Press · releases · studio
Every clipping from 1991 to now.
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.
Vanderheyden places the winning bid at Propstore’s November-2024 entertainment-memorabilia auction. Final price kept private. The console doesn’t arrive in Belgium for another eight months.
Vanderheyden composes three tracks for Robin Pront’s feature about the Antwerp megaclub Zillion. The title track — Black Magic — appears across multiple scenes.
INSIDER teams with ZZino for a peak-time techno cut that lands on Sven Väth’s Cocoon Records — the imprint that runs the Frankfurt and Ibiza nights of the same name.
Late-90s INSIDER cut on Bonzai. Subsequently re-released digitally in 2016.
After the chart-bound years on London Records, INSIDER returns to the Belgian underground with The Swarm on N.E.W.S.
C.J. Bolland’s album The Analogue Theatre — co-written and co-produced with INSIDER — peaks at UK #43.
The second single from The Analogue Theatre — co-written with C.J. Bolland — hits #19 on the UK Singles Chart.
Months after the UK #11 chart entry, Armand Van Helden’s remix of Sugar Is Sweeter hits #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs Chart — Vanderheyden’s first US chart-topper.
Co-written with C.J. Bolland for his London Records album The Analogue Theatre — Sugar Is Sweeter charts at UK #11.
D.R.E.A.M.S follows the Destiny / True one-two on Music Man Records — and ends up painted on the wall behind Vanderheyden in his publicity photo.
Early Music Man-era catalogue release. Part of the wall-mural lineage of INSIDER’s discography.
Companion to Destiny on Music Man — mean synth line, harder percussion. Discogs commenters routinely pick this over Destiny twenty-five years on.
Frank De Wulf’s Music Man releases Destiny as a 12″ vinyl in Belgium (catalogue MMI 9081). The breakthrough.