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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)

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

2016 Magdelayna Music.
Written by Ferry Corsten.
Remix & Production by Adam Rodziewicz.

Gouryella - Anahera (Magdelayna's Resurrection Mix)[Preview]

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Early support from Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz, Solarstone, Super8 & Tab and Progressive Pick of the week in A State Of Trance. Already in the Beatport Trance Top 10!

Available here: blackhole.choons.at/nanaremix

"The original of Orkidea’s Nana was featured on his very well received Harmonia album and now sees a single release in a remix by Jerome Isma-Ae. Prepare for an instant summer feeling and the urge to dance in the sand all day (or night) long. Jerome keeps the original vibe and groove of the track yet giving it a more club-edgy boost. We just have to move to this tune and you will too!"

Black Hole 780-0
Orkidea – Nana
1. Jerome Isma-Ae Remix

https://www.beatport.com/release/nana-jerome-isma-ae-remix/1757810

Released by:
Black Hole Recordings
Release date:
30 May 2016

Nana (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix)

Nana (Jerome Isma - Ae Remix)

Eric Prydz - Generate (Orkidea Remix)

Get it here: https://www.beatport.com/track/epicentre-extended-mix/9718346

"Tapio Hakanen aka Orkidea - Finland’s No. 1 DJ - returns to Pure Progressive with Epicentre. Constructed around a growling, filtered groove, Epicentre moodily sways and struts, a pair incessant vocal components emerge & dissipate, rich throaty acid punctuates the groove whilst a glossy glockenspiel charms the ear. Enchanting."

Epicentre

One of Scandinavia's leading DJs, producer, promoter, head of music at YleX, father and a music lover. 

Bookings: paula@silverlining.agency

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 four 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, Aalto’s Rush and Tiesto’s Flight 643. Lately he has been one of the key creative forces in Solarstone’s Pure Trance movement and has had the pleasure of mixing the first compilation, releasing on the label and performing at their high profile events around the globe. Orkidea is also a 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 32 Beatport Top 100 tracks, one iTunes #1 album, a Finnish singles chart #1 and a Beatport Trance #1 single under his belt alongside over 30 million plays in YouTube, SoundCloud and Spotify.

Since his first gigs at illegal squat house underground raves in 1992, Orkidea has played over 2000 gigs around the world at legendary venues such as Ministry of Sound in London, Cafe del Mar in Ibiza, Tresor in Berlin, Pacha in Buenos Aires and Avalon in Los Angeles, as well as some of world’s most prestigious events including Dreamstate USA, Luminosity, Transmission and Amsterdam ADE.

Between his peers, he is known as being driven by his constant need to evolve and create. Something he fulfills by uniting, supporting and inspiring the people and movements he is passionate about. Dedication to the scene and ethos of “Forward Forever, Backwards Never” has kept Orkidea moving and progressing for over 25 years and it’s still what keeps him as relevant and credible as ever.

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