Spiritual Project was one of the many SAIFAM groups; a bunch of north Italian DJs who worked together and who seem to have jointly produced most of what they did, if the credits are any guide. There are six writers credited to this record, which is not unusual with SAIFAM projects, including big shots Luca Antolini, Technoboy and Tuneboy; the latter two of which were well into their hardstyle phase by 2003 when this came out.
It's hard to know exactly who should deserve the lion's share of the credit for SAIFAM projects, but if I had to guess, I'd say that this has more of a Luca Antolini sound to it than Technoboy and Tuneboy (or the other three guys; I have no idea what their sound is like) but that doesn't necessarily mean anything; keep in mind that Technoboy kept up a hard trance alias, DJ Gius, for quite a while, and all three (all six) are credited with all kinds of hardtrance stuff from the SAIFAM group. However you want to call it, this team was very prolific, but they liked to use a lot of various names and aliases which sometimes makes it hard to tell exactly how prolific they were, because it looks like separate groups when it actually isn't.
That isn't to say that they were the nucleus of north Italian hardtrance and hardstyle, though. Gigi Lav and the Trance Generators guys were a similar (albeit smaller) nucleus, as was DJ Vortex, Arpa's Dream and the 4 Navigators team as was Julian DJ and Davide Sonar. All of them dabbled in both hardtrance and hardstyle, and while some outfits were more likely to do one than the other, they all kind of slipped easily in and out of the two, and many tracks have that kind of straddling the line feel where you're not 100% sure which of the two you should classify it as.
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