Man sets Guinness World Record for largest collection of rave flyers

A man from Bergamo in northern Italy has set a new world record with his collection of rave flyers, amassing more than 113,000 over the course of 24 years.

Marco Brusadeli has scored a Guinness World Record (GWR) title for his extensive collection, which features both club and rave flyers dating back to 1985, all from different events across the globe.

According to Brusadeli, GWR only accepted 113,012 flyers of a grand total of 119,897 due to guidelines, but says that it’s a “dream come true” to be awarded a world record.

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“This collection represents more than 25 years of electronic music history and its contemporary art,” Brusadeli says. “The best DJs, art directors, promoters, graphic designers and traders/collectors have helped me to make this a global project.”

According to GWR, Brusadeli began peeling rave flyers from the walls of nightclubs during his travels across Italy in 1991, and continued to do so for the next 24 years until 2015.

Each flyer Brusadeli collected, he would place in organised folders in a dedicated room in his home in Cisano Bergamasco, making it an “unofficial museum for the largest collections of nightclub flyers.”

The collection features more than 40,000 flyers from “major clubs, parties, and raves” in Italy, over 11,000 from the UK, and tens of thousands more from events around the world.

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According to GWR, the collection features flyers from house, techno, hardcore, drum ‘n’ bass, EDM, and trance events, each organised into drawers sorted by country, event, and dimension.

“I'm sure that this is the largest collection in the world because I'm trading with major flyers collectors worldwide and nobody [has] so many different ones,” he says.

“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’.”

Gemma Ross is Mixmag's Associate Digital Editor, follow her on Twitter