Orkidea

Orkidea
Orkidea in August 2011
Background information
Birth name	Antti Tapio Hakanen
Also known as	DJ Orkidea
Born	1977 (age 47–48)
Origin	Helsinki, Finland
Genres	Electronic
Occupations	DJ record producer remixer
Instruments	Synthesizer digital audio workstation
Years active	1998–present
Labels	AVA UMG Black Hole Armada Five AM Steelfish Pure Trance Intuition Solaris Unity
Website	djorkidea.com

Antti Tapio Hakanen ^[1] (born 1977), better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened to Orkidea), is a Finnish electronic music artist. ^[2] 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 ^[3] and as of 2023 ^[update] he serves as the head of music for the Finnish public broadcaster Yle. ^[4]

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

1. "FORWARD FOREVER". ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
2. "DJ Orkidea julkaisee uuden levyn" (in Finnish). Stara. 4 February 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
4. 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 Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine