Minecraft - Sweden / Aria Math | Reacting To Video Game Music!

[@JessesAuditorium]

Reminded me one of my favorite artists :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJmonJqqn6aMi9E

[@Necrom6]

"Video unavailable"

[@cheeewwwy]

I love Emancipator! His album Soon It Will Be Cold Enough is soooo good

[@AT_Kob]

It was cool bro :) +1 subscriber. For an another video of Minecraft music, can u react to "Infinite amethyst" please ! 🙏🏻👌🏻

[@krysidian]

Oh yeah I totally hear it! Beautiful song as well

[@TricolorLink]

Aria Math only plays on creative mode, a mode you have access to every item and can build whatever your mind desires

[@get_stached]

@@TricolorLink Wait, I've heard it just playing in survival before. Is there any difference between versions? I use Switch.

[@TricolorLink]

@@get_stached maybe, switch uses bedrock, I know it only plays on creative on java

[@get_stached]

@@TricolorLink Gotcha gotcha. It's always been my favourite one. Aria Math comes on, and I just chill out and wander the world 👌

[@HyperSonic1999orJTH]

​@@get_stached I can recall hearing it on xbox 360 edition's survival mode.

[@RubyLoxolyte]

You can hear it in survival whej on Java but Aria Maty has been my fav i always played creative mode on my 360 its so nostalgic to me

[@TheMrChocobo]

If i rembember correctly, Sweden just starts playing randomly and ends back to silence. It just feels so good when it starts playing, makes you appreciate the world you are building.

[@losharikoved]

Aria Math does that too, but only in creative

[@mikayel6175]

In legacy edition, music played all the time

[@TheAnnez0r]

My memories of Sweden for some reason is a lot of sunsets in game at my base that I took hours to build 🥲

[@lazylenni1017]

2:55 "Have I been missing out?" He asks regarding the most popular video game of all time. XD XD

[@postapocalypse0763]

I wonder how he'd take to it

[@anusaukko6792]

Hey now, its not Tetris now is it!

[@Aquastarlord217]

@@anusaukko6792 it should be the og Mario Bros. game although Minecraft is the most sold game in history

[@slomo3035]

@@anusaukko6792 Minecraft is the most sold video game of all time by a long shot, Minecraft has 300 million copies sold while Tetris has 100 million. Gotta give it to Tetris, but Minecraft won't be suprassed any time soon.

[@999maza]

@@slomo3035 Probably never, Minecraft becoming as big as it is today took an amount of time and commitment to a single title that just doesn't exist anymore in the gaming industry.

[@StormEyeB]

I remember someone described Minecraft's music as "Homesick for a place that never existed" and that kinda stuck with me.

[@TricolorLink]

Sweden is the jokingly known as The Anthem of Gaming

[@SimpleeSniper]

It IS

[@MagnyusG]

Minecraft was a super obscure game played mostly by young adults before it exploded and all the kids flooded it. Back in 2011 when I started playing it the community around it was so small. Minecraft is a game I've played to death, I am done playing it, I will likely never play it for myself ever again. Sweden still hits just as hard as it did back then.

[@SolBlade91]

Those early days of alpha/beta Minecraft were truly something special. Such a great community here on KZbin. I'd tune in every day to see all the cool new things people were building and discovering

[@MagnyusG]

@@SolBlade91 for real though, it's baffling to think that you could actually search for Minecraft stuff on KZbin and find what you were looking for, even on smaller channels.

[@LanceTheDragonMastah]

My high school friends and I rented from family video at least 10 times before finally buying it

[@angelvillegas9604]

​@@MagnyusG it's way better now

[@angelvillegas9604]

​@@MagnyusGu just died a little inside

[@coolkiller3225]

in essence, minecraft is a game about being alone in a strange new world. it's scary, beautiful, lonely, fun, and so big. the music reflects this very well, it's very contemplative

[@Rephaxe]

@@coolkiller3225 You described what i feel :)

[@matiaspereyra9392]

But it's also so modular it appeals to the other pillars of what people may also look for in gaming You can play solo if that's your vibe, you can play together with a group of friends, you can play alone together, together together or you can also Play against people if you like pvp and general skill expression and you can choose which skill to express

[@emre619619]

that was the feeling for me back in 2011,12 when the game had a mystery to it now its gone bc we grew up

[@Cammymoop]

There's a special place in my head for basically every minecraft volume alpha/beta track. But Aria Math is for sure one of my favorites, it really fits well with just spending hours making weird structures in creative mode.

[@garr_inc]

I have absolutely nothing against Lena Raine or others commissioned for modern Minecraft music, but the classics by C418 have such a distinct feel I cannot associate Minecraft with anything but it.

[@ButtaDawg6969]

Aria math makes me feel like I have a blank canvas and I'm imagining all of the possibilities of my new creative world

[@Vaslof]

Sweden fit so perfectly in old Minecraft, back when it was a lonely world and there was not much to do. It's awesome how dynamic Minecraft has become, but the old feeling of the game was something unique. With all the updates it feels video gamey, for lack of a better word.

[@AStandsForFrench]

Absolutely. Early on, Minecraft was very lonely. Villagers didn't really exist, villages were insanely rare, world generation was way, way crazier than it is now after they've refined the worldgen algorithm much more, so you'd have like, massive floating islands and impossible arches growing out into nothing. Just wandering around you would find often breathtaking views of extremely alien, strange world architecture. The soundtrack perfectly accompanied this old era. It still fits, but it's a much different feel than originally.

[@dawk7]

Current Minecraft is absurdly busy. Meh. The Ocean update is about the most I can take, and that's because the ocean was kind of pointless anyway so chucking a bunch of things inside at least made something out of it. But all the junk added on top of what was already there? Covering the empty space? Current Minecraft feels like an over-moded MC.

[@rkhoundstudios]

I think it feels video gamey because its a video game but idk

[@dopaminecloud]

@@rkhoundstudios There's a bad trend in game design to pile on idea after idea with little cohesion, resulting in a kind of tilting busy experiences. A lot of modern videogames, having so many ideas and the resources to use them, make this mistake. Identity comes from refinement. If modern minecraft was what released back then, it would not have gotten its status.

[@atew8277]

I completely get it, where on the surface Minecraft being blocks makes it look childish especially with how many kids play it, but I also think this works perfectly for the atmosphere. I feel Minecraft can be very meditative and peaceful, while also having this weird melancholy "liminal space" feeling at times. Kinda how low poly games like something out of the N64 era can have a unique atmosphere. The music isn't always playing, but when it does it fits perfectly. I really can't imagine Minecraft without music like this. It should also be worth noting that besides crafting, survival mode is a big part of the experience too, either alone or with friends. For seasoned players it's kinda the same ol same ol, knowing exactly what to do and look for. But for someone who's completely new. Imagine spawning in the middle of a randomly generated world, no clue how to craft, where to go, no knowledge about hostile mobs, hunger, nothing. You're completely lost/intimidated and then Sweden starts playing. That's how I got sucked in. Even if it doesn't do it for you or you get burned out, I think it's moments like that that can really stick with you, and is one of the reasons why it got so popular.

[@mizery3885]

Aria Math is genuinely such a gorgeous piece of music. It doesn't even feel repetitive because it's so intricate.

[@rbxq]

Sweden, Aria Math, Subwoofer Lullaby, Living Mice, Moog City, Haggstrom, Mice on Venus, Dry Hands, Wet Hands, Clark, Danny, Beginning. I only learned the names of these songs recently, but their sounds are burned into my brain.

[@Nekotaku_TV]

You forgot Halland.

[@shogunender8752]

Exactly right I just knew the sounds since my childhood and only learned what themes they were only into highschool

[@MattTOB618]

​@@Nekotaku_TV That's a Minecraft Dungeons track that got remixed in Smash.

[@JarenJohnson-rb4dt]

All of those are in the End Poem

[@MattTOB618]

@@JarenJohnson-rb4dt Their melodies are, but the song that actually plays is called "Alpha" (it's the second track in Volume Beta)

[@RonTheTryhard]

11:52 "It's way more atmospheric than I thought it would be" There it is, Jesse's curse of accidentally summing up the game in one sentence shows itself again.

[@nekorion]

It's kinda unfortunate I made you listen to rubedo before the actual songs people know it for, but I asked for aria math so it's all good right 😅 Weird enough, math is also a musical genre term. Sometimes for "math rock". Softer stuff. Let's not get it twisted, minecraft is *mostly* silent. The songs pop up for a short period of time and leave. It's supposed to be meditative. As for "alpha/beta " minecraft is in continuous development. There are chunks of tracks released every couple of years. Rubedo was released WAY later on for instance, where Sweden it was shipped with and aria math took a couple of years. There are still a couple of notable songs left tho all of them have supporters. Dry/wet hands and moog city for example. the popular ones are all in this style; soft, ambient, catchy, but fleeting

[@possesedfrisk]

C418 is an artist who makes a bunch of song that sound similar to these that the Minecraft Devs hired to make exclusive music for Minecraft. Unfortunately, Microsoft shafted them and C418 is trying to get their music removed from the games, because they specifically didn't want a big company to use their music, AND Microsoft refuses to pay them for their music. I feel bad for them man.

[@AnotherDuck]

Sweden sounds nostalgic to me. Which is weird for two reasons. It did that from the start, and I grew up long before Minecraft.

[@Cool-Vest]

I mean, I played Persona 4 for the first time pretty recently, and Corner of Memories hit me like a ton of bricks in the nostalgia. I guess that's music though. It is there to invoke emotions, and the most powerful can do it without context.

[@aylinilya.]

some songs have that feeling of nostalgia imbued within them despite yourself never listening to it beforehand, japanese city pop and bossa nova comes to mind

[@kijengam3r614]

Dire dire docks from Mario 64 for me i never played before my 14 years,and that song........That song is everything to me!

[@Cammymoop]

Most of the music tracks in minecraft play mostly at random while you're playing the game, it took a very similar approach to Breath of the Wild in that way, though obviously way before BotW did it. There's a lot of downtime without music but sometimes a track will come on at the perfect time too, fits very nicely with the unknown and wide open nature of playing any time you venture beyond what you've already explored, but is somehow also perfect for just walking around places you've already built in and tamed. Minecraft is actually from Sweden, though C418 is German. "Notch" Markus Persson created it as a basically unknown indie game dev at the time and built the game studio Mojang around it's massive spike in popularity. Microsoft eventually bought out Mojang and Minecraft from notch for something like 2 billion dollars and he got a fancy mansion apparently. Back when Notch was still working at Mojang he used to also make little expirimental stuff for game jams and stuff, some of them were quite interesting I think, though he mostly went quiet after being bought out and presumably retiring (though also had a period where he shared a lot of somewhat political opinions on social media and causing some controversy). Just recently though, he started posting on twitter about a game he's working on again which looks like another fun little project.

[@Arksimon2k]

I've never played Minecraft but I have heard Sweden before. It's the track most associated with Minecraft I think. And given how much it sold when KZbin Gaming was having its big boom, it's pretty well known; even amongst those that haven't played it :)

[@thend4427]

Time to download it then refund before the 15 min is over lol

[@R24EXD]

Aria Math is my favorite Minecraft Music. I’m so happy you reacted to it because when I tell my friends of the existence of that song, they just ignore me (they Don’t play creative mode)

[@AStandsForFrench]

Sweden often would kick in right as the sun would rise or set. It works SO well ingame. Minecraft's soundtrack by C418 is genuinely some of the best ambient music out there. It really makes you feel like you are alone, on an alien world, exploring peacefully, with a frequent undercurrent of melancholy.

[@okluminous566]

very poetic! I kinda miss C418's music in minecraft he's like the blueprint to ambient gaming music (look at the cookie clicker ost).

[@InvalidUser_]

​@@okluminous566I hope that microsoft allows C418 to release the third volume even if it won't make it to the game.

[@cacovonluca]

Please listen to Taswell and Subwoofer Lullaby!

[@Astropicsky]

Taswell is like an entire experience. Would definitely like to see him listen to that one.

[@cattenchaostherandomperson]

Axolotl and Dragon Fish too, those are so good

[@NIDER3]

YESS

[@cruelstriker670]

Man I remember the first time I heard Sweden, was literally my first map, climbing up a mountain as it snowed ( before biomes, snow world) and it just started to snow, kid me was in fucking awe, and this music has a permament space in my memory

[@FSAPOJake]

1995 baby here. I started playing piano in 2012 (the summer before my senior year of high school) because I heard Minecraft's music and fell in love with it. I plateaued in progress about 2 years into playing and never got much better, but I got just good enough to learn all the Minecraft songs back then.

[@jalcome4201]

Sweden immitates the sound of like waking up. Thats why i love it when it plays ingame. It like opens up my heart to its wondefuly melody

[@magolord2820]

Minecraft is a very introspective game when played alone. There's monsters, villagers (that looks nothing like you), ancient structures, animals, whole environments but you are alone in this world, building your own journey through it. That's why its main music is very lowkey and atmospheric (as it also plays at random or during very specific moments of gameplay). It is all about you and your journey in this world and I think it's beautiful in a way

[@svenfruiti494]

I can see the alpha beach... and I can hear the sheeps in the background and the sound of breaking dirt...god this is so nostalgic

[@ExaltedUriel]

For me, Sweden is "THE" Minecraft song, whenever I hear it I immediately get the desire to boot up the game again, so much nostalgia in that track since it's one of the ones that's been in the game the longest, and plays randomly on the overworld.

[@epiclyy]

You’ve gotta check out Mice On Venus from the Minecraft OST. It’s one of the songs that gets me the most emotional in all of music. Also, in case you didn’t know, Minecraft is regarded for having one of the best OSTs in video game history. Particularly volumes alpha and beta.

[@AJTDaWin]

Taswell is such an underrated Minecraft OST, 8 minutes of just chill vibes

[@brickstonesonn9276]

In Minecraft, you get so immersed in the world and so focused on your tasks in the game. When Sweden randomly starts playing, it pulls you out of that focus and makes you look at the bigger picture; at this lonely blocky world you're in, and the journey you've been through, and the achievements you've made in the session. Basically, Sweden comes in at random points in your play session and forces you to momentarily get introspective about said session. And it can get quite emotional.

[@Cri_Jackal]

I believe it's called Sweden due to the nature of Minecraft being a Swedish developed game, the studio behind it even has the weird Icelandic "J" in its name, Mojang, no one can agree how to pronounce their name despite how long its been. The devs of course used the Swedish countryside as their reference point when designing Minecraft's wilderness and landscapes, capturing the essence of a stroll through its beauty. The song intends to accompany said simulation of Sweden's grassy fields, and what better way to compliment that then to capture the original inspiration itself? Hence, _Sweden._

[@jacobbunea3131]

Sweden always sneaks up on you.. When you find that big cave, that abandoned village. That big mountain you’re trying to figure out how you’re gonna traverse it. Pure bliss

[@HyperVanilo]

Minecraft may look like a kids game where you use various blocks to build stuff, but in the hands of master builder they have been building amazing architectures, or if you're a programmer you can build your own computer to do calculation and playing games on it, and yes you can play Minecraft too

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrin]

Minecraft music is probably my favorite music ever, its so special, nostalgic and emotional in ways you only realize as an adult which only makes the music that much better. Minecraft and its music are so important to me

[@crazyguy_1233]

I've played Minecraft regularly for over a decade and have been a fan since 2010. I first played in 2012 on the pocket edition. I've had realms where I played with my friends and I've played on servers with many people. I've built incredible bases and quaint little farms. The game is so diverse you can really do anything. Its essentially an open world survival sandbox game where you can build anything you can think of. You can go on adventures to find ancient ruins or the settlements the NPCs live in. You can even fight enemies and bosses like the Elder Guardian, the Wither, and the Ender Dragon. It has a lot of fantasy elements as well such as potions and enchanting. It also gets yearly updates where a lot of new content gets added. So the game doesn't get stale very easily.

[@petwipples7903]

Man, totally forgot I requested Aria Math. Personally I like to listen to it while sketching out ideas, almost trance inducing lol. Anyway, I'm glad you liked it, it was a nice surprise. Thank you.

[@ros9764]

The evolution of minecraft's soundtrack is a bit tragic but also very interesting. Originally the game was basically Notch (who was at the time a very unknown swedish game developer and owner of the indie game company Mojang) messing around in a sandbox engine that let you place and remove blocks. Afterwards he decided to start putting builds for the game that were still in pre-alpha on his website and it slowly gained a huge following so he put a price tag on it for i believe only 5 bucks. The game kept developing and with each new update (from alpha to beta) he had hired the composer C418 to make music for him. There wasn't really much of a direction since the game itself at the time was pretty much a big sandbox with a few survival elements to it. Microsoft saw how big the game was, bought it when the full version of minecraft released and C418 cut ties with Mojang and Microsoft because he didn't like the way they put too much ownership to his music without a lot of revenue. From 2011 to around 2019 the soundtrack was sort of in a limbo state and there was not that much music being made for the new updates. Since 2020 the main composer for the game is Lena Raine with Pigstep being the most popular minecraft song in modern minecraft

[@Mr.scooter-le8yo]

Pigstep? I thought other side was the popular one...

[@hibilbo4755]

@@Mr.scooter-le8yo both are very popular, but otherside is newer so its probably more in the public's eye right now

[@eggo_gamez]

Minecraft was actually made in Sweden so that's why the song's named that way

[@frannydai]

Minecraft music is surprisingly well made. The album Volume Alpha is a good start for someone new to it. Wet Hands and Mice on Venus are my faves from that album.

[@nanov1122]

hope you get to listen to the whole soundtrack a true gateway drug to ambient music

[@fishlover..6234]

I highly recommend listening to "Minecraft" and "The End", they are both related to each other. Although this is just my recommendation.)

[@fosstera]

I love The End so much - its a long one but worth every second. I feel like it's not just recapping a musical adventure as it goes through the music of Volume Alpha, but it's *your* adventure the song is recapping. I always tear up a little when I listen to it

[@shogunender8752]

God do these themes make me feel alive and so nostalgic for a time when I wasn’t depressed or anxious about tomorrow. These themes just give me that little piece of mind that makes me happy and free going through a world that seems endless as a child.

[@marchitez]

Wow... this brings memories. Out of a major surgery, my recovery spent playing minecraft on the couch, collecting diamonds, creating towns, transporting villagers..this makes me feel so bittersweet. I used the music to relax and focus while writing my master thesis. Thanks for the reaction!

[@JessesAuditorium]

Have a nice day :)

[@starsilverinfinity]

I hope someone begins to suggest the newer songs in Minecraft too - being able to compare songs like Sweden and Aria Math to Infinite Amethyst and Deeper would be hella interesting to see you do as they are nice ways to see how the game has evolved over time

[@BabyMatiny]

@@starsilverinfinity especially because he’d have no bias toward either due to nostalgia or whatnot

[@princeapoopoo5787]

He did react to Rubedo already, but I'd like to see him react to Aerie. That's my favourite of the newer tracks. (Or one of the music discs! Precipice is 🔥🔥🔥)

[@cattunger]

Glad to see Minecraft again here, this game has an incredible soundtrack. I hadn't seen the whole post asking for popular songs, but another absolutely iconic song of this game's soundtrack is definitely "Wet Hands", also by C418.

[@gringusgaming]

Minecraft has been in my life for so long that I couldnt even tell you what got me into it what I can say is that some time in 2010-2011 I saw gameplay on youtube or something and knew I needed to play

[@ChuckS117]

oh this brings me back to 2011ish when I used to play this one. the blocky sunsets, the mountains, the scary caves, it had it all. Its a different beast these days, but I'll always remember the early days. I really miss it.

[@Twisted_Logic]

I'm 30 and found Minecraft in ~2009 on StumbleUpon back in the pre-alpha when it was a browser game. No infinite world, no flowing water, no mobs. Hell, I remember the multiplayer test servers! I've been playing the game on and off for pretty much its entire public existence and it's crazy how far its come. I've never payed too much attention to the music, but Sweden definitely has a special place in my heart.

[@nats81]

Minecraft is one of those games we don't really pause to admire how well crafted (haha) and groundbreaking a lot of its design is, especially due to how popular and already discussed the game is. But the game is truly a masterpiece, and the soundtrack is a big reason for that. When the game released, it was almost never heard of to have an ambient soundtrack for an indie game instead of chiptune music, and it contributed to the general feel of melancoly that so many associate with the game. It's a sandbox game that invites creativity and exploration, but it's also a very meditative experience and I don't think any games have captured such an atmospheric sense quite like Minecraft does.

[@danielj6897]

Sweden brought me right back to my first save file.

[@Goodman_Grey]

I haven't played Minecraft in a while but I very fondly remember Sweden. It just gives me vibes of relaxing in the wilderness akin to a more relaxed version of TES : Skyrim's Distant Horizons.

[@skylord_lilalna_8667]

Minecraft's music is one of the most important things about it, in my opinion. There are so many songs in it. Most of them play semi-randomly, or come in at certain times in the day, or play when you're wandering around in certain areas. It makes the game incredibly atmospheric, especially in single player worlds, and a lot of the tracks, especially the C418 tracks, feel so incredibly... Lonely. Minecraft is *lonely*, and the music really makes you feel it. Minecraft is a game that I've played for over a decade, and the music makes me feel so *much*.

[@Negeh00]

I actually started playing Minecraft during very early Alpha stages, So i've watched it really grow and evolve to what it is today......

[@Mroziukz]

Minecraft Volume Alpha and Beta have got to be one of my favorite pieces of music ever. They are so unique.

[@naviathan1416]

Hearing you talk about Minecraft and your assumption about it being shattered is very interesting.

[@Grimnoire]

Minecraft was first developed in Sweden by the original owner. There's another track in the game that is composed similarly, named "Minecraft"

[@THEonlyAEON]

The older Minecraft tracks that play during survival mode have a very special place in my heart, never fails to make me feel emotional.

[@danielnolt3518]

Minecraft music is always fantastic. Even if you never touch the game, please react to the music! Its sooooo good!

[@DonnaPinciot]

You may be mistaking 'Portal' with 'The Stanley Parable'. It has both a Portal and Minecraft section in it.

[@AzurelimitM]

Id like to throw in my own minecraft recommendations. "Haunt muskie", "cat", and "taswell". 3 of my favorites

[@Kaxuria]

Sweden is by far the most iconic song from Minecraft. And Aria would be my favorite, it would accompany me when building dungeons for other players on the servers I played ! You absolutely should try this game, it"s litteraly the most selled video game ever. If VG is something you have at least a little interest on, you have to try it ! It will either drop quicly from your hands, or you'll fall in love with it, there is no in between x) A blind discovery can be good for content, but quickly discouraging while facing the infinite possibilities with almost no guidance x)

[@Cool-Vest]

Minecraft Story Mode has a surprisingly rich soundtrack too. No More Creepers (instrumental), every chapter's credits theme (14 in total), Ivor's theme, Fighting theme, Wither Storm, and Showdown in Skyland.

[@jamesineson4609]

Let me set the scene. You climb over a hill, the sun is starting to break the horizon, you peak the hill and there it is your base. Towing in the distance through the fog. And then it plays sweden. The sunrise shilloetting you base. Bliss

[@bakubread9308]

Man, for a certain generation (of which I am a part of) who were kids when Minecraft originally released, this song just carries SO much nostalgia. So many countless hours spent in the livingroom exploring a blocky world with incredibly serene music.

[@Lanewreck]

This is what watching the sunrise or sunset feels like while playing a survival game once everything is under control and you're thriving, not just surviving.

[@Jmespo83]

These songs bring me so much joy and sadness. I remember playing Minecraft all the time with my oldest daughter because it was her favorite thing to do. She’s fourteen now but it feels like yesterday when we were hanging out building things.

[@leftymu]

Wow, this one is a surprise, Aria Math is a standout to me, I remember this from several years ago when I would play Minecraft with my friend on PS4. Normally it only would play during creative mode, but I'm sure on the old PS4 version it played in multiplayer survival as well. Very beautiful song, I love the sound and the slow build. It always really reminded me of David Wise's kind of sound, it's very mellow and has a little bit of a groove to the melodies that slowly creep in during the build. In Yooka Laylee there's a minecart mini game in each level and always had different music; to me this really sounds like the Moodymaze Marsh minecart theme which he composed.

[@LowSkillPlays]

Minecraft music is very subtle and understated, its great for what Minecraft is which is a very chill, relaxing game for like 90% of it, especially if you play solo, though there's definitely room for it to get hectic. Minecraft is a lot of things really, its a fun single player game about surviving in the wilderness. There's a huge community aspect with tons of player-created maps and different RP servers and even entire new games created inside of it. Its also fun to just to hang out with your friends and build a little village and that sort of thing. Its really the first game I remember going viral in a huge way, almost like Pokemon did in the late 90s early 00s and then Fortnite did it in the late 2010s. It represented something new, its basically a platform all to itself where people will get out of it whatever they want.

[@Videobustersgames]

I really hope there are more song requests for minecraft. Minecraft has so many tracks for different purposes and with different emotions, but almost all of them are amazing. Since you liked Aria Math i hope you get to hear more volume beta tracks in the future

[@Nihlm2]

The entire minecraft soundtrack is very melancholic or nostalgic, with either piano & violin melodic pieces, or ambient tracks with a synth underneath that leads until it goes suddenly quiet after reaching the highest point (the former style is more common in "survival mode" which is the mode you will generally see in online footage, while the latter tends to play in "creative mode"). These two tracks you listened to solidly outline the majority of what you'd see from c418 on the OST, but I'd really recommend you listen to "intro", "subwoofer lullaby", "moog city", and *maybe* a random selection from the music disc tracks.

[@Pterrordon12]

In 2005, I downloaded a beta for something called Minecraft. It was basically just a flat plane of grass, and when you click the ground, it pops into blocks that you could put down. Little did I know how big it would become.

[@thend4427]

There are many more songs from this game...aria math is one of my favs it gives me goosebumps while I play especially in dark areas

[@electrictaco851]

I've said this before, but I'll say it again. WE NEED HIM TO LISTEN TO DISC 11 WITHOUT TELLING HIM ANYTHING ABOUT IT BEFOREHAND!!!

[@fatcat2546]

Volume Beta is a very large chunk of music, and has all of my favorite tracks from the game. I think it is over 2 hours, if I remember right. Definitely look into listening to more tracks from that volume of the soundtrack.

[@Jzwiz]

I use minecraft music to sleep to sometimes, its all so soothing

[@SrVerataro]

Man... Minecraft Volume Beta has one of the craziest closing tracks

[@zombor8249]

No ost from my childhood even comes close to the nostalgia minecraft songs give you

[@Multigameguy35]

it's 12am and my head hurts, but it's Sweden, so I have to stick around

[@mikayel6175]

I would recommend the newest music disc added in the latest update "creator", made by lena raine, its BEAUTIFUL! The update encapsulated the tinker-y side of the game and this music perfectly represents that. An idea that builds (or *creates*) something bigger and beautiful.

[@math3us420]

the creative mode ost is definetively my favorite from this game

[@mankichiro9432]

All of the Minecraft OSTs just shout nostaliga to me. I love everything about it. I need more! My personal favourites are: Wet Hands, Dry Hands and Living Mice

[@SteveNathn]

The songs they had in the early versions of Minecraft all have such a special place in the hearts of those who played it back then. On its own there’s nothing particularly memorable about many of them, but in tandem with all the memories you have while the song is playing, makes it a very special experience. Lots of nostalgia For me, it reminds me of playing it every Friday with my brother, building our survivor world and grinding experience points. Many “late nights” aka until about 9pm 😂

[@protossinator]

The way Minecraft does it's music is super cool. The creators have it such that the music comes in at random times with a random track. Most of the time there is no music. According to the creators, this is done to emphasize the small things while playing, and to create unique memories for each players. Whether you're doing something mundane or grandeus, the music makes it a moment to remember before it fades back to nothing.

[@skystormsico6692]

To answer your question, Volume Alpha and Volume Beta are basically two albums by C418 compiling all the music he made for Minecraft's OST. Personnally, I'd love to see your reactions to both albums, but that would make the videos way too long, and I'm sure you have plenty of other requests to get to.

[@LoinkLoink]

Music is about half of what makes Minecraft well... _Minecraft!_ There are so many great pieces in this game that I can instantly recognize after listening to them for entire days while playing the game. And the end credits music is just perfect. Also, you nailed it with Aria Math, guessing that it was meant to provoke your thinking. It's actually a song that plays exclusively in Creative Mode(basically sandbox mode).

[@dewyocelot]

You mention it sounds sadder: when the game was mode it was fairly lonely. Single player was like, a map the size of a football field if that. When the first series of songs (Alpha Album) were made, it was kind of a solitary game. There was fan made multiplayer but it was pretty barebones. They weren’t even originally titled. The songs were called like, calm1.ogg. You hear the beta album in creative, and alpha in survival (or you did at one point. They play at random and in random intervals, so it’s silent for a period, then just a quick burst of sad music and then back to silence. Multiplayer is loads of fun, but single player has this solitary quality to it that feels unique to me.

[@stereoslime]

I guess it’s called Sweden cuz the studio is Swedish. But to my knowledge the composer is actually German.

[@IzanamiNoMikotoo]

In my opinion, the best way to describe minecraft is "freedom". There is no story. There is no questline or objective. There are just two things. You and the world. What you do with that is your choice. There are some bosses that can give you achievements and some special items. But if you want to ignore them, then you can. Everything in the world is randomly generated, and you can do whatever you want with every single block of it. Personally, I would describe minecraft rather as a tool than as a game. You can use it the way you want to. Some play the vanilla version, some play with hundreds of mods at a time (which there are tens of thousands of), some make big servers with plugins that allow for thousands of different game modes, and some use the in-game logic system of redstone to build an entire computer from scratch. You can even play on any single version ever released if you want, as all versions are archived. Everything is decided by you. The game is your tool, and if you wield it right, then the sky is the limit. And about the music... the music is insane. It just plays as ambience. It fades in the background but is still omnipresent. Not to mention that being in a dark cave alone at night while hearing the specific cave music fade in from time to time is one of the scariest things to experience. The sense of dread that it invokes is just unbearable sometimes. Minecraft is to this day probably the best game ever released BECAUSE it is so simple. Minecraft has one purpose: to have no purpose. It needs no purpose as you yourself give it your own purpose. That's what makes the game timeless

[@BreedableVaporeon0978]

Honestly Minecraft music holds so many emotions for it just hits me like a truck

[@NX_TV]

Minecraft was an indie game made by a single person, Markuss "Notch" Persson, and later got a whole team working on it, Mojang, which was bough by Microsoft. Notch and Microsoft are now in pretty bad terms. Minecraft's a sandbox survival gameplay with no story, or vague lore you can connect, but without an actual story. It's a do "anything you want" kind of game (break anything in the world, craft stuff, place blocks, etc. without any particular end goal besides optional bosses), especially with mod support. It's probably the game with the most mods, and even likely far beyond Skyrim, and that's probably why so many people (me included) keep playing it: modpacks of over 400 mods that adds new mobs, biomes, some magic, or machines, etc. But even vanilla, there's one big free update every year or so (and there used to be 2 or even 3 smaller ones per year before Microsoft bought the studio) Minecraft is its own thing, but it got some spinoffs: - Minecraft Story Mode, a TellTales Games entry - Minecraft Earth, a mobile game similar to Pokémon Go. dunno if it's still a thing - Minecraft Dungeons, a Diablo-Like - Minecraft Legends, a RTS They are way less popular than the main game, obviously, and each game adding lore is also its own universe, basically. There's never been any intention of creating a coherent universe, I think. Music-wise, the game has a few ambient tracks, but most of the time, there's no music. Most people deactivate the music anyways today, but the older tracks like the first from this video are just embedded into every player's brain. There are also discs you can loot in game an play music when inserted in a jukebox.

[@cattenchaostherandomperson]

MCSM is unavailable on almost every platform it was released for after Telltale’s first closure; MCE was sunsetted a while back; the others are still going strong

[@TheCac]

to add onto this notch and microsoft being on bad terms is one of the rare cases of it entirely not being the fault of the large corporation, notch was for a long period of time (hes seemingly gotten better now) a horrible person, notch was so horrible that he rightfully so managed to get himself banned from an anniversary event for HIS OWN GAME (or something along those lines my memory is a bit iffy)

[@captainpep3]

@@TheCac”horrible person” i subjective in this case. As far as what I remember, he just said some anti-lgbt stuff that hardly makes him a terrible person

[@vibaj16]

@@TheCac i'd say more of a confused person than horrible person

[@osvelit]

so many things went right with minecraft during its creation, and the music was easily one of the biggest ones. C418 fucking nailed the creative, yearning, exploratory vibes needed to take the game from notable to memorable. a straight up masterpiece.

[@Boethion]

The absolute best way I can describe Minecraft is "Lego if it started as a videogame" because both just let you build stuff and lose yourself in your creativity, which is not to say there arent also enemies and of course as the title Minecraft says you just go out in the world and mine blocks for a vast majority of your playtime. Its a very relaxing game at its core which is also why the music reflects that same vibe. Also just like Lego nowadays there are so many technical blocks and mods for the game that can transform it into whole different game modes like the classic "Adventure Maps" which are jumping puzzles or all the various PvP modes on dedicated servers.

[@Metro4466]

Minecraft has a lot of substance. It is by far the most sold video game ever. No cutscenes or barely any story. All the music plays and fades in and out at random intervals in small moments when you are building or exploring. The OST is soothing and definitely gets the juices going

[@EvilN00bs]

Sweden, alongside FFXIV's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and FF7's Cries of the Planet, is up there in the tier of songs that stop you in your tracks whenever it plays up in the game unexpectedly. It just grabs your attention and evokes something from within

[@Maximum_777]

Oh boy, Minecraft. I am 20 years old, and have played the game for roughly half my life (not continuously obviously but like since I was 10) At the end of the video you asked for insight into the game and I've got some for you. First off though I must say, I actually suggest you go play it, but with a friend. Pick it up and go learn the game be playing it blind, with someone else that has also never played it. It makes it so unforgettable, going through the game's early, you know nothing phase, with a good friend, is exactly that makes this game special to people. Anyways being a musician that grew up playing Xbox 360 edition Minecraft, and also playing cello from elementary school and onward through high school, to today, It is hard to describe the impact Minecraft's music has had on its players, but after over 10 years, it is easily Music that is THE thing that makes the game function as the ultra powerful nostalgia generator that it is and still remains to this day for me and many of its players. The music very deliberately just fades in and out with brakes in-between as you play. It creates a melancholic atmosphere that just melts into the background and sooths you through the quirky block game experience that is Minecraft. Of course while it is just supposed to be chill background music, as a child, there's this almost universal experience where you would eventually become convinced that specific tracks were supposed to play just after sunset, signifying night time, play in caves, or just before it started raining, maybe just at sunrise, signifying morning time, etc. None of these connections really exist, Aira math is the creative mode track, and will remind every player of the early days of learning new things about the game through messing around with having access to all the spawn eggs and potions etc. And of course some tracks play when you're near water or rivers, in specific biomes etc, so there are some tangible environmental connections, but no matter what, you essentially would connect the music with the experiences you had in the game, which ended up perfectly making everyone's interpretation unique, and for everyone that has been there from the beginning and essentially grown up with the game, listening to the music always brings you crashing back to these childhood memories unlike anything else. These memories are ones you often shared with friends you never talk to anymore, or in some cases, still are close with to this day, and for those lucky enough to learn the game alongside someone else, whether it was a sibling, a best friend, etc, it almost becomes a symbol of your friendship and as a result going back to the game becomes almost this yearly traditional thing you'll do with all your friends now and then, just to relive the fun of the game for a few weeks. Back to the music, of course it also helps that fundamentally the music is very good, but I really think it's the simple implantation, and how you subconsciously connect it with the gameplay, that makes it so incredibly memorable, and impactful, for the game's entire player base. If you are interested, the whole album is just a gem, there is a lot of piano and you've listened to two of the fan favorites, but you've still missed out, there's so many more incredible tracks, and I listen through the album regularly and would seriously recommend listening to all of it so go listen, it really is amazing, but again however, I actually recommend you don't just listen to the music, and instead you go play the game and experience its music within the context of the game, while learning the game with a friend. That is how a lot of us were introduced, we were completely blind to the experience, and we just simply went exploring. Also another thing to note, the game's staying power is due to its modding community, the vanilla experience eventually does become dull once you know everything, but with the power of a near unlimited amount of free mods, you can turn the game into any other game that you want, seriously turning it into minecraft versions of other games, or entirely new experience from the ground up, and this aspect is precisely what makes it just stay around. It can do anything you want. Right now the trend is to attempt to make it scary, with people adding in monsters and cryptids, and it has resulted in some goofy mods, alongside some genuinely scary ones that completely change how you play the game, but more importantly, being scared of the game is like a core memory, it will bring you right back to the days where the monsters genuinely scared you as a kid, but in a more challenging, and more genuinely scary way. In Minecraft, eventually when you learn the mechanics, it's no longer scary and you no longer just hide in your house at night like you did as a child, the monsters become a resource just like anything else in the game, and eventually you beat the game, but these scary mods for a lot of people are bringing them right back to those early memories of things like seeing a creeper for the first time, and being genuinely creeped out watching it wonder around outside your home. Anyways I think you'd really enjoy hearing the music all for the first time in game, that is how we all experienced it, so that's what I recommend, and of course, do it with a friend.

[@jandanczura8028]

As others have said, Volume Alpha and Volume Beta are album titles. Something I didn't saw mentioned (that could be useful in analysing other songs) is the time difference between these songs and the previous one, Rubedo. So, a quick history lesson: Minecraft started development in 2009, released in 2011. During that time, both Volume Alpha and Volume Beta got released. Then, in 2018, with the release of 1.13, C418 released 3 tracks that aren't talked about a lot AFAIK: Shuniji, Axolotl and Dragon Fish. Which means there wasn't new music for 7 years. Then, in 2020 (1.16), due to disagreements between C418 and Microsoft in regards to licensing, which led to Microsoft contracting Lena Raine for the soundtrack. And that's where Rubedo came from. And since then, for nearly every major release there's a soundtrack made by Lena Raine, as well as Kumi Tanioka and Aaron Cherof. Because of all that, there's now a bit of a split between old and new music - with old being Volume Alpha and Beta, and new being everything not C418. Anyways, sorry for the info dump, and please let me know if I missed something, or a sentence is phrased badly. Have a nice day!

[@garavonhoiwkenzoiber]

"Minecraft's music sounds like 'you can never go home again because it's no longer there' "

[@slothguy_]

there are 2 kind of people, those who played minecraft, and those who underestimate it.

[@princeapoopoo5787]

It is weird that Minecraft music doesn't seem to get suggested much to react channels considering its popularity and reach. And I don't even think that the music isn't popular either. These tracks got a lot of views, it even has mainstream appeal! The music is very timeless. Aria Math is my third favourite piece of vgm. Transcendental and meditative, its like rain tapping against my window's panes. And ya, the hand pan rocks.