What's New on Hyperreal

We'll try and keep this more or less accurate and up to date - if you have a hyperreal account and are installing things, please make note of it here! Add newer elements to the top of the list....

This month's new files (as a GNU-Zip compressed file)

March 12, 1996
Cosmetic improvements to the Epsilon main page and to a couple of the sub-pages. --Mike

March 10 1996
Updated page for Threads, the CD compilation of the Intelligent Dance Music mailing list.

  • Updated by Alan Parry

    • February 8, 1996
    Added new graphic version of Info-E, a practical guide to MDMA use.

    February 6, 1996
    Added free speech ribbon to main home page, and made changes to the new (correct) LSD model: higher contrast, transparent bakcground, caption on image replaced with text (had to put it above the image to look okay with different screen widths), link is on caption instead of image. Also there are new indices in the Electronic Publications section. Rob Campanell put together a Mac video tools page for the Tool Shed. --Mike

    January 18, 1996
    Converted Tyrone Slothrop's PiHKAL Review to HTML.

    January 15, 1996
    Many new files were added to the drug archive.

    Some of my favorite additions:

    January 14 1996
    Updated the IDM Archives, gave the IDM pages a quick revision, and fixed people mistakes in this document (its '96 now kids, not '95).

  • Updated by Alan Parry

    • January 12, 1996
    I've added a section to transeform about an event in new york city at the end of this month, called Jungle Opera. There is also information about a huge rave being organized in australia sometime in march. send your comments and inquiries to ol@hyperreal.com.

    January 7, 1996
    I've updated the Rave Resources Outside of Hyperreal page. It is now organized by continent and country. Please send any comments to drenalin
    --drenalin

    January 5, 1996
    [GRID] The Global Rave Informational Database is now in production. GRID is an open bulletin board system pertaining to Rave and weekly event announcements. Unfortunately, in order for this section to be useful, your Web client must support forms. With form support, you can fill out a form and post information about a Rave or weekly/club event to our our database for others to browse Also, you can select geographic regions, in order to browse only the Rave events in your surrounding area. If you want to read the help screen, click Here.

  • Updated by Eric McCormick

    • January 4, 1996
    Mystical Sun has released a new single in high-quality MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 form. The file is over 5 MB so be sure you are using a fast connection for the download, or else the server will time out mid-transfer.
    --Mike

    January 4, 1996
    Redesigned the Cyberia home page for the Netscape browser. The new design features seven different subject areas. There is also an option for text only browsers.

  • Updated by Rob Campanell

    • January 3rd, 1996
    Finished converting the tools section over to regular HTML indices served via Apache, rather than glorified gopher menus served via GN. Gave the section a new name: The Hyperreal Tool Shed (this was very important) and made a tools@hyperreal.com alias for people to write to for support. There's still going to be some tweakage.
    --Mike

    January 1st, 1996
    Added Jeff Davis' Rotator Locator international record store guide to the music archives.
    --Mike

    December 28th, 1995
    Added a bit of color to the Spirit pages, especially the welcome page. And as usual, new entries are being added to the archives on an ongoing basis.
    --Lee

    Substantial cleanup of Epsilon home page: HTML 3.0 compliant, better formatting, etc. Still experimenting with title images.
    --Mike

    December 26th, 1995
    Hyperreal home page cleaned up: HTML formatted less sloppily and brought to be mostly HTML 3.0 compliant, various minor changes (basic layout still the same), new "powered by" images added to bottom.
    --Mike Brown

    December 14th, 1995
    daydream, a collective from eugene oregon now has pages on hyperreal. you can find them at http://hyperreal.com/raves/daydream/.
    --drenalin

    December 12th, 1995
    Uploaded pictures from a party called Chrysalis by gateway Systems in San Francisco. They are in http://hyperreal.com/raves/gateway/.
    --drenalin

    December 11th, 1995
    Installed a copy of the HTML 3.0 draft specifcation in the info section, where I also put in a static document to replace the menu for web users.
    --Mike

    December 4th, 1995
    Installed a new menu for the music archives, served by Apache instead of GN. The URL is http://hyperreal.com/music/ and the page contains a link to the old menu, which will remain active.
    --Mike

    December 4th, 1995
    Added a Shockwave version of the SFRaves home page. The page has a turntable you can turn on and off to play a short music loop, plus an animation of a dancer. Requires Netscape 2.0b3 (and so far, only the Windows release handles Shockwave) and the Shockwave plug-in from Macromedia.

    -- Derek

    December 2nd, 1995
    Finally made an index for the pictures section of the drug archive.

    November 28th, 1995
    Updated the Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide to version 2.7.

    November 12th, 1995
    Rave Resources Outside of Hyperreal has moved and is in the process of being renovated. I update it at least weekly. There is a new submission form. The Music Links Page has grown to 30k, check it out to see all the new links that are being added.
    --drenalin

    November 9th, 1995
    LSD - My Problem Child - by Albert Hofmann (Mirror of www.funet.fi's HTML version)

    October 27th, 1995
    Built for Speed? - a very good article on speed by Todd Roberts from URB magazine Oct 1995.

    October 18th 1995
    Mid-west rave pages are finally updated (slightly!). New logo by chris jones.

  • Updated by lunar

    • October 18th 1995
    Gave the MuZiq pages a facelift.

  • Updated by Alan Parry

    • October 17th, 1995
    Added a page of links to the Hyperreal home page. --Mike Brown

    October 7th, 1995
    Finished writing an extensive update of the About Hyperreal's Music Archives document. It now contains specific instructions to labels and artists who want to get archive space here. And of course, there are other little updates here and there throughout the archives. I never mention them in this "What's New" thing because there are just so many. Do you really need to know that there's now a link on the Severed Heads menu that takes you to someone else's HTML discography? I didn't think so. --Mike Brown

    October 6th 1995
    Updated pages for Clear Records.

  • Updated by Alan Parry

    • September 30, 1995
    Added and changed some stuff in the DEA Federal Register Page. The 1995 FR articles are now residing on hyperreal.com so people don't need an account at counterpoint.com to retrieve them. -- Lamont

    September 13, 1995
    The Music Links Outside of Hyperreal page has been updated and is now regularly maintained by <drenalin@hyperreal.com>.

    Updated by drenalin

    August 20, 1995
    Since it is taking so long to get the music archives into a database, I put all the reviews I've been collecting over the last 9 months into a publicly accessible place. They're entirely unformatted, but you can perform searches on them. -Mike Brown

    August 8, 1995
    A cleaner version of PiHKAL with more hypertext links has been installed.

    August 3, 1995
    The Island Web is now fully operational. Although most of the site resides on hyperreal, the most current front page will be at www.island.org.

  • Updated by Greg Kogut

    • June 20, 1995
    Added a link to Why Do We Rave, a combination artwork/prose done in Israel.

    June 12, 1995
    Music Machines has had both its structure and its interface radically altered, and the new version is now in place, for better or for worse.

    Mike Perkowitz

    June 3, 1995
    Cyberia begins broadcasting over the Internet on June 9! You can view Cyberia via with CU-SeeMe. CU-SeeMe is free video conferencing developed at Cornell University. It is available for the Macintosh and Windows.

    Cyberia airs every Friday at 12:30 pm CDT. The CU-seeMe reflector is located at KVR-9 TV (128.83.108.10).

  • Updated by Rob Campanell

    • Jun 1, 1995
    PiHKAL now has an index sorted by hits -- Lamont

    May 31, 1995
    Dennis McKenna's review article on MDMA Neurotoxicity is up and is HTMLized. It has information on Ricuarte's unpublished primate neurotoxicity no-effect level study.

    PiHKAL should be keeping accurate usage stats now.

    Lamont Granquist

    May 31, 1995
    It's been up for a while now, but I should probably mention that the web site for The Council on Spiritual Practices (CSP) resides here.

  • Installed by Lee Fogel

    • May 27, 1995
    DEA Federal Register: published notices by the DEA (including scheduling of 2C-B, methcathinone and alpha-ethyl-tryptamine) since third quarter 1993. Links to the counterpoint.com Fed Reg server.

    59 FR 31639: is an FDA document published in the Federal Register soliciting information on several drugs including methcathinone, aminorex and alpha-ethyl-tryptamine. It contains a substantial background on methcathinone.

    Lamont Granquist

    May 26, 1995
    Updated pages for Clear Records.

  • Updated by Alan Parry

    • May 18, 1995
    Installed the very beginnings of the Richard James / Aphex Twin home page. More to come.

  • Updated by Alan Parry

    • May 14, 1995
    New labels added to music archives: J.ac.K and Waveform
    New artist discog added: Rockers Hi-Fi (Original Rockers)

    May 8, 1995
    Labels and musicians with net presence document updated; see http://hyperreal.com/music/misc/people_on_net.html. Added sections for Minus Habens and Disturbance labels. Added HTML versions of Altern-8 and A Guy Called Gerald discogs. Added Dark Globe info. A couple other odds and ends. Fixed links to Lazlo's discography pages at rt66.com.
    Mike Brown

    May 8, 1995
    Docket No. 84-48: 1986 ruling by the DEA's own administrative law judge that Ecstasy should be legal for use in therapy.

    May 1, 1995
    Oscillations is a weekly ambient event in Austin, Texas. We run a VRave connection every week. Check out this web site and chill with us on VRave.

  • Updated by Rob Campanell

    • April 9, 1995
    Installed pages for Warp Records' Artificial Intelligence series.

  • Updated by Alan Parry

    • April 4, 1995
    All files in the Spirit of Raving Archives have now been converted to HTML. New files continue to be added, ongoing, every couple of weeks or so.

  • Updated by Lee Fogel

    • April 1, 1995
    Updated the Ecstasy of St. Theresa page to include seven song samples.

  • Updated by Bella.

    • April 1, 1995
    Created a web page for the SF Raves Calendar and phone directory. This is the same calendar that you get if you subscribe to the sfraves-calendar list.

  • Updated by Derek.

    • March 31, 1995
    Updated the Mouse on Mars page to include song samples, as well as a history of the band.

  • Updated by Bella.

    • March 29, 1995
    Oz Lubling is now on board and has moved his trance pages here. Update your links! http://hyperreal.com/transeform/ is the new URL. The artist pages he maintains are going to be incorporated into the rest of the music archives as well.
    I made an About the music archives document..
    and I think I know what's been causing those misdirected http accesses.. it's a bug in the CERN httpd 3.0 proxy server. It's quite popular among international service providers, apparently. Nothing we can do about it on our end. -Mike

    March 22nd, 1995
    Installed a US mirror of Greggy303's official Warp Records web pages.

  • Installed by Alan Parry.

    • March 21, 1995
    I make minor changes to the music archives every day or two. Check out the new Sabres of Paradise / Sabrettes label discographies I just installed. I know people have been looking for that info for a while. Some of the things we have in the works: And last but not least for this entry, we are aware of some problems that are making the portions of Hyperreal's web pages that are served through port 70 inaccessible. Portions like, the music archives, tools... This is a very perplexing problem that is definitely not something going wrong at our end. It seems to be happening mostly to people who try to connect from outside the USA. If you're getting "404" errors when you try to get into the music archives, email me and let me know as much info as you can about how you are connected to the net and what software/platform and all that. Thanks -Mike Brown

    March 10th, 1995
    Replaced beyond the rave directory link in the Spirit of Raving Archives with a page of relevant web links.

  • Installed by Lee Fogel

    • March 10th, 1995
    Completed major overhaul of Tem Noon archive area. Includes Songs, Jams, and links to Tem Noon's Cabin. I'm desperately in need of feedback, so please tell me about the things you hate most a bout it.

  • Installed by Ed Bernstein

    • February 22nd, 1995
    Installed pages for the new UK label Clear Records and also a Richard James multimedia discography.

  • Installed by Alan Parry.

    • February 14th, 1995
    The San Francisco-based techno/ambient label Ultra Violet Recordings launched its home page today. Ultra Violet has a number of releases available now and is also on the lookout for new talent. See their home page for more information.

  • Installed by Mike Wertheim.

    • February 12th, 1995
    Cyberia is accepting new computer animations and techno music video for the 1995 season. Submit your works now.

  • Installed by Rob Campanell.

    • February 10th, 1995
    Installation of the new much-improved home page on Hyperreal, with dynamic image loading and a much more organized interface.
  • Installed by Brian, with a lot of design work by Mike Brown.

    • Added a link to the Communal Groove Machine. Exceedingly cool concept!
  • Installed by Brian.