Orange Single

[DigiQ8]

Valve today revealed that it has tapped the songwriting talents of Jonathon Coulton, computer programmer turned modern day rock star, for a surprise single to be included in its massive multi-platform game offering, The Orange Box.[br]
Coulton is known for his witty pop songs referencing subjects like science fiction, math and video games as well as his fiercely loyal following online. After quitting his day job as a computer programmer, Jonathan created "Thing a Week" where he wrote one new song every week and posted it to his website which quickly turned into over 500,000 downloads from his website.

"I am delighted the Valve design team selected me to help make the surprise single a success. If it's not every geek's dream to be immortalized in a video game, it was mine," said Jonathan.

In the mean time you can listen to Jonathan's Code Monkey here. (Thanks Pitzy)

 

[Lobster]

I am gonna hazard a guess and say 'Portal'

 

[CyberPitz]

I was pretty surprised when I learned of this. good for him. Code Monkey is a pretty good song, so I can't wait to see what song this is.

 

[Asuka]

Interesting. Dont know much about him, will listen to that song later.

 

[Iron_cube]

So bscly we get a free song from some composer with the OB?

 

[Sui]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BmK8PYm504&NR=1[/youtube]

 

[hool10]

Heavy modified for HL2. Its gotta be the ending because it's an upbeat song and if you listen to it, it's about Gordon. The only techno (if you can call it that) songs I like is HL songs. I think it's an interesting departure from the same game music we hear all the time. One of the best songs for a game other than HL is Doom 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQdIMRhwwZ8 Really good use of instrumentals such as the electric guitar, and drums. So kudo's to Valve for thinking outside of the box (again).

 

[TwwIX]

Meh,not my type of music.
Good for him though.

 

[nutcrackr]

How would this fit into Episode 2 at all? Even Portal I can't see it fitting too great, maybe in TF2 with that sort of slap stick style action...but it can't be that can it? Surely these types of songs don't fit into the Portal universe?

 

[Tuskin]

I can't wait to hear what he has written for the Orange box.

 

[Sloth]

When I read the title I thought that Steam had just become an online music publisher - but this should be a nice thing hidden in the OB...

 

[Hellrider]

Wth? why ?

 

[Tuskin]

Wth? why ?

Because it is cool. and congrats on your 100th post.

http://csnation.net/view.php/press/valve-coulton.csn

Here is an extended article.

 

[Pinkle]

Aw, I like the sound of the one in the youtube video. Nice little surprise!

 

[Reginald]

I can imagine GLaDOS playing you some music in Portal.

 

[z3rb]

I love Coulton's previous work (I have all his music in my WinAmp library), so I can't wait to hear it.

 

[wlodi]

A nice surprise! I kind of never heard about this guy, but his music sounds good. I wonder if it's going to be physically included in The Orange Box or will it be available as download of some sort?

 

[Polaris]

http://www.myspace.com/jonathancoulton

I like his songs now, very good stuff and he made some really nice covers of Queen songs.
So, he will make songs about Half-Life?

 

[Portman]

Any idea how the Steam users will get this single? Is it inside the files with the game or are we expecting a separate download?

 

[FriedchikenCamo]

After Orange Box was released, I have a strong suspicion about what awsome song was written.