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In conversation with Orkidea on 20
Q: Your third artist album ‘20’ is out this week. What was your primary goal in recording and releasing it?
This year marks my 20 years of DJing so I wanted to celebrate that with a new album. Musically it represents what I call “retrofuturistic” vision of trance music where I have been taking lot of inspiration from the early sound of trance but doing it with the most current production tech and sound.
Q: Trance has had more ups-and-down, ins-and-outs than any other electronic dance music genre. Why do you feel its appeal has ultimately proved so resilient?
I think that at best trance balances perfectly between grooves and melodies and between commercial and more credible music. I hope my music is accessible yet intelligent. Read more
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Win 3 copies of Twenty mixed by Orkidea
TranceSound.net & Stark Profiles PR in conjunction with one of the best Trance Dj and producer from Finland, Dj Orkidea, are running a competition to win one of 3 unsigned copies of this compilation album in particular called “Twenty”. The 3 lucky winner’s selected at random will receive a copy of the CD album via post. All you have to do is answer the following contest question and submit Your entry:
To enter send an email to competition@trancesound.net or else cosmin.lukacs@trancesound.net and DO REMEMBER to write this as subject “Twenty mixed by Orkidea album contest”, with the following information along with the right answer to the question below. Read more
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Orkidea presents 20 released on Solaris Recordings
‘20’ celebrates 2 decades of music from the Godfather of Finland’s always-flourishing trance scene. Orkidea’s new long-player takes a transfixing, episodic look at his personal sound experiences throughout the last 20 years of trance. Enter the world of ‘retro-futurism’. Enter the world of Orkidea.
(CD & DD released On Solaris Recordings 11.11.11)
Possibly the greatest unsung hero in the genre ever, over his 20-year trance mission, Orkidea (DJ and master-producer Tapio Hakenen) has always been the man that’s let the music do the talking. In spearheading the rise of Finland as a force on the global trance stage, he paved the way for acts like Super8 & Tab, Darude, Alex Kunnari, Joonas Hahmo and numerous others to break into the scene. Notably, on his TATW radio show, Paavo Siljamäki of Above & Beyond cited Orkidea as one of the reasons he started making trance music. Read more
