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Orkidea
Orkidea in August 2011
Background information
Also known as	DJ Orkidea
Born	Antti Tapio Hakanen 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 nameDJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened toOrkidea), is a Finnishelectronic 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 theFinnish Club Awards. Orkidea has made remixes for big trance labels likeAnjunabeats orHooj Choons and for artists likeTiësto,Tilt, andWay Out West. He was employed as a sound design manager atNokia Corporation^[3] and as of 2023^[update] he serves as the head of music for the Finnish public broadcasterYle.^[4]

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)(withSolarstone)
• Pure Progressive Vol. 1 (2020)

Remix albums

• A Place Called Happiness (2005)
• 20Ximer (2013)

• "Unity" (1999)
• "Beautiful" (2005)
• "YearZero"(withAndy Moor) (2007)
• "Eternal Love"(vs. Mitchell) (2007)
• "Slowmotion"(vs.Solarstone) (2009)
• "Zeitgeist"(vs. Solarstone) (2010)
• "Hale Bopp"(withJS16) (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)

• Tiësto - "Flight 643" (2001)
• Aalto - "Rush" (2003) (withSuper8)
• 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)

• DJ Orkidea's website
• Orkidea discography atDiscogs
• Interview with Trance Hub, November 2011Archived 2012-07-12 at theWayback Machine

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