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Orkidea
Orkidea in August 2011
Background information
Birth name	Tapio Hakanen
Also known as	DJ Orkidea
Born	1977 (age 46–47)
Origin	Helsinki, Finland
Genres	Electronic
Occupation(s)	DJ record producer remixer
Instrument(s)	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

Tapio Hakanen (born 1977), better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened——to Orkidea), is a Finnish electronic music artist. He has been one of Scandinavia's top DJs for over 10 years 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/Hooj Choons and for artists like Tiësto, Tilt, and Way Out West. He was employed as a sound design manager at Nokia Corporation and as of 2023 he serves as the head of music for the Finnish public broadcaster Yle.

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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