The collection documents over 25 years of global electronic music history.
Photo credit: Guinness World Record – Website
Marco Brusadeli from Bergamo, Italy, has been awarded a Guinness World Record for amassing the world’s largest collection of rave and club flyers. His archive includes more than 113,000 items collected between 1991 and 2015.
The official Guinness count recognized 113,012 flyers, although Brusadeli reports a total of 119,897 in his collection. Spanning from 1985 to 2015, the archive features material from clubs and events around the world. “This collection represents more than 25 years of electronic music history and its contemporary art,” he said. “The best DJs, art directors, promoters, graphic designers, and traders/collectors have helped me to make this a global project.”
Brusadeli began collecting in 1991 by peeling flyers off nightclub walls across Italy. Over the next two decades, he continued gathering and organizing them into folders stored in a dedicated room at his home in Cisano Bergamasco, effectively creating what he describes as an “unofficial museum.”
The collection includes more than 40,000 Italian flyers, over 11,000 from the UK, and thousands more from events across the globe. Genres represented range from house and techno to hardcore, drum ‘n’ bass, EDM, and trance. The flyers are meticulously sorted by country, event, and size.
“I have worked for more than half of my life to create this collection for no monetary reasons. My hope is that my passion could inspire new generations to learn more about the wonderful history of the house and techno revolution,” said Marco Brusadeli.
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