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.
The Propstore Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction in London (14–17 Nov 2024) lists Dr. Fink’s Amek Dirty Mind console alongside his Purple Rain–era Oberheim OB-8.
10 March 2023 — INSIDER lands on the legendary Belgian label that helped define what the rest of the world meant by “Belgian techno.” A month later, the track joins the In Order To Dance 4.0 compilation.
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.
INSIDER’s Dark Purple on Mentala is adopted by Sam Paganini and Charlotte de Witte. By peak festival season the track is in main-stage rotation across Awakenings, Drumcode, Kappa Future and Tomorrowland.
