
- Dry Hands
- Wet Hands
- Sweden
- Cat
- Danny
