"Point of Departure"
(pod.s3m)

this is my favorite module of all time, i've listened to this countless of times and it's just awesome, everything about it is perfect.

Posted by Coltvay on Tue 2nd May 2023

I like this track very much! It's so relaxed and very well arranged. Starting with these wavelike strings and moving in the theme. Very nice!

Posted by WoT on Fri 15th Oct 2021

An absolute classic! One of the greats back in the day. Used to listen to this with my best mate back in '95. Was a big inspiration for tracking. Necros really knew his stuff and still does amazing music.

Posted by auxie on Sat 17th Jul 2021

im glad i use openmpt to open tracker files!

Posted by Otem1999 on Mon 4th Jan 2021

point of departure is a pure 10. nothing less. had it in a floppy. found it again here

Posted by makaronoteras on Thu 5th Sep 2019

The original version of Point of Departure is awesome.

Posted by Atekuro on Mon 27th May 2019

This is an older tune with not realy high quality sound. However, I like it.

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Posted by Janko Weber on Mon 27th Mar 2017

I learned how to track by reading the Zen of Tracking, which has since vanished from the face of the internet. "Point of Departure" was mentioned as a gold standard. It more or less lives up to its name.

Posted by NoSuck on Thu 29th Sep 2016

This is an amazing track! Of course, it's Necros, and I didn't know until now. This would've worked well in Unreal Tournament (well, it's in a mod). It gives me nostalgic feelings (probably because it was written in 1995). This is just perfect.

Posted by Neo Falcon on Mon 7th May 2012

Very good track, with all this Cure-Like atmosphere going on.

Posted by goodyntox on Sun 21st Aug 2011

I remember when I first time listened this track on my first PC ( 1995 ). The intro pads are awesome and makes me cry :-)

Posted by msk on Wed 27th Jul 2011

I've probably listened to this track 1000+ times, not kidding. I've used it as an alarm track in my stereo also. Samples are a bit bad, but this is absolutely the only negative thing, the rest is virtually flawless. No repetitiveness, excellent usage of panning and other effects.

Posted by Unstruct on Mon 20th Jun 2011

I remember when I first downloaded this years and years ago, it's a number by a guy named Necros aka Andrew Sega. This is the OLD SKOOL of trax... some of you guys weren't even born when these primordial hits were rocking the scene. You owe it to yourself to get ANYTHING by Necros or Basehead or their Five Musicians group... this stuff is an object lesson in advanced music composition. Nothing made today even comes close to this quality.

Posted by raveolution on Sat 10th Jul 2010

Yes, for me too! One of not just favorite modules, but *pieces of music of all time*!

Posted by Sergeisergeievich on Wed 23rd Jun 2010

One of my favorite modules of all time. I always get a good feeling when I listen to this tune. Nice chords, good panning, excellent percussion, excellent everything!

Posted by 8bitbubsy on Sun 21st Feb 2010

Still one of my fav's from necros.still has that nice feeling about it :)

Posted by BtMe on Tue 20th Jan 2009

Remembered this was once of the many tunes I collected back in the early days of the internet.

Years later the song went around in my head but I couldn't remember the artist of name, all I could remember was something about trains in the sample text.

Many years later I tried mod archive and found it again, my ears and brain wept with joy when they were exposed to this awesome song once again. Thanks Necros!

Posted by babydee on Sun 18th Jan 2009

This one was my "Point of Departure": was my very first module i ever listened! I love this tune a lot!
And thanks for this module, i've started to compose music, when i'm 13!
10+!

Posted by SoDa7 on Sat 9th Jun 2007

Wow, this an amazing Track - nice drums, nice leads, nice chords - everything is nice :> The musicdisk this tune was used in is also very interesting! If you collect them, look for it :)

Posted by Saga Musix on Sat 17th Feb 2007

Beautiful. In one word. So spacey, a track that makes you feel good inside. A lot of echoeed panned synths and a beautiful string melody which sounds really trippy. It's like a ride in a train, or driving at 200 mh at the highway. The breakbeats sound nice. Th could be a bit firmer, but that's the only little remark what I can make up for this classic. Must download. It's a technical piece of art for an screamtracker 3 mod. Necros picked out just the right samples and put them all right in place. The samples are heavily effected just with tracker commands, no special effect samples are used, and the way Necros has done this is something you see in a very little mods. Also a good song as example for making the better tracked modules. It 'll keep you busy for a while.

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Sun 11th Jul 1999