Orkidea

Tapio Hakanen, better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened to Orkidea), is a Finnish electronic music artist.[1] DJ Orkidea has been one of Scandinavia’s top DJs for over 10 years and has been voted twice ’Most Popular Nordic DJ’ in Swedish/Danish Megamind’s voting and elected five times as ’Best DJ’ in 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. DJ Orkidea was employed as a sound design manager at Nokia Corporation.[2]

Orkidea
DJ Orkidea in August 2011
Background information
Birth nameTapio Hakanen
Also known asDJ Orkidea, Orkidea
Born1977 (age 4243)
OriginHelsinki, Finland
GenresElectronic
Occupation(s)
Instruments
  • Synthesizer
  • Digital Audio Workstation
Years active1998–present
Labels
Websitedjorkidea.com

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

gollark: GTech™ doesn't actually use "fridges".
gollark: [DATA REPLACED ENTIRELY WITH BEES AT THE FEMTOSCALE]
gollark: I would have to reboot, because I recently updated my graphics drivers.
gollark: Wrong.
gollark: This is the right one.

References

  1. "DJ Orkidea julkaisee uuden levyn" (in Finnish). Stara. 4 February 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  2. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tapio-hakanen/0/24/350


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