Minecraft - Volume Beta
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| Minecraft - Volume Beta
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| AKA | Minecraft Volume Beta |
| Release date | 2013-11-09 |
| Genre | Ambient, Dark Ambient, IDM (Intelligent Dance Music, Minimal Techno, Orchestral |
| Running time | 2:20:49 |
| Bandcamp | $7 or more |
| Apple Music/iTunes | $9.99 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
| Google Play Music | $9.99 |
 | This article is missing trivia. The basic details are all here, but if you know some fun facts on these tracks, you should add them. |
Minecraft - Volume Beta is an album by C418 released in 2013 containing the songs that were added to Minecraft during its Beta period of development. Like Minecraft - Volume Alpha, not every track is used within Minecraft.
To date it is C418's longest album, at nearly 2 hours and 21 minutes in length.
Official descriptions
The second official soundtrack of Minecraft. 140 minutes in length and extremely varied.Featuring the all-new creative mode, menu tunes, the horrors of the nether, the end's odd and misleading soothing ambiance and all the missing record discs from the game!
It's my longest album ever, and I hope you'll love the amount of work I crammed into it.
This is the second part to the official soundtrack to the most popular video game in recent history. Critics like to compare the style of my album to Erik Satie, Roedelius, and Brian Eno. Aphex Twin also once said I stole his style.
The big difference of Volume Beta is that the tone is both more positive and at times very dark. Some of the songs even have percussion, which is something that was a complete rarity with Volume Alpha. For example Taswell or Aria Math.
A bunch of the songs are VERY long.
Alpha, being 10 minutes, while “The End” clocks in at 15 minutes. And a lot of the “creative mode” songs are at least around 8 minutes in length.
Additionally, this soundtrack contains the collectible records, which are little vinyl songs you can find in Minecraft, the game. With the exception of Cat. That song you can find on the previous soundtrack, Volume Alpha.
I released this album in late 2013 when I was about to be doing a gig in Mexico. Every time I think about this album, I get nostalgic about Mexico and how wildly different it is from the life I know from Germany or Canada. Though now that I think about it, I feel like Volume Alpha might be a love record to Europe, while Beta is dedicated to America and Asia. This might sound like gibberish to you, but to me it’s kind of a personal internalized opinion.
—C418
Tracks
Ki
Ki, like Key, on the previous album is an introduction to the album. But this time it’s not quiet, somber and welcoming, but dark and foreboding.—C418
Alpha
| Ki | |
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| Length | 1:32 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Alpha is a medley of past songs. It acts as the score that plays when you “beat” Minecraft, but it also acts as a celebration of past music from Volume Alpha.—C418
Trivia
- Alpha was nominated as "The best C418 song of all times".
Dead Voxel
| Alpha | |
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| Length | 10:03 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Blind Spots
| Dead Voxel | |
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| Length | 4:56 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Blind Spots is the first song I wrote with the clear intention of having a unique soundtrack for Minecraft’s “creative mode”. I tried to create a piece that doesn’t particularly change much, but keeps reiterating on itself, like a constant remixing of its core theme. As the piece ends, it becomes very melancholic and solemn, but quickly returns to being positive. Things end, but that’s not bad.—C418
Flake
| Blind Spots | |
|---|---|
| Length | 5:32 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Moog City 2
| Flake | |
|---|---|
| Length | 2:50 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Moog City 2 is a recreation of Moog City from Minecraft Alpha. However this time I actually did use Moog synthesisers, along a lot of other synths that I acquired over the course of making this album.—C418
Concrete Halls
| Moog City 2 | |
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| Length | 3:00 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Biome Fest
| Concrete Halls | |
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| Length | 4:14 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Biome Fest is a song that I created when Minecraft Alpha was done, but I felt it had no place anywhere in the game, until the creative mode was sort of reintroduced to the game. It’s one of my favourite songs I’ve ever created. I do love minimalism and achieving tones with just very few notes, and I think this song does that extremely well.—C418
Trivia
- Biome Fest track on Bandcamp has a link to a YouTube video called "Minecraft Biome Test".
- Biome Fest appeared on C418's other album, 148 as a remixed version of the song.
Mutation
| Biome Fest | |
|---|---|
| Length | 6:18 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Haunt Muskie
| Mutation | |
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| Length | 3:05 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Haunt Muskie, if I remember correctly, an anagram for Hatsune Miku. Not entirely sure why anymore, but there you go. This song is very nostalgic for me, and I didn’t expect anyone to like it but just me. It turns out it is a little bit popular though. There was this fairly old video game I used to like. Some game where you solve puzzles of broken rollercoasters you have to fix. The music wasn’t particularly good, but the emotion it carried was something I always remembered. Haunt Muskie is what I remember that music to be.—C418
Warmth
| Haunt Muskie | |
|---|---|
| Length | 6:01 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Warmth plays in the game’s hell. Or as it is called in Minecraft, “Nether”. This song tries to play with the idea that even hell isn’t all bad, and there’s good things to be found. But it’s still a very harsh environment.—C418
Floating Trees
| Warmth | |
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| Length | 3:59 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Aria Math
| Floating Trees | |
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| Length | 4:04 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Aria Math is a song full of Pan Drums and old synthesisers rhythmically dancing to ping pong delays. It’s also one of the creative mode songs. I wrote it with the beauty of the more extreme creations in Minecraft. Gigantic statues, entire cities, paintings, people, all recreated in this game. It’s awe inspiring, and that’s what I wanted to kind of symbolise. Not sure if I succeeded?—C418
Trivia
- Aria Math appeared on C418's other album, 148 as a remixed version of the song.
Kyoto
| Aria Math | |
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| Length | 5:10 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Ballad of The Cats
| Kyoto | |
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| Length | 4:09 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Taswell
| Ballad of The Cats | |
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| Length | 4:35 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
Taswell is a farewell to a friend I only met for a little bit, but they passed away faster than anyone could have imagined. It was shocking, but I didn’t want to remember them for their death, but the happiness they showed every day of their life.—C418
Trivia
- The track title refers to Ryan "Taswell" Davis, founder of the video game website Giant Bomb. Davis passed away un
| Taswell | |
|---|---|
| Length | 8:35 |
| Bandcamp | $1 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |