I did a bit of music myself and would love to share it, although I don't really think its good enough for such a project like yours.
Anyway, all of my currently released songs are on my blog: http://sixumbrellas.de/?cat=25
The ones I would kind of recommend - although I did not yet play your mod: Impact (http://sixumbrellas.de/?p=639) Habanero (http://sixumbrellas.de/?p=13) Overhead (http://sixumbrellas.de/?p=638)
Let me know if you like to use any of my songs or if you have any questions :)
I'm sorry if i don't understand this, but... have the copyright owners of the said tracks contacted you and asked you to remove the tracks? If not, what risks are there with keeping the tracks?
Don't know if any of these would be of use, but they are free:
http://fintag.com/sheepfarm/xmelons.asp
October 24, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Anonymous said...
@anders h
The problem may be that they don't want to violate copyright law. You might as well say that "oh, well no one has ever contacted me directly about killing people, so I might as well kill someone."
October 24, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Anonymous said...
Have you listened to the complete Ghosts I-IV? I know you used three tracks but they were only from the first segment, which was provided free. The Creative Commons licence covers the whole album and so it isn't illegal to download the full thing without paying (although you really should... ;) )
October 24, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Anonymous said...
Maybe the demoscene can help you - Have a look around http://www.scene.org/ Regards, lambdacore
October 24, 2008 at 8:50 PM
Anonymous said...
After listening to this song, it seems that something very similar could be made fairly quickly with the program ACID. You could easily match the tempo and percussion sound and then fill in with instrumental loops and sound effects to flesh out the piece. You would'nt get the lyrics, but could end up with something with the same feel.
October 24, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Anonymous said...
In addition to keeping the song in the GlaDOS fight you should implement the music video on to the TV screens in GlaDOS's chambers.
I'd really prefer to keep "Believe" in Prelude. I'd say contacting them about including the song (and maybe even the video) in the GLaDOS fight. Maybe just change it in the next update, and change it back if you get the rights?
October 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Anonymous said...
Hum, Binärpilot may be a interesting choice. They have a industrial and robotic theme just like the Believe videoclip. Check some musics:
http://binaerpilot.no/visuals/id.9wQxQ3xOzew.html
PS: I know, zoontek showed before, but anyway... And go Jamendo, most of the free musics are there. (For some reason I think you've already gone there.)
I think you'll have trouble, because you'll never find something EQUAL to the Believe song.
October 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Anonymous said...
Oh, forgot, maybe the Destroy the Popollution would fit... ^^
Binarpilot - Fuayfsilfm Low Cost Music - R.o.b.o.t
Go on Jamendo! ;)
October 25, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Anonymous said...
pendulum - slam
Video- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqh9N-Mw5E
The intro is a bit long but this might work. I really think having "Believe" at the end makes the ending sequence so good. Its a shame you guys have to change it.
October 25, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Anonymous said...
i forgot to add, fast forward to 1:30 to get to the music in that video above. :)
October 25, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Anonymous said...
i think that it would ruin the mood of the ending to have a different song. i'm sure that you could work out a deal. i mean, just having the song in portal prelude is free advertising for them, and i'm sure you could give them an easter egg in one of the hidden rooms if they wanted to. It's more likely to make people buy the rest of their album than to lose them money.
October 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey, the current song is absolutely the best :) but if you have to implement a new one you should take a look at these ones from the newgrounds audio portal :D : http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/20703 http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/12922 http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/108079 http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/55992
I hope you like them :) good luck with finding an appropriate song! :D.
Greets MMjr
October 26, 2008 at 2:44 AM
Anonymous said...
you could try the song from the trailer to the ether mod for hl2, its available for free download and its got some pretty nice beats in it, my fav part is at 2:36
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Some people asked us why we decided to use two commercial tracks in Portal: Prelude. They claimed it was a wrong idea and that was right, we missed a few opportunities because of this choice (mainly press coverage). Even if we tried to shorten them up and degrade their quality as bad as we could (Scorpions' extract is only 50 seconds long and degraded a lot) a few people still claimed it wasn't fair.
In the next release, we decided to replace the 4 occurences of Rock You Like a Hurricane by the Scorpions with 4 different variations of the Still Alive song (R'n'B, rock, techno and classical). We don't really know if it will change anything special but, well... At least we took care of one of the two commercial tracks.
During the last week, we searched for a replacement song for Believe by The Chemical Brothers(the song during the GlaDOS fight), but to be honest, nothing came out of this research. We are totally unable to find a free song that matches quite correctly the feeling of Believe. And as you may not know it already, we chose this song because of its rythm and also because of its video clip, as you can see:
Yesterday, I wondered if I could directly get in touch with their label, to try to get their permission to keep this 3 minutes degraded extract in our free project. But it could just bring us even more problems. So, if you know any free-of-use (free or creative commons licensed) track we could use to replace it, we'd be willing to know about it. It should be long enough and "repetitive" enough to be looped over and over without beeing annoying (Looks like we love to ask your help).
38 Comments
Close this window Jump to comment formYeah. First again!
The music clip is the prequel of Portal: Prelude. :D
October 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM
I think you're addicted to this website =D
October 24, 2008 at 10:02 AM
xD
I'm addicted to Portal (Prelude).
I pre-purchased The Orange Box only (!) because of Portal!
October 24, 2008 at 10:05 AM
check out some products from bioxeed like "lacrimosa" or smth.
iam pretty sure he will give you rights to use it.
October 24, 2008 at 10:17 AM
You could also Ugress (http://www.ugress.com).
He offers his music for free download (lower quality) on his website. So he might be open for this project as well.
He has some really nice songs (Reason to believe, Loungemeister, Trigger 22, Supermodel, Battle 22)
Check it out, I'd say.
October 24, 2008 at 10:47 AM
I did a bit of music myself and would love to share it, although I don't really think its good enough for such a project like yours.
Anyway, all of my currently released songs are on my blog:
http://sixumbrellas.de/?cat=25
The ones I would kind of recommend - although I did not yet play your mod:
Impact (http://sixumbrellas.de/?p=639)
Habanero (http://sixumbrellas.de/?p=13)
Overhead (http://sixumbrellas.de/?p=638)
Let me know if you like to use any of my songs or if you have any questions :)
Best regards
Thomas
October 24, 2008 at 11:36 AM
I'm sorry if i don't understand this, but... have the copyright owners of the said tracks contacted you and asked you to remove the tracks? If not, what risks are there with keeping the tracks?
October 24, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Moby?
http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html
October 24, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Heres a good one ^^ I dont know if its free...
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=rdMhTL5bZrs&feature=related
hear it to end ! XD
October 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Don't know if any of these would be of use, but they are free:
http://fintag.com/sheepfarm/xmelons.asp
October 24, 2008 at 2:19 PM
@anders h
The problem may be that they don't want to violate copyright law. You might as well say that "oh, well no one has ever contacted me directly about killing people, so I might as well kill someone."
October 24, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Have you listened to the complete Ghosts I-IV? I know you used three tracks but they were only from the first segment, which was provided free. The Creative Commons licence covers the whole album and so it isn't illegal to download the full thing without paying (although you really should... ;) )
October 24, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Maybe the demoscene can help you - Have a look around http://www.scene.org/
Regards,
lambdacore
October 24, 2008 at 8:50 PM
After listening to this song, it seems that something very similar could be made fairly quickly with the program ACID. You could easily match the tempo and percussion sound and then fill in with instrumental loops and sound effects to flesh out the piece. You would'nt get the lyrics, but could end up with something with the same feel.
October 24, 2008 at 9:06 PM
In addition to keeping the song in the GlaDOS fight you should implement the music video on to the TV screens in GlaDOS's chambers.
October 24, 2008 at 9:55 PM
I really like the song during the final fight, i hope you decide or find that you can keep it.
October 25, 2008 at 12:46 AM
Might want to check out the newgrounds audio portal for some stuff, I found a few songs that might work =]
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/64061
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/175655
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/176060
~ rm249
October 25, 2008 at 6:45 AM
Check out Paniq - Fan among the demoscene:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paniq
http://www.paniq.org
October 25, 2008 at 7:15 AM
Binarpilot?
http://binaerpilot.no/
October 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM
I'd really prefer to keep "Believe" in Prelude. I'd say contacting them about including the song (and maybe even the video) in the GLaDOS fight. Maybe just change it in the next update, and change it back if you get the rights?
October 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Hum, Binärpilot may be a interesting choice. They have a industrial and robotic theme just like the Believe videoclip. Check some musics:
http://binaerpilot.no/visuals/id.9wQxQ3xOzew.html
PS: I know, zoontek showed before, but anyway... And go Jamendo, most of the free musics are there. (For some reason I think you've already gone there.)
I think you'll have trouble, because you'll never find something EQUAL to the Believe song.
October 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Oh, forgot, maybe the Destroy the Popollution would fit... ^^
http://binaerpilot.no/ycsdf/02_binaerpilot_-_destroy_the_popollution.mp3
October 25, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Binarpilot - Fuayfsilfm
Low Cost Music - R.o.b.o.t
Go on Jamendo! ;)
October 25, 2008 at 5:14 PM
pendulum - slam
Video- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqh9N-Mw5E
The intro is a bit long but this might work. I really think having "Believe" at the end makes the ending sequence so good. Its a shame you guys have to change it.
October 25, 2008 at 8:26 PM
i forgot to add, fast forward to 1:30 to get to the music in that video above. :)
October 25, 2008 at 8:29 PM
i think that it would ruin the mood of the ending to have a different song. i'm sure that you could work out a deal. i mean, just having the song in portal prelude is free advertising for them, and i'm sure you could give them an easter egg in one of the hidden rooms if they wanted to. It's more likely to make people buy the rest of their album than to lose them money.
October 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Hey, the current song is absolutely the best :) but if you have to implement a new one you should take a look at these ones from the newgrounds audio portal :D :
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/20703
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/12922
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/108079
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/55992
I hope you like them :) good luck with finding an appropriate song! :D.
Greets MMjr
October 26, 2008 at 2:44 AM
you could try the song from the trailer to the ether mod for hl2, its available for free download and its got some pretty nice beats in it, my fav part is at 2:36
http://browndyedhotel.com/media/this_song_needs_more_cowbell_-_Salkinitzor.mp3
October 26, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Why not use something from Nine Inch Nails' The Slip?
Maybe Echoplex or Discipline would fit. The beat for Discipline is the same.
And, just like Ghosts, it's under the Creative Commons license.
October 27, 2008 at 10:12 PM
I support the Ugress suggestion!
October 28, 2008 at 8:24 AM
Kevin McLeod (the gentleman that runs http://incompetech.com) takes requests for royalty free music. He just wants a credit.
November 1, 2008 at 7:20 PM
Sorry, typo, it's "MacLeod"
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