Tapio Hakanen, better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened to Orkidea), is a Finnish

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artist. DJ Orkidea has been one of Scandinavia’s top DJs for over 10 years and has been voted twice ’

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��s voting and elected five times as ’Best DJ’ in Finnish Club Awards. Orkidea has made remixes for big trance labels like

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and for artists like

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, and Way Out West. DJ Orkidea was employed as a sound design manager at

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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

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) * ''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.

) (2009) * "Zeitgeist" (vs. Solarstone) (2010) * "Hale Bopp" (with

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) (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

- "

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" (2001) *

- "Twelve" (2004) * Way Out West - "Killa" (2005) *

Nightwish Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The band soon picked up drummer Jukka Neva ...

- "

Bye Bye Beautiful "Bye Bye Beautiful" is the second track on Nightwish's ''Dark Passion Play'' album. The song was confirmed to be the second single from ''Dark Passion Play'' by Tuomas Holopainen in an interview, but it was changed to the third single after the an ...

" (2008) *

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- "Time" (2010) *

- "11th track on Imaginarium" (2011) *

- "Touchstone" (2011) *

- "Interstellar Theme" (2015)

References

External links

DJ Orkidea's website
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Interview with Trance Hub, November 2011
1977 births Living people Musicians from Helsinki Finnish DJs DJs from Helsinki Remixers Finnish trance musicians Electronic dance music DJs Nokia people Microsoft employees {{Finland-musician-stub