Daniel Rosenfeld

Daniel Rosenfeld, also known as C418, is credited as the producer of the music in Minecraft. He produced the world music, the ambience music and the songs for all 12 Music Discs. He also produced the various sound effects for the game, such as footsteps, and released the game's official soundtrack, "Minecraft - Volume Alpha", which includes all the music present in the game made by him up to the soundtrack's release, plus some bonus tracks.

Biography
Daniel Rosenfeld was born on May 9, 1986 in East Germany. At age 5 he wanted to be a stunt car driver. His brother introduced him to creating music with a computer.

Music included in Minecraft
(NOTE: As of March 4th 2011, Minecraft's tracks have been given "official" names)

Please note, these tracks have been shortened to 30 seconds on the wiki, due to an agreement with the author to allow them onto the wiki. This does not apply to "11".

Future
More music by C418 will be added in Minecraft in the near future. This will include music specific to battles, the Nether, The End, NPC villages, Creative Mode, and many more.

Released Minecraft soundtracks

 * Minecraft - Volume Alpha (4 March, 2011)

Cat
C418 revealed in an AMA on Reddit that the Ghast sounds are taken from his pet cat, and he makes those sounds when he is disturbed while sleeping. He was also going to have his cat voice Ocelots, but since his cat never meows clearly,  C418 decided to use cat sounds from Freesound instead.

Where are we now
"Where are we now" was intended to be in the game but was left out due to a processing problem. In 1.4.3, the song was renamed to "Wait", fixing the processing problem by removing the spaces, and then released.

Trivia



 * In-game music is cued by the time of day, with a random track being played at sunrise, sunset, noon and midnight.
 * Many sounds that C418 has used can be found at http://www.freesound.org/] (For example the grass walking sounds can be found here.)
 * Like Mojang employees, his in-game character can be seen wearing a cape in survival multiplayer.
 * His Minecraft skin is the default skin, but the head is replaced with the texture for a jukebox.
 * As of 1.4.3, there are 11 music discs, all containing original C418 songs.
 * These include all of the previously-encoded files, but 'Where are we now' was renamed to 'Wait', due to troubles encountered when adding in music with spaces in the name.
 * "Chirp" uses the same sound sample as "The Orb Of Dreamers" from LittleBigPlanet 1 and 2. The sample apparently comes from Program Disk 70021 "Latin Fever" for the Optigan synthesizer.
 * The track "Sweden" is a Passacaglia, with a changing melody over a repeated bass line.