Echo's Call Remix (arc-echoscallrmx.s3m)

 When I first started getting into mod music, there were a number of other teenagers in my town who also made mod music and shared it on our local BBS of choice, R-Squared. The two who were most notable were Kalanaras and Subliminal, both of whom had written songs that made me want to start composing music as well. One such song was Echo’s Call, by Kalanaras.

Echo’s Call was also the source of most of the samples of my very first song, O U T C A S T (which wasn’t very good). But by this point, now that the summer programming course was over and I could take more time to compose music, I decided I would compose my own take on Echo’s Call.

The end result is that I finally wrote something better than my best song by this point, Segue. Granted, I didn’t come up with the melody. It wasn’t even that different from the original, aside from being a bit longer and having an interlude in the middle, starting at the percussion solo. Still, I was learning at this point to take a little more time and put some more care into my music.

Now, as with most of my songs in the Nucleus era, the order I wrote things in was a little murky. However, I’m pretty confident that I composed this sometime between July 11 (the end of the class) and July 24 (the save date on this file).

I don’t think Kalanaras ever released his songs outside of our little R-Squared community. I briefly met him in person once, later that year when he came to a performance of a high school musical I was in (The Fantasticks - which I later made a mod version of! The Fantasticks Act 1). In all likelihood, his songs (including the original Echo’s Call) are lost forever. Subliminal would later expand beyond our BBS, but I’ll talk about him in later write-ups (for Inclined, namely, but also Outcast the Third).
- arcturus