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

 * Some of the track titles are references to music artists who inspired C418.
 * The title "Living Mice" is a reference to deadmau5.
 * The title "Mice On Venus" is a reference to Mice On Mars.
 * The titles "Oxygène" and "Équinoxe" are references to the albums of the same names by Jean-Michel Jarre.
 * The game's soundtrack subtly uses repeated 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).
 * At 1:46 of "Cat", what sounds like an interpolation of part of the melody from the track "Minecraft" plays. The main melody throughout "Cat" also sounds like "Key".
 * The use of reoccurring musical ideas is a very common concept in musical composition. As with any soundtrack that uses reoccurring musical ideas, it's unknown how many of these instances of motifs are intentional, because they are so subtle that they can't be discerned from coincidental uses of the same notes.
 * Tracks from Minecraft - Volume Beta also use musical ideas from this album.
 * The versions of the game's background music tracks that are on this album are actually slightly different from the original, in-game versions.
 * Multiple tracks have been given fade transitions between them, such as the one between Living Mice and Moog City.
 * 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.
 * "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).
 * "Subwoofer Lullaby" has less reverb, resulting in a noticeably more staccato sound, and a glitchy ambient noise in the background at 1:03 is much louder in the album version.
 * "Dry Hands" begins the same way as the original and then fades into a new version that uses a noticeably different, much less reverbed piano sound.
 * "Haggstrom" is missing an ambient background sound that it originally had at 2:03, and it also has a slightly longer fade-out.
 * "Oxygène" has an added echoing, whistling sound at 0:26 that wasn't there before.
 * 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.
 * Some of the songs in C418's album 148 are remixes of songs found in this album.