End of year mix for Afterhours.fm. Featuring some of my favourite records of 2024 from progressive and melodic to prog trance. Hope you enjoy it and have a fantastic 2025! <3

Orkidea - End Of Year Mix 2024

Among the highlights of Markus Schulz's Global DJ Broadcast offering is his dedication towards his special collectors edition themed mixes. Encompassing no less than seven different varieties, the middle of February is now home to the annual tradition of Deeper Shades. 

Now into its fifth year, Deeper Shades symbolizes the transition out of winter hibernation into the spring. With tracks accumulated, edited and crafted across the past 12 months, Markus showcases a selection of favorites across slower-paced trance, progressive, deep and organic house; full of reflective and pensive tones.

Hope you enjoy the set and the concept, and will want to keep in your collection. You can download this and all five editions of Deeper Shades at https://markusschulzpodcast.com

Tracklist:

01. Discognition - We Came From the Stars
02. Jope & Sarah de Warren - Hearts Don't Forget
03. GMJ & Matter - Ascending Sun
04. Monojoke - Tantanbo (Mauro Augugliaro Remix)
05. Anton Ishutin - Trip to South
06. Cosmaks - Time is a Poet
07. Krasa Rosa - Zigzag
08. MI.LA - Chara
09. Stark & Sahin - Fearless (Juan Deminicis Remix)
10. Sebastian Sellares - Melomaniac
11. Cendryma - Fracture
12. Chicane - The Sleepless Year
13. Nathan Katz - Dreamland
14. M.O.S. & Krasa Rosa - Purple Sky
15. Artic White & Ilarya - Drift Above
16. Markus Schulz & HALIENE - Death of a Star (Kris O'Neil Remix)
17. Jakatta - American Dream (PROFF Interpretation)
18. Movement Machina - Adaptation
19. Hernan Cattaneo - Tranquilo (Adrien Remix)
20. Soul Alt Delete - You Need to Let Me Go
21. Monolink - Father Ocean (Ben Böhmer Remix)
22. Guy J - Silver Lake
23. Jerome Isma-Ae - Rise
24. Tryger & NAASA - Fly with Me
25. Gai Barone - Disadvantaged Positions
26. Marsh - Pretty Eyes
27. Dokho - Luna's Dream
28. PROFF - Light Magic
29. Martin Roth - Ultraviolet (Nordfold Remix)
30. Mark Novas - Introspectives
31. London Grammar - Into Gold (Kitty Amor Remix)
32. Mees Salomé - Beyond Us

Global DJ Broadcast

Markus Schulz - Global DJ Broadcast Deeper Shades 2025 (2 Hour Progressive & Organic House Mix)

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)

Matthi & Henry are celebrated for their dynamic Hybrid Live performances and DJ sets. Their weekly radio show, From Techno Into Trance, showcases their ability to seamlessly blend these genres, offering listeners a masterclass in genre-fluid artistry.

From Techno Into Trance 84

01 Joker Jam & Dancer - Traffic
02 Claudio PRC & Enrica Falqui - Synapse
03 Psycatron - People in Glass House (Psycatron's Lateral Thinker Mix)
04 Z.I.P.P.O - Eleven
05 Nomas - Antithesis (Original)
06 Inox Traxx - In My Darkness (Original)
07 DSTRTD SGNL - Brainwave
08 Rebüke - Along Came Polly (Stoneface & Terminal Edit)
09 Len Faki & Jancen - Morgana 
10 Andrew Bayer - I Don't Want You (Extended)
11 Lange & Ingenta - Wayfarer (Extended)
12 Klangkuenstler - Supernova (Original)
13 Papi Joe - Missing (Original)
14 Perc 3 & Passarella Death Squad - Temperature's Rising 
15 Stoneface & Terminal - Neovortex
16 Kuss - The Power Of Dreams
17 Umek presents Polyvinyl - Journey To The Clouds
18 Mozzy Rekorder & Djonk3y - Acid Run (Original)
19 Ferry Corsten & Gouryella - Marama (Moon & Stars) (Extended)
20 Drunken Kong - Music For Your Soul (Original)
21 Kaio Barssalos - 80s Moove 
22 Stoneface & Terminal - Rupture
23 Mario Piu - Mathmos 


The DJs Stoneface & Terminal - From Techno Into Trance (Live-Edition 84)

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

Ahead of a trip to Vietnam, Markus Schulz delivers a fresh Global DJ Broadcast studio set, featuring new music from Konstantin Sibold, Adina Butar, Grum, Gabriel & Dresden and more. Italian techno maestro Frankyeffe delivers a driving guestmix, including his new collab with Markus, Monolith. The show wraps with an uplifting finale of trance favorites, including the world premiere of the new Daxson single with Susana, Miracle.

Tracklist:

The Essentials with Markus Schulz
01. Konstantin Sibold - Afrasia
02. Adina Butar - Escape You [In Bloom]
03. AYU (UA) & Remy Lights - Run for You
04. Cendryma - Phase Correction [Deeper Shdaes]
05. Jerome Isma-Ae - Rise (Jerome's Discothèque Mix) [Global Selection]
06. Lapua - Losing Control
07. Inner Sense - Outrage [Down the Rabbit Hole]
08. Sunlight Project - Nebula
09. Matt Fax - To the Ground (Matt Faxs Doppelgänger Mix)
10. Gabriel & Dresden - Coil
11. Darren Tate - Sankara [A Moment of Sunrise]
12. BT - Godspeed (Grum Remix)
13. Tim Clark - Eternal (Live Forever)
14. Eli Brown - Wavey
15. Kaufmann - Tuffi
16. Andrew Bennett featuring Kiesty Hawkshaw - Heaven Sent (Instrumental Mix) [Hall of Fame]

Frankyeffe
01. Markus Schulz x Frankyeffe - Monolith
02. Frankyeffe x Massimo Salustri - Sleepless Night
03. Charles D, Tmpr - Vibe
04. Motvs, Frankyeffe - We stand We Fall
05. Matty Ralph - Idgaf
06. Frankyeffe, Amiley - Save Me 2025
07. Trance Wax - Never Let U Go
08. Samlin - Maya

Back with Markus Schulz
17. Dan Thompson & Sue Mclaren - Blind Faith
18. Luke Terry - Echoes of Solara
19. Midway x York - Monkey Forest
20. Daxson - Aurora
21. Kaiserdisco - Escape
22. Mike EFEX - The Message
23. Stoneface & Terminal - Echoscape
24. Daxson & Susana - Miracle

Markus Schulz - Global DJ Broadcast Jul 3 2025 (with Frankyeffe guestmix)

Here are some of my favourite tunes for the hot summer of 2025:

01. Sebastien Leger - Hutchula
02. Moby, BLOND:ISH, Kiko Franco - Natural Blues
03. Shakedown - At Night (Anyma x Layton Giordani Remix)
04. Collective States - The Deep
05. Papa Smurf - He Not In
06. Einmusik & Solee - We Talk About Dreams
07. Cristoph - Paradise (Feat. Jem Cooke)
08. Alison Goldfrapp - Find Xanadu (Royksopp Remix)
09. Argy, Omiki - WIND
10. Ben Hemsley - La Sirena
11. CLOSE PROXIMITY - Acid Is My DNA
12. Paffendorf - Be Cool (AUTOFLOWER Remix)


Orkidea - Radio Unity (July 2025)

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄: Diego Galloso, Noam Garcia - I Trust You [I Am Boho Records]

Buy on Beatport
https://www.beatport.com/release/i-trust-you/5332744

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄: Diego Galloso, Noam Garcia - I Trust You [I Am Boho Records]

Le paradoxe du temps

Tears through Earth is my attempt to capture the moment before everything gives way.
Not destruction for its own sake but the slow, inevitable merging of pressure, light, and silence.
A comet’s breath crossing the threshold, matter remembering what it once was.

Each layer of sound dense, distorted, and strangely human.
Melodies fracture, collide, and reform, tracing the geometry of collapse.
It’s a movement both outward and inward through earth, through flesh, through memory.

For me, this track is about transformation.
When everything burns away, something quieter begins to speak.

If this piece resonates with you, a like or comment truly helps me keep exploring these sounds and stories. Thank you for listening.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/4PEQ5ERpypoQFp36nyXoVc?si=_EMp8U8uRxGk3Q90QHc2zA
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/de/album/tears-trough-earth/1844802912?i=1844802913
YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=438UB3ugmmc&si=A9A47PfRp3O67S8K

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The sky, burns
A fracture in the silence, growing
Trajectories blur
We watch it come
And it watches back

Compression of time
Orbit collapsing
Heat in the atmosphere
Matter aligned
The signal screams
Through frozen air

Comet descending
Through the grid of thought
Engines melt
Reality caught
No mercy
No return
Just impact and pattern burn

I saw the oceans turn to flame
Cities vanished in ash
Every frequency, merged
Every name, erased

The comet tears through Earth
Flesh dissolves
Comet’s breath, inside us
We ignite, unseen

No end
Only momentum
We orbit what we destroy

Tears trough Earth

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.