That year was also released the album Circle, the soundtrack for a 2008 unreleased indie game bearing the same name, created by an unknown developer. Made in the few days they spent together in the New Year, and they challenged each other, for fun, to make a full-length LP together in those days. In January 2010, fourth studio album A Cobblers Tee Thug, a collaborative work with Rosenfeld's friend Sohnemann was released. The sound engine in the still young Java game was not very powerful, so Rosenfeld had to be creative in his approach to creating sound effects and music. Rosenfeld was responsible for the sound effects and music in Persson's work-in-progress video game Minecraft. In early 2009, Rosenfeld began collaborating with the Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson through an internet forum called TIGSource. It was also his first album not to be released on the blog.Ģ009–2013: Minecraft, becoming a freelance composer, and One It is not a translation to English, as that loosely translates to "silliness on Wednesday". His third studio album, Bushes and Marshmallows, is loosely related to his blog, titled Blödsinn am Mittwoch. Rosenfeld showed the album to his co-worker prior to releasing it, in which they asked "why the hell still working there". His first release was the 2007 EP BPS, and shortly thereafter, in 2008, he challenged himself to make a studio album as quickly as possible, for fun, prioritizing quantity over quality, The Whatever Director's Cut was released on his blog as BAM #30 and on his Bandcamp, where it was available until it was removed in 2013, due to Rosenfeld's dislike of the album.Īlso in 2008, Rosenfeld released Mixes, a 25-minute medley containing remixes of songs previously posted on the blog, also were released the EP Sine, and his second studio album Zweitonegoismus, the album expressed his feelings working in an assembly line factory.
Later, Rosenfeld started making albums and releasing them on the blog and also Bandcamp, as a hobby. In 2007, Rosenfeld started a blog known as "Blödsinn am Mittwoch" ( English: "Silliness on Wednesday"), where he posted a new song every week. This was around the same time when he became interested in game development and audio, which resulted in him joining the indie game development forum TIGSource, where he became involved with numerous smaller games and game developers (among them, Rosenfeld unofficially released the soundtracks of Zombie Dog in Crazyland and Mubbly Tower on his site and old blog ). 2002–2009: Career beginnings Īfter being introduced to music production by Rosenfeld's brother, Daniel started releasing music on Bandcamp after Danny Baranowsky suggested releasing his music on the site. His brother was also known as C818, from which he chose the name C418, claiming that the name is "really cryptic and doesn't actually mean anything".
It was his brother, Harry Rosenfeld, who introduced him to music composition through Ableton Live, commenting that "even an idiot" can successfully create music with it. He learned to create music on early versions of Schism Tracker (a popular clone of Impulse Tracker) and Ableton Live in the early 2000s, both rudimentary tools at the time. Rosenfeld was born and grew up in East Germany in 1989, the son of a Soviet-born father of German descent working as a goldsmith and a German mother. 1.5 2021–present: Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures remaster, Ivy Road and Cookie Clicker.
1.4 2016–2021: 2 Years of Failure, Excursions, and further independent music.1.3 2013–2016: Minecraft - Volume Beta, 0x10 c, and other independent projects.1.2 2009–2013: Minecraft, becoming a freelance composer, and One.