The story, flyer by flyer
1986
Sixteen, behind the counter of the local record shop. Pay goes into a Roland W30. Demos start.
1991
“Give me an advance for more gear and I'll give you a hit.” Frank De Wulf takes the bet. Destiny takes him on a world tour: Mayday, Dorian Grey, the Limelight.
1994
Boots On The Run lands as INSIDER. Noxious lands as Tyrome. Then Sugar Is Sweeter and The Prophet with C.J. Bolland hit #11 and #19 in the UK.
1996
Armand Van Helden remixes Sugar Is Sweeter. It goes to #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
1998
Back to the Belgian underground. Heavier, darker, more European.
2003
Moves to Minneapolis to record with Dr. Fink of The Revolution. Sax by Eric Leeds, production with Greg Cohen.
2017–18
INSIDER remixes of Blondie's Fun and Janet Jackson's Made For Now both top the Billboard dance chart.
2019
Picked up by Charlotte de Witte and Sam Paganini across the European festival circuit. Tomorrowland residencies continue.
2023
First release on the legendary Ghent label, 32 years after Destiny.
2026
Prince's original 1977 Amek desk, the one he tracked Dirty Mind on, is installed in the Halle studio. Twenty years after the first “no”.
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Photo: VRT NWS / Evi Walschaers · April 2026
In the press · April 2026
Forty-six years after Prince used it to track demos for Dirty Mind, the original Amek mixing console sits in INSIDER's Halle studio. VRT NWS broke the story on 17 April 2026; RTBF Classic 21 and MusicRadar followed.
Selected discography
“Give me a sizable advance to buy more recording equipment, and I will give you a hit record.”
— Kris Vanderheyden, signing to Music Man, 1991
“One of the leading pioneers of the Belgian-originated techno scene.”
— Bio
“Pulsating beats, ethereal melodies, and a relentless energy that captivates from the first note.”
— EPK
Clippings
Thirty-five years on, the kid from Halle who bought a Roland W30 with his record-store wages is releasing on R&S. The full story of INSIDER — Music Man, Bonzai, Paisley Park, Tomorrowland, and back home again.
RTBF’s Classic 21 carries the Dirty Mind console story for the French-speaking side of Belgium — including the eight-month Prince-Estate negotiation that delayed delivery to December 2025.
Belgian public broadcaster VRT runs the regional-news scoop: the Amek mixing console Prince used to track demos for Dirty Mind in 1980 is now in INSIDER’s Halle studio.
Eight months after Vanderheyden won the Propstore bid, the Amek console clears the Prince-Estate review and ships from Minneapolis to Halle.
Bookings (EU), press and remix enquiries.
