SOULPHICTION remains true to his name and puts a lot of heart and soul into the music. He tells a story with his music, but it’s believable enough to carry the listener along, at least for a while. SOULPHICTION moves in so many musical directions at the same time. So while Cargo is a pure swinging jazz number with a lovely shuffle beat, he still manages to complete the track with spaced-out synth sounds giving it an other-worldly feel. Soul Print makes clever use of some TV western samples but is held together with some nice acoustic guitar strumming. Sun Children is true soul while Reclap is tribal. In fact SOULPHICTION takes in so many influences and spans so many genres it’s pretty much impossible to classify him. His sound is always changing and shifting. Do You Overstand has music for all occasions. Whizzdom and Understanding even provides a perfect dance-floor track. SOULPHICTION knows fine well that it can be boring to do something that can be too obviously categorised. And you never quite know what you're gonna get with SOULPHICTION - the penultimate track I Just Wait, is freaked out hip-hop. MICHEL BAUMANN is open to everything. While his JACKMATE project focuses mainly on straight beats and functional house, SOULPHICTION takes in influences from hip-hop and jazz resulting in a truly experimental feel: there's a great roughness to his sound, it is never too clean. SOULPHICTION's productions are restrained and minimal in the right way - he doesn't let things get too complicated. Do You Overstand encompasses such an eclectic cross-section of so many styles that it is simply impossible to pigeon-hole the SOULPHICTION sound, its a true fusion of every genre imaginable.