Fuse - La Démence · Bruxelles

Mousse extra - première édition

Samedi 26 août 1995

Foam parties were born in Ibiza in the mid-1980s, at Amnesia, before becoming a symbol of the island and spreading to clubs worldwide. They reached Brussels on Saturday 26 August 1995, at Fuse - La Démence, rue Blaes: the city's first foam party, produced by Carl De Moncharline. The detergent-box flyer opens the album, followed by the photographs taken that night.

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The flyer

The flyer of the first edition is a fold-up cardboard box reproducing the codes of a « Mousse extra » washing-powder pack, a concept by Carl De Moncharline designed by La Shampouineuse (Michel Poulain).

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The night

Photographs of the night of Saturday 26 August 1995 at Fuse, taken by Frédéric Leemans.

Photographic credits

Frédéric Leemans
Photographer born in 1966, active in Belgian clubs for more than thirty-five years; his work was shown in the exhibition « Night Vision: 25 years of Belgian nightlife ».

Credits

Fuse directors: Thierry Coppens, Peter Decuypere
Fuse management: Dominique Martens
Concept, art direction & production: Carl De Moncharline
Flyer design: La Shampouineuse (Michel Poulain)
Head of security: Manu Assado
DJs: DJ Jos, DJ Mr Bolan, DJ Mo, Benoelie

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Mousse extra - première édition

The flyer

Fold-up box, flat before assembly: front and back of the object, edition of Saturday 26 August 1995.

Main face of the box, also used as a free-entry card handed personally to the partners of the distribution network; the night itself was ticketed.

The night

The foam lance sweeps across the Fuse dance floor above the crowd, under the spotlights.

Dancers together in the foam rising up to their legs, in the middle of the floor.

A clubber, bare-chested, pulls a face at the lens in the red and green light.

A couple dancing at the edge of the foam, caught in a long exposure.

The floor overrun, foam waist-high, under the warm lights of the club.

The jet of foam crosses the room above the dancers.

A dancer in a printed dress, in the middle of the floor, in the reds and greens of the club.

The floor in motion, silhouettes caught in the red light.

A group of clubbers at the edge of the foam, early in the night.

Overall view of the Fuse dance floor covered in foam, under the green lights.

The lance sprays foam above the crowd, green beams backlighting the room.

The foam spreads across the floor, arms raised in the spotlights.

Seen from the crowd, the foam covers the dancers up to their shoulders.

The floor drowned in foam, in the golden light of the spotlights.

Foam-covered bodies in the middle of the floor.

Blurred portrait of a clubber covered in foam, in the amber light of the club.

The floor in full dance, backs and faces caught in motion.

Wide view of the crowd as the foam settles at the end of a burst.

Two clubbers pose for the photographer, covered in foam.

End of the night, laughter and foam drying on the clothes.

Laughter in the middle of the crowd, hair and faces covered in foam.

The floor packed, seen from above, the crowd caught in the foam.

Photographic credits

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