This collection features many tracks that were "silently" added to Minecraft during its music updates and a few that never officially entered the game.
Popular gaming site Kotaku named it among The Best Game Music of 2011, calling the music "remarkably soothing," and The Guardian has compared Rosenfeld's delicate piano and sparse ambient motifs to legendary artists Erik Satie and Brian Eno.
Cibo Matto was a Japanese-American band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York in 1994. Their debut album Viva! La Woman is the only album to be released by them as a duo, before Sean Lennon, Timo Ellis and Duma Love joined the band.
Minecraft - Volume Alpha is the work of German composer and musician Daniel Rosenfeld. Using C418 as his moniker, Rosenfeld crafted the sweeping soundtrack and vibrant sound design which helped breathe life into Minecraft's voxel-based universe. Fans and
Originally released in 1998 following a string of EPs, "Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch" has since become regarded as a hidden lo-fi gem of the late 90's.
A collection of pioneering proto-electro and house music made by in NYC (and London) by Freeez founder John Rocca between 1982-1987 on splattered orange vinyl.