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21st Jan 2010 02:49 - 14 years ago
Description : I posted this song some time back, but removed it after I entered a consultant agreement on the video with machinma.com. I decided to alter it so I could retain the rights to my music and give it away free. It is a song I made for a portal machinima video. It is only the second song I ever attempted vocals for, but it is fairly popular in the machinima community none the less. If you want to watch the video here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Q_koTHB54

Comments (33)

If you have time take a listen and give RayKoefoed some feedback.

JJWeekz
JJWeekz 2nd Jan 2013 12:44 - 11 years ago
I love the sexy 80's vibe your music and vocals gives off, wondering why you don't have as many current tracks on here. Show us more!!!
ThePissedOffRobot
ThePissedOffRobot 1st Apr 2012 03:53 - 12 years ago
Also, I just remixed your Empty Summer Nights song, its up on youtube. TPOR - Empty Summer Nights (Ft. Ray Koefoed).
ThePissedOffRobot
ThePissedOffRobot 1st Apr 2012 03:52 - 12 years ago
You should put up a acapella of this. I would love to remix it. Great song man!
CyberSon
CyberSon 20th Jun 2011 09:53 - 13 years ago
Hey Ray

This track is totally awesome! I really love the pitch bending with vox and the celtic feel. I only know a little about Portal, but this track really does illustrate it for me. Very inspirational work! Excellent and faved for certain!
Kirb
Kirb 2nd Jun 2011 07:32 - 13 years ago
hey I wanted to know where did your demo go of your up coming CD? it had a rocking part in it it was like the first 30 seconds of it it was a heavy guitar riff i love that will you be putting that up so we can here it any time? that would be wonderful
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Sorry Kirb. I took it down. I plan on being finished with the album in the next few weeks and then I will be posting the finished tracks. I think I know which song you are talking about. I have a feeling that will probably be most peoples favorite out of all of them.
Fuuuuu
Fuuuuu 14th Apr 2011 01:37 - 13 years ago
Two words to describe my reaction to this song: Impressed and amazed.

Portal is a gift from god and this song really made me smile.
matthew8755
matthew8755 10th Mar 2011 17:05 - 13 years ago
This is not real
the cake is a lie
Anyway great song dude! and Yeah I can't wait for portal 2. Multiplayer FTW!
Triggermann90
Triggermann90 10th Mar 2011 14:13 - 13 years ago
Got this on my Mp3 player listen to it everytime i start up a game of Portal. Cant wait to see what kind of stuff you can create in Portal 2 goddamn that'll be INSANE!!!
COSMICUNENDING
COSMICUNENDING 24th Feb 2011 05:07 - 13 years ago
''i can digg it,keep doin your thang''
Mrbillionx
Mrbillionx 12th Dec 2010 05:22 - 14 years ago
Any slices of cake left?

Break me off one and more of this along with it.
Devodale
Devodale 11th Dec 2010 04:59 - 14 years ago
This rocks! I heard your collabs with BigPete, so thought I'd check you out. You have great originality in your music! Fine production thoughout. Gee, I should send you something to collab on .....
Ishimizu
Ishimizu 18th Aug 2010 11:38 - 14 years ago
nice one man oO
I especially like the drums... no real reason wh exactly thought... and the style itself reminds me on some of my fav bands.
Insta-fav XD
JohnBoutilier
JohnBoutilier 6th Aug 2010 07:00 - 14 years ago
Excellent track, brother, nothing more to say. A great effort, love everything about it.

John
MCHN
MCHN 27th Jul 2010 12:19 - 14 years ago
Sweet! I had heard it before after I saw the video for that Machina vid for TrackMania. Brings back good times with Portal. The video's so cool also. That chorus is so damn catchy lol. Hopefully we will get another tune for Portal 2 from ya Ray. Cheers :D
StephenPotter
StephenPotter 23rd Jul 2010 15:59 - 14 years ago
The video was great for this track, do you still play gmod ray? Cos I'd like to talk to you on it sometime.
The lyrics are great, must have taken ages to do and I think this is probably the best tribute to portal thats out there.. its the only reason at the moment I miss my xbox (because I can no longer play portal) The chorus singing is great, and it sounds like one of the turrets. I like the part about the companion cube, that was my faviroute line in the song.

I also said a great comment to you about it on youtube, congrats by the way for having over 1 million views on the video.

I favourited this one because you must have spent a ton of effort on this track, plus more for the video.

Ste :)
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thanks a lot Stephen. I haven't done much with gmod lately. In fact, I don't even have any of my HL2 stuff on my PC anymore. I have kind of been trying to move on to making original cut out type animations to avoid the copyright issues with machinima videos. I am sure it would be fun to hang out with you in the game, but the truth is that I never set up the Steam friend thing. I only played it off line to avoid all of the extra addons uploaded from other people that would have slowed things down worse then they already are.

Thanks again for the very nice review and comment on YouTube. Feel free to send a friend invite to me there if we aren't already friends on YT.
NADMS1
NADMS1 1st Jul 2010 12:23 - 14 years ago
i like this.. this is trippy ass cool stuff
CrashTheSystem
CrashTheSystem 27th Jun 2010 23:50 - 14 years ago
Oh wow i had no idea that you made this masterpiece! A while back i was watching sum portal vids cuz i was just starting the game and i found that and i instantly fell in love with it! Now i found out you made it and i couldnt be more surprised. Btw i used sum of your lyrics in a song i will send you the link once i upload it thanx a ton!
rfalkenburg
rfalkenburg 27th Jun 2010 18:35 - 14 years ago
Listened to this halfway while I was reviewing your website, and then watched the video in full. Thats cool, but as I am not familiar with half life, a lot of it didn't make sense, but to be able to create that was neat. I also checked out your art. The snake bite was interesting and I appreciate the Greek ruin. There is a guy here that draws serious angel warrior stuff. I will get his site if you are interested. I can't draw so I use a camera. www.RussFalkenburg.com. check it out if you get a chance.
phantomhim
phantomhim 26th Jun 2010 01:17 - 14 years ago
Have you been playing portal? : )

Very orig, very nice stuff, off to the next track...
ChaseManhattan
ChaseManhattan 10th May 2010 17:51 - 14 years ago
i promised i would listen and review all the tracks on that forum tell people what tracks you want them to hear so here i am.

the beginning is awesome lol.

the lyrics match well with the beat. i like it a lot. a new fav!
After_The_End
After_The_End 19th Apr 2010 14:30 - 14 years ago
yeh, im into this love the beats and the feel....
Sobea
Sobea 17th Apr 2010 23:29 - 14 years ago
The first time I saw the Taste the Cake machinima, which was several months ago now I believe, I fell in love with this song. Incidentally, this is the very first song from Mr. Ray Koefoed that I heard. It almost got me in the mood to replay Portal just to hear all of GLaDOS's hilarious one liners.
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
thank you Sobea. It is a fun game. I am looking forward to the new portal 2.
Alen9R
Alen9R 13th Apr 2010 01:41 - 14 years ago
wwooowww!!
what to say ...........
fav. for sure
You put great vocal from the girl!!
finish of track,with Irish tune
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thanks again 9Rihter. Yeh, I did some pitch bending and other effects for the chorus. It was meant to sound like the turrets in the game. It is cool you say it sounded Irish, because I always try to go for a celtic sound with string instruments.
jethro2010
jethro2010 8th Apr 2010 15:14 - 14 years ago
Wow I am amazed its so original and catchy love it!!!!!
keep it up!!!
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thanks very much Jethro
dj_anthro
dj_anthro 19th Mar 2010 18:27 - 14 years ago
this track be great, man why did not valve get you into their music division?
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Funny you mention that Anthro. I sent an email to the job department of Valve last weekend (when I learned they are making Portal 2), and said I was applying for the job of making the music for the credits and gave them a link to the video. I of course haven't heard back. It would be great though.
Smith
Smith 28th Feb 2010 02:27 - 14 years ago
Awesome completely genius:)Your right about the cake!Damn cake was evil.That was a damn hard game when i played it but of course i used cheats:/ Anyway good song man!Peace!
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thank you for the nice review Smith. I thought it was tough too the first time. I am anxious to see what they do with Portal 2. I know now they are making one.
Salook
Salook 22nd Feb 2010 22:41 - 14 years ago
Hey Raykoefoed, caught this in the feature box, saw your name and gave it a listen, man i knew this would be great before i even pressed play. love what you do and the stories within your music, that was a tasty piece of cake man, cheers.
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thanks for the nice comment Salook. I am pleased you liked the taste =)
DJAid
DJAid 8th Feb 2010 20:45 - 14 years ago
Kinda eerie track but it sounds great.Both vocals regular/ Pitched are cool as hell too. Nice instruments too. The beats basic but brings great flow to the track. Nice track Its going on my favs.
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thank you DJAid
LittleRailTrouble
LittleRailTrouble 1st Feb 2010 04:30 - 14 years ago
The song was awesome. I watched the machinima video aswell it was hilarious...Very very cool.
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thank you. For some reason that is the most popular video I have done yet. It is funny, because I sent it to machinima as just an idea for making my own music for videos. I guess I need to go back to making music for fun and stop trying so hard to progress. Anyway, thanks for the nice reply.
RogueAi
RogueAi 21st Jan 2010 14:51 - 14 years ago
Great track! I played this game and thought wouldn't those voices be cool in a song?
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thanks Travis. I know what you mean. The sound effects seemed like they were even meant to be in some kind of strange techno song, to me.
DextDee
DextDee 21st Jan 2010 09:16 - 14 years ago
oh my first love with raykoefoed, always loved this bass man, and yes i remember this track. as soon as i played it again i knew it was familiar b4 the bass came in.
glad to c it back.

DextDee
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thank you DextDee. It is funny how it works, that bass track was something I just threw together to go with another instrument. The instruments I spend a lot of time on trying to make sound as good as I can don't end up being as good as the ones I don't put much effort into. I haven't quite figured it out yet. It almost seems like music isn't meant to be too fine tuned or tweaked.
theHumps
theHumps 21st Jan 2010 08:51 - 14 years ago
This was very cool and a little different approach with the vocals. There was just the right amount of production in this song, wasn't overdone, just perfect.

Wayne
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Thanks very much Wayne
sterixx
sterixx 21st Jan 2010 06:44 - 14 years ago
Hi Ray - whats up, my friend?? :D

man, this one is really great - i really like this style, the vocals (and the pitched one, nice idea) to this beat - real catchy one. the instrumental is top.

cheers, Frank
RayKoefoed
RayKoefoed replied Unknown
Hey Frank!
Thanks for the review. Sorry we never got to finish that song we worked on. You are a great guy to work with and very talented. I look forward to hearing more of your stuff.

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