Live recording from VII London 30.11.2024. Packed day and night at E1 - one of London's hottest electronic music venues at the moment. It was so nice meet people who had traveled from around the world for this party: Australia, US, Scandinavia, Germany, Argentina and so many other places. This is opening set starting with deeper progressive sounds and leading into driving trance crescendo. Featuring music from the likes of Marsh, Estiva, Rufus Du Sol, Argy and Tinlicker. Hope you enjoy the journey!

Orkidea - Live From VII London 2024

Here are some of my favourite records in the world at the moment. From indie dance and deep progressive to driving and uplifting trance. So much inspiring music out there at the moment!

Tracklisting:
1. Solomun & Jain - Tout le monde est fou (Club Mix)
2. Jeremy Olander & Fahlberg - Flashpoints
3. Jerome Isma-Ae - The Void
4. Kolsch & ANNA - Evocation
5. Bart Skills & Layton Giordani - Deadly Valentine
6. Carl Bee - Nothing Is What It Seems
7. Phoenix Movement - Fire Eyes
8. Filterheadz, Tomaz, Hot Since 82 - Sunshine 2025
9. Kyle Starkey - Feel My Desire
10. Sarah Wilde - 7AM Love (Miguel de Bois Transcendental Remix)
11. Albion & The Thrillseekers - Air
12. Aaron Hibell - Running Up That Hill

Orkidea - Radio Unity (April 2025)

My live set from the opening night of Trance Bar at Post Bar in Helsinki. This represent well what I want to showcase musically in these nights: wide range of trance from deep and progressive to driving and uplifting and from the newest promos to some timeless gems. 

What a night the opening was! Packed house with over 500 people, great and varied set of artists and their versions of "trance". Next event on Easter Thursday 17.04.2025 with myself, MFM of Below0, Joni DJ from Post Bar and Cool DJ Pinball Heikki from Skorpioni. So happy that there is a regular trance night in Helsinki again <3

Orkidea - Live at Trance Bar (07.03.2025)

Summer is soon here and here are some of my this summer's fave tunes:

01. Barry Can't Swim & O'Flynn - Kimpton
02. Everything Is Art - All The Love (WhoMadeWho & Samm Remix)
03. Jody Wisternoff, PROFF, James Grant, Siobhan Wilson, Takeshi Furukawa - Mui (Ezequiel Arias Remix)
04. RÜFÜS DU SOL - In the Moment (Adriatique Remix)
05. Yotto & Something Good - Love Shop
06. Frank Ocean - Lost (Gabss e Vintage Culture Remix)
07. Tomaz, Filterheadz, Hot Since 82 - Sunshine 2025
08. Pablo Bozzi - Fantasy
09. John Summit - Focus feat. CLOVES (Layton Giordani Remix)
10. Amelie Lens - Falling For You (Orkidea Remix)
11. Castle Trancelott - Indoctrinate (Patrick Prins Full Re-Flex)
12. Boudi - Not Tonight Pamela
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Orkidea - Radio Unity (May 2025)

The official radio show featuring legendary DJ Paul Oakenfold delivers exclusive music and fresh mixes in every weekly program.  The Grammy-nominated artist, DJ, producer, composer, and remixer tours the world constantly and acquires original music from all corners of the globe. 

You'll also hear the latest Perfecto Records releases in the mix along with the cutting-edge sound of Full On Fluoro.

For news, tour schedule, and more info visit:
http://www.pauloakenfold.com
https://www.instagram.com/pauloakenfold
http://www.facebook.com/oakenfold
http://www.youtube.com/pauloakenfold

Tracklisting:  

Planet Perfecto 761 featuring Paul Oakenfold

01	Paul Oakenfold, Planet Perfecto Knights & KIMMIC - Resurrection [Perfecto] 
02	Symmetrik - Caroline [Warner Music UK] 
03	Charlotte de Witte & Amelie Lens - Where Do We Go (Original Mix) [B2B] 
04	Prism - Shine 2025 [Promo] 
05	Ovnimoon - Resiliencia (Original Mix) [IONO MUSIC] 

Perfectomundo Moment:  The Cure — I Can Never Say Goodbye [Paul Oakenfold ‘Cinematic’ Remix] [Polydor Records]

06	ALEJANDRO, EYEawake - Sounds Of Nature (Extended Mix) [Promo] 
07	Man With No Name x Fish56Octagon x David Forbes - Floor-Essence [Perfecto Fluoro] 
08	Paul Oakenfold - Novacaine (Original Mix) [Perfecto] 
09	Paul Oakenfold, Corderoy ft. Jessika - Bang Bang (Club Mix) [Perfecto] 
10	U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name (PAUL (AR) Club Remix) [Promo] 
11	Tiesto - Lethal Industry (Rose Ringed Extended Remix) [Musical Freedom] 

Perfecto Classic:  Grace - If I Could Fly [Perfecto]

Planet Perfecto 761 ft. Paul Oakenfold

01. Fløa & Blank Page - Croquis [Hathor]
02. Zaccwithtwocs - Lucid Daybreak [House of Horus]
03. Solarstone with Clara Yates - Your Sacrifice (innermost) [Black Hole]
04. Monojoke pres. Amaare - Bergamo (Paul Thomas Remix) [UV Noir]
05. Oliver Smith & MØØNE - Wash Away [Anjunabeats]
06. Simon Sinfield & Paul Sawyer - Parc Ferme [Krafted]
07. Hypnotised & Noise Generation - Hallucination [Mistique Music]
08. Ishiro & LESSISLESS - Ode to the Sunset [Pure Progressive]

It's Not The Kind Of Thing We Usually Play... But We Like It Anyway:
09. Aleksandir - BROKEN ARP [Hearth Songs]

10. Leftfield ft. Grian Chatten - Full Way Round (Be Lucky Mix) [Virgin]

Big Tune:
11. Z2 - I Want You (Robert Nickson Remix) [Armada Captivating]

12. Derek Ryan - Heart Logic [Pure Trance]
13. Chris Johnson - The Mystery [Borderline]
14. ReOrder ft. Lyd14 - Euphoria [REVERIE]
15. Amos & Riot Night + Sequence Six - As Tides Change [FSOE]
16. Solarstone - Over the Mountains (innermost) [Black Hole
17. York - The Awakening (Stowers & Cooper Remix) [Armada Captivating]
18. Alex Wright - Iram [FSOE]

Oh Yeah:
19. Dan Newman - Make Me A God [Hooj Choons]

Chillout Moment:
20. PROFF & Tim Green - Philos [Anjunachill]

Solarstone presents Pure Trance Radio Episode 448

What began as a heartfelt gesture has grown into an annual tradition - a deeply personal ode to summer from Markus Schulz. The Sunrise Set has become an institution, cherished for its soul-searching, emotionally rich, and melodically driven curation.

Crafted with care for the long, golden days of summer, this set is your perfect companion for watching sunsets fade into night, witnessing the quiet beauty of dawn, or simply finding solace in moments of solitude and reflection.

We hope this becomes a set you'll want to download, revisit, and hold close. Thank you for sharing your ideas and inspiration each year. Please enjoy the sounds of the 2025 Sunrise Set - a soundtrack for the spirit of summer.

All Global DJ Broadcast mixes are available on the podcast feed at https://markusschulzpodcast.com

Tracklist:

01. Chicane - The Sleepless Year (Beatless Mix)
02. Matt Fax - Twilight
03. Airwave - It Rained All Weekend (2024 Version)
04. Marsh & Volen Sentir - Ascension
05. Kiholm - Everything Will Be Alright
06. Anonimat & Soulmac featuring Sensitive - Brainwash (Dulus Remix)
07. ZOYA - Crystal Cove
08. MRPHLNDR - Peaceful Morning
09. Markus Schulz & HALIENE - Death of a Star
10. Avenue One - Call of the Wild
11. Chicane - Day One
12. PROFF & M.O.S. - Namtso
13. Z2 - I Want You (Volen Sentir Remix)
14. Huminal - Mountainside (Hicky & Kalo Remix)
15. Cornucopia - Early Morning
16. Woo York featuring Mark Tarmonea - Feeling (Korolova Remix)
17. Robert Nickson - Spiral (Forty Cats Remix)
18. Estiva & Luke Avalon - Future Memories
19. Siskin - Fly Away (Hel:sløwed Remix)
20. Mees Salomé - Rose
21. Arco - All You Want
22. Alex Gold - A Trip to Tulum (Instrumental)
23. Deep Dish & Eynka featuring Wrabel - Midnight
24. Tinlicker - Never Let Me Go
25. Dosem - Sunsetter
26. Orkidea - Dance of Life
27. Giuseppe Ottaviani & Ferry Corsten - Magenta (Milkwish Remix)
28. Sunny Lax - Raindance
29. David Broaders - Deliverance
30. Stereoclip - Sunset Drive (Calussa Remix)
31. Markus Schulz - Bells of Planaxis

Download

Markus Schulz - Sunrise Set 2025 (2 Hour Emotional Trance, Dance & Progressive Mix)

My liveset, recorded live at Ushuaia in Ibiza, June 15th 2025, with the warmup vibes Ibiza is known for! 

Ruben de Ronde Live at Ushuaia, Ibiza (Warmup), June 15th 2025

“I Want You to Get Mad” doesn’t come to entertain — it comes to disrupt.
Virtual Geisha’s debut is a sonic punch against apathy. After years of hypnotizing with emotionally charged DJ sets and visionary curatorship, she breaks through as a producer with a techno manifesto built to set the dancefloor on fire.

At its core pulses a searing monologue from Network (1976), as urgent now as it was four decades ago. Around it, Virtual Geisha builds a ritual of tension: hypnotic bongos, gritty textures, and a piano loop by Hania Derej, re-sampled and twisted into a melancholic vortex.

This is not escapist techno: it’s techno with teeth.
A groove that bites, demands movement and awareness, turning the floor into a space of resistance and catharsis.

Rooted in theater, philosophy, and the forgotten corners of 90s electronica, Virtual Geisha treats production like dramaturgy. “I Want You to Get Mad” is her opening act, and it doesn’t whisper, it screams

BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : Virtual Geisha - I Want You Get Mad

Buy:  https://www.beatport.com/track/move/21774343

Jast - Move [Afterlife]

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 6 concludes the journey through Ballroom Records’ history, bringing the series to a powerful close.

Focused on the techno-driven side of Melodic House & Techno, this chapter highlights tracks defined by hypnotic tension, driving energy, and emotive depth.

A final tribute to the sound that shaped Ballroom over the past 10 years.

Enjoy listening and have a beautiful day!

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 6

The Unknown

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.