Fuse - La Démence · Bruxelles

Mousse extra - seconde édition

Samedi 31 août 1996

The second foam party produced by Carl De Moncharline at Fuse - La Démence, rue Blaes in Brussels, on Saturday 31 August 1996, a year after the first edition of 26 August 1995. This series gathers photographs of the night, the dance floor flooded with foam beneath the Fuse logo, Carl De Moncharline working the foam hose, together with the box-flyer of that edition.

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The flyer

The flyer of the second edition repeats the « Mousse extra » washing-powder box, a concept by Carl De Moncharline designed by La Shampouineuse (Michel Poulain).

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The night

Fuse - La Démence, rue Blaes 208, Brussels - Saturday 31 August 1996.

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: Olivier Gosseries, DJ Jos, C.J. Bolland (Mister Bolan), The Bumpy Party

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Mousse extra - seconde édition

The flyer

Fold-up box, flat before assembly: front and back of the object, edition of Saturday 31 August 1996.

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

Carl De Moncharline in action, working the foam hose from the club's walkway.

Carl De Moncharline in action: foam projected over the crowd.

Foam bursting above the dance floor, an open umbrella in the crowd, under red spotlights.

A wave of foam thrown over the dance floor, in the club's red lighting.

The crowd covered in foam at the height of the night.

Dancers immersed up to their shoulders in the foam.

Two dancers embracing in the foam.

Beneath the lifebuoy of the set, a face covered in foam.

A dancer in a swimsuit in the foam, on the Fuse dance floor.

A dancer in a blue bikini, standing in foam up to her knees.

A laughing dancer, foam clinging to her top, arms raised in the crowd.

A group of bare-chested dancers in the middle of the foam, under red spotlights.

Carl De Moncharline and friends in the foam, on the Fuse dance floor.

A clubber, hands gloved in foam, facing the camera.

Carl De Moncharline and C.J. Bolland, aka Mister Bolan, behind the Fuse DJ booth; at the bottom of the frame, photographer Frédéric Leemans pulls a face.

A clubber in a tank top, soaked by the foam, on the dance floor.

Wet hair and a smile, in the middle of the Fuse night.

Portrait of a clubber in a red top, after the foam has passed.

Carl De Moncharline with DJ Jos and José Luis Bousoño Rodríguez, a friend of Carl De Moncharline and DJ Jos, here as a guest. He would later become the manager and co-organiser of the "Strong" nights at Who's Who's Land.

Yorgo, in a blue tank top, and a friend laughing under the red lights of the dance floor.

Dominique Martens, manager of the Fuse, preparing the foam.

A clubber in a cap and swimming goggles, hands open to the camera.

Fabrice Siciliano, swimming goggles and a "pure sex" T-shirt, the standard kit for a foam party.

A clubber in orange goggles, covered in foam up to her shoulders.

Four clubbers seen from behind, knee-deep in the foam.

Three faces emerging from a wave of foam on the Fuse dance floor.

Portrait of a smiling clubber, face and striped T-shirt covered in foam.

Two laughing clubbers wearing swimming goggles in the middle of the foam.

A young woman with a shaved head, beaming, surrounded by foam.

Arms raised and swimming goggles on, a clubber showers the camera with foam.

Bubu, a flower crown on his head, umbrella open in the foam.

Carl De Moncharline and Bubu in the foam, on the Fuse dance floor.

Yorgo and a friend at the end of the night, through a car window.

A dancer in a flowered dress, barefoot in the foam, beneath the illuminated Fuse logo.

The Who's Who's Follies logo projected into the night.

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