Orkidea
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Antti 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 or Hooj Choons and for artists like Tiësto, Tilt, and Way Out West. He was employed as a sound design manager at Nokia Corporation and he serves as the head of music for th
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- 1977
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Despite his age (born '77), DJ Orkidea (or Orkidea) has been one of Finland's and Scandinavia's leading trance and progressive trance DJs for over ten years. His background lies in illegal squat parties and big Finnish raves of the 90's. He has played around Finland in all major clubs and events. Recently also Cream, Renaissance, Gatecrasher, Global Underground and Prodigy have used Orkidea on their tours to Finland. Today he holds residencies and runs his own Unity, Jack and Sun club nights a
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Antti 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 or Hooj Choons and for artists like Tiësto, Tilt, and Way Out West. He was employed as a sound design manager at Nokia Corporation and 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)