Orkidea
Tapio Hakanen, better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (or sometimes just Orkidea), is a Finnish electronic music artist.[1] DJ Orkidea has been one of Scandinavia’s top DJs for over 10 years and has been voted twice ’Most Popular Nordic DJ’ in Swedish/Danish Megamind’s voting and elected five times as ’Best DJ’ in Finnish Club Awards. His track Beautiful in 2005 was a hit in Finland, and it was also on the soundtrack for the Finnish movie Hymypoika. Orkidea has made remixes for big trance labels like Anjunabeats or Hooj Choons and for artists like Tiësto, Tilt, and Way Out West. Dj Orkidea is employed as a sound design manager at Nokia Corporation.[2]
Discography
Albums
- Taika (Selected Works '98-'03) (2003)
- A Place Called Happiness (2005)
- Music Speaks in Thousand Languages (2005)
- Metaverse (2008)
- 20 (2011)
Singles
- Zeitgeist (Orkidea vs. Solarstone) (2010)
- Slowmotion (Orkidea vs. Solarstone) (2009)
- Eternal Love (Orkidea vs. Mitchell) (2007)
- YearZero (Andy Moor vs. Orkidea) (2007)
- Beautiful (2005)
- Unity (1999)
Remixes
- Touchstone by Solarstone (2011)
- Time by Hans Zimmer (2010)
- Bye Bye Beautiful by Nightwish (2008)
- Killa by Way out West
- Twelve by Tilt (2004)
References
- ↑ "DJ Orkidea julkaisee uuden levyn" (in Finnish). Stara. 4 February 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
- ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tapio-hakanen/0/24/350