He met Markus Persson in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and began composing music for Minecraft when the game was in its very early stages as a tech demo. In a panel at MineCon in 2012, Rosenfeld stated that he has had a long-term interest in video games, and was involved with several video game communities.
2.3 Minecraft: Nether Update (Original Game Soundtrack).In 2017, Rosenfeld confirmed the future release, claiming the album "is still far from done". In 2015, Rosenfeld hinted at a potential upcoming third album for Minecraft 's soundtrack. The albums include music featured in the game, as well as other music included in trailers, and instrumentals that were not included in the game's final release. Minecraft 's soundtrack was released across four soundtrack albums: Minecraft – Volume Alpha (2011) and Minecraft – Volume Beta (2013) by C418, Minecraft: Nether Update (2020) and Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs (2021) by Lena Raine, with the latter containing three tracks by Kumi Tanioka. It has been praised by critics in 2011, the video game blog Kotaku chose the soundtrack as one of the best video game soundtracks of that year.
The game's soundtrack is mostly instrumental ambient music. Later on in the game's history, Lena Raine and Kumi Tanioka composed several tracks for the game. In the legacy console editions of the game, there are 12 additional songs available in DLC for the game, composed by Gareth Coker. The music of the video game Minecraft was primarily composed by German musician Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418.