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Daniel Rosenfeld (C418)

Composer of the Minecraft soundtrack

u/C418 ↗Personal account

How we know it's theirs

Their 2011 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 20 posts and 1551 comments from u/C418, dated 2011 to 2026, most often in r/Minecraft, r/IAmA and r/electronicmusic.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/electronicmusic

On “I am Daniel “C418” Rosenfeld, composer of Minecraft and other electronic albums. I make a bleep de bloop AMA”

Hey there! I absolutely love Minecraft Volume Alpha, it’s been a huge inspiration to me in my own compositions. Are you familiar with the french composer Erik Satie? His works bear a striking resemblance to yours, and I can’t help but feel that you must have been influenced by…

u/C418 replied

Originally, I wasn’t inspired by him, but as soon as I released alpha and everyone told me I was inspired by Satie, I got inspired by Satie.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am the composer and sound designer of Minecraft. AMA”

Where did you draw your initial inspirations for creating the music for minecraft? What were your biggest influences in composing the music? What changed for you as you finished composing tracks? Sorry for so many questions, I just never get to ask these to an actual composer.

u/C418 replied

The first songs I did for Minecraft were around the time when it still was merely a tech demo. And the only thing you were able to do was place blocks, erase them, and spawn stupidly running mobs. Those were…

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Excerpt

A redditor wrote in r/starterpacks

On “The "music producer that nobody's really heard of but is still pretty well off" starter pack”

/u/c418

u/C418 replied

Not a single one of these things apply to me though, lol. (Let’s see here. I hate SoundCloud, I don’t use Logic, I barely live in Europe anymore. I don’t use colorful midi controllers, I don’t rent, I hate granola…

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Not a single one of these things apply to me though, lol.

(Let’s see here.

I hate SoundCloud, I don’t use Logic, I barely live in Europe anymore. I don’t use colorful midi controllers, I don’t rent, I hate granola, I eat breakfast whenever I want, I sleep in, I’ve never eaten a single protein supplement in my life, I dislike my hair up like that, I eat meat, I don’t have insecurities about nobody listening to my music and cut pants like that are real dumb.

All in all a pretty accurate representation of me)