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Paul Thomas - LIVE FROM THE LUMINOSITY BEACH FESTIVAL 2024
Friday 28 June 2024 ▪ Beachclub Bernie's, Zandvoort - The Netherlands

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Paul Thomas @ Luminosity Beach Festival 2024

Giuseppe Ottaviani (ISOS Set) - LIVE FROM THE LUMINOSITY BEACH FESTIVAL 2024
Sunday 30 June 2024 ▪ Beachclub Bernie's, Zandvoort - The Netherlands

👕 Check out our merchandise: www.luminositybeachfestival.com/merchandise/

🎧 Check out all live sets on YouTube: www.youtube.com//LuminosityEvents/

🌴 Website: www.luminosity-events.nl

⛱️ Website: www.luminositybeachfestival.com

🥳 Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LuminosityEvents

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Orkidea (ISOS Set) @ Luminosity Beach Festival 2024

Radio Unity is back! Featuring the best progressive, trance and melodic on the planet in a on hour monthly mix. Let me know your thoughts and vibes in the comments and please share if you like it <3

Orkidea - Radio Unity (January 2025)
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01. Andre Moret - Dive (Paul Thomas Remix)
02. Guy J - Evo
03. Zakes Bantwini & Kasango - Osama (Pete Tong & Paul Rogers Remix)
04. Röyksopp - Feel It (feat. Maurissa Rose) (LP Giobbi Remix)
05. Estiva - Parlez-Vous
06. Corren Cavini - Solutions
07. Signum, Scott Mac, Eynka, Korolova - Coming On Strong
08. Swedish House Mafia, Niki & The Dove - Lioness (Argy Remix)
09. Tiga, Audion, Layton Giordani - Let's Go Dancing (Original Mix)
10. Meck, James Hype - Feels Like Home
11. Heerhorst - Wimbo
12. Amelie Lens - Falling For You

Orkidea - Radio Unity (January 2025)

Orkidea - Radio Unity (February 2025)
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01. MRPHLNDR - Captain Future 
02. Milkwish, Van Dope - Rivers (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix)
03. Tigerblind - Cosmic Urges
04. Corren Cavini - Solutions (Eelke Kleijn Extended Rave Revision)
05. Layton Giordani - Act Of God feat. Linney & Sarah de Warren 
06. Boris Brejcha - Die Maschine auf Diskette 2
07. Interplanetary Criminal, Kettama - Yosemite
08. Silva City, Alan Fitzpatrick, Reset Robot - The Journey
09. Slusnik Luna - Let Me Be (Orkidea Remix) 
10. Marc van Linden - Future (Classic Mix)
11. Ferry Corsten & Ben Hemsley - Tidal feat. Rose Gray 
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Orkidea - Radio Unity (February 2025)

Orkidea - Radio Unity (March 2025)
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01. ESP - Formation
02. Tinlicker - Never Le Me Go
03. Orkidea - Dance Of Life
04. Purple Disco Machine - Die Machine (Club Dub)
05. Deep Dish - Say Hello (Deep Dish Remix)
06. Bedrock - Heaven Scent (March Remix)
07. Clint - Exosphere
08. B FROM E - Amnesia
09. Bart Skills & Weska - Something More (Joris Voorn Remix)
10. Slusnik Luna - Let Me Breathe
11. Super8 & Tab - XX
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Orkidea - Radio Unity (March 2025)

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)

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

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

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)

01. Grandbrothers - Cypress [_and_others]
02. Stoby - Light Harbour [Pure Progressive]
03. Link Lee - Bốn Giờ Hai Mươi (Nora B Remix) [Stargazing Records]
04. Jody Wisternoff, James Grant, PROFF & Takeshi Furukawa feat. Siobhan Wilson - Mui (Ezequiel Arias Remix) [Anjunadeep]
05. M.O.S & Michael Simon - Without You (Quivver Remix) [UV]
06. ORACLE - Sunrise [Monstercat Silk]

It's Not The Kind Of Thing We Usually Play... But We Like It Anyway:
07. Adam Stacks - Ocean Haze [Beans and Bacon]

08. David Di Sabato - Flares [Euphonic Visions]

Big Tune:
09. Bjerkestrand - Skyfritt [Pure Trance]

10. Jam El Mar x SUDO - Rise Above [Zoomer]
11. John O'Callaghan - Music Takes Me Higher [Subculture]
12. Allan Morrow - The Other Side [White Label]
13. Craig Connelly - Eclipse The Sun [Subculture]
14. Aeon Shift - Nova [Borderline]
15. Misja Helsloot, Aligash - Back Where It All Started (Aligash Remix) [FSOE]

One from the Archive:
16. RNX - Colorado (Solarstone Retouch) [Pure Trance]

17. Pinkus - Signal [Trance FC]

Oh Yeah:
18. T.O.M. - For Those We Don't Know [Pure Trance NEON]

Chillout Moment:
19. Language Lab - Burning Disaster [Kahuna Cuts]

Solarstone presents Pure Trance Radio Episode 459

01. Stoby - Light Harbour [Pure Progressive]
02. Casnik - Rainy Days (Will Daley Remix) [Future Avenue]
03. Tim Green - Body Stars (Original Mix) [All Day I Dream]
04. Gaston Sosa , Poli Siufi - Volemos Alto (Original Mix) [The Soundgarden]
05. Simon Sinfield & Sonia Scott - Echoes Of Tanit [Pure Progressive]
06. Worakls - Adagio for Square (Club Mix) [Parlophone UK]
07. Laavie Au Soleil, Oriente - Suivi (Original Mix) [The Soundgarden]
08. Das Pharaoh - Holding On (Original Mix) [UV]
09. Guy J - Just Rain (Original Mix) [Early Morning]
10. Tinlicker, The Boxer Rebellion - Diamonds (Further Than | Ever Was) [PIAS Electronique]

Solarstone presents Pure Trance Radio Episode 459X ft. Stoby & Sonia Scott

01. Super-Frog Saves Tokyo - Mondrago (Beams) [Electronic Architecture]
02. V-TI - Soul Carousel [Pure Progressive]
03. Quivver - Consciousness [Anjunadeep Explorations]
04. Slow Ted - Antarctica (Jack Willard Remix) [Songspire]
05. Michael Cassette - Space Rocket [Anjunadeep]
06. AYU (UA) - Memory Land {Magik Muzik]
07. Daniel Simon - Don't Be Afraid [A Tribute to Life]

It's Not The Kind Of Thing We Usually Play... But We Like It Anyway:
08. Saint Etienne - Take Me to the Pilot (International) [PIAS]

Big Tune:
09. Four Tet - Into Dust (Still Falling) (Solarstone Pure Mix) [White Label]

10. Activa - Outlander (Mac & Monday Remix) [Borderline]
11. Obie Fernandez - Naked [Pure Trance]
12. ID - ID [Pure Trance]
13. The Thrillseekers pres. Hydra - Echoes from the Future [Adjusted]
14. FKN x Kimito Lopez - Diamondback [In Trance We Trust]
15. Nikolauss - Komyo [Subculture]
16. Ishiro - Akashic [Pure Trance]
17. Bryan Kearney - I Need Your Love [Kearnage]
18. Solarstone - dros y mynyddoedd [Black Hole]

Oh Yeah:
19. Greg Downey - Switch [Skullduggery]

Chillout Moment:
20. Super-Frog Saves Tokyo - Ascend (Beams) [Electronic Architecture]

Solarstone presents Pure Trance Radio Episode 463

Here are some of the best working tracks from my recent sets in Ibiza, Malta and Finland. Wide range of vibes and tempos - all united by emotion and groove. Feel free to share it if you like it <3

01. Orkidea & TMPR - Altar
02. Max Styler - Every Night (Instrumental)
03. Yotto - Meet Her At The Love Parade
04. LSG - Netherworld (BLR x Hel:Slowed Remix)
05. Fahlberg - Transition
06. Joris Voorn - Tryptamine
07. REZarin - Androme
08. HI-LO - Balearic Mornings
09. Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night (Raxon Remix)
10. Don't Blink - Lets Get Together
11. Amelie Lens - Falling For You (Orkidea Remix)
12. Kryder & Joe Goddard - S.T.A.Y x Music Is The Answer

Orkidea - Radio Unity (October 2025)

Ideas flicker into form
Bright against the common norm
Small beginnings break the night
Turning visions into flight
Every spark becomes a way
Shaping tomorrow from today

п o п c o п f o r m i s t - 07 - Sparks of Ingeniuty v2

It’s certainly no exaggeration to say that Chris Maico Schmidt helped shape the history of techno in the 1990s with projects like Cybordelics and immortal classics such as “Adventures of Dama.” Mike has always remained a present and driving force in the scene through various projects, and since 2016 he has also been active under his real name, Chris Maico Schmidt. His new EP “The Brightside” traces the sometimes subtle and sometimes radiant glow within sound—from the inside out. “The Joy” celebrates the feeling of pure, unfiltered energy. “The Flow” carries this vibration onward, letting it dance, drift, and connect. Finally, “The Spark” leads back to the very moment when it all began: a single spark that ignites light and movement. With gentle euphoria, rhythmic openness, and emotional clarity, The Brightside EP is an invitation to feel your own resonance—bright, free, and alive.

The Brightside E.P.

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Chris Maico Schmidt - The Joy

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.

Orkidea - Radio Unity (July 2025)

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