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Orkidea has been one of Scandinavia’s leading DJs since the early 90s. He is best known for his unique blend of trance and progressive: credible and firmly rooted in the underground origins of trance. His music has been supported by a wide variety of DJs from the ultimate taste makers such as Pete Tong and Sasha to stadium filling titans Armin van Buuren and Tiesto. All artists that he has enjoyed sharing the stage with too. 
 Tapio Hakanen aka Orkidea has released six full length albums for Black Hole, AVA and Universal Music. He is best known for classics such as Unity, YearZero and Nana and timeless remixes of Way Out West’s Killa, Paul van Dyk’s Rendezvous and Tiesto’s Flight 643. Lately he has been one of the key forces in Solarstone’s Pure Trance movement while his Pure Progressive remixes (of M83, Eric Prydz and Daft Punk) and his Pure Progressive Vol 1 album have positioned him as one of the leading prog DJs on the planet. Orkidea is also member of the critically acclaimed VII DJ collective. 
 Throughout his career, Orkidea has been voted seven times as #1 DJ in Finland and two times the most popular DJ in Scandinavia and made it to the DJ Mag Top 200 and Tranceaddict Top 100 lists. He has had close to 50 Beatport Top 100 tracks, multiple iTunes #1 albums, a Finnish singles chart #1 and a Beatport Trance #1 single under his belt alongside over 40 million plays in YouTube, SoundCloud and Spotify.