it fills me with an "epic journey" kind of thing just to see how far one can push minecraft before they literally cant go farther. I have seen people with MASSIVE worlds just look up dataless822 or ethoslab those people are heroes and legends in my heart
Gabriel Maisonet C418's track titles usually don't make sense, it's almost like he takes random words going through his mind and just goes with them. It doesn't get more ambiguous than "droopy likes your face".
+chatoyantreflex the names, if you think about it, do make sense. ki is the sequel song to key, because in a way ki does sound like key if you say it a certain way. the background is the same for both pieces. droopy likes your face is droopy saying 'DrOoPy LiKeZ YoUr FaCe' like whoever's singing it is on crack.
I think he picks them sort of randomly too, but I think they do make sense. Maybe just not to us. He always puts hidden messages in there somewhere and let's your imagination do the rest.
I think I know what he means. Since Daniel, the artist, is german, Ki is probably a direct reference to Key. In german, "Ki" would be pronounced exactly like english speakers pronounce "Key". So therefor it's actually the same...
I like "The End" starting with an Overworld theme, cracling and popping, slowly distorting and turning into more haunted version. Then the playback "fails" and turns into quite dark ambient. I love that...
I NEVER mute the soundtrack in Minecraft. ----- You put down that brick you just crafted after hours of work. Finally, the road to your castle is finished. A worthy place to live! Now to go inside and bestow upon your work. ...And suddenly the soundtrack plays. Beautiful. This makes Minecraft pretty fucking magical.
Donnerbalken yeah I don't get it but my friend says he always plays with music of I don't get it it makes the game so much better and it kinda feels boring when it's off
I find it amazing how Minecraft seems to always know exactly when it should play a song, and what song to play. When I go into a cave, a creepy song usually begins to play. When I find something awesome, that creepy song becomes a completely different exciting tune. You'll begin building some huge castle, and creative music will play which helps you build a better looking castle. You finally place the last block of it and look up at what you've created, and the music becomes happy, as though you've accomplished something amazing (Which you have. ). Like... HOW DOES IT KNOW?!?!?!? It's perfect!!!
Our minds adapt to fit to a situation we want to "think" music for most people affects mood and emotions; we change the music in our mind to fit an emotion we desire equalling a great feeling and a damn good game :)
Well, it's either just your imagination perceiving a regular song as exciting/eerie or it's specifically coded into the game. Looking at the sound files you'll notice some of those songs are named like "creative1.ogg" so it's entirely possible that it's coded specifically.
Grammar Nazi Yeah... it's actually our imagination, believe it or not! Minecraft is just coded to play a random song at sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight in game-time. It's not coded, from what I'm aware at least, to play songs on an occasion. But it's still uncanny how it always seems to know just what it should play, huh?
Couple of things: 1) I love that "The End" is in the middle of the album. :) 2) This music makes the game. I thought Minecraft was a simplistic kids game until my son bought it for Xbox 360 and brought it to my house. I was absolutely gobsmacked by the beauty of the music, and now I listen to it all the time. It's ideal for when I'm designing and need something beautiful to listen to that doesn't require my undivided attention. 3) This winter I took an odd job delivering flyers, and did all of my delivering at night. My route covered roughly 30 city blocks. It was snowy (Minnesota is always snowy in winter), and this album was the perfect soundtrack as I walked along the frosted sidewalks, especially "The End," "Flake," and "Haunt Muskie." It turned an average urban neighbourhood into a beautiful, snow-encrusted dreamland.
Can't agree more. The nice thing about video game music is that it was designed to provide stimulating background that keeps you going without messing with your concentration too much - especially the nice, slow, ambient ones. There's some good work in here. And I do believe that putting "the Intro" at the end is a deliberate choice. Wonder what its meaning is.
Totally! I'm a digital designer, and I listen to this stuff all the time when I'm working. I always feel like I'm exploring space when I listen to this.
This album caresses the tender parts of my soul that is left untouched by the hatred of man and reserved only for the pureness of music itself. Thank you.
Idc that the music is part of a game, I just love electronic music, this kind of is, Well it has an electronic feel to it, And Your point is 100% true :33
I somewhat miss the Alpha music, but at the same time, how can I not like this music? C418 is creating better and better music for Minecraft, and he deserves so many props, because in my mid, he is what brings it all together.... Minecraft would not be the same without your art C418, so thank you.
@@juanvazquez5836 Key, Subwoofer Lullaby, Haggstrom, Minecraft, Oxygene, Sweden, Clark, Danny, Wet Hands, Dry Hands, Living Mice and Mice on Venus play during gameplay. 11 and 13 are disks. The other Alpha music is album-exclusive
The End is so sad, but beautiful. It makes me feel nostalgic about the time I spent playing the game with friends. The echoed melodies playing in the background really makes it like an old memory, that you are trying to remember really hard. C418 was the best choice as an artist to make this game come to life.
When I hear Alpha (and you might want to follow along slowly with the music), I think of two young travelers settling down in a forest on top of a cliff that has a beautiful view of the sunset. One day, the young man has to leave his wife for a while to find something. He is reluctant to leave and he knows that she will miss him, and that he may not ever come back. He leaves... But soon after, as he is marching along, he can't help but think about her. He looks back, of course she isn't there, but... He can't help but feel like she's calling to him. She is! And as they reunite, they promise they will never leave eachother, no matter what. So they grab their horses and go on an adventure...together. The day is ending, and our two travelers sit down and admire the night sky... The journey has many perils... But they rode along...never turning back. And so...they ride along...the story of these travelers was completely made up from my imagination...just like most everything is in minecraft...just made up...into something beautiful...
To me, I see myself, or any other player back in the alpha stages who hears of Minecraft from someone and tries it out. At first it's a mysterious and vast world, that first world you created and you're just alone with a world all for yourself. The first small steps, the era of dirt houses and taking several days before you came across your first ores of iron. Then it ramps up when you're getting more and more in the hang of it, you follow through every update, you browse around on forums, you amass a whole network of friends, become a regular on your favorite servers. You can create skins, you have comprehension on handling various tools, start trying out mods or even create any yourself. You realize you've become a part of Minecraft, part of the whole long road up to this day and counting. Then when it tones down, it represents the stages when(or if) you just don't play as much no more, and you can reflect back on your memories of the grand adventure you had following this game from it's roots. I, myself, am proud to have been part of that journey.
When I heard Alpha I sorta thought about the sort of trailer for Sid Meier's Civ 5 and expanding too see the world and becoming more advanced until they went to space and to ALPHA Centauri (Closest Galaxy to ours)
My Top 5 Favorite Songs off of the album. 1. Taswell 2. Blind Spots 3. Dreiton 4. Aria Math 5. Ki As you can tell I build a lot in creative as 3 of these tracks play when you're in creative mode
Mine would be… 1. Taswell (Let’s go we have the same favorite!!) 2. Dreiton 3. The End 4. Alpha 5. Dead Voxel Also I play creative mode often too because I was never that great at survival and Blind Spots was the first one I remember hearing. It’s actually playing as I’m writing this.
24:43 Moog City 2... Reminds me of... The days of when I'd hop on the 360 and greet my friends in our favorite city survival world, The days of us goofing around The days of no worry The days I'd rush my homework to escape into this blocky world The days of greeting my dogs and walking around my worlds The days of being afraid of mobs The days of... my childhood, Thank you Minecraft...
People say the reason Minecraft sucks is because of the updates. In reality what you are nostalgic about is your FIRST experience in Minecraft. That time you almost died at night, or that time you had to runaway from skeletons kicking your a**. But now you have learned everything about the game. You are no longer a noob, you can now do things better, faster. You now know how to kill skeletons or avoid creepers. This is what you are missing, the times you were a noob. Switching to an older version isn't going to help.
Dead Voxel is definitely the best because it's so deep, dark, and lost. Whenever I hear it I feel emotionless and empty, almost like I am in the Nether. I love the emptiness of most of these songs and the piano, truly beautiful. The End is also iconic because of the glitch sounds and the almost dead feeling to it. I love Minecraft and C418 is amazing.
That soul moment when you first started the game up in alpha and heard the sound of minecraft music while you played... You just cant forget that feeling of longing for and epic Qwest and building to your harts content. :)
So I am in love with #19 "The End" as many of you are, but specifically between 1:36:54 and 1:39:00. That kinda "void feeling part" Does anyone have song suggestions for me? I need more!!!
Taswell is a song that after its tone switch becomes so happy and bubbly that I genuinely can’t help but feel uplifted by it. A song that makes me feel so hopeful for the future and happy for the past and yet not a word is uttered in it. Truly masterpiece material in this volume.
The feeling that this music gives me is like no other; I almost stop myself and call it art instead. It is indeed like a beautiful mural, one that would fit alongside the marvelous wonders of nature. The shining sunset, the drizzling rain, the swaying forest. All of the wonders of Nature are nearly unmatched in magnificence, but we have come astonishingly close to matching their beauty. In poetry. In art. In music, such as this. I don't love many things, but I love, and I do mean love, the Soundtracks produced by C418. They are simply unbelievable.
When I listen to Ki and the last part of Alpha, I feel so small in this huge cosmos. I feel like I am laying on a field in the middle of the night, with all the stars and the whole galaxy in front of my eyes. I feel like floating through time and space, realizing how meaningless so many of our worries are.
I'm a composer, and I just can't figure out what makes this music so magical. There really is nothing out there like this. I think the music is what transforms the game, I don't know how people play without it. Also, if I could favorite all of these comments I would. We're all a unique group of people who love this music.
chirp sounds like the song that would play during a really shenaniganny end of a serious and dramatic game. like at the end of the last of us you just find out that joel is secretly an eggplant and ellie is a catgirl in some really obscure anime.
It’s someone scratching a record. Fun fact: The 1.16 sounds were made mostly with a balloon, if you don’t watch Minecraft’s TH-cam channel for updates.
I just want to say THANK YOU for having an awesome put together soundtrack. I've been listening to this all semester when im doing homework. It reminds me of someone dear to me, which also helps keep me going.
ALPHA (1:33) I see the player you mean. ((insert player’s name here))? Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts. That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are part of the game. I like this player. It played well. It did not give up. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen. That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game. Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen. They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons. What did this player dream? This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter. Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen? It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. It cannot read that thought. No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game. Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind? Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes. But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality. To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere. Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear. It reads our thoughts. Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely **??§§ and **??§§, I wish to tell them that they are **??§§ in the **??§§. They see so little of reality, in their long dream. And yet they play the game. But it would be so easy to tell them... Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living. I will not tell the player how to live. The player is growing restless. I will tell the player a story. But not the truth. No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance. Give it a body, again. Yes. Player… Use its name. ((insert player’s name here)). Player of games. Good. Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change. We are the universe. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a player. The player was you, ((insert player’s name here)). Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away. Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience. Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story. Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third. Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen. Let’s go back. The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body. And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother’s body, into the long dream. And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love. You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love. Let’s go further back. The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player’s body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by… Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks “electrons” and “protons”. Sometimes it called them “planets” and “stars”. Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen. You are the player, reading words… Shush… Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breath faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive You. You. You are alive. and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player’s eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream and the universe said I love you and the universe said you have played the game well and the universe said everything you need is within you and the universe said you are stronger than you know and the universe said you are the daylight and the universe said you are the night and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you and the universe said the light you seek is within you and the universe said you are not alone and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code and the universe said I love you because you are love. And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up.
After all these years, the one that strikes me the most out of this album is Intro. 2:14:56 This passionate, heart felt and soul displacing melody that pulls you into listening and humming along, feelings of pain, hurt, loss, but also feelings of reminiscences, nostalgia, and times since past, like a Minecraft world you've long since stopped playing and have left in an outdated version to never be updated again, but that story having finished and a new chapter being played out around it in adjacent worlds. I feel the song dares you to remember, the dog you left in that house, how many details you can remember yet it's the simple things you forget, like where you placed your house, why you put it there, how you felt at that time. I have a Minecraft world that I started all the way back in Alpha, I had my father then, he wasn't a good man but he was still My dad, I remember trying to learn red stone and how to use pistons when I got a call that made me drop everything, his last voice mail on my phone is all I thought I had left, but I remembered that world, I copied it and updated it, I realized as I walked past all the things I made stood out a, rather cappily made structure, I remember showing my dad Minecraft and I asked him to build something, this song makes me think of that very moment I saw it again, even after all these years later it hurt more than anything, to remember such an innocent and happy moment of my dad, I later deleted that updated version of the world, and now the old un-updated version sits quietly in my backups. Minecraft was able to give me something incredible back, something I didn't know I needed to see or feel, something, someone, I lost a very long time ago...
Oh my god... these are all absolutely gorgeous, I especially love the tranquility yet determination the Alpha songs bring. It is as though I am in eternal peace, though there is the occasional challenge which arises which is an inevitable encumbrance, yet at the same time it steams in some sort of motivation to continue building, one block at a time.
i think one reason i adore minecraft music is because of its lack of lyrics. it lets you chisel your own story into the songs you hear, without the inaccuracies of someone else’s words over top of the melody most lyrical songs regarding experiences (love, happiness, depression, etc) have their own specific story that the artist incorporated, and even though the song may be good, it doesn’t match the listener’s story exactly perfect. but when you listen to a song without lyrics, you can imagine it exactly to your own story. It lets the music impact you way more… and i find that beautiful
* salty rant incoming * Unfortunately for humanity, the developers at Mojang have decided to, instead of refining the building and creative aspects of the game, focus on PvP and fighting. With the upcoming 1.9 Combat Update and the various mechanics already in-game, we might as well rename Minecraft to "AdventureCombat." Whereas before, in your words, players can "be God," we're devolving to the squabbling mortals we've always been.
+Jonathan Estevam Who dat fuck is this Alex guy? I played this game right from the start and only stopped in 1.7.2 beta though, they put what was basically a mod into Minecraft....
My favorite is Blind Spots. So beautiful. I love the piano in it. I actually fist heard it while I was building an underwater city out of Nether Quartz... It was like Atlantis, and it just clicked perfectly.
It’s because it’s not officially in the game except on console in the holiday mash up pack where you also get flake, but yeah it’s extremely underrated.
I love this soundtrack so much. Like this album is more for the "adventurer who's goal is to beat the ender dragon" and the Alpha volume is more for the builders who like to play on creative.
This is what I see: - I see Zombies and Villagers at play, - I see Iron and Snow Golems having fun, -I see the sheep, wolves, rabbits, and skeletons at their best enjoyment, -I see creepers and ocelots hugging, -I see Dragons, Withers, and Guardians playing, synchronizing their sounds together, -I see Parrots and Bats flying together, -I see Shulkers and Endermen helping each other, -I see Zombie Pigmen and Wither Skeletons racing, -I see Cows and Pigs and chickens grazing in the distance, -I see the leaves, grass, flowers, and the water moving, -I see the sky turning purple, and both the Sun and Moon meet in the middle, -I see the Ghasts and Blazes flying happily together, -I see Slimes and Magma Cubes hopping and jumping around, -I see dirt, stone, wood and sand, even clouds came to join in, -I see Players and Witches playing together, -I see... Peace and happiness, and with a tear in my eye, I'm not afraid to say, I am too...
FYI to the people who are searching around Minecraft to listen to these awesome music; A quiet place in the nether (such as above the bedrocks) will provide you with some of the creepy musics. Also, Minecraft musics usually start playing at sun rise and sun set. Hope this helps! -Pak
Alpha, it really is like alpha. At one point, people only knew Alpha as the way Minecraft played. Of course Beta rolled by, and every one's jaws hit the floor. Minecraft wasn't as simple, it wasn't as gorgeously tiny any more. Minecraft became big, and it didn't stop growing. Like a child it changed, and it became something new. Something grand and wonderful. Something that's walked along side a lot of us. Alpha feels like it has two moods. One where every one was happy, and content with Alpha, but when Beta came by it was a whole new experience, things people had never seen before, never even dreamed of doing were possible. Most everything changed, and people had to find that Minecraft was still that warm little kindling of a fire it always has been. The record begins, and people listen. But the record ends, and it is time to flip. People are unsure, and people fear that what they once enjoyed may be too different. But what they find is just as beautiful as what it once was. (Something like that.)
Everybody here is complaining about the new Minecraft being bad and how it's not original. Well you guys are just nostalgia blind. If they didn't add anything past alpha then everybody would be bitching about how they need to add more stuff to the game, and everybody would vote the game down, complaining about how they are running out of ideas. Now I do agree, something's that were added were unnecessary, but when Notch added Lapis nobody was complaining about how it needed a purpose, they kept on playing for the pure fun about it, because the thrill of imagination is better than finding a purpose for everything. And some people say that they want Minecraft to just be like Alpha, and not have as many "confusing" biomes. Well what if I told you this, what is more fun. Standing around in a plain with nothing to explore, or stand around in a world, with everything to explore. It seems simple to explain. Take my example on this way, if you had to live in a world with nothing interesting added in, would you have fun, or would you not?
Honestly, the only major change that made Minecraft lose its magic for me was the land generation past beta 1.8. I can deal with wings, llamas, and a new End fight/biome (I do like most of the new stuff), but when the land generation is consistently boring to traverse and to build on, I draw the line. Thankfully the relatively recent preset feature can bring back the old beta terrain into modern Minecraft. Old generation + newest version is the way I’ve been playing for a while and I’m loving it.
I’ve been playing since 2015 and I think it has improved. I’m not from 2010 or anything, but adding new mobs, biomes and physics is definitely interesting. Minecraft has to progress more, and if it didn’t, the game would be even less popular than now
While my experience was with the Pocket Edition(now Bedrock Edition) I understand the nostalgia. Sometimes I long for the days when I built 16-story wooden skyscrapers... and sometimes I'm just happy with what we have.
@@StarShade0i don't have much to add to the topic, i just wanted to say that the look and feel of the world generations is one of the things that i miss the most. also, remember when you had to truly secure your house so you could sleep? or when mobs like creepers and skeletons could dodge attacks? or when ores were more rare but a lot more rewarding to find? i want those back. i never played on large multiplayer servers in b1.7.3 back when i knew the game, because i never had a chance to buy a copy of it (and in October 2010 it will be a decade since i first heard of this game), and i still can't (hopefully it will change before then), but i really wish to play in the large city servers that i have heard of, where everyone just contributed to each other peacefully and where interacting that way could feel more personal. i still hope that Mojang can still put the game back at the top by managing to bring back the feelings for the game that most people here had back in Beta. the point where the game lost its shine is blurry though, but i still think that it is possible to pull that off... ..if not, i still look forward to playing Blockscape someday, that game is growing slowly but steadily, and it's beautiful. thank you for reading my rambling i guess
Wilker I do miss those things too. Enemies are a joke a lot of the time, except when the game spawns packs of them at a time in a quantity > quality fashion (seriously, the AI feels more simple, but they gang up so quickly). Ores I don’t think lost their value because of the updates per say, but because the players like you and I have just gotten better and spelunking. When was the last time you explored without a water bucket for instance? I can’t comment on the big servers because I’ve never liked them, especially now that they’re all minigame hubs. I’ve always wished there was a small community city server out there too, but I never found one and I just stood with single player. I don’t know if Mojang will address much concerning that core feeling with how these updates favor new stuff, but I too hope they do something. I just don’t know what.
There's something notable on all of C418's works, not just the Minecraft soundtrack. I'm not sure how best to describe it. It almost has a certain posture to it, a pride that has become melancholy after some humbling event, we have no clue what, but it's beautiful.
The game has been out for 10 years and listening to this brought it all back. Thank you.This music is not only great, but the memories attached carry something unexplained, but truly powerful and changing. Nothing can replace Minecraft. Nothing.
That transition isn't in the actual album tho. This one's edited, so props to whoever uploaded this. The original "The End" ends with a distorted fragment of the main Minecraft theme in a loop, before cutting off in complete silence
how is no one talking about the masterpiece that is intro? the loneliness encoded in every bits of this piece?? hello??? it slaps like a fucking spatula
I love this game so much.. I've had it since the Alpha days on computer. The first night I bought this game I was on it for 14 hours STRAIGHT. You could say I had an addiction. This game speaks to me on so many levels and I've invested SO much of my time into it. I'm so thankful for this game. This soundtrack just makes me so happy. Thank you for creating this. *Thumbs up*
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E = mc 2
Excellence = Moog City 2
Very nice!
Thank you Einstein, very cool!
Or... Minecraft 2? Are they planning to add a new mc? Pls don't!
I get it
@@funstufflove4226 They actually are making it. It's called Minecraft Dungeons :)
I really like Alpha. It's got this victorious sound to it but a state of depression/ loneliness as minecraft music intends to have.
That is how I feel too GeneralBleedGaming!
somesh28 Alpha's my favorite, too. It sounds so emotional ^-^
somesh28 You. Your picture. That is the image I think of when I think of Alpha,
Blarg. Thinking of a different song >.< nvm
it fills me with an "epic journey" kind of thing just to see how far one can push minecraft before they literally cant go farther. I have seen people with MASSIVE worlds just look up dataless822 or ethoslab those people are heroes and legends in my heart
i don't listen to aria math, i experience it
I used to fly through the air over the ocean and land while in Creative mode while listening to this. It was otherworldly.
Five years uh, This music is so much more nostalgic now
"aria math" sounds more like the name of a font than the name of a music track
@@deidara_8598 lmao
@@havik1864 it no longer just feels like nostalgia, it smells like nostalgia
First track of Volume Alpha; Key
First track of Volume Beta; Ki
But why
Gabriel Maisonet C418's track titles usually don't make sense, it's almost like he takes random words going through his mind and just goes with them. It doesn't get more ambiguous than "droopy likes your face".
Lol aphex twin is what comes to mind for me..
+chatoyantreflex the names, if you think about it, do make sense. ki is the sequel song to key, because in a way ki does sound like key if you say it a certain way. the background is the same for both pieces. droopy likes your face is droopy saying 'DrOoPy LiKeZ YoUr FaCe' like whoever's singing it is on crack.
I think he picks them sort of randomly too, but I think they do make sense. Maybe just not to us. He always puts hidden messages in there somewhere and let's your imagination do the rest.
I think I know what he means. Since Daniel, the artist, is german, Ki is probably a direct reference to Key. In german, "Ki" would be pronounced exactly like english speakers pronounce "Key". So therefor it's actually the same...
I like "The End" starting with an Overworld theme, cracling and popping, slowly distorting and turning into more haunted version. Then the playback "fails" and turns into quite dark ambient. I love that...
So good, almost like Minecraft's version of "The Caretaker's An Empty Bliss Beyond This World" equally beautiful and unsettling
@@arthurfleck629 you mean everywhere at the end of time right? that's actually a really good comparison
Right? I just heard this while I was playing and had no idea what song it was. Enjoyable expierence
You need to listen to Sheet Music Boss's version of The End. Epic
yeah it starts with volume alpha 8
I NEVER mute the soundtrack in Minecraft.
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You put down that brick you just crafted after hours of work. Finally, the road to your castle is finished. A worthy place to live! Now to go inside and bestow upon your work.
...And suddenly the soundtrack plays. Beautiful.
This makes Minecraft pretty fucking magical.
Donnerbalken yeah I don't get it but my friend says he always plays with music of I don't get it it makes the game so much better and it kinda feels boring when it's off
you just turn it off and put on this instead... the in-game music never plays
I only played Minecraft during the alpha album, but this album is simply amazing
i do mute the soundtrack, only because it doesn't always play, therefore i just put this vid on
@@thedutchderp7319 haha solid work-around
The best part is from 0:00 to 2:19:34
i agree!!!!
Totally! :D My favorite part is at 2:19:34
Andrew Hanawa That means you hate the album, I love it!
somesh28 Well, not exactly. I was just playing along. Plus, it means that you loved the whole thing all the way through.
Agreement level > 9.0 x 10³ !!!!!
IT'S OVER NEIN THOUSAAAANDS
I find it amazing how Minecraft seems to always know exactly when it should play a song, and what song to play. When I go into a cave, a creepy song usually begins to play. When I find something awesome, that creepy song becomes a completely different exciting tune. You'll begin building some huge castle, and creative music will play which helps you build a better looking castle. You finally place the last block of it and look up at what you've created, and the music becomes happy, as though you've accomplished something amazing (Which you have. ).
Like... HOW DOES IT KNOW?!?!?!? It's perfect!!!
Our minds adapt to fit to a situation we want to "think" music for most people affects mood and emotions; we change the music in our mind to fit an emotion we desire equalling a great feeling and a damn good game :)
Well, it's either just your imagination perceiving a regular song as exciting/eerie or it's specifically coded into the game. Looking at the sound files you'll notice some of those songs are named like "creative1.ogg" so it's entirely possible that it's coded specifically.
Grammar Nazi Only a few songs are coded to be played at a specific times. THe Nether tracks, The End, Title, and creative
Grammar Nazi Yeah... it's actually our imagination, believe it or not! Minecraft is just coded to play a random song at sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight in game-time. It's not coded, from what I'm aware at least, to play songs on an occasion.
But it's still uncanny how it always seems to know just what it should play, huh?
Radfordhound Minecraft becoming self-aware?
Intro makes me want to cry
Yeah it does sound sad
@@fuzzycrafter9793 Probably because it's the end of the album. Or C418 doesn't want you to leave yet.
Sounds like Sigur Ros' Untitled songs.
It is one of my favorites
Couple of things:
1) I love that "The End" is in the middle of the album. :)
2) This music makes the game. I thought Minecraft was a simplistic kids game until my son bought it for Xbox 360 and brought it to my house. I was absolutely gobsmacked by the beauty of the music, and now I listen to it all the time. It's ideal for when I'm designing and need something beautiful to listen to that doesn't require my undivided attention.
3) This winter I took an odd job delivering flyers, and did all of my delivering at night. My route covered roughly 30 city blocks. It was snowy (Minnesota is always snowy in winter), and this album was the perfect soundtrack as I walked along the frosted sidewalks, especially "The End," "Flake," and "Haunt Muskie." It turned an average urban neighbourhood into a beautiful, snow-encrusted dreamland.
also the fact that "the intro" is at the end!
i think 'The End' is a reference to the end, the dimension in minecraft
Can't agree more. The nice thing about video game music is that it was designed to provide stimulating background that keeps you going without messing with your concentration too much - especially the nice, slow, ambient ones. There's some good work in here. And I do believe that putting "the Intro" at the end is a deliberate choice. Wonder what its meaning is.
Totally! I'm a digital designer, and I listen to this stuff all the time when I'm working. I always feel like I'm exploring space when I listen to this.
I always listen to Minecraft music while doing homework because it keeps me focused.
This album caresses the tender parts of my soul that is left untouched by the hatred of man and reserved only for the pureness of music itself. Thank you.
I hope you don't mind if I agree with you with the entirety of my being.
Not at all.
Idc that the music is part of a game, I just love electronic music, this kind of is, Well it has an electronic feel to it, And Your point is 100% true :33
thank you
I still prefer Daft Punk though :3333333
I haven't added a video to my favorites in like 2 years
this video has broken that record
You ain't the only one, mate.
I'm with u man
MasterOfParadox ani't means are not so basically you said I are not with you
***** If "ain't" means "are not" think about it, "You ain't the only only mate." "You (replace ain't) are not the only one mate."
***** -_-
This is the only 2 hour+ video I've been able to watch until the end. Just finished it now and I feel enlightened. Merry Christmas everyone :)
6 years ah
@@havik1864 I don't even remember leaving this comment. Shit I still play Minecraft though
Yes merry christmas
Merry Christmas one day late sorry
haha 7 years and 2 days after this comment.
0:01- 2:19:34 was amazing, and beyond words.
Indeed!
0:00 - 2:19:34 *
The first second of the video, meh
Oh, so the first second wasn't as good?
Yeah, I hated the first second though, terrible
Kyoto should be the song that plays when you die in Hardcore mode and you are spectating your world
EDIT: Song is at 1:00:30
That.. Would actually be very fitting.
i think it should be intro
moog city 2 is love
moog city 2 is life
Rip these accounts lost to the testment of time
man.
Moog city part of alpha: _everyhing
I somewhat miss the Alpha music, but at the same time, how can I not like this music? C418 is creating better and better music for Minecraft, and he deserves so many props, because in my mid, he is what brings it all together.... Minecraft would not be the same without your art C418, so thank you.
Some of the Alpha music is still there. Moog City still plays and a couple others that I forgot the nanes of.
I'm pretty sure Alpha music still plays. If I recall correctly you can still hear Minecraft, Sweden, Haggstrom, Moog City, Clark, etc
@@juanvazquez5836 Key, Subwoofer Lullaby, Haggstrom, Minecraft, Oxygene, Sweden, Clark, Danny, Wet Hands, Dry Hands, Living Mice and Mice on Venus play during gameplay. 11 and 13 are disks. The other Alpha music is album-exclusive
@@cookieguy9885 so all of the full songs are in the game but not stuff like door
6 years ago...damn
Every time you listen to Alpha, it gets better.
+Holden Everson Like Heisenberg would say:
"You're goddamn right!"
Agreed
Now, the problem is, why isn't it on console!
+mrboeingMC idk :
+Holden Everson Easily my favorite version of Alpha by C418, IMO.
I have no idea why I haven't seen a single comment complimenting End.It's one of the most come to-reality songs,I've ever heard.
Ikr
While that's partially true,you should listen to it fully.In the beginning it's exactly that,but by the end you've gone through a misty eye trip.
Listening to it now. It's awesome!
The End is so sad, but beautiful. It makes me feel nostalgic about the time I spent playing the game with friends. The echoed melodies playing in the background really makes it like an old memory, that you are trying to remember really hard. C418 was the best choice as an artist to make this game come to life.
I like The End.
When I hear Alpha (and you might want to follow along slowly with the music), I think of two young travelers settling down in a forest on top of a cliff that has a beautiful view of the sunset. One day, the young man has to leave his wife for a while to find something. He is reluctant to leave and he knows that she will miss him, and that he may not ever come back. He leaves... But soon after, as he is marching along, he can't help but think about her. He looks back, of course she isn't there, but... He can't help but feel like she's calling to him. She is! And as they reunite, they promise they will never leave eachother, no matter what. So they grab their horses and go on an adventure...together. The day is ending, and our two travelers sit down and admire the night sky... The journey has many perils... But they rode along...never turning back. And so...they ride along...the story of these travelers was completely made up from my imagination...just like most everything is in minecraft...just made up...into something beautiful...
I got the same reaction. Not exactly your reaction, but I thought of two friends going on an adventure to see the world.
:,)
i also make stories with the music!
To me, I see myself, or any other player back in the alpha stages who hears of Minecraft from someone and tries it out.
At first it's a mysterious and vast world, that first world you created and you're just alone with a world all for yourself. The first small steps, the era of dirt houses and taking several days before you came across your first ores of iron.
Then it ramps up when you're getting more and more in the hang of it, you follow through every update, you browse around on forums, you amass a whole network of friends, become a regular on your favorite servers. You can create skins, you have comprehension on handling various tools, start trying out mods or even create any yourself.
You realize you've become a part of Minecraft, part of the whole long road up to this day and counting.
Then when it tones down, it represents the stages when(or if) you just don't play as much no more, and you can reflect back on your memories of the grand adventure you had following this game from it's roots.
I, myself, am proud to have been part of that journey.
When I heard Alpha I sorta thought about the sort of trailer for Sid Meier's Civ 5 and expanding too see the world and becoming more advanced until they went to space and to ALPHA Centauri (Closest Galaxy to ours)
Click on the time :
01. 0:00 ~ Ki
02. 1:30 ~ Alpha
03. 11:27 ~ Dead Voxel
04. 16:20 ~ Blind Spots
05. 21:50 ~ Flake
06. 24:40 ~ Moog City 2
07. 27:40 ~ Concrete Halls
08. 31:53 ~ Biome Fest
09. 38:09 ~ Mutation
10. 41:14 ~ Haunt Muskie
11. 47:16 ~ Warmth
12. 51:16 ~ Floating Trees
13. 55:19 ~ Aria Math
14. 1:00:30 ~ Kyoto
15. 1:04:40 ~ Ballad Of The Cats
16. 1:09:16 ~ Taswell
17. 1:17:48 ~ Beginning 2
18. 1:20:44 ~ Dreiton
19. 1:28:49 ~ The END
20. 1:43:20 ~ Chirp
21. 1:46:26 ~ Wait
22. 1:50:21 ~ Mellohi
23. 1:51:59 ~ Stal (THAT'S MA JAM)
24. 1:54:30 ~ Strad
25. 1:57:40 ~ Eleven
26. 1:58:47 ~ Ward
27. 2:02:58 ~ Mall
28. 2:06:15 ~ Blocks
29. 2:11:58 ~ Far
30. 2:14:56 ~ Intro
Just if you are on your mobile phone
Hitjifox thank you I needed that
Updated TH-cam 2021 but this segregated method is still the OG.
Thank you!
But bro how is stal a jam it’s literally a recorder meets a jazz band and it’s terrible
@@treeman10 yeah
My Top 5 Favorite Songs off of the album.
1. Taswell
2. Blind Spots
3. Dreiton
4. Aria Math
5. Ki
As you can tell I build a lot in creative as 3 of these tracks play when you're in creative mode
Mine would be…
1. Taswell (Let’s go we have the same favorite!!)
2. Dreiton
3. The End
4. Alpha
5. Dead Voxel
Also I play creative mode often too because I was never that great at survival and Blind Spots was the first one I remember hearing. It’s actually playing as I’m writing this.
WE STAN TASWELL
imma keep on doing homework until this youtube video is finished!
then you will be doing homework for a while!
hey at least it will get done... unlike my science fair project i rushed to get done today that's due on Dec. 3...
Honors Geometry FTW. :P
lol
How'd you read my mind?
24:43 Moog City 2...
Reminds me of...
The days of when I'd hop on the 360 and greet my friends in our favorite city survival world,
The days of us goofing around
The days of no worry
The days I'd rush my homework to escape into this blocky world
The days of greeting my dogs and walking around my worlds
The days of being afraid of mobs
The days of... my childhood, Thank you Minecraft...
bro... T_T
Alpha is so magical
IKR
yes
Yea, I don't like beta music
yes they are
David Sinca yeah I think that's what he meant
These are great tracks, c418 has vastly improved and I like how he still keeps the same style as volume alpha:)
Listening to this while watching it snowing outside, best moment oDo
good idea!!, ill have to try that thx :3
I actually often think of it snowing outside when listening to minecraft sountracks. 2011 was the good old days
it doesnt snow here rip
Legend has it this channel dies
Flake or Kyoto?
People say the reason Minecraft sucks is because of the updates. In reality what you are nostalgic about is your FIRST experience in Minecraft. That time you almost died at night, or that time you had to runaway from skeletons kicking your a**. But now you have learned everything about the game. You are no longer a noob, you can now do things better, faster. You now know how to kill skeletons or avoid creepers. This is what you are missing, the times you were a noob. Switching to an older version isn't going to help.
Oh this comment again!
+TBS Studios yhea i remember when i first started im not lying. I didnt know how to place blocks. Now i know basically everything in the game
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+TBS Studios ok... ill stop playing minecraft for a LONG time, then i might be a noob again! i think....
Oh the nostalgia of reading THIS kind of comment for the first time T_T
In the future I hope this is something that you’d pay to watch in a giant theatre hall and watch the people playing live perform
i'd pay so much to see that
Yes!!
Dead Voxel is definitely the best because it's so deep, dark, and lost. Whenever I hear it I feel emotionless and empty, almost like I am in the Nether. I love the emptiness of most of these songs and the piano, truly beautiful. The End is also iconic because of the glitch sounds and the almost dead feeling to it. I love Minecraft and C418 is amazing.
My 3rd fav great song overall
Exactly my thoughts. Dead Voxel is so underrated 😭. So is Beginning 2
@@josiee059 very true
01. 0:00 ~ Ki
02. 1:30 ~ Alpha
03. 11:27 ~ Dead Voxel
04. 16:20 ~ Blind Spots
05. 21:50 ~ Flake
06. 24:40 ~ Moog City 2
07. 27:40 ~ Concrete Halls
08. 31:53 ~ Biome Fest
09. 38:09 ~ Mutation
10. 41:14 ~ Haunt Muskie
11. 47:16 ~ Warmth
12. 51:16 ~ Floating Trees
13. 55:19 ~ Aria Math
14. 1:00:30 ~ Kyoto
15. 1:04:40 ~ Ballad Of The Cats
16. 1:09:16 ~ Taswell
17. 1:17:48 ~ Beginning 2
18. 1:20:44 ~ Dreiton
19. 1:28:49 ~ The END
20. 1:43:20 ~ Chirp
21. 1:46:26 ~ Wait
22. 1:50:21 ~ Mellohi
23. 1:51:59 ~ Stal (THAT'S MA JAM)
24. 1:54:30 ~ Strad
25. 1:57:40 ~ Eleven
26. 1:58:47 ~ Ward
27. 2:02:58 ~ Mall
28. 2:06:15 ~ Blocks
29. 2:11:58 ~ Far
30. 2:14:56 ~ Intro
Thx bruh
It's in the description
The End I isin’t so bad
That soul moment when you first started the game up in alpha and heard the sound of minecraft music while you played... You just cant forget that feeling of longing for and epic Qwest and building to your harts content. :)
So I am in love with #19 "The End" as many of you are, but specifically between 1:36:54 and 1:39:00. That kinda "void feeling part" Does anyone have song suggestions for me? I need more!!!
I don't even get nostalgia from this part. It just makes me cry its so beautiful.
Check out #10 (Tree) by Aphex Twin
Taswell is a song that after its tone switch becomes so happy and bubbly that I genuinely can’t help but feel uplifted by it. A song that makes me feel so hopeful for the future and happy for the past and yet not a word is uttered in it. Truly masterpiece material in this volume.
yeah taswell is so specific and the best of Minecraft soundrack
taswell is so underrated its been overshadowed by a lot of alpha songs
The end sounds really spooky with good headphones on
+Big Boi ikr
which one?
@@karmaindustrie
''The End''
@@novadotflac thax
@galaxeei probably I was trolling... 🤔
The feeling that this music gives me is like no other; I almost stop myself and call it art instead. It is indeed like a beautiful mural, one that would fit alongside the marvelous wonders of nature. The shining sunset, the drizzling rain, the swaying forest. All of the wonders of Nature are nearly unmatched in magnificence, but we have come astonishingly close to matching their beauty. In poetry. In art. In music, such as this. I don't love many things, but I love, and I do mean love, the Soundtracks produced by C418. They are simply unbelievable.
Music is an art, my friend.
One of the finer fine arts.
Valerie Willham Agreed..
@@valeriewillham7274 But some music could be less art than others? xD
c418 really makes me think about life and I cry
When I listen to Ki and the last part of Alpha, I feel so small in this huge cosmos. I feel like I am laying on a field in the middle of the night, with all the stars and the whole galaxy in front of my eyes. I feel like floating through time and space, realizing how meaningless so many of our worries are.
The first time I listened to Alpha, I literally cried. It's the only time a song ever made me do that. That's when you know it's quality.
same
Aside from fallen Kingdom, yeah it's the same for me.
I cried with intro
I'm a composer, and I just can't figure out what makes this music so magical. There really is nothing out there like this.
I think the music is what transforms the game, I don't know how people play without it.
Also, if I could favorite all of these comments I would. We're all a unique group of people who love this music.
chirp sounds like the song that would play during a really shenaniganny end of a serious and dramatic game. like at the end of the last of us you just find out that joel is secretly an eggplant and ellie is a catgirl in some really obscure anime.
and now you just spoiled the game for us...
lol
well makes sense no eggplants live for long
THE END always creeps me out when it distorts and messes up. When I was playing the game I was like wtf just happeneedd aiiiiyee
Yes, it tends to do that. Its like the game suddenly peed its pants when the Ender Dragon rushes at you.
Its my fav in all.. I like the part *Music* *Same sound spams* xD *Music* DDDDDDDDDDDD
DEEEE NAA NOO NO *crackly crackly crackly* yeah thats pretty creepy
It’s someone scratching a record.
Fun fact: The 1.16 sounds were made mostly with a balloon, if you don’t watch Minecraft’s TH-cam channel for updates.
GUYS LOOK WHAT I FOUND IT'S THE END BUT JUST THE SWEDEN PART: th-cam.com/video/Tifc2HKii-g/w-d-xo.html
God damn Alpha and Taswell are masterpieces.
Yes, Tawell is my fav
Twow
bro chill on the cussing but i agree otherwise
Moog City 2 is the song that used to play in Minecraft PS3 menu :)... Amazing memories made here years ago
Yes, as of 1.7.3 Mojang will add these new tracks into the game. ARE YOU GUYS READY?!
wow... it's now 1.14. time flies so quick
old comment... 5 years ago.. Damn.
I had hear moog city 2 it's awesome
It's been about a year since they added C418's new update aquatic music, and the third volume of the OST should be out within the next few months!!
@@lad2987 talk about it. ive been playing 1.16 snapshots!
I just want to say THANK YOU for having an awesome put together soundtrack. I've been listening to this all semester when im doing homework. It reminds me of someone dear to me, which also helps keep me going.
Dreiton is one of my favorites. It always keeps me going when I'm making something.
ALPHA (1:33)
I see the player you mean.
((insert player’s name here))?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts.
That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are part of the game.
I like this player. It played well. It did not give up.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen.
They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons.
What did this player dream?
This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter.
Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works.
But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen?
It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of
the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§.
It cannot read that thought.
No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game.
Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind?
Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes.
But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality.
To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere.
Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear.
It reads our thoughts.
Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely **??§§ and **??§§, I wish to tell them that they are **??§§ in the **??§§. They see so little of reality, in their long dream.
And yet they play the game.
But it would be so easy to tell them...
Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.
I will not tell the player how to live.
The player is growing restless.
I will tell the player a story.
But not the truth.
No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance.
Give it a body, again.
Yes. Player…
Use its name.
((insert player’s name here)). Player of games.
Good.
Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things.
Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change.
We are the universe. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.
Once upon a time, there was a player.
The player was you, ((insert player’s name here)).
Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story.
Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third.
Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen.
Let’s go back.
The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body.
And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother’s body, into the long dream.
And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love.
You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love.
Let’s go further back.
The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player’s body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by…
Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks “electrons” and “protons”.
Sometimes it called them “planets” and “stars”.
Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen.
You are the player, reading words…
Shush… Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breath faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive
You. You. You are alive.
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player’s eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again
and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream
and the universe said I love you
and the universe said you have played the game well
and the universe said everything you need is within you
and the universe said you are stronger than you know
and the universe said you are the daylight
and the universe said you are the night
and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you
and the universe said the light you seek is within you
and the universe said you are not alone
and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing
and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code
and the universe said I love you because you are love.
And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love.
You are the player.
Wake up.
I do not play mine craft anymore
I've moved
the nostalgia is gone
But this music......
it brings some of it back
Thank you C418
GODDAMMIT A TYPO
Emo-bama is unhappy
rip bro why leave@@somegirliguess645
After all these years, the one that strikes me the most out of this album is Intro. 2:14:56
This passionate, heart felt and soul displacing melody that pulls you into listening and humming along, feelings of pain, hurt, loss, but also feelings of reminiscences, nostalgia, and times since past, like a Minecraft world you've long since stopped playing and have left in an outdated version to never be updated again, but that story having finished and a new chapter being played out around it in adjacent worlds.
I feel the song dares you to remember, the dog you left in that house, how many details you can remember yet it's the simple things you forget, like where you placed your house, why you put it there, how you felt at that time.
I have a Minecraft world that I started all the way back in Alpha, I had my father then, he wasn't a good man but he was still My dad, I remember trying to learn red stone and how to use pistons when I got a call that made me drop everything, his last voice mail on my phone is all I thought I had left, but I remembered that world, I copied it and updated it, I realized as I walked past all the things I made stood out a, rather cappily made structure, I remember showing my dad Minecraft and I asked him to build something, this song makes me think of that very moment I saw it again, even after all these years later it hurt more than anything, to remember such an innocent and happy moment of my dad, I later deleted that updated version of the world, and now the old un-updated version sits quietly in my backups.
Minecraft was able to give me something incredible back, something I didn't know I needed to see or feel, something, someone, I lost a very long time ago...
i just love alpha, so much inspiration i just get hypnotised by that song, and i think of the old minecraft days, and how far it has come
This is like... Classical, rock,and electronic music fused into this massive saga of notes that is purely epic.
More like classical, ambient and electronic
Oh wow this comment is 8 years old
0:00 Ki
1:30 Credits
11:27 Nether 2
16:20 Creative 2
21:50 Flake
24:40 Menu 2
27:40 Nether 1
31:53 Creative 1
38:09 Menu 1
41:14 Creative 3
47:16 Nether 3
51:16 Menu 4
55:19 Creative 4
1:00:30 Kyoto
1:04:40 Nether 4
1:09:16 Creative 6
1:17:48 Menu 3
1:20:44 Creative 5
1:28:49 End
1:43:20 (Music Disc) 4
1:46:26 (Music Disc) 12
1:50:21 (Music Disc) 7
1:51:59 (Music Disc) 8
1:54:30 (Music Disc) 9
1:57:40 (Music Disc) 11
1:58:47 (Music Disc) 10
2:02:58 (Music Disc) 6
2:06:15 (Music Disc) 3
2:11:58 (Music Disc) 5
2:14:56 Intro
Yeah the arrangement choice is pretty interesting to say the least lol but it’s fine with me because they’re all awesome songs!!!
top 3:
3: Alpha
2: Aria Math
1: The End
These are my favorites only because they bring back the most nostalgia.
Good list :)
perhaps the greatest (voiceless) soundtrack to listen regardless what you're doing....doesn't it make you feel great? I KNOW IT DOES!!!!!!!!!!!
#16 Taswell is like heaven
I 💙 Taswell
+Isabella Jackson
thank you
im back again to listen one more time this wonderful song :D
From 1:13:00 its stuck in my head
My favorite C418 song and Minecraft song
The first two songs always make me feel emotional. It's just so goood, like words cannot describe how I feel everytime I listen to them
I like how, somewhat ironically yet perfectly placed, Intro plays as the last song in the playlist :)
I love this new album, I think it's so much better than the previous :D
7 years ago...
@@BlossomTreenade he wrote it 7 years ago dumbass
:)
@@StrafeCs2 ?????
Oh my god... these are all absolutely gorgeous, I especially love the tranquility yet determination the Alpha songs bring. It is as though I am in eternal peace, though there is the occasional challenge which arises which is an inevitable encumbrance, yet at the same time it steams in some sort of motivation to continue building, one block at a time.
Nicely put!
Like falling into lava, with all your sweet gear :(
i think one reason i adore minecraft music is because of its lack of lyrics. it lets you chisel your own story into the songs you hear, without the inaccuracies of someone else’s words over top of the melody
most lyrical songs regarding experiences (love, happiness, depression, etc) have their own specific story that the artist incorporated, and even though the song may be good, it doesn’t match the listener’s story exactly perfect.
but when you listen to a song without lyrics, you can imagine it exactly to your own story. It lets the music impact you way more… and i find that beautiful
You make a good point
Minecraft is a soundtrack that can make you calm but have a sense of urgency all at the same time.
@@take-a-guess250 You aren't supposed to ask that.
@@take-a-guess250 You know why.
Minecraft. The closest humanity will ever get to being God.
+Jonathan Estevam wtf ? Microsoft has - almost - nothing to do with Mojang man, developers are the same
* salty rant incoming *
Unfortunately for humanity, the developers at Mojang have decided to, instead of refining the building and creative aspects of the game, focus on PvP and fighting. With the upcoming 1.9 Combat Update and the various mechanics already in-game, we might as well rename Minecraft to "AdventureCombat." Whereas before, in your words, players can "be God," we're devolving to the squabbling mortals we've always been.
+Andy Li (Egg Roll) so true....
+Jonathan Estevam Who dat fuck is this Alex guy? I played this game right from the start and only stopped in 1.7.2 beta though, they put what was basically a mod into Minecraft....
I'M READY! BRING IT ON!!
My favourites - Volume Beta:
(Thank you C418)
Blind Spots
Dreiton
Biome Fest
Haunt Muskie
Aria Math
Taswell
Moog City 2
Beginning 2
Mutation
Floating Trees
Chirp
Wait
Nice! Those are some great songs
My favorite is Blind Spots. So beautiful. I love the piano in it. I actually fist heard it while I was building an underwater city out of Nether Quartz... It was like Atlantis, and it just clicked perfectly.
Alpha is a master piece. So much emotion built on one simple melody. Incredible.
I swear to god, Kyoto is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life
absolutely true, one of the best songs in the album, wondering why it is not as much popular
It’s because it’s not officially in the game except on console in the holiday mash up pack where you also get flake, but yeah it’s extremely underrated.
Happy 10 year anniversary to C418s volume beta.
the worst part is at 2:19:34
BluMango dude, that is how long the video is but I can’t blame you
Insert the "joke going over your head" gif
r/wooosh
I’ve always said that the music is what makes a game good or bad. I still hold true to this statement.
The End at 1:28:49 is awesome!!!!!!!!
I love this soundtrack so much. Like this album is more for the "adventurer who's goal is to beat the ender dragon" and the Alpha volume is more for the builders who like to play on creative.
what about the builders who like to play on survival?
guys, can we put the nostalgia to one side, and just appreciate the beautiful music?
24:40 hopping on the PS3 after school to play some minecraft with my friend I brought over
that hit me so hard
This is what I see:
- I see Zombies and Villagers at play,
- I see Iron and Snow Golems having fun,
-I see the sheep, wolves, rabbits, and skeletons at their best enjoyment,
-I see creepers and ocelots hugging,
-I see Dragons, Withers, and Guardians playing, synchronizing their sounds together,
-I see Parrots and Bats flying together,
-I see Shulkers and Endermen helping each other,
-I see Zombie Pigmen and Wither Skeletons racing,
-I see Cows and Pigs and chickens grazing in the distance,
-I see the leaves, grass, flowers, and the water moving,
-I see the sky turning purple, and both the Sun and Moon meet in the middle,
-I see the Ghasts and Blazes flying happily together,
-I see Slimes and Magma Cubes hopping and jumping around,
-I see dirt, stone, wood and sand, even clouds came to join in,
-I see Players and Witches playing together,
-I see... Peace and happiness, and with a tear in my eye, I'm not afraid to say, I am too...
well said, well said
FYI to the people who are searching around Minecraft to listen to these awesome music;
A quiet place in the nether (such as above the bedrocks) will provide you with some of the creepy musics. Also, Minecraft musics usually start playing at sun rise and sun set.
Hope this helps!
-Pak
Alpha, it really is like alpha. At one point, people only knew Alpha as the way Minecraft played. Of course Beta rolled by, and every one's jaws hit the floor. Minecraft wasn't as simple, it wasn't as gorgeously tiny any more. Minecraft became big, and it didn't stop growing. Like a child it changed, and it became something new. Something grand and wonderful. Something that's walked along side a lot of us. Alpha feels like it has two moods. One where every one was happy, and content with Alpha, but when Beta came by it was a whole new experience, things people had never seen before, never even dreamed of doing were possible. Most everything changed, and people had to find that Minecraft was still that warm little kindling of a fire it always has been.
The record begins, and people listen. But the record ends, and it is time to flip. People are unsure, and people fear that what they once enjoyed may be too different. But what they find is just as beautiful as what it once was. (Something like that.)
Everybody here is complaining about the new Minecraft being bad and how it's not original. Well you guys are just nostalgia blind. If they didn't add anything past alpha then everybody would be bitching about how they need to add more stuff to the game, and everybody would vote the game down, complaining about how they are running out of ideas.
Now I do agree, something's that were added were unnecessary, but when Notch added Lapis nobody was complaining about how it needed a purpose, they kept on playing for the pure fun about it, because the thrill of imagination is better than finding a purpose for everything.
And some people say that they want Minecraft to just be like Alpha, and not have as many "confusing" biomes. Well what if I told you this, what is more fun. Standing around in a plain with nothing to explore, or stand around in a world, with everything to explore. It seems simple to explain.
Take my example on this way, if you had to live in a world with nothing interesting added in, would you have fun, or would you not?
Honestly, the only major change that made Minecraft lose its magic for me was the land generation past beta 1.8. I can deal with wings, llamas, and a new End fight/biome (I do like most of the new stuff), but when the land generation is consistently boring to traverse and to build on, I draw the line. Thankfully the relatively recent preset feature can bring back the old beta terrain into modern Minecraft. Old generation + newest version is the way I’ve been playing for a while and I’m loving it.
I’ve been playing since 2015 and I think it has improved. I’m not from 2010 or anything, but adding new mobs, biomes and physics is definitely interesting. Minecraft has to progress more, and if it didn’t, the game would be even less popular than now
While my experience was with the Pocket Edition(now Bedrock Edition) I understand the nostalgia. Sometimes I long for the days when I built 16-story wooden skyscrapers... and sometimes I'm just happy with what we have.
@@StarShade0i don't have much to add to the topic, i just wanted to say that the look and feel of the world generations is one of the things that i miss the most.
also, remember when you had to truly secure your house so you could sleep? or when mobs like creepers and skeletons could dodge attacks? or when ores were more rare but a lot more rewarding to find? i want those back.
i never played on large multiplayer servers in b1.7.3 back when i knew the game, because i never had a chance to buy a copy of it (and in October 2010 it will be a decade since i first heard of this game), and i still can't (hopefully it will change before then), but i really wish to play in the large city servers that i have heard of, where everyone just contributed to each other peacefully and where interacting that way could feel more personal.
i still hope that Mojang can still put the game back at the top by managing to bring back the feelings for the game that most people here had back in Beta. the point where the game lost its shine is blurry though, but i still think that it is possible to pull that off...
..if not, i still look forward to playing Blockscape someday, that game is growing slowly but steadily, and it's beautiful.
thank you for reading my rambling i guess
Wilker I do miss those things too. Enemies are a joke a lot of the time, except when the game spawns packs of them at a time in a quantity > quality fashion (seriously, the AI feels more simple, but they gang up so quickly). Ores I don’t think lost their value because of the updates per say, but because the players like you and I have just gotten better and spelunking. When was the last time you explored without a water bucket for instance?
I can’t comment on the big servers because I’ve never liked them, especially now that they’re all minigame hubs. I’ve always wished there was a small community city server out there too, but I never found one and I just stood with single player. I don’t know if Mojang will address much concerning that core feeling with how these updates favor new stuff, but I too hope they do something. I just don’t know what.
Today is the day when C418's Volume / Volumen Beta has its 10 year anniversary! 🎗📅
01. 0:00 ------- Ki
02. 1:30 ------- Alpha
03. 11:27 ----- Dead Voxel
04. 16:20 ----- Blind Spots
05. 21:50 ----- Flake
06. 24:40 ----- Moog City 2
07. 27:40 ----- Concrete Halls
08. 31:53 ----- Biome Fest
09. 38:09 ----- Mutation
10. 41:14 ----- Haunt Muskie
11. 47:16 ----- Warmth
12. 51:16 ----- Floating Trees
13. 55:19 ----- Aria Math
14. 1:00:30 --- Kyoto
15. 1:04:40 --- Ballad Of The Cats
16. 1:09:16 --- Taswell
17. 1:17:48 --- Beginning 2
18. 1:20:44 --- Dreiton
19. 1:28:49 --- The END
20. 1:43:20 --- Chirp
21. 1:46:26 --- Wait
22. 1:50:21 --- Mellohi
23. 1:51:59 --- Stal
24. 1:54:30 --- Strad
25. 1:57:40 --- Eleven
26. 1:58:47 --- Ward
27. 2:02:58 --- Mall
28. 2:06:15 --- Blocks
29. 2:11:58 --- Far
30. 2:14:56 --- Intro.
I wish Music such as this was publicized more in general culture, instead of the crap we have today
i couldn't agree more
Well I really really couldn’t agree more.
I can't even agree more tbh
I really can't agree more
No seriously, I can't agree more
Used to listen to this video everyday years ago while playing minecraft with my friend, amazing times
There's something notable on all of C418's works, not just the Minecraft soundtrack. I'm not sure how best to describe it. It almost has a certain posture to it, a pride that has become melancholy after some humbling event, we have no clue what, but it's beautiful.
I miss the good ole days of Minecraft Alpha *sniff sniff* But i'm glad I can still hear the beautiful music.
The game has been out for 10 years and listening to this brought it all back. Thank you.This music is not only great, but the memories attached carry something unexplained, but truly powerful and changing. Nothing can replace Minecraft. Nothing.
14 years
My top 5 favorite C418 albums: 1. Volume Beta, 2. Dief, 3. One, 4. Volume Alpha, 5. Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures
For me it's
1. Beta
2. Alpha
3. One
4. 148
5. Life Changing moments seem Minor in Pictures.
The transition from The End to Chirp is one of the most surreal shit ever ngl. That's wild.
That transition isn't in the actual album tho. This one's edited, so props to whoever uploaded this. The original "The End" ends with a distorted fragment of the main Minecraft theme in a loop, before cutting off in complete silence
how is no one talking about the masterpiece that is intro? the loneliness encoded in every bits of this piece?? hello??? it slaps like a fucking spatula
Indeed man
I love this game so much.. I've had it since the Alpha days on computer. The first night I bought this game I was on it for 14 hours STRAIGHT. You could say I had an addiction. This game speaks to me on so many levels and I've invested SO much of my time into it. I'm so thankful for this game. This soundtrack just makes me so happy. Thank you for creating this. *Thumbs up*
Nothings changed lol
Minecraft Volume Beta is the best album.
This album isn’t talked about enough
1:43:20 - queue nostalgia tears of everyone who played Little Big Planet as a kid.
1:30 have to say probably the best music peice of the century
ballad of the cats? Ballad. of the cats. I'm not sure what to think.
Derpian Johnson meow
Derpian Johnson Herp Derp
Andrew Bowers "Mice on venus"
Mine craft literally has the weirdest named music.
Andrew Bowers ghasts
*cries*
Let's go on a feels trip. *cries with you*
*sobs*
*waterfall*
Thank C418 for making this awesome music album! Looking forward to more in future!
domt mind me
06. 24:40 ~ Moog City 2
07. 27:40 ~ Concrete Halls
10. 41:14 ~ Haunt Muskie
13. 55:19 ~ Aria Math
16. 1:09:16 ~ Taswell
17. 1:17:48 ~ Beginning 2
18. 1:20:44 ~ Dreiton
Ballad of the Cats, god, what a masterpiece!
I think stal is everyone's jam XD
+ttimo123456 Yeah But my favourite is cat owo
+Giuliana Richardson Mine's Far... So pretty...
+ttimo123456 My jam is Chirp and Ballad of the Cats
Andrew Selby
I Like that one 2 :3
Strad is better
As I watch this i feel...
Inspired
Alive
Free
What about you?
I feel like I’m floating through time and space