Orkidea
- DJ
- record producer
- remixer
- Synthesizer
- digital audio workstation
- AVA
- UMG
- Black Hole
- Armada
- Five AM
- Steelfish
- Pure Trance
- Intuition
- Solaris
- Unity
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
- Tiësto - "Flight 643" (2001)
- Tilt - "Twelve" (2004)
- Way Out West - "Killa" (2005)
- Nightwish - "Bye Bye Beautiful" (2008)
- Hans Zimmer - "Time" (2010)
- Nightwish - "11th track on Imaginarium" (2011)
- Solarstone - "Touchstone" (2011)
- Hans Zimmer - "Interstellar Theme" (2015)
References
External links
- DJ Orkidea's website
- Orkidea discography at Discogs
- Interview with Trance Hub, November 2011
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- Instituto de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico1
- Kaapelitehdas1
- Nokia Arena (Tel Aviv)1
- Nokia Arena (Tampere)
- Nokia House1
- Nokia Theater (New York)1
- Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie1
- Nokia Theatre L.A. Live1
- Esko Aho
- Marko Ahtisaari
- Pekka Ala-Pietilä
- Matti Alahuhta
- Sari Baldauf
- Simon Beresford-Wylie
- Aleksi Eeben
- Casimir Ehrnrooth
- Stephen Elop
- Richard Green
- Lalita D. Gupte
- Tapio Hakanen
- Bengt R. Holmström
- Robert Iannucci
- Fredrik Idestam
- Henning Kagermann
- Kari Kairamo
- Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
- Lauri Kivekäs
- Pekka Lundmark
- Mary T. McDowell
- Leo Mechelin
- Frank Nuovo
- Jarkko Oikarinen
- Jorma Ollila
- Eduard Polón
- Paavo Rantanen
- Niklas Savander
- Marjorie Scardino
- Risto Siilasmaa
- Rajeev Suri
- Mika Tiivola
- Anssi Vanjoki
- Iiro Viinanen
- Simo Vuorilehto
- Verner Weckman
- Björn Westerlund
- 1Sold
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