Minecraft - Volume Beta Minecraft - Volume Beta

Minecraft - Volume Beta Minecraft - Volume Beta

By C418 Wikipedia Wikipedia Releases by C418: ← Minecraft - Volume Alpha Previous release by this artist.
Released 11/9/2013.
Duration: ~2:21:13.

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(1:32) Ki
(10:03) Alpha
(4:56) Dead Voxel
(5:32) Blind Spots
(2:50) Flake
(3:00) Moog City 2
(4:14) Concrete Halls
(6:18) Biome Fest
(3:05) Mutation
(6:01) Haunt Muskie
(3:59) Warmth
(4:04) Floating Trees
(5:10) Aria Math
(4:09) Kyoto
(4:35) Ballad of the Cats
(8:35) Taswell
(2:56) Beginning 2
(8:17) Dreiton
(15:04) The End
(3:07) Chirp
(4:14) Wait
(1:42) Mellohi
(2:32) Stal
(3:08) Strad
(1:11) Eleven
(4:10) Ward
(3:18) Mall
(5:43) Blocks
(3:12) Far
(4:36) Intro

Added to wiki 10/5/2026.

Artist commentary for Minecraft - Volume Beta:

C418 ✑ Bandcamp description

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.

C418 ✑ c418.org

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.

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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.