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The album art for Minecraft - Volume Beta

Minecraft - Volume Beta is the second soundtrack for Minecraft by C418, the first being Minecraft - Volume Alpha. It was released on 9 November, 2013 on C418's website at Bandcamp and on the iTunes store, with a release later on Spotify.

The album includes 30 songs for a total length of nearly 141 minutes. It features several music tracks among which some are expected to be added to the game in the future (possibly for the Nether and The End), the music discs which were missing from the previous soundtrack and several others inspired by the game.

Official 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.[1]

Track listing

No. Title Name in Minecraft Length Notes
1. "Ki" 1:32 This is a reprise (a similar but slightly different version) of Key from Minecraft - Volume Alpha (note that both have the same pronunciation). It starts off with Key but includes more electronic music.
2. "Alpha" credits.ogg 10:03 This is the first of two longer songs which are "Album Only" on the iTunes online store. This track is a reprise of some tracks from Minecraft - Volume Alpha.
3. "Dead Voxel" nether2.ogg 4:56 This, along with Concrete Halls and The End, was present in Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition as of TU9. It begins with ambient music and distant, high-pitched sounds similar to ones heard in Ballad of the Cats and later turns into a serene but dramatic piano song. At the end, part of Beginning can be heard.
4. "Blind Spots" creative2.ogg 5:32 Starts off with ambient sounds and echoed piano sounds and goes into an upbeat song with use of sounds. Later a vocal synth comes in which morphs rather arrhythmically at first but near the end the original beat returns.
5. "Flake" 2:50 This song starts with an calm, bell-like synth and ambient sounds and later a glitchy rhythm enters.
6. "Moog City 2" menu2.ogg 3:00 This track is a reprise of Moog City from Minecraft - Volume Alpha.
7. "Concrete Halls" nether1.ogg 4:14 This track is a rhythmic song with dark, relatively dissonant ambient music, heavily reverbed percussion, and distant ghast sounds. It was present in Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition as of TU9.
8. "Biome Fest" creative1.ogg 6:18 This track was previously used in a video by Notch to demonstrate biomes. It starts with a song of synthesized voices which makes way to an electronic song with bells in the background.
9. "Mutation" menu1.ogg 3:05 This track is a reprise of Minecraft from Minecraft - Volume Alpha with a changed melody in some parts.
10. "Haunt Muskie" creative3.ogg 6:01 An upbeat, ambient, rhythmic track. Near the beginning you can hear what appears to be a reversed piano or instrument of some sort.
11. "Warmth" nether3.ogg 3:59 The song starts with loud, hollow sounds of something banging on a metallic object, which fades into synthesizer music with enderman-like sounds. Near the end, the music turns back into banging sounds, but louder and less muted. At the end are sounds of a large amount of a water-like liquid flowing.
12. "Floating Trees" menu4.ogg 4:04 This appears to be a reference to the well-known annoyance of leaving a tree only partially chopped down, thus leaving it "floating". It is an ethereal and calming track in which times of rain(?) can be heard.
13. "Aria Math" creative4.ogg 5:10 Featured in BebopVox's Volume Beta preview video as a creative song example. It has a main theme played in hang drums throughout the song with electronic music to accompany it. Later the main theme turns into guitar which goes into a slow crescendo near the end.
14. "Kyoto" 4:09 A Japanese-sounding ambient song. Kyoto is a Japanese city and was formerly the imperial capital of Japan. It is played at the beginning using a flute. Later in the song it turns into a piano song with an unknown woodwind.
15. "Ballad of the Cats" nether4.ogg 4:35 A period of techno-sounding music and then a break. Later a second period of peaceful music and then a techno-style ending. Near the beginning and end are distant, echoing screams.
16. "Taswell" creative6.ogg 8:35 This track's title is a reference to the late Ryan Davis of Giant Bomb. It is a haunting track of echoing, ethereal music and high-pitched beeping with odd static-like periods in between. It suddenly becomes an odd-sounding song with steady drum beats. Later it turns into an electronic track with the middle song in the background. It starts playing static-like periods at the end.
17. "Beginning 2" menu3.ogg 2:56 This track is a reprise of Beginning from Minecraft - Volume Alpha.
18. "Dreiton" creative5.ogg 8:17 An ambient track that makes use of hang drum sounds. "Dreiton" is German for "three tone".
19. "The End" end.ogg 15:04 This is the second of two longer songs which are "Album Only" on the iTunes online store, and this song is expected to play whilst in The End. The track was already present in Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition as of TU9, along with Dead Voxel and Concrete Halls. It appears to be Minecraft being attempted to play but interrupted by glitching, followed by ambient, echoing sounds with a continuous buzz. Throughout the track, it plays distorted versions of the tracks Minecraft, Dry Hands, Danny and Haggstrom from Minecraft - Volume Alpha.
20. "Chirp" chirp.ogg 3:07 From this track until Far (track 29) are all music discs available in the game excluding Cat and Thirteen, and with the exception of Eleven being an exclusive music track. It's an upbeat, catchy tune.
21. "Wait" wait.ogg 3:54 This track was originally titled "Where are we now" and for a long time was in the record folder but was not added as a music disc due to issues with the spaces in its name. This was finally rectified by renaming it and it was added as a music disc.
22. "Mellohi" mellohi.ogg 1:38 A slow, slightly melancholic waltz.
23. "Stal" stal.ogg 2:32 A moderate jazz-like piece with recorder.
24. "Strad" strad.ogg 3:08 A tropical-sounding synth piece.
25. "Eleven" 1:11 This track references the music disc 11 in its name and length, but features a new track instead of the disturbing sound of a person running away from some unknown creature.
26. "Ward" ward.ogg 4:10 The old-sounding intro to this song was shortened. The song starts off with an excerpt from Chopin's Funeral March played on synth organ but goes into an electronic, upbeat, exploration and adventure tune with a dark undertone.
27. "Mall" mall.ogg 3:18 A calm piece of serene music.
28. "Blocks" blocks.ogg 5:43 An upbeat, retro melody.
29. "Far" far.ogg 3:12 A calm, relaxing, nature-like melody.
30. "Intro" 4:36 On C418's website there is a description for this song: "See you next time". It appears to be of a person humming and playing notes, as if compiling a song from their head.
31. "Boss" boss.ogg 5:44 Similar to The End but only consisting of a low, enderman-like buzzing and small periods of quiet, serene music.

Total running time: approximately 141 minutes.

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