Release context
Generation Of Psytrance Vol.1 belongs to the compilation culture that shaped psytrance discovery in the mid-2000s. DJ Maël and Planet B.E.N. handled the selection for Planet B.E.N. Records, placing the emphasis on curation rather than on a single producer's body of work.
Seen now, the release works as a period document: it captures what two working DJs and a specialist label wanted to put forward as representative psytrance in 2005, before streaming playlists replaced many of the roles once filled by label compilations.