Legend! Every tune is golden here, but The Age Of Love is truly fenomenal. Wish I could dance to this set at that illegal rave...

Effin legendary. Sweet, sweet sounds of glory days past <3

I first heard this track 30 years ago 😳,  it was on my go to at the time; https://www.mixcloud.com/steve_vertigo/lost-oct-92-dj-vertigo/ . Enjoy!

I haven’t heard anything more beautiful ever since

Sir the Golden days and they are always with us why because at the moment we remixing them at a good rate of volume. love it cheers.

The year I got my Korg X3 for Christmas- i remember making my own music with the built in 16 track sequencer and recording them to cassettes

Live mix from 1993 recorded at our illegal afterhours club Q in Kruunuhaka, Helsinki. Tracklist:

1. DJ Hooligan - Sueno Futuro
2. Dance 2 Trance - Hello San Francisco
3.Digital Excitation - Lifetime Warranty
4. Effective Force - Illuminate The Planet (Paul Van Dyk Remix)
5. Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Vision of Shiva Remix)
6. Age Of Love - The Age Of Love (Jam & Spoon Remix)

Orkidea - Live at Q (Helsinki 1993)

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

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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 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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