One
Comment: notable, however it is almost the same as Minecraft: The Story of Mojang(the section dedicated to it)...I fail to see why a separate article? Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:21, 17 September 2026 (UTC)
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| 📅 Released | December 23, 2012 | |||
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| 🤑 Producer | C418 | |||
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One is the soundtrack album to Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, composed by Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld, the game's original composer and sound designer. It was released on December 23, 2012, and contains 31 tracks.[1][2] Rosenfeld had wanted to work on a film, and agreed when 2 Player Productions asked him to compose the score. To do so, he stopped working on the game "seriously" for about a year and a half.[3](18:42) The album was an experiment on the concept of "Schönhören", a word in German roughly meaning "the act of listening to something until you start to like it". Rosenfeld described the album as "pretty relaxed, with a mix of live recorded chiptune, orchestral phrases and a lot of Array mbiras".[4]
Composition
The first song he composed for the film was a seven-minute track synchronized to the first footage he was given, which he described as "basically a failure".[3](19:42) He spent two weeks on the first track, and realized composing the entire film like that as a single person was not possible.[3](20:18) He would start composing material beginning with a 2–5-second "jingle" sound, and looped it.[3](22:05) He would then add a bassline to the four looping notes, choosing a bass sample from chipsounds, a Game Boy sound emulator, and usually doubled up on them because he liked them.[3](22:36–23:10) Then, he would add a drum track. For one song, he sampled the drums from a James Brown song.[3](23:10) For the melody, he would change the key of the music to create it, making patterns such as crescendos.[3](23:20)
When it occurred to Rosenfeld that he was composing for a documentary, and that loud music would not be fitting, he decided to "make it longer and louder", a choice he did not understand.[3](24:07) He also implemented an mbira called a kalimba with five octaves, matching the chord progression. This instrument cost Rosenfeld €2,000 (Error when using {{Inflation}}: |index=EU (parameter 1) not a recognized index.), an expense he thought was unwise.[3](24:25–24:40) He decided to implement this instrument into the entire score, providing a satisfactory theme due to its uniqueness.[3](24:24–25:30) Rosenfeld eventually decided the music's volume needed to be addressed, and found slowing it down useful.[3](25:29) To make the music fit the documentary without being "annoying as hell", he simply did this in places and added in the Game Boy samples.[3](25:53–27:21) To make the music sound fuller, he added piano, in some places playing it by plucking.[3](27:21) Rosenfeld felt the slowness of the music made it mellow and fitting for the emotional moments in the documentary.[3](28:16) He then sped the music up again and repeated the process.[3](28:34)
Release
One was physically released in CD format by Fangamer. The two-disc pack features exclusive remixes by Crashfaster, Danimal Cannon, Bud Melvin, and minusbaby.[5] Kickstarter supporters of the film who donated US$10 or more received the soundtrack, those who donated $30 or more received a free digital soundtrack download, and those who pledged $60 or more received the physical CD.[6] HobbyConsolas wrote that C418's soundtrack was "spectacular",[7] while Vice called the album a "gleeful and unobtrusive collection of short melodic instrumentals that skip around daintily like cute little bashful kittens, but with a dark self-deprecating humour lurking beneath".[8]
Rosenfeld said in 2021 that he considers One his favorite non-Minecraft project because beyond it serving as a soundtrack, he dedicated much of his effort to the quality of the album, and that he enjoyed the way he placed recurring melodies throughout it. He said that this recurrence would "burn" the melodies "in your brain", and would cause the listener to remember "exactly everything very well" once they had finished listening to the album. He said that with this, he hoped the listener would be able to "skip" the part where they would have to re-listen to a given song to learn it.[9](30:39–31:39)
Track listing
Composed, produced and mastered by C418.[10]
| One track listing | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Cliffside Hinson" | 3:46 |
| 2. | "Surface Pension" | 6:34 |
| 3. | "Independent Accident" | 4:11 |
| 4. | "Danny Makes Chiptune" | 2:46 |
| 5. | "The First Million" | 3:19 |
| 6. | "Certitudes" | 4:33 |
| 7. | "Impostor Syndrome" | 2:24 |
| 8. | "Buildup Errors" | 3:26 |
| 9. | "For the Sake of Making Games" | 1:33 |
| 10. | "Preliminary Art Form" | 3:07 |
| 11. | "Lawyer Cage Fight" | 1:58 |
| 12. | "Lost Cousins" | 1:31 |
| 13. | "Total Drag" | 2:47 |
| 14. | "Drunken Carboni" | 3:04 |
| 15. | "The Weirdest Year of Your Life" | 3:58 |
| 16. | "Swarms" | 2:51 |
| 17. | "Diskdance" | 2:22 |
| 18. | "PR Department" | 1:25 |
| 19. | "Faux Video Production" | 3:08 |
| 20. | "One Last Game" | 1:19 |
| 21. | "This Doesn't Work" | 5:30 |
| 22. | "Wooden Love" | 1:33 |
| 23. | "I Glove Thy Flob" (featuring Disco[a]) | 1:47 |
| 24. | "Post Success Depression" | 3:12 |
| 25. | "Social Lego" | 4:51 |
| 26. | "Jayson Glove" | 3:18 |
| 27. | "Clumsiness and Innovation" | 3:03 |
| 28. | "No Pressure" | 3:04 |
| 29. | "One" | 2:27 |
| 30. | "Fifflas" (featuring Nifflas) | 1:34 |
| 31. | "Tsuki no Koibumi" (featuring Laura Shigihara[b]) | 5:07 |
| Total length: | 95:28 | |
| CD bonus remixes | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 32. | "No Pressure" (minusbaby 'But the Snow in Brooklyn') | 4:35 |
| 33. | "Jayson Glove" (Bud Melvin '2 players 1 little piggy') | 4:14 |
| 34. | "The First Million" (Danimal Cannon 'MultiMillion Mix') | 2:59 |
| 35. | "Preliminary Art Form" (Crashfaster 'Nether Mix') | 3:12 |
| Total length: | 110:28 | |
Notes
- ^[a] Composition by Johann "D Major" Pachelbel, rearranged by Disco and C418[10]
- ^[b] Voice and lyrics by Laura Shigihara[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "one | C418". Bandcamp. Archived from the original on September 17, 2024. Retrieved January 20, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Q&A: C418's Minecraft – Volume Alpha soundtrack". Indie Games Plus. UBM plc. May 17, 2011. Archived from the original on August 4, 2019. Retrieved June 8, 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 Rosenfeld, Daniel (November 28, 2012). Minecon 2012 – The Music of Minecraft & Minecraft Documentary. Minecon 2012. PC Gamer. Future plc. Archived from the original on November 27, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2024 – via YouTube. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rosenfeld, Daniel. "one – C418". C418.org. Archived from the original on June 17, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "C418 – one – Fangamer". Fangamer. Archived from the original on July 15, 2024. Retrieved October 14, 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Purchese, Robert (February 22, 2011). "MineCraft documentary needs your cash". Eurogamer. Eurogamer Network. Archived from the original on May 21, 2024. Retrieved November 10, 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Lloret, Alberto (April 3, 2013). "Crítica de Minecraft The Story of Mojang – Cine para gamers" [Review of Minecraft The Story of Mojang – Cinema for gamers]. HobbyConsolas (in español). Axel Springer SE. Archived from the original on October 1, 2023. Retrieved December 13, 2025. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Zadeh, Joe (August 25, 2015). "The 15 Albums That Will Make You Less Shit at Doing Work". Vice. Vice Media. Archived from the original on August 5, 2024. Retrieved August 5, 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rosenfeld, Daniel (January 8, 2021). "10 Years of the Minecraft Soundtrack | C418 INTERVIEW". The Needle Drop (Interview). Interviewed by Fantano, Anthony. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2024 – via YouTube. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 C418 (2012). One (liner notes). Fangamer. 859709352541.
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