I had thought about using the first song you hear in the first stage, Arrival: Arrival, being "Landing" but I might actually hold onto that one for an October MIDI Week Single next year. So coincidentally, we move on to "Leela" which is the song that plays during the second stage, Arrival: Bigger Guns Nearby. That's not to say that "Leela" doesn't have a little bit of creepiness to the song, but it's a bit more upbeat than "Landing." By the second stage, you have an idea of what you're in for, with a ship full of aggressive aliens going around corrupting ship systems while you unravel the story of what happened from onboard AI, one of whose name is Leela.
I'm not really sure what's going on at 1:10 through the end of the song with the clicking sounds. I haven't progressed far enough to know if that's a sound I'm supposed to recognize or be afraid of. It is a little unnerving, which is kind of what it's like wandering around the halls of the UESC Marathon when you have no more than 10 feet of visibility and you hear multiple noises all around you.
P.S. I do miss the days when the game CD doubled as a copy of the soundtrack.
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