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15 Top Trance Hits 2012.01 on Armada Music

Keeping the trance fans up to date with all of the season’s essentials, is the brand new ’15 Top Trance Hits 2012’ series. The first Volume hits in with the musical highlights by Gareth Emery, Dash Berlin, Orkidea, Matt Darey and many more! A must-have for those into trance. Read more

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Tags: 15 top trance hits, 2012.01, armada music, dash berlin, gareth emery, matt darey, orkidea

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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Tags: 20, orkidea, twenty

Around same time last year, most of the people I know were asking themselves what have happen’ with Tapio Hakenen aka Dj Orkidea, the best Finnish export in terms of latest gigs, records and other projects that have shaped him the artist he is nowadays. Not so many of us knew what he was working on, therefore, we had to dig a bit further just to find out that he was literally in his studio working around the clock on his new album. None of us knew the album’s name, or else when it due to be released, so we all had to wait for any updates in relation to this. Time went by, pretty fast and I have ended up with an official PR (Press Release) from one of the people I am working with, that Tapio released his latest album called “20″, a double decade of music and joy, therefore I knew it has to be something special and it is indeed. With that being said, the first thing i had in mind was to establish an encounter with him, so with that being said, just read below for any further details that showcased his musical point of view and so many other information in terms of latest projects and stuff he has in the pipeline in the near future too. Read more

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Tags: cosmin lukacs, dj orkidea, exclusive, intrview, orkidea, tapio hakenen, trancesound, trancesound.net

‘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

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Tags: 20, orkidea, solaris recordings, stark profiles pr, twenty