Musical artist
Tapio Hakanen (born 1977), better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened to Orkidea), is a Finnish electronic music artist.[1] He has been one of Scandinavia's top DJs for over 10 years[when?] and has been voted twice "Most Popular Nordic DJ" in the Swedish/Danish Megamind's voting and elected five times as "Best DJ" at the Finnish Club Awards. Orkidea has made remixes for big trance labels like Anjunabeats or Hooj Choons and for artists like Tiësto, Tilt, and Way Out West. He was employed as a sound design manager at Nokia Corporation[2] and as of 2023[update] he serves as the head of music for the Finnish public broadcaster Yle.[3]
Discography
Albums
- Studio albums
- Music Speaks in Thousand Languages (2005)
- Metaverse (2008)
- 20 (2011)
- Harmonia (2015)
- Compilation albums
- Taika (Selected Works '98-'03) (2003)
- Solarstone Presents... Pure Trance (2012) (with Solarstone)
- Pure Progressive Vol. 1 (2020)
- Remix albums
- A Place Called Happiness (2005)
- 20Ximer (2013)
Singles
- "Unity" (1999)
- "Beautiful" (2005)
- "YearZero" (with Andy Moor) (2007)
- "Eternal Love" (vs. Mitchell) (2007)
- "Slowmotion" (vs. Solarstone) (2009)
- "Zeitgeist" (vs. Solarstone) (2010)
- "Hale Bopp" (with JS16) (2012)
- "Slowmotion II" (vs. Solarstone) (2013)
- "Redemption" (2015)
- "Z21" (with Activia) (2015)
- "Glowing Skies" (with Lowland) (2015)
- "Revolution Industrielle" (2015)
- "Strange World" (featuring Sami Uotila) (2016)
- "Epicentre" (2017)
- "Forward Forever" (2018)
- "Metta" (2019)
Remixes
References
- ^ "DJ Orkidea julkaisee uuden levyn" (in Finnish). Stara. 4 February 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ Saulo, Sandra (21 August 2023). "UMK24-biisihaku on alkanut — Oletko sinä Käärijän seuraaja?". Yle. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
External links
- DJ Orkidea's website
- Orkidea discography at Discogs
- Interview with Trance Hub, November 2011
