C418

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Daniel Rosenfeld (born 9 May 1989), also known as C418 (pronounced "see four eighteen"), is a German musician, producer, and sound engineer best known as the composer and sound designer for the sandbox video game Minecraft.

He has also written and produced Beyond Stranger Things.

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Life and career

Rosenfeld was born in East Germany in 1989, the son of a Soviet-born father of German descent who was employed as a goldsmith and a German mother. In the early 2000s, he learned to make music on early versions of Schism Tracker (a common clone of Impulse Tracker) and Ableton Live, both basic rudimentary devices at the time. It was his brother, Harry Rosenfeld, who introduced him to music composition via Ableton Live, who said that "even an idiot" can produce music. His brother used the code C818, from which he chose the word C418, claiming that the word is "most cryptic and doesn't really mean anything."

Daniel began playing music after being introduced to music by Rosenfeld's brother, Danny Baranowsky, suggested that his music be released on Bandcamp.

Rosenfeld started "Blödsinn am Mittwoch" (English: "Siliness on Wednesday") in 2007, where he performed a new song every week. This was around the time when he became interested in game design and audio, which culminated in him joining TIGSource, where he became closely associated with dozens of smaller games and game developers (among them, Rosenfeld unofficially published the soundtracks of Zombie Dog in Crazyland and Mubbly Tower on his website and old blog). Rosenfeld began making albums and releasing them on the blog and also Bandcamp as a hobby.

The 2007 EP BPS was his first release, and the Whatever Director's Cut followed him shortly after, beginning with a series of songs over quantity rather than quality, with quantity over quality. The Whatever Director's Cut was announced on his blog as BAM #30 and on Bandcamp, where it was unavailable before Rosenfeld's dislike of the film in 2013.

Rosenfeld's second studio album Zweitonegolism, as a result of his experiences working in an assembly line factory, and also released the EP Sine and his second studio album Mixes, which contained remixes of songs that had previously posted on the blog. Before releasing it, Rosenfeld gifted the album to his coworker, asking, "why the hell [he was] still working here."

Rosenfeld started working with Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson in early 2009 via TIGSource. In Persson's work-in-progress video game Minecraft, Rosenfeld was responsible for the sound effects and music. Rosenfeld had to be innovative in his approach to making sound effects and music because the sound engine in the still young Java game was not very strong, so he had to be more creative in his approach to creating sound effects and music.

A Cobblers Tee Thug, Rosenfeld's friend Sohnemann's collaboration, was released in January 2010. Made in the few days they spent together in the New Year, and they competed against each other for fun to make a complete LP together in those days.

The album circle was released in March 2010 and was supposed to be the soundtrack for an unreleased indie game of the same name that was created by an unknown developer.

In August 2010, Rosenfeld published Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Photographs. Rosenfeld was recorded when Rosenfeld was still living in Germany, and at the time of releasing the album, Rosenfeld was offered military service after quitting his career, in which he did other duties. The album also contains the original soundtrack to Ezo, which Rosenfeld also created for Ludum Dare.

On Bandcamp for free in 2011, Little Things, I Forgot Something, Didn't I? (from B-side to 72 Minutes of Fame) and Seven Years of Server Statistics.

Rosenfeld, who was still working on Minecraft as a freelancer, was not on staff at Mojang Studios, the company behind Minecraft. Rosenfeld has the exclusive rights to all his music in the game, and he has released two albums containing songs from the Minecraft soundtrack. On his Bandcamp site, the first soundtrack, Minecraft – Volume Alpha, was digitally released on March 4, 2011.

Minecraft became extremely popular later this year as a young access game. Rosenfeld, who had been on an assembly line before, could now focus on music as his primary source of income. 72 Minutes of Fame, his 2011 studio album, was inspired by this film. This album mainly revolves around this life-defining period in Rosenfeld's life. This album was the first physical appearance of Rosenfeld's work. Because of their minimalistic, ambient quality, the Guardian has compared his compositions to those of Brian Eno and Erik Satie.

About half a year ago, Minecraft's Story of Mojang began as a documentary about the Minecraft evolution. Rosenfeld was asked to produce the soundtrack for this film, which was also included on his 2012 album, One.

Rosenfeld's second album of Minecraft's official soundtrack, Minecraft - Volume Beta, was released on September 9, 2013. Many of the new songs were being included in the game's attributes; i.e. The Nether or the End. The soundtrack was also released in physical form with Ghostly International in 2020, and physical copies of the Minecraft - Volume Alpha physical copies were also published. The Volume Beta range featured two CD copies of the album, a vinyl record with black and a red "fire" splatter color, as well as a numbered edition of the vinyl press on a magenta transparent plastic that was first exclusive to Europe but later re-pressed internationally.

After Minecraft's success with the development of a new game named 0x10c, Persson and Rosenfeld banded together again. The game was never released, with Persson stopping production indefinitely in August 2013.

Rosenfeld also released an EP with the music made for 0x10c in 2014. It was announced digitally with no buzz; Rosenfeld simply sent out a tweet announcing that it was available.

Rosenfeld's 148, which much like 72 Minutes of Fame, contained a substantial amount of personal data, but it was only slightly less apparent under lyrics and effects.

On Ghostly International, later this year, a Minecraft - Volume Alpha soundtrack was released on a physical format. This was the debut of a regular CD version of the album, as well as a limited edition of the album pressed on green translucent vinyl, as a digital copy of the album.

Rosenfeld speculated at a potential third album for Minecraft's soundtrack in the same year, saying, "I'll still work on Minecraft, so there'll certainly be another album." Rosenfeld said in 2017, that the album is "still far from done."

In 2016, Rosenfeld unveiled 2 Years of Misfortune, a Bandcamp exclusive compilation album of music made for failed projects or songs that would not fit somewhere else. Several songs on this album were created for an abandoned game that Rosenfeld described as having a "Japanese puzzle exchange" vibe. The original soundtrack for Crayon Physics is also included on this album. This collection includes C418's remix of the Stranger Things theme song, which attracted brisk sales in 2018. It was the most popular song on Rosenfeld's personal SoundCloud page before it was withdrawn, as well as several other tracks due to a lapsed SoundCloud Pro subscription.

In 2017, Dief was released. Teddy Dief's album was created and used as a soundtrack for an educational talk at the Game Developers Conference 2017.

Three new songs were added to the game as underwater music following the 2018 "Update Aquatic" Minecraft update. These songs, "Dragon Fish," "Shuniji," "Axolotl"), were released by Rosenfeld and Schumann respectively on August 9, November 10, and December 12, 2018, as singles on Spotify. All of them will be included in the third album. Following the pattern from the two Minecraft albums before it, Rosenfeld confirmed on Twitter that the third album would not be called "Minecraft: Volume Gamma."

Rosenfeld released Excursions, the company's lead single, "Beton" on July 20. "Thunderbird," its second single, was announced on August 20th. The album was released on September 7, 2018. Following cafes in Austin, Texas, where Rosenfeld currently lives as of 2017, several tracks on Excursions have been titled.

Excursions were released on CD and a limited vinyl album by Driftless Recordings in January 2019 and reprinted in 2021 for CD and Vinyl.

Steve's career was not included in Super Smash Bros in 2020, following the reveal of his inclusion in the game. Ultimate is for a number of undisclosed reasons, though one explanation was that it was too cool for combat. Instead, tracks of other composers created for Minecraft Legacy Console Edition, Minecraft Dungeons, and Minecraft Earth were added.

Rosenfeld replied in an interview with Anthony Fantano in January 2021 that if a third installment of the soundtrack was in the works, the answer was yes, I have something, I think it's finished, but it has become very complicated, especially because Minecraft is now a huge property. So I don't know".

Rosenfeld, a pioneer of the branching Out campaign, was published in May 2021. The EP includes the soundtrack to Branch, Dayton Mills' video conferencing software.

Rosenfeld, an 11-year-old photographer, announced on Twitter that his album "Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures" would be remastered and available on major streaming services on June 16th, 2021. Prior to being re-released on Bandcamp, the album was only available on Bandcamp.

Rosenfeld, Davey Wreden, Karla Zimonja, and Annapurna Interactive unveiled Ivy Road, a game studio established by Wreden and co-founded by Zimonja in July 2021. Rosenfeld is composing the music for an untitled game in which Rosenfeld is composing the soundtrack.

Rosenfeld revealed that he worked on a soundtrack for the 2013 game Cookie Clicker after it was announced on Steam. Rosenfeld's soundtrack was released in September 2021.

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist in August 2022. Rosenfeld and other leading musicians collaborated on the game's soundtrack. His piece "Quiet" was his contribution.

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