Hyperreal.org, also known as Hyperreal, is a rave culture website founded by

Brian Behlendorf Brian Behlendorf (born March 30, 1973) is an American technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software ...

in 1994. It is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

History

It was founded by

and originated as the SFRaves mailing list in 1992, before launching as Hyperreal in 1994. The present website has been active since 1997. Having already discovered early

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and online mailing lists such as alt.rave and UK-Dance, Behlendorf set out to create a list of rave parties happening in the US, particularly in the San Francisco area. Hyperreal would soon expand into a collection of articles about

dance music Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded da ...

and

club drugs Club drugs, also called rave drugs or party drugs, are a loosely defined category of recreational drugs which are associated with discothèques in the 1970s and nightclubs, dance clubs, electronic dance music (EDM) parties, and raves in the 1980 ...

, when at the time very few resources existed online. The site name originated from

The Shamen The Shamen ( ) were a Scottish psychedelic band, formed in 1985 in Aberdeen, who became a chart-topping British electronic dance music act by the early 1990s. The founding members were Colin Angus, Derek McKenzie and Keith McKenzie. Peter St ...

track of the same name. In its earliest incarnation, Hyperreal hosted the IDM List, a mailing list dedicated to discussion of the music from artists such as Aphex Twin and Mu-Ziq, and associated labels

Rephlex Records Rephlex Records was a record label launched in 1991 in Cornwall by electronic musician Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) and Grant Wilson-Claridge. The label coined the term ''braindance'' to describe the output of Aphex Twin and fellow artists ...

and

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. Hyperreal would also at one time host the first official

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for Brian Eno.

References

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External links

Hyperreal.org website
Rave Electronic dance music American music websites 1994 establishments in California