Minecraft - Volume Alpha

Minecraft - Volume Alpha is the first soundtrack released for Minecraft by C418, which features all of the songs available since Alpha made by him plus some extras. It was released on March 4, 2011, on c418.bandcamp.com. The second Minecraft soundtrack album, Minecraft - Volume Beta, was released on November 9, 2013.

Trivia

 * The game's soundtrack subtly uses repeating motifs.
 * For example, part of Key (at 0:08) appears to share a melody - in particular, a phrase that varies between 5 and 6 notes - with Subwoofer Lullaby (at 0:28 and 0:31), Living Mice (the 5-note pattern that repeats throughout the track, starting at the beginning, as well as the main melody of the track), Danny (at 0:03, 2:30 and 2:41, and 3:15), and most subtly, Dry Hands (It appears between 0:10 to 0:17, and it is really subtle, but those few notes are there, and they're also at 0:28, 0:37, and 0:45).
 * At 0:55 of Dry Hands, there is a 5-note phrase that Mice on Venus also has (first appearing at 1:06).
 * The use of repeating motifs is a very common concept in musical composition. As with any soundtrack that uses repeating motifs, it's unknown how many of these instances of repeating motifs are intentional, because they are so subtle that they can't be discerned from coincidental uses of the same notes, but these tracks all share some similarities, intentional or not, that are difficult to describe and understand without proper knowledge of music theory and music analysis.
 * The versions of the game's background music tracks that are on this album are actually slightly different from the original, in-game versions.
 * For example, Dry Hands uses a noticeably different, much less reverbed piano sound, Key has an added note at the end that wasn't in the original as a way to transition into Door (the original version simply looped the last few notes as it faded out), Haggstrom is missing an ambient background sound that it originally had at 2:03 and also has a slightly longer fade-out, and multiple tracks have been given transitions between them, such as the one between Living Mice and Moog City. A glitchy ambient noise in the background of Subwoofer Lullaby at 1:03 is also much louder in the album version.
 * All of the in-game tracks were apparently remastered for this album, as certain instruments and sounds are louder or quieter or different in timbre than they were before, and the overall sound has a lot more clarity.
 * The first three tracks are connected together, and so are tracks 5 and 6, 9 and 10, 14 through 17, and 19 through 21.
 * The last two tracks are from C418's previous album Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures.
 * The tracks "Oxygène" and "Équinoxe" are likely references to the albums of the same names by Jean-Michel Jarre.
 * Some of the songs in C418's album 148 are remixes of songs found in this album.