Connecting to Space is a classic example of a song whose creation history is complex and thorny. The first version of the track was created back in Kazakhstan in the very early 2010s. The song was quite long, and from that old version, the modern one retains only the first two riffs; the rest was average-quality Progressive Metal. In 2016, the song gained a second life within Enterwelt, the band where Anton Ra was playing as a guitarist at the time. And once again, only the first two riffs remained from the modern version, while the entire rest of the song was rewritten. The lyrics were English-German, written by the then-vocalist Marius, and attempted to convey the essence of the song’s title. The track was significantly shortened and lost its former progressive edge. The song was even played live once during a concert in June 2016 in Düsseldorf, and a video from those years has even been preserved. In the autumn of the same year, the band’s life abruptly came to an end, and the song, as it often happens, was put into the back drawer.
The song began shaping into its modern form in January 2021, when Anton Ra decided to resurrect it in a reworked version under Mixte and started tracking the first drafts. In June and August of the same year, the song acquired a more or less finished look, and it wasn’t until autumn 2024 that the instrumental part of the song was fully completed. Again, from the original incarnation of the song 15 years ago, only the first two and a half riffs remained—the entire rest of the track was composed anew. The progressive essence of the song was brought back, but not through a countless number of repetitive riffs, but by adding non-standard musical moves and expanding the stylistic boundaries. Thus, an atmospheric section was added in the middle of the song, followed by an aggressive part with a blast beat (a first for Mixte), progressive riffs leading into the third verse, and a reggae part at the end. Although all of this increased the overall duration of the song, it didn’t make it tedious; on the contrary, the new version sounds fresh and dynamic.
The lyrics were written in November 2025, and the vocals were recorded at the same time. Anton Ra managed to create the lyrics without using pronouns once again (after Mutagen), which he is quite proud of.
The video was created by Anton using artificial intelligence and photos of the band members, and it visualizes the song’s lyrics. This is exactly the case where the use of AI was justified and driven by the global and complex theme of the song, the visualization of which through classical methods would have been a practically impossible task.
