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Tapio Hakanen beter bekend onder zijn DJ naam Orkidea is een Finse electronische muziek artiest. 
Orkidea is al meer dan 10 jaar een van de Scandinavische top DJs en is 2 keer gekozen tot Beste Nordische DJ 
en in het Zweeds/Deense Megamind 5 keer verkozen tot de Beste DJ in de Finse Club Awards.
Zijn track Beautiful uit 2005 was een hit in Finland en was ook op de soundtrack van de Finse film Hymypoika.
Orkidea heeft remixes gedaan voor grote trance labels als Anjunabeats en Hooj Choons en voor artiesten als Tiesto, 
Tilt en Way Out West. Orkidea is werknemer als sound design manager bij Nokia Corporation.
http://djorkidea.com/
Blackholerecordings.com:
Opening the Fins 4th opus is My Sunset, Hakanen's cover of Chris Coco's indolent chillout classic. 
Introducing notes and elements from Berlins neo trance sound, it transforms its ambience into a deeply galactic, prog-oriented number. Referencing and riffing off the frequencies of early progressive-house, Dreamer Of Dreams passages early Sasha & Digweed influences, brilliantly reframing them in a 21st century production context. That line is further extended with Harmonia's first vocal number. On Neo Romance, the Heaven Scent trace of melodic uplift kinetically meets Ben Lord's tones and Future Sound Of London-styled FX. Stretching the album's genealogy further back still, with p-Machinery, Orkidea realigns avant-garde group Propaganda's mid-80s synth-pop classic 
with modern day floors. Building it up & out with the driving, tech style of Pryda and the peak time prog hooky-ness of Anjunadeep, he gives it a radically inventive update. Tapio continues to swim in the 80s pool with the Sami Uotila-sung Strange World, which takes vocal cues from the music of New Order and The Human League. Already a single triumph in it's own right, on Revolution Industrielle he brilliantly, assuredly transforms Jean-Michel Jarre's classic into a brooding, thunder-some titan. Utilizing masterful chord transposal and emotion-spiking Roland D-50 synths, he ring-fences the original's feel & drama. On Harmonia release, Orkidea said: I've channeled over 20 years of DJ & production history into this album. It feels like a natural continuation after Taika, Metaverse and 20, but at the same time takes my sound to a new level. It's the most dynamic and varied record I've done, yet at the same time the most cohesive crystallization of my musical expression. And I believe it offers something unique for the progressive & trance genres with its retrofuturistic sound. Alongside fellow Pure Trance advocate Solarstone, Slowmotion III signals a further up-step in Harmonia's tempo and tone, crossing analogue bass with long, almost cinematic synth sequences. Following the 20 album's Blackbird, Glowing Skies meanwhile has Orkidea reteaming with Classical Trancelations visionary Lowland on a piece inspired by Finland's record breaking 2014 aurora borealis. Nana introduces a techy Filterheadz-like groove to the album, folding it into a joyful Afro vocal. Every bit as pumping, Redemption brings darker, more shadowy ether to the album. Recent single smash Purity is next to unleash its thrall, setting up Harmonia's final act. Having drawn major deck & radio rotation from Armin van Buuren and other A-listers, press-side it was scored a red-hot 9.5/10 by Tilllate Magazine. The UK's DJ Mag meanwhile portrayed it as nursing a doomy dash of Bladerunner with several tablespoons of Oxygene. With Pure Trance at its core, on North Star, Giuseppe Ottaviani and Orkidea's angle the trajectory up into the 140bpm regions. With the album's climactic numbers, more psy-trance elements seize the centre-ground, as Orkidea and UK producer Activa fashion the equatorially humid coding of Z21. Programming more psy into its drums & percussion, the album's title track injects a dash of Vangelis to its upper atmosphere, courtesy of Rutger Hauer's fitting, closing monologue from Blade Runner.

http://www.blackholerecordings.com/music/albums/orkidea-harmonia/ {PreListen & Buy}

   1. Orkidea - My Sunset                                     [05:18]
   2. Orkidea - Dreamers Of Dreams                            [06:02]
   3. Orkidea Ft. Ben Lord - Neo Romance                      [04:10]
   4. Orkidea - P:Machinery                                   [05:26]
   5. Orkidea - Revolution Industrielle                       [05:22]
   6. Solarstone & Orkidea - Slowmotion III                   [05:53]
   7. Orkidea Ft. Sami Uotila - Strange World                 [05:29]
   8. Orkidea & Lowland - Glowing Skies                       [05:42]
   9. Orkidea - Nana                                          [04:53]
  10. Orkidea - Redemption                                    [04:49]
  11. Orkidea - Purity                                        [05:33]
  12. Orkidea & Activa - Z21                                  [05:13]
  13. Giuseppe Ottaviani & Orkidea - North Star               [04:39]
  14. Orkidea - Harmonia                                      [06:15]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2ulWEKCDE {PreView: Revolution Industrielle}

Artist...............: Orkidea/Various Artists
Album................: Harmonia 
Genre................: Electronic
Style................: Trance, Progressive Trance, Psy-Trance, Dance 
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 2015 June 1
Label................: ® Black Hole Recordings
Catalog..............: # Black Hole CD 133
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https://www.discogs.com/Orkidea-Harmonia/release/7072227

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