I have always loved long progressive tracks from the likes of BT, Sunday Club and Sasha who've have made tracks well over 10 minutes. You don't hear that much anymore and I was wondering why is that..? I ended up thinking that it's the 2014 EDM culture which has made DJs so visible stage performers that (at least in DJs' heads) there is a need to do something actively when playing and that has lead into two minute quick mixing and sets loaded with mashups. 

Don't get me wrong: I understand that in a big room/festival setting that works very well, but I also believe that many people still enjoy longer progressions and tracks with many parts flowing seamlessly from one to another. I wanted to try to make a track like that: epic intro, deep & groovy build up part, emotive breakdown, driving D part, uplifting peak moment and percussion driven outdo. Hope you like it :)

Solarstone & Orkidea - Slowmotion III (Orkidea Remix)

Original mix of 'Purity' and remixes from Nicholas Bennison and Peetu S are now out in Beatport! It is my first new solo material in three years and the debut single from my fourth artist album (coming out during 2015) so I'm super happy to see this finally out! :-)

Beatport:
http://www.beatport.com/release/purity/1403812


Purity (Original Mix)

Psytrance
No Copyright intended, for promotional use only!

Iiro A 18150

Download on Beatport: http://btprt.dj/1M3E64c
Download on iTunes: http://apple.co/1M3EbEV

Orkidea’s last single venture, the purer-than-pure ‘Purity’, stoked floor fires bright throughout the autumn. Drawing substantial deck & radio show rotation from Armin van Buuren and multitude of other tier-1 DJs, press-side it was hailed is as “a real treat!” with Tilllate scoring it a red-hot 9.5/10. The UK’s DJ Mag meanwhile described it as having a “doomy dash of ‘Bladerunner’ with several tablespoons of ‘Oxygène’ about it”. For his next release, the flying Fin, delves even deeper into the latter’s sonic gene pool, with a stunning retro-futuristic revision from the Jean-Michel Jarre universe. 

He’s taken the legendary composer’s 1988 classic ‘Revolution Industrielle’ and, bringing all his accrued production knowledge to bear, repurposed it for 21st century clubbers.
Orkidea brilliantly, assuredly recasts JMJ’s ‘Revolution Industrielle’ as a deep-into-the-night club floor titan, utilizing masterful chord transposal and emotion-spiking Roland D-50 synths to retain the original’s soundscape feel & drama. 
A release with one foot in the past… and the other most firmly in the future, to quote ‘Revolution Industrielle’ itself, it’s “today, tomorrow… forever”.

Revolution Industrielle

Orkidea: Beautiful

David West & Orkidea: Gods Garden

Way Out West: Killa (DJ Orkidea remix)

Andy Moor vs Orkidea: YearZero

Get it here: https://pure.choons.at/higherstate

Label press release:
"Something stunning here from one of the modern trance scene’s founding fathers; Orkidea. Higher State is designed for the clubs; the sparse and percussion-led production lends itself perfectly to a finely tuned sound-system. Tapio’s signature sound and style is firmly in place; gritty, filtered synth stabs, a sprinkling of glittering arpeggios, hypnotic rhythms and ethereal vocals all play their part in this DJ-friendly Pure Trance master class."